How to Install an Outdoor Security Camera

Perhaps you’ve read a few online security camera reviews. Through your reading, maybe you’ve pinpointed a few equipment pieces with features that match your exact needs. Now, with a little effort, it seems like you could combine them into a completely custom home security camera system.

With today's outdoor security camera technology and web-based video storage platforms, many homeowners can install and configure their own wireless security camera system without the need to hire a contractor. Plus, the mobile control apps that come with modern home security cameras make monitoring and managing a DIY security camera network easy, and convenient. While that's true in the case of most indoor security cameras, the basic guidelines for installing outdoor security cameras present some extra challenges. When it comes to DIY security camera installation on the exterior of your home, special care must be taken, especially on three key points. Those are:

1. Camera height — Mount cameras well out of reach.
2. Power supply routing — The closer the power source, the better.
3. Mounting security cameras to your home's exterior — You want secure and weatherproof attachment.

In this short instructional video, one of our professional installers explains the details of installing outdoor security cameras.

Equipment used:
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