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I need to set up a video system for my daughter's dance studio. (She's the director.) We're in a new space so the old systems (which was OLD) went with the old building and was demolished...
We have a camera in each studio with a monitor in the reception/waiting area so parent can watch without windows so children don't get distracted by parents watching. No recording of video required or even desired.
What I originally thought I'd do was, find a couple of wide FOV (160 plus degrees) power over ethernet (POE) cameras that feed a local only web server and then pull the video feeds up on the monitor/TV using a web browser. Seemed easy and secure (wired only internal network).
My conundrum is, while wide angle FOV cameras exist that would be dandy, they are not POE nor even ethernet feeds. And while POE digital feed cameras exist (not sure about local only web accessible) they are not wide angle. Typically 90 degrees is the widest I've found.
Anybody got suggestions?
John
We have a camera in each studio with a monitor in the reception/waiting area so parent can watch without windows so children don't get distracted by parents watching. No recording of video required or even desired.
What I originally thought I'd do was, find a couple of wide FOV (160 plus degrees) power over ethernet (POE) cameras that feed a local only web server and then pull the video feeds up on the monitor/TV using a web browser. Seemed easy and secure (wired only internal network).
My conundrum is, while wide angle FOV cameras exist that would be dandy, they are not POE nor even ethernet feeds. And while POE digital feed cameras exist (not sure about local only web accessible) they are not wide angle. Typically 90 degrees is the widest I've found.
Anybody got suggestions?
John