Hi friends. I'm eyeing up a few of these cameras. I ordered one to start with to get a feel for how it'll work and I'm pretty happy with it, so I think I'm going to go ahead with 1-2 more. There's one thing I'm questioning a little bit, and that's the way these cameras mount. I only have experience with indoor cameras that have their own little included brackets/mounting mechanisms, which once opened are rather self explanatory, as well as outdoor Vivotek bullet cameras (also make sense once you take a look at how they work), though dome cameras are something new to me.
Memory might be working against me as I do not have the camera in front of me at the moment (but was curious enough to post a while), but if I recall, I can take the dome off the top of the camera and from there, there are holes for screws. For a few of my mount points, such as the large 8x8 wooden beams holding the roof up over my car port, this is a no brainer. However, I question how I would be able to attach this camera to a drop ceiling inside the house, or straight to a vertical drywall wall inside the garage. Surely the screws would not bite a ceiling tile well enough to withstand the weight of the camera over time (nor would I trust it, even if they would be able to bite enough). Drywall wise, I might be okay with those plastic screw inserts.
With ceiling mounted speakers, I've seen plastic L shaped tabs to put on the upper part of the ceiling tile which the screws lock into. These seem to help grab more surface area of the tile to better distribute the item's weight. Would this be the route to go with with a dome camera like this? Or is there another, more logical option that I'm not seeing?
Memory might be working against me as I do not have the camera in front of me at the moment (but was curious enough to post a while), but if I recall, I can take the dome off the top of the camera and from there, there are holes for screws. For a few of my mount points, such as the large 8x8 wooden beams holding the roof up over my car port, this is a no brainer. However, I question how I would be able to attach this camera to a drop ceiling inside the house, or straight to a vertical drywall wall inside the garage. Surely the screws would not bite a ceiling tile well enough to withstand the weight of the camera over time (nor would I trust it, even if they would be able to bite enough). Drywall wise, I might be okay with those plastic screw inserts.
With ceiling mounted speakers, I've seen plastic L shaped tabs to put on the upper part of the ceiling tile which the screws lock into. These seem to help grab more surface area of the tile to better distribute the item's weight. Would this be the route to go with with a dome camera like this? Or is there another, more logical option that I'm not seeing?
