A white dual-lens pan-and-tilt security camera on a bracket under the eave at the corner of a white shingle-sided house, gutter above it, a blurred garden and neighbouring house to the left

Resource · Camera placement

Where to place
cameras on a house.

Put a camera at every way a person can reach the house on foot: the front door, the driveway, the back door, the side yard, the rear corner, the package drop, and the door itself. Mount them at 8 to 9 ft, tilted 15 degrees down, aimed at the approach rather than at the door. Height is what decides whether a recording shows a face or the top of a hat.

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Garner, NC. We serve Raleigh and the surrounding Piedmont, Burlington to Goldsboro.

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The camerasPlaced with you on the walkthrough.
The recorderWe install the recorder and its drive on a shelf in your house.
The installationWe run the cable, mount the cameras, seal the holes, and test every detection zone.

Local recorder

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8 channels, expandable to 16
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How it is wired

A flat black recorder with three small status lights on a white closet shelf, a standing black router with a blue light band beside it, a small black box at the right, a potted plant and wicker baskets around them

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Clips and alerts
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Can I watch from my phone when I am away?

Yes. Live video and clips on your phone, anywhere. The house needs internet for it to work.

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If anything in the system breaks or stops working, we replace it free.

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What is covered

The camerasEvery camera on the system, the doorbell included.
The recorderThe recorder and the drive inside it.
The wiringThe wiring, re-run if a cable fails.

From walkthrough to installationThe estimate comes from the walkthrough.

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Every camera placed with you
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The short answer

Seven positions.
A height for each one.

A detached house has seven ways a person arrives on foot. Each one wants a different height, a different angle and a different frame. The table is the short answer. The sections under it explain each position.

	Position	Height	What it sees	What goes wrong here
1	Front door	8 to 9 ft	Everyone who walks up, from the moment they leave the sidewalk.	Mounted directly above the door and aimed straight down, it records the top of a hood.
2	Driveway	9 to 10 ft	Vehicles at the curb and in the drive, and the walk from a car to the door.	Aimed down the drive, the lens looks into headlights every night and the plate washes out in the glare.
3	Back door	8 to 9 ft	The rear approach, the patio, and the door itself.	Left off because the yard is fenced.
4	Side yard	9 ft	The blind side of the house: the gate, the meter, the outdoor unit, and the path between the front and the back that nobody can see from either.	Aimed across the property line at a neighbor’s window.
5	Rear corner	10 ft	The whole back of the property in one wide frame: the yard, the shed, the tree line, and both rear corners of the house.	Used as the only camera on the back of the house.
6	Package drop	7 to 8 ft	The square of porch floor where a box actually lands, and the hand that picks it up.	Framed on the street so the porch is a corner of the picture.
7	Doorbell	7 to 8 ft	The person standing at the door, close and straight on, at the height a person actually stands.	Treated as the front door camera.

Scroll sideways for the rest of the table.

Heights are measured from finished grade to the center of the housing. A second-story eave changes the mount, not the number. These are the placement practices a wired install follows, not a record of jobs; the walkthrough sets the numbers for your house.

The full mounting spec

Position by position

What each position sees,
and what it misses.

Each position has a job. The height and the angle decide whether the camera does that job. The positions run in the order a person would use them.

On this page

Mounting spec What it means for you

1Front door8 to 9 ft 2Driveway9 to 10 ft 3Back door8 to 9 ft 4Side yard9 ft 5Rear corner10 ft 6Package drop7 to 8 ft 7Doorbell7 to 8 ft

Position 1

Front door

8 to 9 ftMounting height.

Everyone who walks up, from the moment they leave the sidewalk. The approach is the recording that identifies a person; the knock is the one that tells you they arrived.

Aim. Set back 6 to 10 ft from the door and tilted 15 degrees down, so the walk up is in frame before the person is.

What goes wrong hereMounted directly above the door and aimed straight down, it records the top of a hood. This position exists to record a face.

A single-story house with white lap siding seen from the walkway: a plain white door with a brass knob, a concrete step, two potted shrubs in tan planters, a stone paver path and a gravel edge in the foreground, and a white dome camera housing mounted under the soffit to the right of the door

Beside the door, not above itThe housing is under the soffit and off to the side of the door, and the step, the path and the gravel edge all sit in one frame. That is the frame the front position needs: the walk up to the door.

Position 2

Driveway

9 to 10 ftMounting height.

Vehicles at the curb and in the drive, and the walk from a car to the door. A bullet housing on this position is visible from the street on purpose.

Aim. Aimed across the driveway rather than straight down it, so a vehicle crosses the frame instead of driving into it.

