Security

The Gorse Fox has a security camera monitoring the driveway and entrance to the garage. This had been set up to deposit images onto an FTP server (falcon) whenever it detected an event. This stopped working some time recently. The camera was still recording to its inbuilt S~D card, but wouldn't send images to the ftp server and wouldn't allow the Gorse Fox to connect to it remotely.

It was time to sort this out. To start with the Gorse Fox dug out a spare (faulty) camera and connected it to the network to check that connection to the network via ethernet (instead of WiFi) didn't raise any unforeseen issues. It didn't. So after lunch, along with Two Hats (who has some tools for putting ethernet connectors on cables) we drilled a hole from the family room through to garage and ran a cable from the switch through to the camera. It was fiddly and the Gorse Fox is not sure he would have the patience to cable these things up with any regularity - but Two Hats persevered and we now have a bespoke ethernet cable in place. The camera is, once again, accessible remotely and seems to be depositing images onto the ftp server as required. He will have to monitor this for a day or two, but suspects we are back in business.