I’m packing up life here on the West Coast for my studio in The Great Northwoods. I’m looking forward to cool summer days, fresh green pines, clear blue lakes and much-needed space to develop and make my creations. There’s an eagle that’s made its aerie atop a nice tall pine right above my art space. I was thinking about a way to set up a live-streaming “Eagle Cam” to inconspicuously peer in on its happenings; however, since the property is set a tad back from digital civilization, and indeed most high-tech connectivity, this is proving a challenge. (To give you an idea of what I’m talking about, cellphones are best used by boarding a kayak and paddling out to the middle of the lake for “maximum bars.”) There was talk of having a satellite erected at some point but as of today, that has yet to be done.
So while the camera and capture aspect of the “Eagle Cam” isn’t so much a concern for me, the streaming part is. Hence, I’m pretty sure I can set up the camera and connect it to the computer; I’m just not sure I can connect the computer to the internet. There are cameras which act as their own servers where you can log in from any connection to view it but the trickiness arises in web browsers used to view them which can be quite limiting. So I think the way to go is stream the video using a third party software/site and then embed that info onto my own site so I don’t necessarily have to host the data myself… which then punctuates the necessity of an internet connection. Ay yi yi… Stay tuned…
