While I was up in the attic I surveyed the area at the far end of the front porch. I’d have to wade through the insulation dust and find a good place to punch a hole in the wall, or one up through the ceiling of the porch. I had such good coverage of the front, I decide that what I really needed was a camera on the front door and there are two sides to the porch, so I went with the easier side and drilled a hole in the garage wall. This ended up being two feet from where I wanted to put the NVR control unit. I had a hard time getting all the wires all the way through this whole, which wasn;t exactly straight for some reason. The power and reset cables went down the inside of the wall and I had to fish them out. You don’t want to drop the cables before you attach the camera and you can’t attach the camera until you get the cables through the wall. this is a problem I had with every camera install.
I used lots of silicone to insulate this camera. I used one of the 1 foot cables to connect this camera to the NVR. I found a DVD shelf at Home Depot for under $15 that I installed next to the Data Cabinet. I used a bit of hook and loop strapping to loosely attache the unit to the shelf.
I like the monitor here because I can see through the garage door when I hear things outside. I will probably attach the monitor better because it’s not earthquake proof, but I had an extra monitor anyway.
The cable for this camera comes in just above the NVR.
