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08-24-2019, 08:04 AM
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Newmar Owners Club Spartan Chassis
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Monitoring Pets in Coach
Good Day -
Looking for others' experiences and methods for monitoring pets in your coach?
Apps, cameras, phones, etc?
How do you keep an eye on your dogs and cats while you are out of the coach?
Thanks!
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T, Ally, Putt and Bogey
The Poodle Pusher - 2017 Dutch Star 4369
2017 Ford F150 4x4 , Blue Ox & Patroit II
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08-24-2019, 08:22 AM
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If you have decent quality Internet, then monitoring the interior is easy with the multitude of IP cameras now available.
So, step 1 - do you have Internet?
What are you monitoring - the temperature? that the pets aren't ripping up the place? that they are in the RV? And then, what do you do about it if you don't like what you are monitoring?
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2002 Newmar Mountain Aire Limited 4370 w/ Spartan K2 and Cummins 500hp
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08-24-2019, 08:23 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TandAlly
Good Day -
Looking for others' experiences and methods for monitoring pets in your coach?
Apps, cameras, phones, etc?
How do you keep an eye on your dogs and cats while you are out of the coach?
Thanks!
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I don't travel with pets (these days) but I'd not travel with one that required constant monitoring unless they went back in the kennel crate.
Remote temperature monitoring (and auto generator start for A.C.) is a good thing. Crated or not, it can't get too hot.
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“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” - Dr Suess
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08-24-2019, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Freightliner Owners Club
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Hickory, NC
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MarCELL
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08-24-2019, 09:40 AM
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Appalachian Campers
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Dixie !! (north Georgia) USA
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I presume while you are not at your site?
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08-24-2019, 10:02 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Glendora, CA
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Monitoring Pets in Coach
I’m seriously considering trying one of these new cameras from WYZE. These are pan and zoom HD WiFi camera for $30...Talk about an industry shaking game-changer!!!
https://www.wyze.com/wyze-cam-pan/
Compared to my $200+ NEST cameras, I may be able to live with any glitches; even Nest had them.
There ARE others, obviously, but the one from Wyze caught my tech group’s eye because of their price of $20 for the non-pan version. This is another one on Amazon...if you believe their reviews, it seems to be good as well.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TTC92T3..._--vyDbYHW7W79
The huge obstacle for you will be bandwidth to stream even SD video. Remember that these need UPLOAD speed, not download. And, as many of us have found, keeping a good solid LTE connection is really hard to do. And forget about CG Wi-Fi; they barely give you enough to do email let alone UPLOAD steaming!
Any “stand-alone” cellular device, like the one mentioned above, would be very costly with monthly charges...at least in my opinion.
Hope this helps.
P.S. By the way... in case you simply want a video of your pet is up to while your gone, that’s easy! Get a little GoPro Cube on a GorillaPod
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2015 Newell 2020P
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor TOAD with RoadMaster Nighthawk & AirForce1 Braking
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08-24-2019, 10:16 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: Arkansas
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For temperature, I'm using Sensor Push (you can get on Amazon).
For video, I currently have both an Arlo Q and Blink inside. I'll be honest, before my Furbo died, it was better, because it better recognized barking, so I knew I needed to return to quiet them or use the two audio to tell them to hush.
The Arlo Q has sound monitoring, but it doesn't seem very good.
I may buy another Furbo.
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Wrangler JLU / AF1 Braking / Rock Hard Bumper
2018 Thor ACE 30.3
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08-24-2019, 10:49 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: West Palm Beach, Fl
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We use blink. Monitors temp as well. Get notifications.
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2018 Allegro Bus 40SP
2009 Lexus GX470
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08-24-2019, 11:42 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Arkansas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CoreyinWP
We use blink. Monitors temp as well. Get notifications.
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Main thing I don't like about blink temp monitoring is that if you use live view too much the camera heats up and gives a false temp reading.
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2019 VTDP 4369 (Spartan)
Wrangler JLU / AF1 Braking / Rock Hard Bumper
2018 Thor ACE 30.3
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08-24-2019, 01:04 PM
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Member
Newmar Owners Club Spartan Chassis
Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 50
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pet monitoring
My thought is just monitoring for peace of mind. They don't tear up the coach, luckily.
We have internet (pepwave router w/ Verizon unlimited).
I also have two iphones w/ unlimited; in the past I call one phone from the other and leave it live in the coach so that I could hear them if there was an issue. I'm guessing there are more sophisticated methods than this, including possibly facetime on the phones but haven't tried that...
I'll reread the responses, perhaps the GoPro would do the trick!
Thanks!
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T, Ally, Putt and Bogey
The Poodle Pusher - 2017 Dutch Star 4369
2017 Ford F150 4x4 , Blue Ox & Patroit II
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08-24-2019, 01:19 PM
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2019
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We use all (4) old smart phones with wifi or leaving one of our phones behind as a hot spot, along with free app "Alfred"
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08-24-2019, 02:24 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: Glendora, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by doncap
We use all (4) old smart phones with wifi or leaving one of our phones behind as a hot spot, along with free app "Alfred"
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Whoa...That’s a new one on me!! Wild...I need to look into that.
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Steve & Janice
2015 Newell 2020P
2017 Ford F-150 Raptor TOAD with RoadMaster Nighthawk & AirForce1 Braking
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08-24-2019, 03:01 PM
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Member
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: Katy, Texas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Belgique
MarCELL
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+1 on Marcell
Also a lifesaver where I store the coach and my idiot neighbors leave too much on and pop the breaker.
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Todd and Laurie
2018 DSDP 4362 Spartan
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08-24-2019, 04:22 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
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You, wife or pet sitter works the best, I never leave our pets unattended too much s**** can happen
Zzotte
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2017 Dutch Star 4054 K2 Spartan Chassis with Active Air, 2022 Sahara toad with Blueox and AF1 - Noodles Communications officer, Choy the co-pilot
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