Webcam #2 is in a fixed location (you can see it in the first picture above just to the left of the three bedroom windows) and Webcam #3 is inside at Santa's Workshop. So both are relatively easy to setup compared to Webcam #1 which is a bit of a pain as it is not a permanent location and getting the webcam level is a challenge. Yep, those are pieces of folded cardboard to shim it ... and here's a time-lapse video of the setup. I actually have a 4-port wireless router inside the 6" sewer pipe (here's my writeup on my el-cheapo outdoor webcam enclosure) so I can plug my laptop in for local diagnostics.

I haven't done this in a long time, but I took a picture of each of the eight zones.
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Here's a sequence of images of the various zones in Santa's Workshop ... HO-HO-HO! ;-)
I also updated post #178 with the images from 2004 ... a BIG difference!
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I appreciate Claire Martin writing about the "Last Show" and a few minor corrections I mentioned to her was that I actually "out'ed" myself on the "Great Christmas Lights Hoax of 2004" ... you can see the media timeline here. All the "alert surfers figuring out the scam [in 2005]" came about because of me disclosing and the WSJ breaking the story (on December 27th, 2004) after I initiated discussions with them. Plus I really don't "[hang] out in [my] garage after dusk to hear the clicks" since it is cold & dark in there ... plus it would be boring. And my Mom got a chuckle out of being characterized as being "coerced" to visit me at Thanksgiving to help me setup. It always a blast having her visit and was great fun for both of us doing the setup - check out the awesome Santa Elmo she created in Blog post #272 - she rocks! While those suggestions didn't make the print version, Claire did correct Linex to Linux - that would jump out to us nit-picky techies ... ;-)