E1 Pro

I have just bought a Reolink e1 pro. It works perfectly with UniFi protect including ptz . You do not need to add an sd card to the camera Edit: running protect on my cloud gateway fiber

For cameras inside your home, my personal preference is to go with plug in power, so I can absolutely disable them when I am at home! Specifically, I plug them into cheap "smart plugs" from a different vendor, plugs with an LED showing the state of the controlled outlet -- that way I hit one button

I like my reolink E1. They have a few versions so check the differences. I think the e1 pro is what I went with. It uses an SD card. You can get alerts for pets or people. It will even track ( rotate) to follow your pet as it moves through the room. No subscription needed. I have their doorbell too.

If you have power to the coop, you don't need wireless. You can an eternet over power like the TP-Link AV2000. It will be much more reliable than a wireless if you are pushing the limits of distance. I use a Reolink E1 Pro. It has PTZ so I can look around its 4k and the night vision is good.

So I have 5 cameras and a NVR (Network Video Recorder, essentially a 2TB hard drive for the cameras). 4 of the cameras are hardwired to the NVR with POE ethernet and have pan and tilt autotracking, the doorbell uses WiFi and is stationary. I have about a week of 24x7 video storage in 4K and then eac

If you want a proper CCTV setup ignore marketing and focus on the fundamentals. I have run multiple systems and I have also been burned by cheap cameras that look good on paper but fail badly at night. This is what actually matters. What actually matters for image quality Sensor size This is the big

Reolink E1 Pro Indoor - I have 2. No subscription, can record to memory card or NVR. These have PTZ. Wireless. Night vision. Good sound capture. Motion detection.

For an indoor camera with motorized pan-title and no subscription, maybe look at Reolink (E1 Pro) or Amcrest (ProHD) if you must buy a camera made in Shenzhen. For $40-$60 they offer an indoor pan-tilt camera implementing open standards like RTSP and with an optional ethernet jack to work around unr

Do you think Reolink is worth the extra money for just indoor use? Their indoor Pan-Tilt camera works fine for pet monitoring -- I set the ""monitor" (home) position aimed at the food bowls and get a motion alert when activity is detected there, but can also use pan-tilt to try to figure out which s