How long has this Bluff View web cam been around? Seems to be off the top of Blue Bullet looking across Baldy under ABOM & Skyline http://www.mtbuller.com.au/Winter/snow-weather/snow-cams#snowcam_8
Is called "Bluff View", but doesn't show The Bluff. Hmm...disappointing. Something like this might be an improvement... https://panocam.skiline.cc/chamonix/brevent
mmm so we are looking at putting webcam on Chalet Madarao. The comments above have led me to wonder how high tech do we need to go. Thoughts? Suggestions?
So will this camera make its way onto the Ski.com.au list? Maybe they will face it towards the Bluff when there is actually snow and they dont need to advertise the fact that their slushy machine is working?
Other side of the mountain range, this one is even better: https://courmayeur-youla.panomax.com/ (sorry, off topic I know) I reckon a good sweep of The Bluff over to Howitt, Crosscut Saw, etc from Buller would be a great cam though. IMO Buller has the best views of the Vic resorts. A great panocam like the above would be amazing up there. Hotham have this one: https://mthotham.roundshot.com/
HD static cam at minimum. Recommend Axis or Sony if you want it to last and have decent software. But there are plenty of other cheaper options. Streaming is nice to have but not essential. The only way to do streaming is how Thredbo are doing it by using YouTube as your delivery platform - but running a streaming cam uses a lot of upload bandwidth especially if it is HD so you will need a solid Internet plan with plenty of data. A static cam uses less than 1/50th of the installation bandwidth requirements of streaming cam even if you set it to update every 30 seconds or 1 minute. Just don't skimp and not get HD - everyone has a high pixel resolution mobile device and the standard definition cams look like garbage now.
Awesome! Thanks! Will have to suss out the upload bandwidth. But it is Japan with fibre optic all the way to the modem.
I am not sure what that means. But I think it is positive. Would you put it up with the other webcams? Ok so I am not on top of the current state of th NBN here in Aus, but when I think about what a non-issue getting both my places connected when there was no internet at all, why wouldn't every new install in Aus be fibre to property from where ever they are laying new cables from? One was overhead and one is underground*. But neither were any more work than the cables to my place in Sydney when I built it. In fact way less work * underground in this case meant a bit of conduit laid on the ground with a bit of dirt kicked over it. Now covered in about 4 inches of rotted vegetation.
