I had the desire, not the need, to be able to pan/tilt my Mikrotik AP from inside my house. It is a huge pain to go outside, climb the ladder, sit on the roof with my laptop and tune my AP. Yes I occasionally have to tune my AP. So I came up with a simple and relatively inexpensive option…A Pan-Tilt mount for a surveillance camera.
I found this guy on ebay for $99 with $20 shipping. Here’s my install:
As you can tell, the PT unit is about the size of a milk jug, so it’s pretty big.
I used a tailor light hookup kit to connect my cat5 hookup wire to the PT unit.
My superfly custom brackets that I bent…I bent them on my BBQ pit 😉
I attached a piece of PVC to the top of the unit to hold the rootenna to. I then spray painted it to look, in the words of Rob, less “redneck.”
A full 360 degree pan takes about 45 seconds.
I really only use pan, so I unhooked the tilt once I got it set.
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