Not OP, but I _love_ talking about this stuff, so you're stuck with me. :D I'm a big fan of this project: https://frigate.video/ https://frigate.video/ It's

Not OP, but I _love_ talking about this stuff, so you're stuck with me. :D I'm a big fan of this project: https://frigate.video/ https://frigate.video/ It's open source, and you can hook it up to a Coral (or some other things, I think) to get crazy-fast classifications. But CPU is fine for only a few cameras. Once you get something like that setup, it's just a matter of finding cameras that support RTSP. You get them setup however you like (but preferably wired, with PoE), point Frigate at the RTSP stream, and that's it. Now you've got home security footage that never leaves your house. You can set up a VPN to watch the feeds from elsewhere. Frigate supports MQTT as well, so you can hook it into Home Assistant to get notifications, and even pipe person events into something like Double Take to get face detection: https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take https://github.com/jakowenko/double-take EDIT: Oh, and the most important part is to have your security cameras on a totally separate network that doesn't have access to your internal network or the internet. The best cameras are from China, and you don't want to give them any opportunities.