Three years ago, I needed to install four outside cameras under my eaves.
I went into the attic, looked around, and I decided that I would be better off hiring a professional to run the cables.
$1,200 later, I was glad I did because he needed to use an endoscope camera to determine how to get the cables from my attic to my garage where I set up a hardware station with a POE switch and a MOCA adapter that ran a coax to my outside Verizon splitter. I would have drilled holes in the wrong places had I attempted this.
I installed the cameras myself and learned how to crimp ethernet plugs to the ends of the cables. No conduit piping or junction boxes needed.
The installers thought that what I did was smart. Let them do the hard part, and I could do the easy part on my own time.
This year, I am going to replace the cameras with ones that have Sony Starvis image sensors. I am going to use universal
Amcrest junction boxes this time because I don't want to leave holes in the eaves each time I replace the cameras every five years or so.