seven wrote:
Dudes that adacruit eye-cam can ise any camera. even a 10 dollar chnese menu item.
I know im talking out of my ass but how cool would it be to do a RUN of smargun eyepieces with a cam that had wifi for use with phone or gopro. godamn. Plus this tech is dropping in price by the month.
The problem I run into at cons and commercial spaces with wifi is over saturation of the spectrum. You have 3 channels on 2.4ghz that does not overlap. 1, 6, 11. In other countries you have channels 12 and 13, but do not use those even if you can if your AO is not licensed to use those out of band frequencies. I literally run into wireless collisions and conflicts and the protocols being used do not have a means to handle reconnections when disrupted. I had to rebuild my adhoc wireless setup and literally could not get some issues ironed out due to sleep mode issues. But the bigger issue I had was when wireless collisions occurred the whole thing went bonkers.
I build my equipment for rock solid reliability. Consumer grade wireless options are out of the question due to chronic problems with todays dense wireless deployments and setups.
I had longer term plans to get a wireless site survey system setup so that I could argue things more concretely with solid facts as at this point it is only observed facts and symptoms that I work with at this point. Some folks require substantial convincing that they need to spend money on a new deployment setup as the expense for a proper wireless site survey and installation of a new reliable wireless deployment solution is not inconsequential. This was for side jobs that I would get every now and then. The surveys would allow for proper placement of access points so that minimal wall and ceiling penetrations are needed to make things work.
I am going with commercial grade/ broadcast grade equipment as these issues have bene sorted out and hammered out with these setups. I am also trying to go with solutions that do not require me to get additional licensing and do not interfere with installed hardware at a given venue. UHV/VHF frequencies are good in this regards. 2.4/5ghz wireless is a mixed bag and you need to go with units that have adapted protocols that can deal with substantial interference.
The newer standards handle this, but that is not something built-in to a raspberry pi. Beam forming requires multiple antennas. Beam forming was the solution to deal with multi-path distortion that exists in many current wireless deployments. and got built-in to the new wireless standards and APs.
Cheap solutions can work, but you get what you pay for. Factor in too that I know enough about wireless to hate and not like it. And enough to know to be an annoyance when I start pointing out facts.
I am also trying to build this out as a zero programming solution so it is literally a drop in solution that does not require any programming vastly simplifying the setup for those that are technically inclined but are very much mechanically inclined.
I am building and specing out the setup so that broadcasters can directly use the feeds for whatever TV feeds they need or for con organizers to have a cool prop view of the con as they deem that they need.