I should have read your previous posts. That looks like a good sturdy mount. I went with the bird house style in black.
Are you using continuous recording or Event only recording? unreliable local recordings:
Intermittent communications? Is that watching live streaming, Playback or are you talking about Events not being in cloud? I’ve had issues with Events failing to upload and only recently seem to have resolved it.
I’m using separate IR sources as light myself and am greatly disappointed that IR control might have been removed from the latest beta version. Here’s my link on separate IR sources if you’re interested in non-visible floodlighting.