New Construction placement advice, camera type, mount

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Hi all, hoping to get some advice on two tricky camera placement areas (for me anyway) on our new construction home. We're still in the early planning stages, and attached are two screenshots from the 3D render. One is the garage overlooking the approach up the driveway. The other is the basement walkout with retaining walls on either side.

Seeing that the garage is a gable side, and the walkout would have to be a wall mount of some type:

• Would you do bullet and mount to the sloped fascia? Is there enough adjustability in a bullet make that work?
• Would you do a turret mounted vertically on the garage wall?
• Would you do a turret with a wall mount bracket?
• For the garage, there's a small section of flat fascia (#1) where I could conventionally mount a turret. Due to the setback on the garage, the field of view gets clipped a little on one side, but its' not bad. This would be the cleanest aesthetically, but good choice?

Thanks for any and all advice,
Steve

 

[looney2ns]

The locations you have marked show the cams mounted too high.
If you expect to get facial Id's of perps, you need to keep any camera lower than 8ft.
#2 on the garage is ok, if you only expect to get an overview shot of the drive
Suggestion: the double garage door, you need two cameras one on each side of the door at the height of the door frame, with each camera looking criss-cross of each other.

 

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The locations you have marked show the cams mounted too high.
If you expect to get facial Id's of perps, you need to keep any camera lower than 8ft.
#2 on the garage is ok, if you only expect to get an overview shot of the drive
Suggestion: the double garage door, you need two cameras one on each side of the door at the height of the door frame, with each camera looking criss-cross of each other.

Thanks, I'll make that height adjustment. Question, would I have to wall mount in this case? Is it possible/advisable to mount a bullet on a slanted fascia like that? I'd think it'd be impossible with a turret to adjust get the angle adjusted right due to the pitch.

 

[wittaj]

The turret can be adjusted even more than the bullet in some situations, especially if the end of the bullet is bumping into the fascia board.