OT: Birdbox with Colour Camera

["familyberry" <stewart_berry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We've put up several birdoxes in the woods at the back of us and now
we've decided that we'd like to put up a birdbox which incorporates
a colour camera so that we can watch the birdy going-ons.
I've looked at several sites which sell such things, both wired and
wireless, but thought I'd tap into the combined experience and
wisdom (?) of group members before I part with any money.
Does anyone have any experience and recommendations to offer? In
particular I'm torn between the (supposed)ease of wireless (but
power still needed for the camera!) and the possible problem of
feeding cables through the outer skin of the house if we go with a
wired solution. I'm probably going to have to mount the box on the
front of the house which faces North, and feed any cables directly
through the front wall into a bedroom or into the loft and then down
into a bedroom. If anyone has fitted one of these boxes, I'd be
interested to know how you've done the cabling
Also, any recommendations for displaying and saving the pictures? I
have an old Dell Latitude CPx laptop running XP which I'd probably
like to use, however, I also like the idea of being able to display
the camera output on our main TV in the lounge so we can use picture-
in-picture to follow the birdy goings-ons.
Any help or recommendations will be most welcome.


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