[stevenpetryk]

Have you found cameras you’re happy with? That’s the main thing holding me back is not knowing a good PoE camera to use.

[hughesjj]

Hikvision and reolink are highly rated onvif ones that support poe, but as long as the camera support ONVIF from there just compare as normal

[hipitihop]

I can second Frigate and welcome any work in this space, so nice work OP will have a look. For others asking, I have found so far Hikvision POE PTZ domes like DS-2DE2A404IW-DE3 have been reliable, depends on your budget. I have cams themselves fully locked down from internet and on a separate subnet on the local net. OPNSense is also a friend here. I would love some OSS firmware for these cams. For remote, I find ZeroTier to Frigate & Home Assistant machines is all I need. I get why others WireGuard too. YMMV

[hunter2_]

Search for "Hikvision compromised" though. The results are damning. I suppose there's not much of a concern if using a proper firewall on a managed network, however.

[nonrandomstring]

Aren't HikVision the ones banned by many governments because they have dodgy "call home to China" firmware?

Persoanlly I go with the Eyeball Entities Omnicam with an Omniscient Systems Xcam-REAM control centre [0].

[0] https://cybershow.uk/media/ads/cctv-ads.mp3

[VTimofeenko]

Reolink have not disappointed me so far. I am using a duo 2 cam watching over the front of the property and a collection of their bullet cams. There's a lot of recommendations on frigate github discussions. Some models indeed have quirks.

On top of decent cameras they also have pretty well-documented API.