The camera arrived 6/4/15, 100' of Ethernet Cat6 cable, and the PoE 12V injector the day before. Spent Friday pouring over the plans of our 17 year old house (we'd installed a double run of coax back then, never thought about Ethernet
). I had realized that I could use the closet ceiling in the computer room for access to the attic. Then, at the bottom of the closet, it was only a few inches to an outlet to plug in the power injector!
Once into the attic, I managed to come down into the garage and then out to the location on the facia. Since most sloped roofs have extremely tight spaces along the eaves, I knew I couldn't get to the overhang, as it is, I still had less than 10 inches above the hole into the garage ceiling and the roff rafters. Since I was coming upwards from inside the garage, all I had to do was avoid drilling into the roof! This also made it easier to determine how far down from the ceiling to drill to the outside without hitting the brick!
The rest of the wiring shots were obscured by the sweat of my brow!
Friday turned out to be the hottest day of the year! Worse yet, the main exhaust fan is caput!
Fortunately, last night we had a brief shower that cooled down the roof a bit. This morning, I could hardly tell it was a bit warmer in the attic than in the upstairs... at least for the first hour.
Still, it proved interesting and difficult to find the passage from one part of the (north-south, garage area) attic to the main, east-west part. The rather low upper attic is crammed full of heat and A/C ductwork! There was nothing but crawling height where I had to operate, and only several pieces of plywood I had to move around to keep from walking on the rafters. One slip and I would have a ceiling to repair!
I decided to call on the wife to pull the cable down to the lower part of the attic while I made sure there were no kinks in the upper part.
Last job will be to mount and connect the camera and then to decide how to run the cable to the mini. I now have the mini connected to the Apple Extreme via Ethernet. I'm hoping I can connect to the injector into another port in the Extreme. If I do that, I'll need another ~6' cable. If the camera won't work that way, I can just use the ~20' cable and go directly to the mini. In that case, however, I'll have to switch back to WiFi on the mini. Hopefully will get this done Monday! Sunday is a day of rest!! We only have a morning service at our church!
I've learned that any more attic wiring jobs will be done
only in Winter, hopefully on a day with snow on the roof! Down my way, insulation is placed on and between ceiling rafters, not on the roof rafters. This makes for some very warm attics and good insulation on any exposed water lines. The only advantage is speed of installation and using blown-in material rather than precut rolls; those are usually more expensive and slower to install, and they need some means of fastening to both walls and roof rafters (with appropriate gaps for air circulation. Speedier means cheaper, of course.
I also learned to use a mask to avoid 17 years of dust and the loose fiberglass that is always going to be kicked up. Those things are an added heat source, but it saves coughing up the stuff, later.