Phase III- the electronics Once the Owl Box was built and installed, next came the technical aspects. After careful consideration of multiple options, we settled on a hard wired configuration with two cameras.One camera would be mounted on and facing into the box, the other external camera would face the entrance to the box. Both would be day and night cameras. The installation included a custom fabricated waterproof housing attached to the owl barn, dual cables ( one for each camera), conduit, and ultimately a stand alone computer to receive the incoming data. All hardware selection was by Eric Hogan. Yes we had to " pull cable"- conduit was run several hundred feet to the box and it was necessary to thread a pair of very long power over ethernet cables from the point of origin to the box. ( many trips to electronic stores, hardware outlets etc.)Once powered up software had to be located to handle the video signal, again installed by Eric. Bingo!- it worked right the first time, and we had live realtime input- from an empty Owl Barn