Im just looking for basic cameras and wasn't sure if eufy is still the go to or there is better budget options out there.
I see the 4 cam 2c pack is $400 at bunnings which should do me ill add more cameras as needed
Needs to be wireless
Is eufy Still The Go to for Security Cameras?
Gros21 on 29/04/2026 - 11:12
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Eufy is owned by Anker, has great smart features and software. Reolink is a value brand.
If you want to buy into an ecosystem, eufy is decent..
I'm not sure what you mean by value brand. I agree if you mean it is a better brand than Eufy in terms of value and feature set, and flexibility.
+1. Went with Reolink, has been rock solid so far no issues!
I had a eufy previously, but in my experience it sucks!! Frequent dropouts because the homebase2 couldn't communicate to the camera through a single wall. Got frustrated and gave up. YMMV.
Eufy is rubbish if you value reliably getting notified about alerts, and the camera actually picking up shit that happens. It is legitimately a waste of your time and money unless you are looking for a basic indoor camera for dog monitoring or something similar.
We had eufy and sold the whole system 4 months later and got Reolink with 6 cameras, 8 channel NVR and 16tb storage. Been working for almost 18 months without issue.
I know Dahua and Hikvision are a more premium and more expensive variants of POE cameras, but we are super happy with ours. I would never go wireless again.
Oh, and zero subscription fees and a great app to see any recording and live camera feed from anywhere.
Most of the alert issues I encountered were device related. Setting the correct permissions, and ensuring the app was manually loaded upon reboot fixed reliability - to the point that I replaced all of my motion and door/window sensors with Eufy.
Good to know, I want to make the switch also. Sick of Eufy for these same reasons. Unreliable.
Ubiquiti
Not sure why you are getting downvoted. I recently started replacing my Eufy wifi cameras with Ubiquiti and couldn't be happier.
Probably becasue the Ubiquiti cameras are quite bit more expensive compared to other products.
Because you both didn't say what's better about it.
Ubiquiti are premium prices, good quality but only mid range features. Price doesnt reflect the product
What's your rec?
@PeelThis: if you have unifi network and everything else ubiquiti and can stomach the price and vendor lockin then stick with Ubiquiti as they are good/decent just not great. Reality is there is not one best vendor as it depends on features you are after. Reolink are better value for money with better features and performance than ubiquiti, Eufy are great for price and wireless. Hikvision on the high end (some complain unsafe as chinese, but if you are spending the money you are going to do it properly and isolate your cameras anyway so being chinese is irrelevant).
e.g. for me even though I have ubiquiti networking gear I went with Reolink for the better night vision and tracking with their POE camera's better for me would have been hikvision but the price difference to vast to justify.
@PeelThis: The simplest way to explain it is that UniFi is kinda like Apple (iPhone). Their products (UniFi Network, UniFi Protect) work well together and the apps are intuitive, easy to use. Being an American product, it benefits from better cloud based experience. Because of that, you generally get good feedback from people using UniFi. Their higher end cameras are far too expensive and their mid tier cameras don't have colour night vision nor 2-way talk.
One reason some people opt for UniFi Protect is they have family members who are not tech savvy. The app is intuitive. Ubiquiti is also smart. All their better routers / gateways support UniFi Protect. In terms of camera hardware cost and what you get, with UniFi, you are essentially also paying for the software experience. Another difference is with Hikvision, generally, you get an installer to do the install for you, whereas UniFi is more DIY (or you just get an electrician to do the install for you because once connected, the setup is quite simple). Reolink is also more DIY.
Eufy started selling wired cameras. For wireless cameras, Eufy cameras are generally pretty good. However, wireless battery based cameras are limited to motion events only.
It's difficult to get an objective view unless the person has experience on multiple systems.
One reason some people opt for UniFi Protect is they have family members who are not tech savvy.
Not that you were saying such, but in case you or others didn't know…
You can add any ONVIF-compatible camera to UniFi Protect: https://help.ui.com/hc/en-us/articles/26301104828439-Third-Party-Cameras-in-UniFi-Protect
@Chandler: Yes you can do this but you are limited in what options are supported with 3rd Party cameras on Unifi's system.
