also, "GreatScott!". accent made me double take

@@nil0bject exactly, lol. I lost myself thinking that he is GreatScott, I wish this channel can grow 😁🙏

I'm glad I was able to help you with my video. Since you are obviously interested in birds, I can recommend BirdNET-Pi. It's a very interesting project for tracking the bird calls in your garden with a Raspberry Pi: github.com/mcguirepr89/BirdNET-Pi

Yes, this should absolutely be possible. You could just attempt to connect to the primary network and if that doesn't work, you try to connect to the mobile phone network. Keep flipping back and forth between those until it connects to one of them successfully.

No, unfortunately not. As I mentioned in the video, I use a Raspberry Pi HQ cam for this. But this is also quite affordable and well suited for a fixed installation on the window.

No, it is a Raspberry Pi High Quality Cam. I think for this use case you will get similar results with the normal Rapsberry Pi Cam as well. However, with an OV2640 it is hard to get good pictures, but I have heard that ESP32 cams with OV5460 are very good. Please let me know if you have your own experience with this.

Yeah

I don't think I quite understand your question. As you can see in the video, I don't use an Arduino either. I only use the Arduino IDE software. It's free and you can use it without an Arduino. But what you need is an FTDI interface, also called a USB-UART interface. It is also possible to detect changes in the image, i.e. movements. But for that you would have to deal with the subject in depth. Maybe you can do some research on this topic on UKposts or on the web. If you send the pictures or videos via WiFi to your (secure) server, the thief will not find any pictures on the camera. If you don't have a server nearby, you could also store the pictures on an SD card that is plugged in, in which case the thief could of course read the card and see the pictures.

Of course, why shouldn't that be possible? However, you should think about the placement. If you don't attach the cam to the (moving) print bed, you'll see a lot of fast movements. I think there are also solutions where the printer always moves to a certain position when the image is shot, so you only see the model growing, but don't have any fast flickering back and forth. But I don't have any experience with that.

Sometimes USB ports do not supply enough power. This is especially the case with notebooks. Maybe the solution with the external power supply is sufficient for you. A USB hub with external power supply can also be a suitable solution. You might even be lucky and it's sufficient to just replace the USB cable with another one.

If you open the preferences in the Arduino IDE, you will find the Sketchbook location at the top. E.g. C:\Users\yourname\Documents\Arduino There you should find, besides your project folders, also the directories "library" and "hardware". If you installed the support for ESP32-boards, as described in the video, the file should be in the hardware folder. For me it is under: C:\Users\yourname\Documents\Arduino\hardware\esp32\tools\sdk\include\esp-face If this is not the case for you, you should repeat the steps I explain in the video starting at minute 2:20 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/h5Wgm4mxg56DrZ8.html

You can connect (IR) LEDs via the GPIOs and switch them on and off as needed. But even for that you have to know a little bit of programming. You could control this time-dependently via a server that runs Node-RED and Mosquitto, for example.

@@MakerMeik Good ! Thank you ! My questions were answered. You helped me a lot. I'm going to buy 4-5 ESP 32 cameras. But I didn't want to waste my money. We also bought surveillance cameras from us, from the intern market. I ordered online, but the camera I bought was of very poor quality. (I lost money. The camera can't film anything!) Thank you for help. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/kKeBipBsj4dizZs.html ukposts.info/have/v-deo/iqiZo39wkIt40Gw.html Goodbye !

Esp32 can handle both 3.3 and 5v

If you remove the entire cap, you no longer have a lens and get a blurry image. But if you only peel out the infrared filter, then you can still focus the lens. The advantage is that you can now also take pictures with infrared light. This means that you can illuminate your nesting box with IR LEDs, for example. The nesting box seems to be dark and hopefully the birds don't notice anything either. Your camera, which now no longer has an IR filter, will still be able to take photos or videos.

@@MakerMeik Thanks for your quick answher. Can I use anny OV2640 cam for it ?

The five or six OV2640 cameras I've had in my hands so far have all been the same.

@@MakerMeik Thanks a Lot. I let you know if it works..

