Stable Cameras?

[sandi_84]

Ok my sister was talking about how it would be interesting to see what her horse does in his stable when she's not there (cue me thinking "I wonder whats going on on marestare just now") so I told her there are cameras you can put in the stable and link it to your home pc so you can watch it at home.
She though they are a great idea and asked me to tell her how to do it.... Uuuummmm.... I have no idea!

Has anyone of you lovely HHO-ers set one up before that could tell me what she'd need and how to make it work?

Hugs and choccies if you can!

 

[Alfie&Milo]

I looked into getting one of these a while back for the very same reason, and now am re-thinking as mare is due in April and not sure I want to sleep in the stable waiting!!

I think most of them are wireless although they do need a source of power, but they must be a certain range to your computer I think (correct me if I'm wrong) to be able to pick up the live feed.

 

[sandi_84]

I don't know but I assume there must be a way to do it because you can see american horses on marestare.

There is a powersource nearby that we could use though but need to know what equipment we'd need, how to set the thing up etc.

 

[sandi_84]

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[FRESHMAN]

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You do need a power source but can watch from pc, phone, etc. we are covered by ipeye
(www.ipeye.co.uk) Used them for 3 years & very pleased. We have watched 10 foalings & a horse recover from surgery (had to be x tied) from over 20 miles away & given instructions to son/staff by mobile.
If you speak to them be sure to tell them Northcote Stud recommended please. Nice to hear whether you buy or not really.

 

[Moomin1]

Freshman,

My OH looked into this as a xmas pressie for me and he said that the shop told him that we would have to pay out a fair bit for connection if we didn't have wi fi at the yard..something in the region of £400. My yard is about 3 miles away. Any suggestions as I'm completely thick on this sort of stuff?

 

[sandi_84]

You do need a power source but can watch from pc, phone, etc. we are covered by ipeye
(www.ipeye.co.uk) Used them for 3 years & very pleased. We have watched 10 foalings & a horse recover from surgery (had to be x tied) from over 20 miles away & given instructions to son/staff by mobile.
If you speak to them be sure to tell them Northcote Stud recommended please. Nice to hear whether you buy or not really.

Brilliant! We are only 7 miles away from ours Thank you, will have a look with Big Sis tomorrow and if she decides to do it will tell them you recommended us

Freshman,

My OH looked into this as a xmas pressie for me and he said that the shop told him that we would have to pay out a fair bit for connection if we didn't have wi fi at the yard..something in the region of £400. My yard is about 3 miles away. Any suggestions as I'm completely thick on this sort of stuff?

Ouch thats a lot of pennies!

 

[Moomin1]

I know!!! I was gutted when he told me! Only thing is that I just know when we'd both had a few drinks at weekend we wouldn't be able to resist talking to her through the camera (some are two way!!) and she is so vocal that we would prob end up getting a taxi just to go and cuddle her and give her copious amounts of sweeties!!!

 

[Spring Feather]

I have CCTV so just use the same make of cameras as foalcams. When I looked into buying purpose-sold foalcams I found they were significantly more expensive than the CCTV cams we use. That didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time so I just bought extra CCTV cams for the foaling boxes and they're great. Mine are wireless, plugged into the stables and sent wirelessly to the receiver in the house where I can connect to them from any laptop, computer or TV anywhere in the house. I can stream the view so if I'm away from home I can jump on the internet and see what's happening.

 

[sandi_84]

I know!!! I was gutted when he told me! Only thing is that I just know when we'd both had a few drinks at weekend we wouldn't be able to resist talking to her through the camera (some are two way!!) and she is so vocal that we would prob end up getting a taxi just to go and cuddle her and give her copious amounts of sweeties!!!

Ha ha! Thats exactly what my sister was saying today! I can just see her up all hours chatting away to a very confused Odin The other thing she was saying was it might make her a nervous wreck - she's a major worrier, can't even begin to describe! And she was saying the slightest hint of something wrong (even if she was just imagining it hee hee!) and she'd be at the yard faster than the speed of light and camping out there

I have CCTV so just use the same make of cameras as foalcams. When I looked into buying purpose-sold foalcams I found they were significantly more expensive than the CCTV cams we use. That didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time so I just bought extra CCTV cams for the foaling boxes and they're great. Mine are wireless, plugged into the stables and sent wirelessly to the receiver in the house where I can connect to them from any laptop, computer or TV anywhere in the house. I can stream the view so if I'm away from home I can jump on the internet and see what's happening.

Yeah her budget is pretty tight so we will have to go for something a bit more cheap and cheerful I think. Are the CCTV cams bulky or are they only small things?

 

[Spring Feather]

You can buy any size CCTV cameras. The ones I have in the foaling stables are small, about the size of my Blackberry. The cameras I use for CCTV are bigger as I prefered them to be visible. My receiver in the house is small, about the size of a computer mouse. All my cameras have built-in senders.

 

[sandi_84]

So did you get the camera and reciever together or did you have to buy the reciever seperate?
Also what type did you buy? I'm finding a lot of wireless ones that only transmit for a mile or so and it needs to go about 7 miles

 

[Birker2020]

Sorry can't help but your question reminds me of when our yard owner was considering this for the liveries as she thought it would be nice for people to be able to watch their horse from work/home.

But then she thought it would cause more problems than it would solve as liveries would be continually ringing her saying stuff like "why hasn't my horse been brought in/turned out yet?", "why has he no hay?", "why is he still lying down?"etc, etc.

So she decided it was a rubbish idea after all. Suppose she's right really. She would be continually harrassed. But it would be so good to see your horse during the day

 

[cloisterchalice]

If its just to be curious as what the horse is doing and no real problem does it have to be live feed. If not could it not be just recorded and watched later? I use CCTV for foaling but the foaling box was only 20 yards out the door. The mare was very cheeky everytime she saw the outhouse light comming on she would hurtle to the door and demand hay so being able to sit out of sight and watch for the foaling signs was bliss. We didnt bother to purchase the "horse" brand ones and just bought regular home security one much cheaper. Anyone used the gate or door alarms that send to your phone?

 

[TBB]

When I was pricing my foaling cameras (plugged in the stable and picked up by the TV aerial on the house from an aerial on the barn roof) I found that once you said you were looking for foaling cameras they were mega expensive but the calving cameras were cheaper. Hence I have calving cameras in the foaling boxes and none in the calving shed ( the cows calve during the day thankfully)

 

[Brynmoss]

I have CCTV so just use the same make of cameras as foalcams. When I looked into buying purpose-sold foalcams I found they were significantly more expensive than the CCTV cams we use. That didn't make a lot of sense to me at the time so I just bought extra CCTV cams for the foaling boxes and they're great. Mine are wireless, plugged into the stables and sent wirelessly to the receiver in the house where I can connect to them from any laptop, computer or TV anywhere in the house. I can stream the view so if I'm away from home I can jump on the internet and see what's happening.

This sounds exactly what I need. Presumably you have an ariel on the outside of the house to receive signal, or does it go through the walls to the receiver box?