24 hours on and most of the girls have worked out were the front and back are.
I would expect that over the next few days, the only bees outside the screen will be robbers.
I have the entry closed down to one point only while the colony builds up, when this entry becomes congested I will sequentially open up the entry points.
An internal view of the hive.
The vertical entry can bee seen at the bottom left of screen.
Note that it has a queen excluder, but does not have a cover to prevent workers entering and leaving the space.
The theory of leaving access is three fold:
I have a spare frame behind the camera and others on the opposite side of the brood area. I expect that when the girls start to get crowded they will move into these areas and start working the frames. At that time I will move the follower boards back and insert the frame into the encapsulated brood area.
How’s it all going Terry?
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Hi Greg,
Thanks for asking 
Via the video feed, the bee numbers look like they are increasing, that is to say, there is more activity on the outside of the outer drawn frames. I will be opening the hive up on the weekend to do a physical check.
While the hive is open I will be permanently mounting video cameras internally, to both ends of the hive, and changing out the current follower boards for an alternate design that hopefully will provide an improved view on the secret life of bees.
The current follower boards block the view of the bee space between the bottom of the frames and the floor, and the bee space between the front and back of the frames and the walls.
Currently, it looks like the bees are preferencing the top bee space over the bottom and I cannot confirm front and rear bee space usage due to the current follower board design. I would really like to be able to record the bee activity across all bee spaces.
The internal cameras have been mounted. I ran out of time to finish and install the new follower boards, no rush on these the cameras were the key items.
A view from the back of the hive with the rear cover removed and bees installed, showing how the back is 100% bee safe.
The rear plastic plates align with the back of the flow frames.
Hi Team,
I have the live stream up and running… sort of…
Please have a look and give me some feedback.
Thank you
When I hit play it started at the 21:37 point, seeming to indicate a 1hr duration overall. Not sure why this was.
Quality is great though. 
You can rewind the feed which is probably why it lists a time limit.
I am waiting for the girls to start building comb on the empty frame in the foreground, but filling in the hole is a start.
I can also switch to the other side of the hive however the bees seem to be favouring this side at the moment.
What camera are you using?
I’m using this camera
I comparison pic between the horizontal hive and the vertical hive on a warm evening.
It is clear that the vertical hive has the girls hanging out on the front veranda while there are no bees on the landing board of the horizontal hive. They are all hanging out in the foyer I provided them by designing a horizontal to vertical entry into the hive.
The colony is growing fast now the flow is in full force
What was once stores being diminished is now being used for brood 
Some interesting vision as the girls are growing and starting to build out a new frame with wax.
If you ever wondered how the bees make wax, this is the opportunity.
SouthEastScarp YouTube Channel
Take the opportunity to increase the resolution of the video by clicking on the Settings Button on the left side of the word YouTube on the bottom of the screen.
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Any updates on progress @SouthEastScarp
it is winter here and the bees are doing well, making enough honey to survive. other than that it is wait for spring to add the flow frames
I finally added a couple of flow frames to the hive today. The girls immediately went to work on the frames 
I gave the flow frames a good coating of melted down old wax and cross comb.
While tidying up the hive I managed to receive a small bonus of some cut comb honey the girls had very naughtily stored in the roof space.
As can be seen in the next two pictures, I applied a good coating of old wax
A picture of the queen excluder, Flow Frame and Follower Board in place.
As soon as the frame was in place the girls started working the wax.
Opposite side of the hive, Queen Exculder installed.
The detail on how the Queen Excluder fits and bee space is provided above the flow frame
November update.
The girls have put in a great effort since I replaced a number of old black comb brood frames and installed two flow frames into the hive.
I was starting to think that the girls were not playing the game with the flow frames as the outer sides, visible to the cameras were not showing any honey storage and activity had reduced.
I did a check today and was pleased to see a significant amount of capped honey on the inner sides of the flow frames.
I only left 10mm bee space below the flow frames and this may be a disincentive for the girls to work the outer sides and time will tell.
I have already decided to increase lower bee space below the frames on prototype version number two.
I am very impressed at how much easier this hive is to work in comparison to my vertical flow hive.
Noice one Terry. 
Them’s some noice looking bees too.
No ugly black mongrel bees in this hive Greg
