Remote cctv camera acces via 4g hot spot

avatar12m · 21 Sep 2016 at 16:51

hi was wondering about the following.

I have a badger set ( furry thing black/white/grey with teeth ) I want to monitor over night in a wood in the middle of nowhere ( 20 miles away but has a good phone signal but no mains power ), today I bought a 4g 5gb sim a tp-link mobile 4g battery operated access point with sim slot and a wifi enabled cctv camera.

now in theory can I connect the wifi camera to the hotspot put the sim in it and remotely access the camera or am I talking b**locks via my phone anywhere I want ( as long I have a signal )

if it can be done i'll spend some more money on a big battery to run the hotspot and camera longer.

( I tried a 3g trail camera but it can only send me a 640x480 image)

bremen1874 · 21 Sep 2016 at 17:06

Is the camera uploading it's data to somewhere, or do you need to access it directly?

Caged · 21 Sep 2016 at 20:23

You'd need a camera that can upload video upon detecting motion as you won't get an inbound connection to a mobile SIM.

avatar12m · 21 Sep 2016 at 21:21

hi, yeah would prefer direct log in but uploading to a service would be good , i'll try and find one of those,

thanks

Caged · 21 Sep 2016 at 21:43

Bear in mind that you have little control of the data usage in that situation. There are some M2M providers who can give you a SIM with a VPN tunnel but it can get expensive.

You could also try the options on this page http://aa.net.uk/telecoms-mobile-data.html

avatar12m · 22 Sep 2016 at 10:12

thanks, I got the battery router working with my surface tab, will get a cheap camera next and try it , then next step get one of them sim cards.

Jamauk · 23 Sep 2016 at 18:47

Whilst the data usage could prove to be expensive, is there something in place for the battery on the phone? if that is constantly using 4G and acting as a Wi-Fi hotspot I doubt it would last the night.