Tower-top Video Cameras

Darling daughter and son-in-law got us a security camera set for Christmas - not particularly for security but to enable us to get the very best views from the top of the tower on TV screens anywhere in the building - or anywhere in the world for that matter, with the necessary passwords.

There are four HD live streamed colour cameras which feed into a box of tricks which records things.

Our bedroom is on the ground floor and although it has windows, they are too high up to see the views from them.   The further up the tower you go the better the views are.   It is mildly frustrating to lie in bed of a morning and not to know if it's raining.   Well that problem is now overcome as soon as we turn on the bedroom TV.   We can  admire the all-round views from the very top of the tower at the press of a zapper.

Still playing with the new toy just yet but today saw camera number 01 temporarily strapped to the iron railings at the north end of the tank.   That is quite a few feet below its final position but the early results are very encouraging indeed:

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Still work in progress but you get the idea.   The January sun shone and we even had a rainbow.   The flash photograph of the TV screen does not do justice to the HD picture.   One down and three more cameras to go.

Though wet, it is unseasonably warm.   Whilst aloft playing with the camera a swarm of midges came to see what was going on.