Ring Spotlight Camera - Small DIY for a Saturday

albernazj93

Hey guys,
I want to share the idea with those who are installing the Ring or any other wired camera.

I got a camera and I needed to install it outside to protect the backyard. As it's a wired camera, I had to either make a hole in the wall (breaking the house's insulation) or find a way to pass the cable through. Fortunately, the kitchen has ventilation which was used to pass the cable through.





Here are the stuffs used to fix the camera and hide/protect the cable:
Ps. Also a ladder and a knife.






And this is the result:








That's it :P

I need to put some silicon at the top of the conduit to avoid water going inside.

Cost:
€ 40 for a Ladder
€ 3 for a new plug (had to cut the camera's one)
About € 13 for the conduit pieces

1h to get everything done, thanks to my gf who helped me

listermint

Would recommend turning that more to your own back yard you are catching all of the neighbours privacy there on the right. And it doesn't need to be as high as you've put it that's part of the problem with the 180 into the neighbors.

Otherwise clean job and good use of materials.

albernazj93

listermint wrote: »

Would recommend turning that more to your own back yard you are catching all of the neighbours privacy there on the right. And it doesn't need to be as high as you've put it that's part of the problem with the 180 into the neighbors.

Otherwise clean job and good use of materials.

Yeah, the camera is really wide and there is no option in the app to reduce it and If I put it lower than that, anyone can jump and catch it.

However, you can set it to only record and send you notification if something is detected in a zone area that you define in the app, which is set like this (pretty cool as I don't get notified if anything happens on the street):

listermint

With regards jump and catching it. You'll have them recorded up to that point.

It's not really a done thing. Even if it was just above the vent itself it would still be high enough.

Id lower it . Youll get better images of faces too. There's a big trade of between height and quality.

albernazj93

listermint wrote: »

With regards jump and catching it. You'll have them recorded up to that point.

I don't think the Garda would put too much effort to find it.

listermint wrote: »

Id lower it . Youll get better images of faces too. There's a big trade of between height and quality.

Yea, Ring suggests to install it up to 3 meters so the camera can get a good image of faces and the sensor can detect whether it's person or not. Mine should be something between 250 and 280cm.

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