yeah me too - there really isn’t any 3G cameras that you can interface with via the web (ie most 3G trail cameras is via old school sms), and very keen to rig up my adafruit serial camera to my electron but it seems like a nightmare to try and send the data back to the cloud …can anyone point me in direct of a tutorial for an amateur to do this?
(happy to get a different camera if that makes it easier)
ideal scenario, send a command over web (via IFFT or the like), and have the electron jump out of low power mode, snap a photo, send it back (via IFFT or something to my email), and have the electron go back to low power mode (optimise for battery life in a remote location) …possible? probable?
One possibility is a jpeg camera such as https://www.adafruit.com/products/613.
This has a serial interface, so should be pretty easy to grab data from. Since the device builds a jpeg image, the picture should be a fraction of the 640x480 raw image - perhaps in the 30-40kb size range. This is still only about 1 a day with the default 1mb data plan, but if the lower resolution images work for you, that’s 4 or 16x more.
Hi
Did you find any good camera works with Electron 3G?
I am planing to do same thing as you wanted to do now.
I've recently written a library to support the 4DSystems uCamIII
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