My wife wanted a camera* to keep an eye on her chickens so I fixed that. At the time I got two refurbs for the price of one new so a spare had been lying around for years. Last week I saw some digging marks under my beehives I could not place and so ....... I spent a few bucks on a pipe, pulled utp through it and hooked up the spare in front of the hives. Now I 'only' need to sink it into the ground. Just digging 70 meters through stony soil.

* the first one hangs on the garage so it was easy to power and build a wifi bridge

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[–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Put in posts, and outdoor rated wire... burying that shit is a pain in the ass and you don't have access to it if something ever happens to it (yea it supposed to be fine in conduit and they sell direct burial but in rocky soil that shit will fail eventually). I ran cat 6 uv rated to a barn of mine via cabling and tall posts. I have rock for soil as well, easy to reach and fix if it ever fails. Plus it acts like a bird perch in the am lol

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