I've used Foscam's for wildlife watching round our house. they have outdoor cameras that seem pretty robust and aren't too expensive, although their software i

I've used Foscam's for wildlife watching round our house. they have outdoor cameras that seem pretty robust and aren't too expensive, although their software is a bit basic. They work reasonbly over wireless or Powerline networking. To overcome the software problems we use Sighthound to do the image recognition + storage. It's a local install on a PC/Mac no cloud needed. One trick to note is that newer Foscam's send some telemetry stuff to the cloud but that's easily blocked with an outbound firewall rule.