On 28/12/14 11:18, Murmansk wrote:
I'm planning to install an external CCTV camera which will be mounted inside my garage looking out through a hole in the wall of the garage at the back of my house and I need some way to disguise and protect it as it'll only be about five feet from the ground.

The camera will be pointing to one side at an angle of about 45 degrees.

So far I've thought of a bird nesting box - I wonder if anyone can think of anything else that might do the job better and wouldn't draw attention.


Could you start with a Spycam which has a very small sensor and the rest
of the electronics in a box on a tail? You could hide the sensor in a
plank of wood in a knot hole - they are that small.

Or are you committed to a particular camera?

In which case, look at your neighbours houses and note what features
there are on the walls that most people pay no attention to?

False extract fan flue, light fitting, your bird box even.

I would have thought for a 5' height, the fan extract had some potential
- big enough to get a small box-cam in, and no one would notice a 10mm
hole lined up with the lens (assuming you do not need IR led apertures too)?