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Setting up the Chickenfeed

We've set up a web camera to look at the chickens. It seems to be dropping packets -- some when it's mounted outside under the eaves looking at the yard, lots when it's mounted inside the chicken house. I suspect that, because there's no external antenna, the camera suffers more from signal attenuation than my laptop does (where the antenna is in the lid, behind the screen). Even the laptop has less than perfect signal in the chicken house, so that would make sense. Meanwhile, it's dark in the chicken house so even if the signal were great, mostly what we'd see is a black square. This does not get us any closer to seeing the rats getting the eggs and it doesn't actually get video of the chickens out to those curious folks who want to see them chickening around.

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