Camera positioning help

[BeachBoy]

Hi, so after learning from you folks that my current gear is too much trouble for me to keep, see Will these work? (I'll try to sell them for cheap), I have decided to start from scratch.

I would need some help to position cameras. Below is the aerial view. The blue around the house are where there are windows, blue square top right is future garage, purple square where car park and the red arrow where cars arrive (street is dead end to the right). The red dot is the doorbell camera.


I plan to have 4 camera setup (I have 4 wires going to the attic right now so can reach the soffit). The cameras I'm looking at have either ~80 degree or ~110 degree angles... I want to use the camera for security but also to watch children when they play or people arriving as I have no view top half of image from kitchen area)

At the bottom of the picture is the lake so not likely to have much security risk there, there is only one stair up and you can't really get up there otherwise it's a cliff.

This is my attempt, one hi res camera 80deg (red) and three 110 deg cameras, plus the wide angle doorbell.


Any suggestions to improve or concerns?

 

[samplenhold]

You have not really defined what you expect to accomplish from these cam placements. Looking at the diagram, it appears that you are interested in only an overview of the area rather than focusing on getting video of perps that would be good enough to give to LE.

Have you read the Cliff Notes and the WIKI?

There is nothing wrong with overview cams. But chances are they will not get you video of a perp that can ID them. Mounting cams at soffit height will probably not get a face shot unless the perp is far enough away and you are zoomed in to that area. See below.


See the below threads to get an idea on designing.

Why I Like Redundant Views/Multiple Cam Views

A lot of newbies ask for help with their camera setups and most think that they can get by with a single cam to cover quite a bit of area. While that is possible if all you are interested in is a wide-angle overview, it usually will not give you a great chance of getting a face shot good enough...

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Use of Overview and LPR Cams to Document Midnight Vehicle Distributing Offensive Flyers on Lawns

We were out of town and I was checking my cams remotely one morning and noticed one of the Deputies that regularly patrol my subdivision had been at my front door. She has come to me a few times requesting video as she knows I have fairly good coverage of the streets at my corner. I noticed that...

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[BeachBoy]

Thanks it's a good start for me to learn.

It is a cottage so two goals:
1- ID vehicle if someone comes to steal (very very unlikely to come from the lake)
2- watch kids playing outside.

I'll go and read the two threads, I checked the sticky in the forum but missed the wiki.

Since the area is sloped and basement is walkout it might change the setup. There is only one way in on the east (door), one way in on the north but multiple way in on the west and south. This is the west and south sides:
This is the east and north with very few entry points.