I'm sorry, but you will hardly get around a permanent power supply for the cam modules. And that's what I did in the case of the nesting box. For this purpose, however, I used a 12V power supply and then regulated the voltage in the nesting box down to 5V with the help of a buck converter. With 12 V or even 24 V it is easier to bridge 10 to 20 m cable length in the garden without the voltage loss at the device becoming a problem. At the same time, you avoid putting dangerous 230 V cables in the garden. Last season, by the way, I didn't have a tenant in my nest box. But the new season is just beginning and in fact there was an interested visitor in the meantime ... let's see if he moves in: twitter.com/meikdangmann/status/1506726338908016649/photo/1

@@MakerMeik, that is more or less what I had thought. Even probably 48V, like in some industrial electronics, but didn't look into a down converter (probably there is a component/unit for down converting 48V that is not too bulky).

There are 48V buck converters and their dimensions are 45 x 23 x 14 millimeters.

I can recommend the LM2596-converters. They cost less than 1,50 EUR incl. shipping and you can adjust the output-voltage with a little screw. That's quite handy.

@@MakerMeik, those are the ones I found. Thanks again.

That was a short rain shower. That always looks quite nice in the time-lapse videos.

If you are at least close to a wifi, you could try it with an external wifi antenna. Of course, the meter should not be too deep in the manhole. On UKposts you should find examples how to solder a proper antenna to the PCB antenna leads. I am not sure if there is a solution to store the data locally on the SD card in the ESP. Everything else is probably more complicated. The ESP has no LAN itself. So you would have to send the signal from the ESP via serial interface to another device, e.g. a Raspberry-Pi, which then processes it with a script and passes it on via LAN ... but that sounds like a lot of work and a rather high cost, compared to the low benefit. But it would be feasible. I did something similar with an Arduino and a Raspi. Do you have power in your manhole?

@@MakerMeik Yes I have power but I agree with you I looks like complicated

Unfortunately, this is not directly possible with the code shown in the video. However, there is an improved version of the ESP32 webcam server that adds 90° rotations of the image and many other good features. For example, OTA updates are then also possible. Here is the link to this project: github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

Thank you for the kind words. The idea with the microphone actually came to me too. And of course it would be good to have a loudspeaker to use it as an intercom at the doorbell. But I haven't had the time yet and I don't have any idea how I would implement it.

Unfortunately, this is not directly possible with the code shown in the video. However, there is an improved version of the ESP32 webcam server that adds 90° rotations of the image and many other good features. For example, OTA updates are then also possible. Here is the link to this project: github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

My question as well. Great channel. Subscribed.

Haha ... I'm not sure if that means I explained it all way too complicated. I know the software/script part is difficult when watching a video like this for pure entertainment. But I think you can just build such beautiful things with it that it was important to me to share that with the world.

@@MakerMeik i think it was the soldering of the ,, diode ? the thing., that scared me. i love electronics but, when i goto know stuff about ohm , volts and amps n stuff my brain short out. . my knowledge is rather limited. : red = ,,, i dont even know,, - ? and black is +... or the other way around,, and those make electic stuff work =) if it was just one of the ,, diode thing to soildier on , that might not be so difficult, i would not have to learn anything about it, but i suspect the moment i want to play with another device than the,,, you used the diode thing to deliver special power to the camera ? so if i want,, a ir - sending device attached instead, that needs a new diode with its own special power delivering config? seems like i have to learn more than i want to... i like computer,, not electonics? that makes little sence i guess but. maybe some =)

Thank you for your entertaining and detailed comments. Maybe it's really not the right thing for you. Microcontrollers are not plug & play, but rather for tinkering. And that's where things often go wrong. 😉

Thanks for the tip, you're right. I have fixed the error. In the meantime, however, I would rather advise the "esp32-cam-webserver" project. It runs much more stable than the example project used here and has some additional features. github.com/easytarget/esp32-cam-webserver

Try using 9600 baud rate, that helped me to get it recording

Hehe ... thanks for the tip. I will do better next time. I expected that the native speakers would be amused by my limited English ... but maybe I'll learn a bit more this way. Even though I think I am a hopeless case ;-)

@@MakerMeik im vergleich zu english, deutsch ist sehr sehr schwirig. Gruß aus Malaysia.

In fact, I also mainly use PlatformIO and VScode. For beginners, however, I think the ArduinoIDE is easier. The topics port selection, uploads and serial monitor alone are less intuitive in VScode. And the programming board for the ESP32 cams is only worthwhile if you want to program many ESP32 cams. But most users will hardly order more than two to four modules. With the FTDI board, on the other hand, you learn that you can communicate with a wide variety of boards. That's why this decision was closer for me ... after all, the video is clearly addressed to beginners. But as always, there are many ways. So thank you for your suggestions for improvement.