{"id":1098,"date":"2026-01-26T13:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/?p=1098"},"modified":"2026-01-26T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:11:18","slug":"2026-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/2026-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Equipment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Scootercam starts 2026 with brand-new equipment and fiber internet. As of today, we&#8217;re down to one camera, but we&#8217;ve ordered a new PTZ camera. Here&#8217;s the hardware lineup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Reolink Duo 3 PoE<\/strong> which outputs a 7680&#215;2160 ultra-wide image, using a unique 180\u00b0 panoramic dual-lens system. We crop the images from this camera and get 5 views, from south to north. Its located along the beach deck wall, but we&#8217;ll move it to the Gallows later this spring.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Reolink TrackMix 4k<\/strong> (not yet installed). This Pan-Tilt-Zoom camera replaces the PTZ camera mounted on the pole at the northwest corner of the beach deck. We&#8217;ll set this camera up to patrol &#8211; take different shots during the day &#8211; and it will be our primary sunset camera.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Raspberry Pi 5 <\/strong>&#8211; this microcomputer is no bigger than a deck of cards. It&#8217;s the brains of the outfit, and manages the cameras &#8211; taking pictures, turning them in to timelapse videos, and uploading them to the website. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tempest Weather Station<\/strong> &#8211; a top-quality weather station that <a href=\"https:\/\/tempestwx.com\/station\/198109\/\">sends its data to the Tempest network<\/a>. Scootercam simply pulls data from there, eliminating the middleman.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Website Work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2026 sees renewed focus on core site operations. We&#8217;re spending more time on optimization and speed, so the site loads quickly and without any glitches. We&#8217;ve moved much of the website&#8217;s timelapse work back to the little Raspberry Pi. Oddly, with blazing-fast upload speeds here, the Pi is better suited for the task. We&#8217;ve made extensive use of AI to refactor old scripts and processes, and while result there were a little mixed, the goals became clear:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fast loading website with up-to-the-moment weather data and images from the beach.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Optimized for mobile and small devices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Provides unique solar and lunar data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Displays a timelapse video covering the previous 4 hours; updated every 20 minutes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Creates and archives all-day timelapse videos (3 files per 24 hours) archived one month.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Records and archives daily sunsets  archived forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The site has its own personality and character. Rotating snippets embellish the forecasts and can be curated on an Admin page. An AI tool helps create new snippets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipment Scootercam starts 2026 with brand-new equipment and fiber internet. As of today, we&#8217;re down to one camera, but we&#8217;ve ordered a new PTZ camera. Here&#8217;s the hardware lineup: Website Work 2026 sees renewed focus on core site operations. We&#8217;re spending more time on optimization and speed, so the site loads quickly and without any &#8230; <a title=\"2026 Plans\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/2026-plans\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 2026 Plans\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scootercam.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}