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📣 hedora

Offline, battery powered camera that can continuously record


I’m looking for an outdoor, battery-powered camera that can record continuously for at least 48 hours, and that writes to a local SD card. The plan is to check the camera, pull footage and swap batteries every 24 hours for a few weeks. Does such a thing exist?

(Solar-powered rechargeable batteries would be acceptable, but makes installation more complicated, and I need to buy 5-10 of these.)

Everything I can find wants to connect to a cell network or is motion triggered (there are plenty of trail cameras in the << $100 range with those restrictions).

Time lapse with a <= 1 second interval would be fine.

  👤 jaclaz Accepted Answer ✓
Try looking for "construction site time lapse camera", I have seen some where the time lapse can be regulated between something like 0.5s and 24h time, and they are by design outdoor/rugged and with long lasting batteries.

It has to be seen which size of SD card will be needed for 24 h recording at 0.5s, and of course how long the battery will last.

And probably they won't be as cheap as dashcams or trail cameras.