When I set this website up in 2013, I wanted to have a webcam to show the weather here in the valley. I was working off of a satellite dish for internet and didn't have much extra, if any, band width to play with, so I opted for a cheap Panasonic BL-C140A for the front and back yards. Over the years, things have changed.

    If you noticed, we now have three web cams and all of them are from HikVison but different versions. The first one shown on the page is a model DS-2CD2023G0-1 4mm 2mp bullet camera and has been running since 2023.

        

    The second one is pointing across the backyard and to a beaver pond on Marvin Creek, that keep water on our property thru most of the year. Those beavers are some hard workers. That camera is a dome camera with speaker, model DS-2DE2E404IW-DE3 4MP / 4X zoom.

        

    The last on on the page that shoots SW onto Route 6 is bullet camera model DS-2CD2043G2-1 2.8mm 4mp. I also have that camera currently streaming live to my YouTube channel and embedded onto my website.

        

    All of my cameras run thru a Hikvision DVR model DS-7616NI-Q2/16P Cat5 cables for power and return video feeds.

    From the DVR I then run the cameras thru IPTimelapse softwave to take pictures and intraday videos. IPTimelapse also does the streaming for my Route-6 camera. A very versatile piece of software.