@netsurfer: The comparison to Apple is somewhat right. Unifi products all work seamlessly together, and are very easy to setup and use.
I have had HIK, Eufy and now Unifi cameras over the years.
My experience with HIK is that the software used with them is clunk and not very user friendly. They work but I wouldn't recommend it for an end user unless you are using one of their own NVR's.
Eufy being wireless is severely limited. It only records when it detects motion and even then its not 100%. I used to have a doorbell and a 2C camera at my front door and there were instances where a delivery was made and neither camera detected the movement. They are also a pain in the backside when it comes to having to pull them down and recharge them every so often.
Since I have put in Unifi cameras I have had the best experience with them. I already run a Unifi network so it was a very quick and easy setup.
So far I have had no problems with detecting movement and being alerted to it and it records all the time, not just on movement detection. Yes they are expensive but you really do get what you pay for.
i did the exact same, kept having connection issues with my s3 pros and wanted 24/7 recording, so i pulled the trigger and replaced my entire ecosystem with ubiquiti. best choice i ever made!
Reolink have some battery/solar cameras working fine 6 years plus
Do you need a subscription to view live or recorded video remotely?
No you don’t.
They have an NVR option for local storage, no need for subscription.
The solar ones have an SD card for recording, can be viewed on a phone for free.
No need of a subscription. You can save video locally on MicroSD card, NVR, Hub or FTP location.
You need a subscription for notifications with the picture/video included in it. But otherwise no. The text only notifications still come through without the subscription and you can open the app to watch live video.
No experience with Eufy, but I previously had 6 Reolink cameras (4 battery Argus Pro, 2 wireless). Terrible experience overall - 3 died within the first few months.
Switched to Tapo and have been very happy. The C120 is excellent value for money and highly recommended. Great night vision and accurate detection alerts. You can pair up to 4 cams to a hub and only need one microSD in the hub. No subscription needed.
I also tried the cheaper Tapo C210, but the alerts aren’t very accurate. Might be OK indoors, but I’d avoid it for outdoor use
Got a Tapo C120 recently for the front porch and found it to be excellent too. The C216 I have in the backyard isn't as good but still does a decent job, detection on the C120 is much better. Got them both hooked up to a H200 hub.
did you get refund or replacement for the reos
ive heard good things about them
I have 6 around my property. So happy with Reolink bought a few more for my family members. Never have any issues. More than 4 years now.
+1 for tapo, have been pleased with the quality v price point and no subscription
I have Eufy, fairly happy but the web portal is terrible. It basically doesn't work, you have to use your phone or iPad.
Yeah, the web portal sucks for viewing the live feeds.
Phone or tablet is the way to go. Wish they'd make a Windows program to run the system.
They don’t? I swear I used to be able to download it from Microsoft store.
We have Eufy, at first they were great but for some reason a couple of months ago everything stopped working. We noticed we were no longer getting notifications and that the cameras were no longer recording. Looked into it and have been trying to fix the issue ever since, it’s working to a degree now but still having major issues - for example a neighbour came up our driveway, rang our doorbell then entered our yard the other day - not a single notification or recording from either of the two mounted cameras, the driveway camera with a sensor light that tracks movement or the doorbell. Google Eufy issues and you will see it’s a major problem with thousands of people complaining and eufy are doing absolutely nothing to fix it. I’d recommend a different brand.
How old are they?
Not very, about a year and a half.
I've moved all of my cameras to Reolink as they are better quality.
Eufy cameras are toys. If you want real security look at hardwired cameras from Dahua or Hikvision.
Dahua and Hikvision are mainstream OEM brands.. great hardware.. average software!
Hey mate,
Lots of conflicting information being posted here.
I'll tell you my opinion (as a Builder thats regularly installing pro/enterprise grade security systems but uses Reolink at home).Reolink & Eufy are not really competing with each other and they target different markets (they are all "value" or "bang for buck" brands to be honest although I'd argue TP Link Tapo is the real "value" proposition.).
Consumer - Eufy, Nest, Ring, Arlo etc - Strong wifi offerings, nice aesthetic design, smaller/more compact, polished and easy to use apps, good AI and base level of functionality required by a layman
Prosumer - Reolink, Ankke (hikvision), Armcrest (dahua) etc - PoE primary focus but with wifi/solar/battery options, open standards (RTSP etc), solid NVR support, automation integration (HA etc) - but requires some technical nous. App is decent and more UI/customer focused (much more so than DMSS etc) but nowhere near as polished as the consumer stalwarts.
