Running cabling "out" through vinyl siding, and up the exterior for mounting location // Street view location

[Dave88LX]

I have a Dahua IPC-HFW5431EP-Z5 that I want to mount near the front corner of the side of my house, aiming at the stree. I'll have it tightend up to basically cover sidewalk-to-sidewalk or so, maybe tighter, will have to play with it once it's up. Vehicle capture, hopefully plates too.

Probably be adding a second camera at the rear of the house covering the side yard/basement window, so this one is specifically for cars on the road.
I am thinking I will be mounting it "around" this area. I have a couple options to run the cables, not sure which is more correct or better, and why.

If you have other ideas then please feel free to throw them out there as well.
I know I should essentially get it right into conduit and run that up to the junction box that will be mounted to the side of the house.
I have vinyl siding surface mounting blocks to attach the camera mount/junction box onto.

I have Dahua PFA137 junction boxes for the camera mounting.

https://www.dahuasecurity.com/products/All-Products/Accessories/Camera-Accessories/Camera-Mounts/Junction-Boxes/PFA137

I do have a conduit bender and am comfortable forming conduit if that is the answer.

I'm just not sure exactly what to do with the cable when it comes out of the siding and best practice to run this correctly.





Basement -- Can see my other bundle of cables and the fiber.








Something like this is what I'm thinking:

 

[pete_c]

I just installed a camera on the corner under the eave. I ran the cable in the corner piece of the siding down to water spigot level. I put caulking in the hole and sealed the top using a siding repair kit then painted it the same color as the siding.

Here is the view:


I did similar in last 2 story home. It was much more difficult to do under the eave of a two story home with cement board siding.
I pre mounted the camera base on a sheet of aluminum and mounted the aluminum to the eave. I also utilized thin cat6 outdoor cable.





Outside to house view at night:



Going to basement. Having a basement made it very easy to wire.


I have another camera mounted on the eave in the back of the house facing the front. Here is a moon picture.

 

[Dave88LX]

I just installed a camera on the corner under the eave. I ran the cable in the corner piece of the siding down to water spigot level. I put caulking in the hole and sealed the top using a siding repair kit then painted it the same color as the siding.

Yeah my eaves are way way too high. I do have a 2" conduit running from the basement up to the attic, however the 18"+ of blown-in insulation will make maneuvering up there a nightmare.

I believe (and you'll all correct me if I'm wrong) that this height will give me a good reading of cars/plates without being in the "reflection zone" or whatever where the lights ruin the image.

I'll test it out on a 2x4 mount before making it permanent.

I think a conduit LB is what I'm looking for where it comes out of the house.

 

[Dave88LX]

Thread 'Solution to add a couple LPR cameras — here's my setup in question'

Jan 17, 2023

NVR: NVR5416-4KS2
Cam: IPC-HFW5431E-Z5
State: Pennsylvania, rear plates only
After doing a lot of reading on here, I see myself upgrading to BI in the future. For now, just going to keep trucking with this NVR and getting cameras up and going.

I'd like to add a pair of cameras to grab plates. My thought is to mount them on the vertical surface of the front of the house, below the eaves. Soffit-mounted is also a possibility.
Vertical surface, or soffit, and why?

Being that I'm on the corner of this circle, I have the angles to get both directions pretty well before...

• Dave88LX
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• Forum: Camera Installation Questions

Ugh. Don't you hate when you asked something almost 3 years ago, then life got in the way and you forgot you asked?

I found my own old thread while searching for an answer. God Bless the search function! I'll go do some reading on things that have already been answered.

 

[dudemaar]

Hi Dave88LX, I would suggest option 1 easiest and safest is to use some direct burial outdoor cat5e cable and hide it behind siding and up inside corner trim. do a drip loop behind down spout and use a cable gland into the junction box. search "cable gland" on this forum as I've seen lots of threads on them here.

or option 2 is drill up inside wall ( see hydro wires going up in wall) in basement and fish it up inside wall. but that could be dangerous as I see hydro meter close by.

Edit Also don’t forget to put a glob of dielectric grease inside the female rj45 port of camera (on the pins) .

 

[tigerwillow1]

the 18"+ of blown-in insulation will make maneuvering up there a nightmare.

When I was faced with that I used a snow shovel to clear a path.

 

[Flintstone61]

Like Dudemaar said.....and or this idea....you could tuck the Cat5e/ Cat6 whatever your using ( cat5e is thinner) behind the downspout and make a turn at the last siding piece and tuck it under that and then go thru the wall where other stuff is coming in/out

 

[Flintstone61]

Like Dudemaar said.....and or this idea....you could tuck the Cat5e/ Cat6 whatever your using ( cat5e is thinner) behind the downspout and make a turn at the last siding piece and tuck it under that and then go thru the wall where other stuff is coming in/out

 

[pete_c]

In the two story house the attic was 9 foot high in the middle. I built a catwalk out of 4' X 4's in the middle of the attic from one side to another and put lighting in along the top, This made it easy to wire the bedrooms and hallway. Put a chase in the middle of the attic down to the basement. I used in wall speaker cavities for creating the chase. First project there was a good attic foldable stair case and a chandelier lift (similiar to a garage door opener).

For the under eave camera drilled a hole in the eave and used a fiber glass rod to put cable in to the attic. Easy peasy.