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Yeah, it's a compromise. The approach to the front porch and front door is up about 8 steps with the steps leading straight up to the front door with a small landing at the top. A camera beside or above the door generally gets images of the top of people's heads as they walk up while looking downwards at their footing. I get no view of their face. Worse is when they are wearing a hat. Then when they leave I get a view of their backs departing. The metal trellis holds up the roof overhang and there is enough scroll work to make a camera less visible. The best position is on the trellis looking at the door with the camera at head level of someone standing on the landing. But someone walking down the stairs can just reach up and grab it or knock it aside.
This is my latest experiment, mounted in a tree facing the house. I disguised the camera with a black skin with the flexible wire for attaching to branches. I put the camera in a length of drain pipe. There is a second decoy drain pipe elsewhere and lower on the tree. There is a piece of foam inside the pipe so to make it dark inside and you can't see right through the pipe. Other than the foam, the decoy pipe has nothing in it. If someone looks at it they will figure it's a pheremone trap or something to do with the fruit tree. There is black electrical tape to hide the white bezel on the camera. This setup works and I get a view of the front of the house and side gate though the compromise is the tree is a bit far from the house to get a clear view of someone's face when they are at the stairs or at the door. However I get a decent physical description and description of clothing. We get torrential rain so the pipe acts as a shelter and keep rain off the lens.
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