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I had to get a new setup spun up very quickly, didn't know what to get, so I went out and got a bunch of cameras ranging from $49 to $500 from MicroCenter. For my requirements the cheapest cameras ended up serving my needs the best.

I ended up returning all of the expensive stuff and only keeping a bunch of really cheap Amcrest PoE cameras.

Here is one such example: https://www.microcenter.com/product/634071/amcrest-5mp-ultra...

I've been very impressed with Amcrest cameras.

They support being configured without an outside internet connection.

They support dual streams.

They have all kinds of tuning settings, and come with sane defaults.

They support H.265 encoding, so you get good quality at small file (and bandwidth) sizes.

They also have MicroSD slots, and some cloud stuff that I don't use.

They work great with Fridate and Google Coral with is what I use them with.

Highly, highly satisfied and recommend.