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Just made myself a 60meter outdoor cat6 cable (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/dull_mens_club@lemmy.world
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Gonna put up an ip camera in the garden and see what wildlife comes by at night.

Edit: job completed. Frigate is pulling the stream.......

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[–] 21 points 10 months ago (13 children)

What exactly did you do to make it outdoor?

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Ran it outside.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    There’s a specific jacket material that makes it outdoor rated. It is UV resistant and handles temperature variation better. Some are gel filled so that there’s water resistance too. If it’s being buried you need the gel; if it’s an aerial cable you need shielding. The jacket material, gel, and shielding all make the cable harder to work with, and more expensive.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    direct burial

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    It's been a while since I did cabling but I think there's a specific jacket material (CMX?) that you need to do direct burial.

    I could also be wrong and PVC is fine as long as you seal the ends.

    I like conduit because I can easily expand capacity/repair/whatever with a vacuum, paper towels and some string.

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    • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    POE?

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    • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Did you get outdoor direct bury cable or are you running the cable in a tube?

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    What is the distance rating of Cat6? I thought more like 33m?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago*

    CAT6 is rated for 10Gbps up to 55m or 1Gbps up 100m. In reality, outside with no other RF interference sources speed losses upto 100m are going to be negligible even on CAT5.

    Even a 4k video stream only uses 24Mbps on average so whatever you use above CAT5/5e would be more than enough.

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    • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    How much was the cable? What camera did you go with?

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Cable was for free (perks of the job) I only use reolink ip camera's for they work perfectly well without cloud (i'm self hosting frigate).This one is an rcl-510A. It's only disadvantrage: you need to use their app once (still no cloud required) to activate web and rtc etc. I always buy from their refurbished deals.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Nice, I use Amcrest cameras with Frigate and I've been happy. No app, no cloud, and I have them on a VLAN with no Internet access.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I'm just trying Frigate again for the first time in a couple years, it still seems really bare of features compared to Blue Iris. I guess I'll keep playing but getting object detection working has been a chore, and the PTZ controls are rudimentary. I really want to get rid of the last Windows install in my life, but it isn't looking good.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Same, Amcrest cameras just supply an RTSP stream and Frigate likes that.

    And get a good PoE switch, it'll save you so much headache vs other power options. If you're using solar cameras, make sure you have enough capacity to handle extreme events (around 3 days with storms/cloud cover is a safe margin).

    Research the security issues with network manufacturers before you decide on which to buy and try to buy from as direct as source as possible (not Amazon, they comingle their inventory). Supply chain attacks are a fact of life and network hardware is a prime target.

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I haven't made a cable in years, but as soon as I saw this post I was thinking " orange-white orange, green-white blue, blue-white green, brown-white brown". Is it the same with cat 6 now?

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    • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What did you do to secure your network? I always thought the problem with these is that somebody could just pull the camera down and connect into the home network. I’m paranoid about this stuff though.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 10 months ago

    It's low risk, it's quiet here ..... Not visible from the road, only 5 houses in a 1km radius.

    But everyoutdoor cable is in it's own vlan with a /30 subnet and with nowhere to go (i only pull from those devices)

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    How did you do your wall penetration to get it back indoors to whatever switch you used?

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Did you go with STP or regular UTP?

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