We’ve been working for days to get a livestream cam set up in the goat barn. The metal walls keep blocking the signal causing problems. Tonight my husband got it working! We’re doing a double stream so the video quality is very bad. I’m sorry, I can’t do anything about this with our current equipment. We need about $300 in surveillance camera equipment to bypass the metal walls, so for now this is the best we can do. It’s enough that we can see Mocha in her pen, and occasionally see our alpaca, Cloud, checking in on her. Check it out on our twitch channel!
If you are having trouble viewing the livestream on the web page here you can go directly to my Twitch channel and view it there. https://www.twitch.tv/tinyzoo
(Note: the stream shows up in Chrome great but I had some trouble seeing it in Firefox. I stopped the stream and restarted it, and now it’s working for me but my husband still can’t see it. I’m not exactly sure what the problem is with Firefox and Twitch tonight. I clicked on “Allow Adobe Flash” and that may have ultimately helped? But it didn’t work right away. Try reloading the page after you approve Flash. Works fine in Chrome!)
Mocha was acting like she is in early labor this afternoon. She is just laying down at the time of this posting. We’re hopeful her babies come safely. Apparently she is having a longer than normal labor. And my friend who has 45 years of experience with goats estimates her age at 10 years old, so she is older for being a mama goat. I am praying she and her baby get through this ok.
-Laurene
For those who are interested in the technical details:
We are streaming over our LAN from the barn to our livingroom. We are using a Logitech webcam connected to an older laptop plugged into a power strip just outside of her pen.
Then we are stream the live feed from our livingroom to twitch using xsplit broadcaster, free version.
It is unclear how long we are going to be able to maintain this current setup. The equipment is presently in a very temporary configuration. We need to purchase several items to be able to set this up permanently. If you enjoy the goat cam please donate to help us keep it live.
