Unclematt
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I need to have a rear view outdoor cam. I want blue tooth so I can use an I pad. I want to have one in the engine room and one in the lazerette. Please guide me on this. Thanks UM
Blue tooth cam help please
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The Brockerts
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I think Bluetooth is going to be a little difficult. Range on bluetooth is 15-20 feet, add a wall or door and it drops from there. There are lots of good wifi cameras that will work on your ipad just find and won't have a range problem on your boat.
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caltexflanc
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Current version of Bluetooth doesn't really have the bandwidth you are looking for as well. Why not just wifi? iPads have that too.
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Unclematt
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Quick education. Wifi is fine I just don't want to hard wire a cam system. What do you
guys use that is wireless.
guys use that is wireless.
sbman
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A camera is going to have to have power anyways. A POE (power over ethernet) camera can do a single cable video/power and plug into a wireless router so it's available on WiFi all over the boat on any device. With a good quality POE router, it's just one cable to each camera.
There are marine grade units (Raymarine CAM200IP for example) and tons of consumer grade units depending on what you want (Foscam is popular).
Foscam also has WiFi units that are popular, but you still have to run wires to power to them.
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I would imagine finding local power to a wifi camera will be far easier that running an ethernet cable. I had an issue when trying to figure out how to engineer a spotlight on the forward end of my anchor pulpit. There was no way I was going to be able to run control wires back to the helm without disassembling the boat. Wireless was the answer because there was power up there for the nav lights which would be on anytime I would need the spotlight. There was all sorts of power available for the light controller at the helm. This concept should work for the OP in his cameral quest.
