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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    It isn't that I don't like it, I honestly haven't tried it, I'm just leery about running something that doesn't have much in the way of headless support. I found some posts of people saying they're able to achieve it by passing through an xeon's embedded GPU to the BI VM, but those people all...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I guess one other concern with this approach could be how any moisture is supposed to drain, as normally with cameras I mount to the side to make a C pattern with the silicon sealant. Could I mount a turret camera directly to the arch without having to worry about any condensation building up...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I've been rethinking this a bit, and I've decided on another approach: I'll mount all of these in a place that is both easy to get to and there is no need for any to wiring or conduit. Basically, there are two ideal spots for a camera underneath my front porch archways that will have them...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I just received word back from the builder on how they build the exterior walls, and they sent me this. From left to right: insulation, tyvek, foam, chicken wire, brown coat, and stucco.
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I'm not sure whether mine has that sheathing on it. I know there is the homewrap stuff first, then I'm wanting to say that's followed by the foam, but honestly I haven't seen how they build the exterior wall after the homewrap is added. Whatever they do after that point they seemed to do rather...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I think there's maybe a little more at play. I literally walked right in front of the camera and all I could see in the picture was a silhouette. The old camera works fine switching modes without even needing a NVR to tell it what to do. The new one needs the NVR just to tell it when to switch...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I tried putting one of these new cameras in that spot at night and...damn, they can't see for crap at night. I'm not sure if I'm just configuring it wrong, but my old DS-2CD2032-I camera does a hell of a lot better at night. They claim 93ft range in darkness, but I can't even get them to go that...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    Oh and if anybody is wondering, I'm using some enterprise grade equipment to drive these cameras: Switch: Cisco WS-3750G-24PS running IOS 15 UPS: Minuteman Enterprise Plus E1500RM2U 3 node VMware cluster, each running 32GB of ram and Xeon E3 1245V3 CPUs Really wanting to run a software NVR on...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    Here's the view of the spot I'm wanting to place that camera from a much older IP camera that I have, which I'm not wanting to use because it doesn't seem to capture details very well. I'm still configuring one of the new cameras for a bench test without the NVR. Note the gate and fence there...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I did buy the cameras already, from Costco so no big deal to return, which I most likely will as I discovered shortly after ordering it that the angle is too wide for most of the areas these will be placed. I'll try to mount the camera and take a shot of what the view looks like. Meanwhile, the...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    It's actually some kind of newer stuff, I don't even know what it's called really. It actually looks a lot like actual moon dust, may be some kind of cotton and fiberglass blend. My understanding is that they put it in place by first adding some kind of skirting to the wall, then blow it all...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    @mat200 Is texturing it pretty hard? I watched some youtube videos and there doesn't seem to be much to it, but I've never tried it. My walls don't look like typical knockdown texture (which I think is what this is called)
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I do my own bulk cable with termination, but what about the pigtail that comes out of the camera? Is it ideal to snip it and re-terminate? I'm concerned about that voiding the warranty. EDIT: Oh and the wall is textured, but I have no idea how to re-texture it.
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    The thought has crossed my mind to use an angle drill adapter, but finding the cable in the wall would be a nightmare. It's one thing to do it on the inside where you cut a single gang sized hole and find your fish rod through the insulation mess, (did that for Ethernet in one of the bedrooms)...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    I've attached a picture of the outside, the camera will go to the left side and just above that window. The inside is in the attic and I'll have to crawl up there to take a picture, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to drill a hole down into the wall, as it's at the edge of the A frame. I just...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    Couldn't I forgo the conduit if its outdoor wiring and painted with outdoor paint? The conduit would make the cabling more visible, which the HOA stipulates should be as blended in as possible. Not sure whether I'd be able to get away with a junction box either.
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    How would I do that? The conduit would have to be external to the wall, unless I'm missing something? Also, the house was already built when I first saw it. It had like every major feature added and the buyers backed out, so I snapped it up at a $23k discount :) Edit: Oh yeah I talked them down...
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    Oooh, good tip. How important is it that I land on a stud? I wish I was in a position to mount the camera directly over its wire, sadly it's either all 9ft or nothing if I do that. Though I kind of wonder if that even matters in this case since this camera will be looking over a fence anyways.
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    Installing over stucco with tyvek homewrap

    Thus far I've avoided installing anything over my stucco exterior, but in order to avoid having one of my cameras above 9ft it's going to be necessary in this case. That said, this is a brand new house and I like all of its energy efficiency, so I'm wanting to avoid damaging either the homewrap...
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    New House - What Doorbell & Camera System

    I'm in a similar boat as the OP, new house and starting from scratch (had cameras at my old house, hence posting here in the past, but was renting for several years.) My house is already built even though it's brand new, though I can't see much mention of this when searching - Does blue iris...
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    Solving some NFS issues on Hikvision cameras

    If anybody is looking for a fast way of applying this patch without having to copy files or anything, you can literally just paste this into a telnet session. Standard use at your own risk disclaimer applies. Only for 5.1.0! Using on any other version will cause problems. mkdir /dev/davtar &&...
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    Solving some NFS issues on Hikvision cameras

    It's LZMA compression. See my commentary here: http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=40240&start=60#262637
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