Camera up the Chimney

You can do USB over 4 metres plus with an active lead.

Clive Arthur submitted this idea :

Wifi camera and maybe a cover which could be tugged off with a string once up there?

Remember it is very unlikely to be straight up.

or a PoE ethernet one...

Invert a plastic bag over the camera. Attach a length of hose to the drain rods with the end inside the plastic bag (you might run the cable inside the hose to give it protection).

When the camera has exited the chimbley pot, send some compressed air up the hose to blow the bag off. You'd probably have enough force to blow off a bubble-wrap bag.

This is a once-only operation.

Or attach something shiny and wait for a magpie or jackdaw.

Or attach a (potato) chip and wait for a gull.

Owain

I?d be tempted to make some sort of cage or basket around the camera, or just anything to keep the camera away from the sides of the chimney. Shouldn?t be too hard...

Tim

to crap on the lens?

Get a drone instead. Brian

Most chimneys have some kind of cranked or blocked bit like louvers to stop rain coming straight down or birds building their nests there. I'd have thought a camera on a mast poked through from inside the loft with a tile removed might be another way of doing it. Brian

Or just buy a drone if he is perving on the neighbours or reporting lockdown evaders to the plod :-)

Andrew

You didn't need a drone to spot the BBQ down the street.

I never knew that that many pe> Or just buy a drone if he is perving on the neighbours or

Now you know where all the Strongbow went ...

Romanians?

Owain

You might be correct :-)

However I am not bothered.

I spent enough for free delivery from here

I am proud to say have a good mix of Europeans in our village.

But very few if none at all are Romany gypsies.

This was just the local born and dreads. The same ones that complain that foreigners "take our jobs" but would s*it themselves if they had to put an alarm clock on for 7 in the morning and do a days work.

That should have said born and bred's.

But I like my spelling mistake.