Good calving cameras / security cameras

Hi emaherx. I've fallen into this trap just got 3 x 2.4ghz PTZ cameras today, and have the KuWFi bridge (5ghz) coming tomorrow, are you saying there's no way these cameras will work for me in the shed due to this

I had hoped for simplicity, plug the cameras in and let them work off the bridge's wifi, so I can view them in the phone app. Novice at all this.

Got EZVIZ, nothing too technical was going for simplicity like I say;

The cameras have ethernet cable slots, assuming the purpose of the switch would be to collect the three camera ethernet cables at one end, and the other end to the bridge?

On the 2.4ghz access point, is that an alternative to the bridge (like a WiFi sim deal) or complimentary to it?

Yes the switch is to connect them together, you can get a 5 port switch for 15 to 20 Euro. You can't splice network cables together as the digital data would all collide and nothing would get through, the switch acts as a sort of traffic management allowing each device to communicate in turn.

The access point option is similar to the switch, connected to the shed bridge device by wire but the cameras wirelessly. Costs from about 30 euro.

By the time you get the switch and cables, wired might be a little more expensive, but much simpler to configure and more reliable with less wireless links especially if you get the cables pre-made with the connectors on them. The wired option will have better performance than wireless when it comes to moving a PTZ camera, the more wireless links in a connection the greater the potential lag.

No, in this setup you only have one wired connection so it can go directly to port on bridge device, you only need the switch to connect more than one wired device. Your "HomeBase" I guess is some kind of DVR that connects wirelessly with the cameras, this would be more like using an access point.

Looking now to put a camera at an outfarm to monitor stock and machinery stored in sheds. Are fixed cameras preferable to PTZ in remote locations or should the motor facilities of the PTZ still be fine?

Thinking of installing 1 or 2 cameras on site - with the ability to relocate one between summer and winter to overlook shed pens in winter and fields in summer.

Maybe one with alerts enabled so that I'd know if there was anyone in the yard.

From previously looking into this, I'd need the cameras, POE switch, leisure battery with trickle charger (on mains on site), and some type of sim card router.

Anyone done this or able to provide more information on the setup?

Taking about 12 miles here.

No doubt it works, but all of the devices in question are DC powered, so an inverter shouldn't be needed as it would be somewhat inefficient converting power to 240 AC and then back to 5 - 12V DC. Some DC-Dc converters would cover anything using anything other than 12V. Most charge controllers have 5V supplies also.

Good cameras paid off for these lads in Dublin. Scum had flown in n 100k worth of gps gear robbed in 2 days.