Camera Question - Idea For Hog Trap Improvement

[bigbendmarine]

Few might remember a post I shared last year on my first try at hog trapping. I set up a corral pen with a guillotine door but instead of running the trip line to a "rooting stick" inside the trap I ran a cord from my guillotine drop door 100 yards to a boat parked in my yard that allowed me to manually throw the trap door line whenever I wanted to ensure multiple hogs were trapped at one time. Link shares pics of the setup I created.

http://habitat-talk.com/index.php?t...g-trapping-with-unplanned-buck-scouting.8258/

For a number of reasons I'm wanting to relocate my trap and when I do I would LOVE to do a few things to "pimp" my trap up.

My dream spot for trapping is right at 200 yards from the house.

What I'm wondering is would it be possible to get a live feed from a remote camera that I could use to monitor the trap from the house whenever I want (versus having to physically go outside, sit in a boat, and check the trap with night vision monocle)? I'd FAR prefer to be able to run a wire to the cam or if the distance is doable use a wireless cam if it can relay a signal to the house -- want to avoid recurring cost of cell system if at all possible.

My second improvement idea is to use a remote control trigger release system to release the rope holding up the guillotine trap door. Have a few engineering minded friends I'm hopeful can help me with that effort.

If I could incorporate a live feed camera I can monitor from the house and setup a remote-control line release I would be able to put a MUCH bigger hurting on the local hog population. Know a number of remote-control hog trap systems (many cell driven) are out now but most run between 2k to 5k in cost, and I'm hopeful I can put together a comparable system for no more than 1/2 that. Any input on viable camera options and / or remote-control line release systems be MUCH appreciated and possibly rewarded with some sausage not too far down the road!

 

[Bill]

You may be pushing the distance for Cat 5 cable but it could work. Good RG cable and an inferred cctv cam would work https://videos.cctvcamerapros.com/s...v-camera-video-max-cable-length-distance.html

I assume the hog trap door is 12 volt which would also power this light sensor which is set off with a cheap cell phone.
If you try this document everything for when NSA starts asking question

 

[SwampCat]

Go the cheap route and have more fun - but takes longer to get rid of them. I have a texting camera on my corn pile - when the hogs show up - I go shoot them.

 

[SwampCat]

 

[ksgobbler]

http://www.kansas.com/sports/outdoors/article53927690.html

 

[yoderjac]

BEC has a commercial wireless approach: https://store.buckeyecam.com/wireless-hog-traps-and-feeders/ Sounds like you may already have the trapping aspect solved, but this has wireless monitoring as well. You could just use an X80 camera as a monitor. Since you don't really care about full resolution pictures, you could also consider the cuddeback wireless approach. It is probably less expensive to use a PIR at the trap to trigger a wireless camera than do a live feed.

If you have power at the trap, there are lots of live feed IP solutions that use wifi with a directional antennas depending on the distance. A live feed requires too much power to be practical.

Thanks,

Jack

 

[Seabee]

We just use the cell cam to tell us when their here.


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[Telemark]

You can definitely do it. We used remote cameras on fish farms up to a kilometer away. They had pan and tilt, so you could somehow operate a servo to trigger the trap.

 

[Gator]

I saw on FB where someone took a cheap WiFi cam (~$30) bought at walmart and simpy put an external wifi extender on their house wifi and got that kind of distance. Hooked the cam to a tiny solar charger. Claimed less than $100 in the whole thing.

 

[Telemark]

That's a pretty good idea. I will dig around and see what I come up with. I would like the same thing for coyotes.