What goes wrong hereAimed down the drive, the lens looks into headlights every night and the plate washes out in the glare.

Position 3

Back door

8 to 9 ftMounting height.

The rear approach, the patio, and the door itself. This entry is out of sight from the street, so it is worth recording.

Aim. Same geometry as the front: back from the door, tilted 15 degrees down, holding the last few steps of the approach.

What goes wrong hereLeft off because the yard is fenced. A fence stops a vehicle. It does not stop a person on foot.

Position 4

Side yard

9 ftMounting height.

The blind side of the house: the gate, the meter, the outdoor unit, and the path between the front and the back that nobody can see from either.

Aim. Aimed along your own wall, down the length of the run, so the frame fills with your own ground.

What goes wrong hereAimed across the property line at a neighbor’s window. Point it along the wall, and mask the part of the frame that is not yours in the recorder.

A bundle of blue Ethernet cables clipped along an attic rafter above blown insulation, with a coiled length of spare cable beside an open hatch

The route decides the positionA camera can only go where a cable can reach. The attic run is the first thing we check on a walkthrough.

Position 5

Rear corner

10 ftMounting height.

The whole back of the property in one wide frame: the yard, the shed, the tree line, and both rear corners of the house.

Aim. Higher than the door positions and wider, because this camera is for coverage rather than identification.

What goes wrong hereUsed as the only camera on the back of the house. A wide frame from 10 ft shows that someone was there; it does not show who.

Position 6

Package drop

7 to 8 ftMounting height.

The square of porch floor where a box actually lands, and the hand that picks it up.

Aim. Lower and closer than the front door camera, angled at the step rather than at the street.

What goes wrong hereFramed on the street so the porch is a corner of the picture. This camera watches the box.

A white and black dual lens pan tilt camera on a bracket screwed to the fascia board under dark roof shingles, a white gutter to its left and a vented soffit below

On the fascia, under the eaveThe housing is mounted on the fascia at the eave, angled down to hold the step in frame.

Position 7

Doorbell

7 to 8 ftMounting height.

The person standing at the door, close and straight on, at the height a person actually stands.

Aim. At the existing button height on the existing chime circuit, which is what a wired doorbell runs on.

What goes wrong hereTreated as the front door camera. It sees the person at the door and almost nothing of the approach behind them.

Before you drill

Two rules can move a position.

One reaches the street-facing positions. One reaches the door. Both get settled before anything is fixed to a wall.

Covenants can restrict an exterior mount

A recorded covenant can govern what is fixed to a street-facing elevation. Read yours before the front and driveway positions are fixed, because those two are the ones it reaches.

A doorbell has a microphone

A wired doorbell records audio as well as video, and North Carolina’s rules on recording audio are a separate question from where a camera points. Read the statute before a microphone goes at a door where conversations happen.

The mounting spec

The numbers behind
every position above.

Five numbers that decide whether the picture is usable and whether the hole in the wall stays dry. These are the placement practices a wired install follows, not a record of jobs; the walkthrough sets the numbers for your house.

8 to 9 ftMounting heightLow enough that a face fills the frame. Every foot higher shows more hat and less face.

15°Down angleEnough tilt to hold the approach in the frame. Steeper than this and the picture is mostly ground.

6 to 10 ftSetbackDistance back from the door being covered, so the walk up is recorded and not only the arrival.

3 inDrip loopThe cable dips below the penetration before it turns up into it, so water runs off the bottom of the loop instead of into the wall.

1Sealed hole per runOne hole per camera, sealed on the outside. Two holes for one camera is one more place for water to get in.

A white dual-lens pan-tilt camera on a wall bracket, mounted on white lap siding just under a perforated soffit, with blurred trees and a neighboring roofline behind it

Check it yourself, from the ground

1Stand where a visitor stands and look at the live frame. It should hold a face, not a scalp.

2Look up at the housing. The cable should enter the wall behind it, not run down the siding.

3Look at the penetration. Sealant on the outside face, and the loop hanging below it.

4Walk the property after dark. Every position should light a face, not a bright wall.

Four checks anyone can run without a ladder. A position that fails one of them is a position worth moving.

What it means for a homeowner

Three rules for
camera placement.

01Height decides identification. Position decides coverage.They are two different jobs and one wrong number ruins the other. A good position at the wrong height records a hat.

02Seven positions cover a detached house.Fewer cameras means one approach goes unwatched. That is fine when it is a choice, and not when the cable was just easier.

03The cable route decides what is actually possible.Where the attic or the crawlspace runs, a camera can go. Where it does not, the position moves, and that trade is settled on the walkthrough rather than on the day.

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Where to place cameras on a house.