A circular disk like snow plows use. It spins and has a scraper on it I think. In any event, you could rotate the disk to a clean spot hopefully. Have the part of the disk inside a housing that hopefully flies will not crawl up into.
Or you could have a roll of acetate or some other transparent plastic. When it gets dirty, use a motor to advance some fresh stuff in front of the lens. From: That One Guy /sarcasm Sent: Monday, October 31, 2016 8:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] fly poop and cameras We are going to be deploying some new cameras for a client. We have some panasonic IP cams in place, pricey bastards, the issue is the lens covers. This is for monitoring calving operations at some remote barn sites. The flies get into the housings or the poop on the lens covers, this suff is like concrete, the customer has to take them down and clean them because even though theyre waterproof the fly poop wont wash off. We had thought about enclosing them in glass(not plexiglass) housings, but housings fog up really easy due to the environment. any ideas on eaither quality cameras with robust lens covers that could take a hit from a pressure washer, or a housing that can take a pressure washer and not fog up? -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