From the information you've given us, I'd be recommending Eufy, Nest or maybe even Aqara. It also depends on any other integrations you want to do, for instance Apple Home Kit.
Nest has good products and an awesome app but eff the subscription. I'd say Eufy is probably the best all round safe option (not knowing the intricacies of your requirements).Eufy has a very good app, some of their cameras have awesome battery life and its overall very easy to set up and get good functionality.
If you don't have any of the requirements of a prosumer and you want a set and forget system, its the way to go.
I made another post on OzB not long ago, I'll paste it below:
Good deal for the Duo 2 and seems like it was jumped on, all sold out now.
I'm a builder and regularly installing Dahua/Hikvision systems through my security contractors but I find Reolink is good bang for buck and has good software thats easy for the layman to navigate and operate.
My fellow autists on ipcamtalk only really rate the Reolink doorbell cam but I think they're wrong to be honest, especially when compared to the mostly poor Dahua models that get peddled in Australia. Of course if you're ordering from Empiretech and getting the models with the best sensors then its different but how many layman can be bothered to do that?
I have a mate who couldn't afford a proper security system at the end of his build and then got me to install some Reolinks for him and the police have used footage 3 times in the past year and have actually caught the people thanks to the footage.
I also set up some Reolinks at my own house and I am satisfied with them, I think the CX820, Duo2 and Doorbell are awesome bang for buck and I know of nothing else comparable for the price. I have some RLC-1224a's as well but I don't really rate them however I don't think they are terrible either, just lacking at night like many Reolink and even other manufacturers offerings.
I've ordered various Empiretech cams for one of my current builds and my electrician and I are going to do in depth testing to compare them to the local Dahua models and also the Reolinks.
Good post.
As a eufy user, I'll add that their wired (for power) floodlight cameras such as the E340 and even the wall lights is a huge step above the battery powered cameras that typically come in kits. I've suffered the camera downtime issue with my 3C cameras but the floodlights and wall lights have been flawless (except when they're updating their firmware of course… some downtime is to be expected during updates).
for a medium sized, highset house (mine has a footprint of 20m x 10m), I use a 3 point mesh network (centre and both ends of the house) to ensure wifi coverage and my eufy system runs fine over this network.
Is the latest DMSS half decent these days? I'm looking at putting in a system and tempted by Dahua 6MPs but heard lots of complaints about DMSS. They did an update recently which apparently made it a lot better?
I wanna eventually go down the HA route and possibly Frigate.
My mate has ubiquiti stuff and the interface is awesome with the app and viewing footage, but such a high cost to get on the ecosystem.
I've made other posts here regarding Ubiquiti (WAPS etc) and how nice their interface is to use but how I think overall the system is a little overpriced for my own personal use and I went with TP Link Omada instead.
Its too hard to reliably recommend something without knowing the exact use.
I personally think DMSS is ass to use, but its powerful and once you learn how it works, its fine. Its the same as the old operating system arguments. I love Windows because I am a power user and I am used to it. I used to be the same with Android but I don't have time or desire to muck around with my phone anymore and now prefer iOS for its ease of use and simple UI. For a layman, who wants some nice reliable notifications, no cabling headaches during install and simple setup, you cannot argue that the app/software becomes more important and my belief is that there is no argument that the consumer stalwarts have far more polished software and apps.
I am a power user but not to the extent of enterprise security level. Many people on forums want to have that level of control and thus would write off Eufy etc entirely as being "toys".
I would argue that someone installing top of the line security gear at home and mucking around with it is actually the one who has purchased a "toy" and the layman who purchased a system that works reliably, was bang for buck to install and is set and forget has made the right choice for their own use case.
Your use case of HA and Frigate (which is what I have setup with my Reolinks) would push you out of the consumer level and in to the prosumer or above.
From Reolink upwards, you will get products that work and it all depends on your budget and how important specific things are to you.
I like Reolink because it has the functionality I want, its bang for buck and the app is also half decent and easy to use.
