I have ordered a HIKVISION DS-2CD2542FWD-I 4MP MINI IR DOME CAMERA 2.8MM to mount on the wall facing the street to keep an eye on one of our cars.
This wall is about 3 meter high:


Update: image with the 2 possible positions marked red.
This is a photo with an ipad, standing on the road, grey stones are the walking path, yellowish stones is our private parking space.
Image of the car is inverted (iphone issue) from wall to the street.

You can see me in the reflection holding up the iphone, so that is about 230 cm up.
My idea was to put the camera high up, so no one can touch it. This model is not easy to throuw cloth over or whatever (can approched from the sides stepping over litte seperators between our parking spot and the neighbors. So i could mount it up close to the top.
Planning to aim it down, so it overlooks the front/back of the car close to the wall, and the rest of the car up to the road. Motion detection i can than make it so it does not respond to all the people passing by over the road or walking path. Only if they walk left or right of the car up to the gate, or try to open the car doors.
But the more i read here, higher up seems useless to get some faces visable on screen.
I could replace the lamp with it (we not use it, as wel have public lamp post just in front of our house, the iron pole in the picture, so it is brightly lit there) but we live in attached houses with over 30 houses in a row, and removing this lamp makes it seem different.
I could mount it in between the lamp and the intercom. That would give me quite a good image if someone rings the intercom.
Any oppinions to where best mount it ?
edit: placed more info in the hello post:
https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/8209-Hello-from-NL?p=73071&viewfull=1#post73071
This wall is about 3 meter high:


Update: image with the 2 possible positions marked red.
This is a photo with an ipad, standing on the road, grey stones are the walking path, yellowish stones is our private parking space.
Image of the car is inverted (iphone issue) from wall to the street.

You can see me in the reflection holding up the iphone, so that is about 230 cm up.
My idea was to put the camera high up, so no one can touch it. This model is not easy to throuw cloth over or whatever (can approched from the sides stepping over litte seperators between our parking spot and the neighbors. So i could mount it up close to the top.
Planning to aim it down, so it overlooks the front/back of the car close to the wall, and the rest of the car up to the road. Motion detection i can than make it so it does not respond to all the people passing by over the road or walking path. Only if they walk left or right of the car up to the gate, or try to open the car doors.
But the more i read here, higher up seems useless to get some faces visable on screen.
I could replace the lamp with it (we not use it, as wel have public lamp post just in front of our house, the iron pole in the picture, so it is brightly lit there) but we live in attached houses with over 30 houses in a row, and removing this lamp makes it seem different.
I could mount it in between the lamp and the intercom. That would give me quite a good image if someone rings the intercom.
Any oppinions to where best mount it ?
edit: placed more info in the hello post:
https://www.ipcamtalk.com/showthread.php/8209-Hello-from-NL?p=73071&viewfull=1#post73071
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