Elite Pro Floodlight PoE

Yes, PoE is the way to go. You are good here. Your camera selection, not so much. You shouldn't use dome protected cameras in outdoor areas, they get a lot of problems with rain/dust and glare, you will end up replacing them, they are meant more for indoor use. Just use turret/bullet instead. I don'

Reolink flood cameras give you the ability to select the brightness of flood lights, from 0 to 100. If you can I'd recommend the PoE Duo Flood but if wiring is an issue you can go with the Solar/battery flood. Put an SD card in one of these and not only will have you a deterrent with the light, you'

I need cameras. I have unifi network stuff but I think im leaning reolink for their variety of cameras. Unfi are nice but these feel better suited for home use and can wire into where I have my existing flood lights https://www.reolink.com/us/product/elite-pro-floodlight-poe/

I previously had the original Nest Hello doorbell and moved to the white Reolink WiFi doorbell ~18 months ago. It draws its power from the doorbell transformers. I've been happy with it, but I really want a new version that has a ColorX-type camera. Reolink doesn't currently have something like that

Reolink Elite Pro Floodlight PoE. But if you want top quality in a pitch black area I'd install 2 G6 Ubiquiti cameras tbh. 2 CX820 from Reolink would be very good as well but those you can only use if the whole area (and neighborhood) already has great lighting at night.

If you have not already bought in the Black Friday deals, here is how I would set this up. If this were my house I would keep it simple and run the same 12 MP PoE turret at all four rough-ins, then treat Camera 1 as the one optional upgrade position if you want a floodlight and maximum resolution. F

I only use reolink cameras with Frigate and they are all rock solid. I have the poe doorbell, two elite pro floodlight poe cameras, and a wifi E1 pro. I use rtsp for all of them, and restream the native streams via go2rtc to reduce connections to the camera and decode h265 --> h264. Note i run friga