S4 Max

I have 3 eufy e340 spotlight cams, a doorbell, and the eufy s4 max nvr set up with 4 cams no issues. Granted s4 max is hard wired but the wirless cams are fine especially since I don't have to pay a monthly fee to ring like I used to. I also have home base 3 hard wired in and no issues.

I would go with PTZ on positions 1,2,3,4 something like the Eufy S4 Solar or Eufy S4 Max NVR mounted with a corner bracket you can monitor opposite sides at the same time. Then go with fixed camera on position 5 and you should have all bases covered. Eufy do a really good corner bracket made from me

I fixed the post, accidentally missed the W in the model number for the first Reolink. I mainly don’t want to drill holes in the house or dig to run Ethernet cables. House was built in 1957 with plaster interior walls and no eves on the exterior for easy cable routing. While POE is absolutely doable

Since nobody has responded to my post, I did some additional research and I believe the Eufy S4 Max may be the better camera for detecting and recording wildlife. Reasons are (1) the S4 Max is a native PoE camera supporting continuous recording over wired Ethernet. The S3 Pro can only record over Wi

Thanks for the great write-up – exactly the kind of no-BS advice I needed. I’m down to these three hardwired PoE setups for a 2550 sq ft single-story + pool (9 cams + doorbell, soffit mounts ~8-9 ft, all turrets/bullets, solid copper Cat6): Reolink – ~$1,410 • RLN16-410 NVR + 8 TB • Doorbell PoE • R