• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

OKC chasers cam question

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Was watching some live feeds out of OKC last week. They had 4 chasers in the field, all streaming from a remote control roof mounted camera. Anyone have info on what cameras and hardware their using?
 
Since no one has answered about the setup the OKC bunch is using, i'll tell you what i am using, fixin to anyway.
Just got case finished for it and mounted on roof racks.

The camera is an Optics PTZ 30x SID. VISCA command format.
What I don't like about this camera is it using stepper motors with no encoder feedback.
Each step is about 4.5 minutes of a degree.
If i rebuild this project, i will certainly look for a camera that is servo controlled with encoder feedback.

Alumn case is mounted on the cross bars of roof rack.
Case is forced air cooled (additional 12 VDC fan) via plastic tube with the fan mounted to draw from rear seat AC outlet.
Return air is back through the conduit from the case to between the roof and headliner.

Control and preview is with a custom app via Ethernet to WiFi using external converter.
Main streaming output feed is HDMI to Live SoloU.

The Live SoloU uses what they call bonding, mean the streaming feed through it is split between two USB call data dongles.
One is AT&T and the other is Verizon data feed.
The server it is feeding put the frames back together in sequence which allows for a better video with only a fraction of the frames not being able to display. So a more steady stream in appearance viewing.

The app can not be completed until I have the weather station mounted as the App will access GPS and vehicle heading from that device.
Weather station is a Columbia MX500. The app image was for testing and the vehicle heading was hard coded for now.
That image there is actually an old one and the app has evolved more since it was taken.

If interested in case appearance will take pictures tomorrow and post.
 

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