Blue iris with amcrest cameras here, most are poe but I have a wireless one I plug into a battery pack when I need to see something anywhere else on wifi. Like which breaker turns off that light sort of stuff. I have no issue believing wireless would be very reliable full time here and plan to add a wireless camera to my detached garage soon.
Cameras are on their own lan, plugged into a second network card in my PC, the cameras are not reachable from wan or the main network. Everything is fixed IP to keep it simple and reliable.
Blue iris webserver is accessible from lan on my main network, which also has a VPN server in the router. The webserver is not accessible to wan. This way with openvpn on my phone I can see the cameras from anywhere in the world, very safely and completely free except blue iris 1 time purchase and cost of the equipment.
Email notifications from blue iris work well, but I have not set up any of the AI stuff so I get false notifications for rain and clouds frequently unfortunately, everything else about this setup will last the test of time and is to my knowledge about as secure as possible while still maintaining access remotely.
Blue iris with amcrest cameras here, most are poe but I have a wireless one I plug into a battery pack when I need to see something anywhere else on wifi. Like which breaker turns off that light sort of stuff. I have no issue believing wireless would be very reliable full time here and plan to add a wireless camera to my detached garage soon.
Cameras are on their own lan, plugged into a second network card in my PC, the cameras are not reachable from wan or the main network. Everything is fixed IP to keep it simple and reliable.
Blue iris webserver is accessible from lan on my main network, which also has a VPN server in the router. The webserver is not accessible to wan. This way with openvpn on my phone I can see the cameras from anywhere in the world, very safely and completely free except blue iris 1 time purchase and cost of the equipment.
Email notifications from blue iris work well, but I have not set up any of the AI stuff so I get false notifications for rain and clouds frequently unfortunately, everything else about this setup will last the test of time and is to my knowledge about as secure as possible while still maintaining access remotely.