IPcams outside looking towards house, and elsewhere

[Virga]

Recently I undertook a project in my yard that involved trenching.
With people and equipment on site, the project expanded to include conduit such that free standing ipcams can be installed around the house looking towards the house as well as looking towards access pathways.
There are woods around, and of course a driveway coming up from the road.
The purpose of the cams would be overview more than identifying.
The cable lengths will be within PoE limits.
Two questions:

– what might be suitable methods for mounting ipcams at the edge of natural greenery/woods looking towards house? I have come across some posts discussing outdoors mounting. There was one discussion that I recall in which a member said he had a 4x4 in the ground, with a PVC sleeve on it. More recently one member had shared photos of a 3D printed mount he was working on for a mount facing a walkway up to the house.

– what might be suitable cams?

 

[pete_c]

I had irrigation installed in my old house and used irrigation lines for outside cameras facing the house. I put two in back in berms and one in the front berm.

I used 6 X 6 posts and drilled holes in the middle of the posts down past ground level. Posts were about 6 foot and buried 2 feet. I installed 120 VAC, 12VDC and POE for the cameras. I did not have any issues with configuration. The cameras would get wet when the irrigation was on.

I used a ladder and a 3/4" drill bit that was 4-5 feet long.



Views in the back yard were three cameras out from the house and two facing the house.

In the front built a brick mailbox. In the mailbox put a camera facing the house then another one in the berm facing the house. Two story house had one camera under the second story eave and another between garage doors mounted on brick and another facing the front door.

 

[bigredfish]

Giant birdhouse

 

[Holbs]

I ran underground Cat6 to 2 different front locations. 1 location has 4 Cat6's, other location has 2 Cat6.
bought some of those 4' fake boulder rocks.
bought a birdhouse

I have a Dahua 5442 camera in the birdhouse catching the beginning of my driveway and beyond. Never really "fitted" it correctly into the birdhouse so during 60mph gusts of wind, the camera itself shifts & rotates due to the light pole's vibration and shaking. On my todo list to fix up.
Other Cat6 serve as 24vdc feeds to LED lights and future LPR camera.

Leaves me with 1 more Cat6 cable that I designated to look back towards the house along my 50' driveway where people walk to get to my front door.
I envisioned another 5442 series (now is called T54I) 2.8mm wide view camera at the height of 6'.
Why 2.8mm? This camera would only be worried about general view + immediate DORI facial ID of less than 10'.
Why 6' height? Direct facial ID with a straight on shot that I can take to judge/court if necessary.
Was going to slap in a 6"x4" 10' tall post (2-3 feet into the ground) at the beginning of my driveway to act as an end stop to my fenceline with identical 6"x4" post on the opposite side of my pavement with a swinging gate and all that jazz.
A 2' wide circular (or rectangular) shelf would be set at the 6' or 7' mark with little rails to act as a plant holder, or bird feeder or whatever tickles your fancy with 4 shelf support brackets. Attached to the underneath this platform, would be the camera pointing in the direction of my front door. This would shield the camera from snow/rain and direct sunlight. Most importantly, this platform + shelf support brackets would hide the camera to someone passing on the front side but would be visible once they start into my driveway and front door.