Hi, folks! Long time lurker, but now I decided to share a bit more about what I'm trying to do and ask some questions 😅

I want to create a budget sports camera that has a good enough quality for me to run some machine learning algorithms on the footage later on. It needs to be portable, battery powered, and weather resistant (although this part can wait).

Instead of trying to create something from scratch, I wanna validate the idea first by using off-the-shelf, commercial products. If it works, I'll figure out the next steps later. Right now, my idea is to use: - Reolink duo 3 POE camera (https://reolink.com/ca/product/reolink-duo-3-poe/) - Maxxwave 500mAh POE+ Power Bank (https://www.balticnetworks.com/en-ca/products/maxxwave-802-3af-at-7500mah-gigabit-poe-power-bank) - Raspberry PI (not sure about the model yet)

Since the camera provides a RTSP feed, my idea is to basically use a raspberry pi (zero, 3, 4, 5 - I don't know yet) to read the feed and save the files in the SD card (say, every 10min). I tested this with another RTSP-capable camera and it works on my machine, but I don't have any RPIs to test.

So, finally the questions!

Do you think that power bank can provide enough power to the camera and raspberry pi during ~2h? What raspberry pi model would work best for this? It'll mainly be 2h of writing files in the sd card (rtsp >> ffmpeg >> sd card) Is there anything that I might not be considering for a setup like this? Thanks!