TV camera woes

The club I am associated with ran the Lionel Caboose cam at a train show. I tried to receive with a laptop which was hooked to a 32" computer monitor screen via HDMI cable. Had difficulties keeping the wifi link caboose to laptop going. So we abandoned the laptop, and used two iPads. About every two hours we had to re-establish the wifi link. After the show, I looked up and found an adapter that plugs into the iPad power port, adapter has its own power port you use the iPad's charger for, and a HDMI port that you can hook to a Computer monitor or TV. I have not actually used the adapter yet as Covid has cancelled this year's show - but a friend says he has such an adapter and uses it to play movies on his iPhone through his HDTV, so I know the adapter can work.

Here is an amazon webpage showing such adapters. I bought on of the cheap ones, and as I said, have not tried it yet. My friend has the Apple made adapter.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n...dmi+adapter+for+ipad

BTW -

One of our members walked all over the hall the train show was in. We were located in one corner, and I am bad at guessing, but the hall is large enough for a motocross track set up, monster truck track set up, and horse competitions - got to be on the order of 400' wide by 1000' long. He was always in line-of-site to our layout, i.e. no walls for the signal to go through.

Thanks MED.  I will keep this in mind if I figure out a way to install a small drone camera and transmitter in my train and get a more reliable picture.  Phil

I've installed a drone camera in the cupola of a caboose;  you can see some pictures of the project here.