{"id":4445,"date":"2013-04-05T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T07:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2016-10-15T13:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T20:36:26","slug":"presenting-porchcam-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Presenting PorchCam 2.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Porchcam I finally got tired of the bad IR cutoff on the second generation Wambooli Porchcam. When Foscam put the latest version of their PT Wi-Fi camera on sale, I bought one. The result is the Wambooli PorchCam version 2.1.
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\nNot only is PorchCam version 2.1 much better in color, the device was cheap: I think I picked it up for about a third of the cost of the original PorchCam 2.0. The results are impressive.<\/p>\n

Figure 1 illustrates a typical image from the old PorchCam. I swear, that bad InfraRed (IR) cutoff filter made the outdoors appear in monochrome all year long. My lawn looked dead. I hate that.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. The Old PorchCam image<\/p><\/div>\n

Also, the camera started getting worse and worse at night, eventually just showing a black image — unless you rotated the thing to point at my front door. Ugh.<\/p>\n

PorchCam 2.1 is a vast improvement, as can be seen from Figure 2. It doesn’t matter that Figure 2 was taken on a sunny day and that Figure 1 was taken when it was overcast. The color differences are obvious.<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. The new PorchCam image.<\/p><\/div>\n

To make the update I had to configure the new PorchCam with the same information as the old one. Fortunately, the software controls haven’t changed, so the operation ended up as a hardware. The result is cool; I am most pleased.<\/p>\n

For now, the question looms as to what to do with the old camera.<\/p>\n

PorchCam 2.0 still works. It still has the useless IR cutoff, so the image looks pallid even indoors. But it’s Wi-Fi, so I can set it up anywhere. If there was something interesting to look at around here, I’d point the camera at it and toss it up on the Internet. But I can’t think of anything or anywhere around here that’s interesting to look at. I mean, even looking out the front porch is kind of banal.<\/p>\n

If you have any suggestions, please do let me know.<\/p>\n

Oh! For reference, here is the current PorchCam 2.0 image:<\/p>\n

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I finally got tired of the bad IR cutoff on the second generation Wambooli Porchcam. When Foscam put the latest version of their PT Wi-Fi camera on sale, I bought one. The result is the Wambooli PorchCam version 2.1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-porchcam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4464,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}