Where to put Ring Floodlight Camera

Ben1989

Hi all,

In a dilemma about where to install my Ring Floodlight camera. I’ve got it to cover our side kitchen door and drive. I’ve attached images (hopefully) below to give visuals. Firstly, please excuse the bombshell of bits stored here. Ordinarily there’s a car blocking the fly tip imitation area.

I essentially have three options for install:

1) Directly above door. Downsides: will lose viewing angle of drive and longer to take cables. 

2) High up on the chimney stack looking down. I’ll have a solid base for the camera to mount to and directly looking at the door. Downsides: more complex wiring compared to no.3 (not majorly complex) and may not cover entire drive and cause a potential blind spot for our back gate. Could be a slight blind spot on the side door. Wont really know until it’s up. 

3) On the wooden plinth on the garage. I’ll be able to see the side door, the entire drive and also the back gate. Wiring will be able to be hidden and can be fed straight from the garage plug socket. Downsides: it’s low which is not too big a problem but could do with it being slightly higher for an ideal viewing angle. Also, can easily be ripped down/robbed by anyone who wanted to steal it or render it useless for a break-in etc. 

I’m completely stuck on where to put it. Is there potentially something easy and cheap to build to place it higher and also won’t be an eye-sore? I’m after any suggestions really. 

Before it gets mentioned, I do not get on with my neighbour so I won’t be asking to put it on her garage haha. 

Thanks in advance.

Graeme1978uk

I'd almost certainly go for 3. It might be a bit lower down but it's the only spot that gives you full coverage. Although it's a bit lower down, if someone approaches it to rip it down it's still going to record and upload the approach, plus Ring will replace any device that is stolen free of charge.

Ant555

3 is the only option that kind of covers everything in that area with a single camera and is not too bad an option really.    If your intention is to 'deter' by making everything overt and visual then any of the options will most likely have the same effect (either none at all or they might just go down the road)

Option 2 - What is the viewing angle/ how far to the side can the camera be pointed?  I do wonder though if option 2 would neatly cover your neighbours back door but cover very little of your own?  You do say that you don't get on so be prepared for the neighbour to huff and puff a bit if they think its pointing at them. 

Is there any way of temporarily connecting it up and shinning up the ladder whilst holding it to see just how good/bad each of the wall mounting options is?

Ben1989

Graeme1978uk said:

I'd almost certainly go for 3. It might be a bit lower down but it's the only spot that gives you full coverage. Although it's a bit lower down, if someone approaches it to rip it down it's still going to record and upload the approach, plus Ring will replace any device that is stolen free of charge.

If this is true Graeme then I'll install it here no problem. I wasn't aware of this.

Ant555 said:

3 is the only option that kind of covers everything in that area with a single camera and is not too bad an option really.    If your intention is to 'deter' by making everything overt and visual then any of the options will most likely have the same effect (either none at all or they might just go down the road)

Option 2 - What is the viewing angle/ how far to the side can the camera be pointed?  I do wonder though if option 2 would neatly cover your neighbours back door but cover very little of your own?  You do say that you don't get on so be prepared for the neighbour to huff and puff a bit if they think its pointing at them. 

Is there any way of temporarily connecting it up and shinning up the ladder whilst holding it to see just how good/bad each of the wall mounting options is?

I actually have the same camera installed at the front of my house. I could angle it how I'm likely to angle the next camera and measure out distances that I can see. I never thought about this. I could as you suggest just get some flex and a plug and have a look.

My neighbour is fine we just stay out of each others way to be honest.

Is there any makeshift thing I could make to "hoist" the camera higher on the garage?

fenwick458

Ben1989 said:

Is there any makeshift thing I could make to "hoist" the camera higher on the garage?

don't know why you want it any higher, they all have an incredibly wide angle which means theres alot of stuff on the screen, the higher up it goes the less you will be able to make out 

Ben1989

Due to the damage potential from anyone. Graeme makes a point that if it’s stolen Ring will replace it but unwanted people could just punch it off the wall if lower. Not a theft but I’m left with an unusable camera 

fenwick458

I don't know what sort of lens is in the ring floodlight camera but going off the 140 degree field of view its likely to be 2.8mm or less, which is affectively a panoramic camera and useless as CCTV.
for example, yes it will capture "a person" stealing a parcel from the side door, but no way will you be able to make out their face if they are moving at even a steady speed,  unless they stop and look directly at the camera for 2-3 seconds. a wide field of view may look great in the middle of the day but throw in low light and fast moving object and they are almost useless as they lack detail and have curvature at the edges which distort the image
a tighter lens focused on the point of interest will provide much more useable footage.
so I would encourage you to rig up and extension lead to the camera, and get an old bit of wood and temporarily fix it in a few areas and test it out.
I would suggest 2.2m high on the side of the chimney, facing towards the street/door.