I would also NEVER use WiFi personally and run cable everywhere, I'd run cable from my butt hole to the porcelain throne if I could but as a builder, I also know how expensive it is to run cable after the fact so I try to not let my personal beliefs get in the way of recommendations.
At the end of the day having a reliably operating security system is better than nothing.
Yeah thanks for the reply,
I'll have a look at Reolink, I can't justify the cost of the Ubiquiti ecosystem. I also need something wife friendly to use, and the HA integration with reolink seems fine. Frigate is just a hobby down the track and is definitely not needed, just something that interests me!
Adding my 2c - if you have no choice but to go wireless then Eufy will be fine. I was with the Eufy ecosystem at my previous place for a couple of years and it was acceptable for the most part. When it works it works, but when it doesn't it's frustrating; my Homebase was working fine for a while but became very temperamental - slow video footage load times (sometimes it times out completely), and it would randomly just disconnect every now and then (switching to ethernet/cabled mode made no difference), but that's just my anecdotal experience.
At my current place which is a new build I went with Hikvision cameras with an NVR and it's just a much smoother experience. No lag even when remote viewing at high resolutions, and the images are super clear (the ones I went with are able to show coloured footage even at night).
I've owned eufy 2c (nearly 4 years) and 2c pro (2 years). Initially i loved them, they're simple to set up and no wires needed which is great. But after a while it has become very annoying for me as we usually leave it as "home" mode which is fine but you constantly get notifications and recordings that drain the battery. I used to have 2 of them on solar but both panels died after 1 year.
Leaving them disarmed also is annoying as you forget to turn it back on. I have tried schedule mode before but our day to day gets unpredictable and you have to manually change its mode.
I'm now considering to get a proper wired cameras with continuous recording. On occasions where an actual incident did occurred the camera didn't record the whole thing. Other instances where an incident did occurred and was out of its activity zone and missed important footage capture.
All of these issues are resolved with a proper continuous recording system imo. Its still a good system if you're keen to try it out, still better than having no cameras.
i have hikvision
hikvision is great i have it to
Hikvision is fine if you trust the CCP
Mate, trust me, you ain't that important to be worried about been spied on.. Or should we start worrying abou hi sense TV and fridge too?
It was a bit tongue in cheek. But there are also multiple areas of concern.
Hikvision is a company partially owned by the ccp. They can be legally compelled to provide back doors and cooperate. This is an actual, documented, real risk. Not to spy on an individual - unless you work for a gov department or a utility provider…then yes to spy on you. The CCP are all up in our business when it comes to trying to get into critical infrastructure and government departments.
But also.. IoT like this are turned into bot networks to do things like proxy attacks. And Hikvision has a shitty history with flaws. All iot is bad but they got some headlines once or twice.
@Macgyver: Legislation is not the same, no.
And there is oversight in America on that sort of thing. Granted people like Trump would like to erode those, but it’s there.
America is a cyber ally, China is an cyber adversary.
Apart from vulnerabilities exploited by organised crime and NK, The chances of Chinese actors actually being an issue for a home user in Australia is indeed very slim, but it’s not zero.
Hik Vision where everything can either be exploded or smoked.
i have eufy
Dahua
I have half a dozen reolink cameras of various flavours all running for a few yrs. All running to a NVR with no subscriptions. The video quality is good and they have so many different cameras for different applications you can find one that suits your application.
Definitely not.
I started replacing my Eufy with Ubiquiti PoE cameras recently as the Eufy ones were a pain to keep pulling down to recharge and also they don't capture everything.
I had to put two at my front door to capture deliveries and even then sometimes it didn't pick up the deliveries and alert me.Also with all the news reports of people having their wifi signals jammed during home invasions, I would not be going back to wifi cameras.
Have the S3 Pro with Homebase 3. Personally the amount of software issues I have had with the product is ridiculous. Advice from Eufy was to reset the device and rejoin the cameras. Errors continued after following their advice. Further, I put a quality Samsung SSD in the HomeBase. It ran so hot the drive started dying. When I took the SSD out it was scolding hot and the case was warped. Resorted to using an sata extension cable and running a drive outside the homebase. Appears to be a known issue. When I get the chance I will be replacing the Eufy devices. Probably try Reolink connected to something like Frigate.
