24/7 Weather Cam

[fergusonnn]

Okay, I'm not entirely sure this is the correct place to post this, so forgive me heavenly Linus if it is not.

Anyways, i have been doing some work with a local ham club and we are looking at setting up a 24/7 weather cam on their tower site.  We're using a cellular modem for internet so data is slightly limited, but we're wanting to basically send something like a single frame per second stream from the tower site to a webserver with an IP rated camera.  Anyone ever tried anything like this or have any suggestions?

[ProjectBox153]

I don't know whether it would work over a cellular connection, but I have an RDP server forwarded to the internet with a camera attached. I just log onto it with any old RDP client and can check the camera, but I don't know if that would work in this case. 

[Daysy]

10 hours ago, fergusonnn said:

Anyways, i have been doing some work with a local ham club and we are looking at setting up a 24/7 weather cam on their tower site.  We're using a cellular modem for internet so data is slightly limited, but we're wanting to basically send something like a single frame per second stream from the tower site to a webserver with an IP rated camera.  Anyone ever tried anything like this or have any suggestions?

 

Could you broadcast on a carrier wave from the tower then decode and stream it from a location with a broadband connection?

If not with some tweaking I think you could get ffmpeg on a raspberry pi streaming at quite a low rate as a low cost / low power solution. This digikey article gives an example of streaming to YouTube or Facebook.

 

Also it might be an idea to check your cell carriers terms of use as they might take offence to a near 100% uploading connection