The first thing I had to deal with was that there was a wasp’s nest everywhere i wanted to install a camera. Luckily I had a can of wasp spray and had to deal with them first.
The electrician who installed the new carriage lights decide to re-use the power line for those and cut out the nice motion triggered spot lights. Who knows why. I remember when I installed them, being very lucky running the power lines in the corner of the roof, finding a crack that I could stick the wire through. I tried to get the new Ethernet cable through but the corner is just too far away to get to from the inside. I have cabinets in the garage that prevent me from reaching in there. I did put a longer power wire in the hole and I will re-wire up the old motion detector lights soon. There wasn’t enough room on the same rafter for all these things.
I moved the security camera to the next rafter and discovered that the fascia is metal. I could just see the rafter from inside, but I couldn’t quite reach it.
I made great use of a grabber tool that we had laying around. 
The only way to get to the space inside was to bring a ladder inside and close the garage door. Then I had to open the door to get out and bring the ladder back to the front. I did this about 20 times.
The camera has a casing for the Ethernet jack that is 3/4 of an inch in diameter. So all holes must be this wide if they are close to the camera. The normal Ethernet connector will fit in half inch holes or pipes. The trouble is that the camera had two other pig tails with the same length of wire: a power cable and a reset button. This makes it hard to fit the cable through holes and pipes like the PVC pipe I was using to protect the cable. In order to get the camera low enough to peek out from under the eave, I needed to widen the rafter make a place to screw the base to it. I cut some 2x4s into 4 inch lengths. Then I had to carve a path into the inside of the block so that the cable can travel through it protected until it gets into the PVC tube. I used my dremel with a sanding drum to carve a quarter circle from the bottom to the back side.
I connected the camera to the Ethernet cable and ran the other end into the hole. I used the grabber to pull the cable from the inside. The next big problem was to fit the camera’s plug through the PVC and into the hole in the fascia board and string it through the path carved in the 2×4 block and screw the block to the rafter and the base of the camera to the block and the rafter and pull the cable tight (but not too tight) from the inside. All at the same time.
I used a red plastic hole protector thingy to wrap around the wires as they went into the hole in the metal fascia. The casing that goes around the RJ45 plug has a rubber washer/gasket that has a slit in it, but it would have to fit around the strain relief of the Ethernet cable and it really doesn’t work. I will add some silicone caulking around all the edges before I paint the contraption.
