Linking up live outdoor camera to TV...

[ellal]

We have a friend who is seriously ill and now bed bound.

One of her greatest loves is her garden and the birds that she has fed over many years, but can no longer do so.
So an idea is to put a large TV on her bedroom wall and stream a live HD camera feed (or maybe more than one camera) with audio.

I've been reading up on various options but can't work out what would be best.
Wired or wireless, IP linked etc...

So what would be a decent setup, and best connection?
And any recommendations as to camera equipment? Not sure if nocturnal viewing is necessary, but that might be an option.

And finally it's possibly best if the TV is mounted at 90 degrees to normal as her peripheral vision is not that great.

Not having had to think about this before, is rotating an image an option with normal TV's nowadays?

Cheers

 

[Tigercubrider]

Possibly the cheapest way would an Amazon cctv system using cables that send to a box, HDMI to the TV.
if you mean wireless it gets more complicated.
i don’t really see the point of rotating but the obvious solution is to rotate the camera so it is portrait orientation and then mount the TV portrait.
if using the cctv option it makes the menu selection a real pain so possibly a second small monitor to make image selection easy.

 

[Mottie]

As above. Wired will be cheaper and possibly better than wireless. Does it have to go to the tv? How about one of those Ring security camera's (or cheaper copies) that can go to a laptop ot tablet?

 

[Lucid]

There are weatherproof CCTV cams which also include night vision (mostly in B&W at night) that will connect directly to a TV. The connection is via the TV's AV input (a yellow RCA socket or maybe a small jack plug), but the catch is that this type of connection isn't HD. The cameras are capable of HD, and they can do this over coax, but a TV won't understand the signal, and so a small recorder box usually accompanies this type of system.This is along the lines of the system that @Tigercubrider mentioned.

An IP camera achieves much the same except the cable connection is a computer lead called Ethernet.

IP cameras tend to be a step up in quality but setup to get the image to display correctly on a smart TV can be a bit of a pain for a novice.

 

[sparkymarka]

You can get hd cctv to hdmi converter
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