Some examples of issues encountered:
- Connecting to camera screen goes black. Back out and enter again the image is fine.
- Connecting to the camera takes a random amount of time. Sometimes quick. Sometimes it just drags on and by the time I get a live image the event is gone - network signal is fine - Ubiquity gear
- Camera connected to power for continuous recording will randomly miss events. Even though it is meant to be continuous.
- Reviewing footage you cant quickly jump to a particular time - have to scroll through an entire day
- Can turn device sideways to use the full screen when viewing live but can't do that when scrolling through recorded video.
- Camera recording continuous but stopped identifying events until I reset the system.
And finally, you cannot trust the built in logic to capture an event. Even with longer settings. This is why I changed to continuous. But trying to rewind to an event is a PITA with the way Euufy have designed the system
I think many people may have missed your comment that it "has to be wireless". For wireless cameras eufy is a decent choice. You will see plenty of comments on both sides of the aisle (it's great/it's terrible). My personal experience is that they are fine. The quality is pretty decent and the notifications are pretty quick with decent wifi and internet. There are plenty of limitations and it's a compromise. If you can do wired then of course you should., but since it has to be wireless it's a decent option.
If you don't want it dropping out at the first sign of power outage you should put the homebase on a ups (and probably your wifi router/nbn as well since alerts dont work without internet).
I replaced my Ring doorbell with the eufy one as well (since my cams were eufy) and it's much better than the Ring was. A big upside is that no subscription is necessary.
I’ve had Eufy 4 cameras and doorbell for five years. It’s been very reliable for me, picks up and records everything, without fail. Only issue is that I have to recharge the doorbell quite regularly, which is annoying. I have considered one of those solar panels that attach to the camera.
Sounds like most other commenters here have had negative experience with Eufy though. I could be the odd one out.
I've had good experience with my eufy system too… though, most of my setup is the "higher end" options and not the battery powered static cams one gets in the kits.
On the topic of solar panels, I've had a good experience with my S340 that's keeping an eye on the side of my house that has no electrical wiring to all for the E340 to be powered. My homebase 3 was bought in a discounted pack with two battery 3C cameras… wish I had paid that little bit extra for the ones with the built in solar panel on the top of the camera to save myself having to recharge them every 3-6 months.
I have Eufy with homebase 3 and about 9x cameras and E10 display.
Pros: All the hard-wired floodlights E340, 2k pro have been working really well. especially the 5ghz ones. Floodlight is instant and im sitting around 1-2s buffering time for them.
App with camera cross-tracking is neat as I can see automatically stitched videos with event notifications. And I can also choose to ignore my pet. Facial recognition is only good at doorbell height with my Eufy familock. Its pretty 100% detection of the correct person when added.
Recently got a Eufy tablet, which allows me to see 4x active streams and also set off all alarms with 1-click. Big pro here.
Cons: Wifi will never get you 99% uptime. There are alot of tragic events I have come across while deep diving into HA.
When playing with smarthomes of any type. You will probably be using Zigbee , Zwave, Thread and Matter. Of which they are relying on 2.4ghz , 900mhz, 2.4 ghz and wifi.They overlap is insane, I have a deco xe75 mesh with 3 nodes, so wifi is solid. But all my neighbors also have mesh systems these days so the congestion is nuts.
channels 1, 6, 11 traditionally the best for wifi 2.4ghz will be highly congested by neighbors. Your Sonos might even cast out a SonosNet at 1,6,11. And your homebase 3 blasts out 2.4ghz drowning out everything. Setting your zigbee to channel 25 is possible. I am currently considering ripping out the antennas for the homebase 3 to force ethernet only.
Eufy has put out multi-bridge for their newer devices which means you can connect direct to you mesh which is alot better than homebase3. I now only use homebase3 purely for recording. Eufy also has habit of updating firmwares that break shit all the time.
TDLR Eufy is great for the average person , its plug and play +/- sparky. Ive recommended to all my friends who just want something that works.
If you want 100% uptime and integration with HA and not be worried about Wifi jamming and congestion choose an PoE solution maybe reolink and get a backup battery ie. House battery and you have nothing to worry about. Rock solid.
I wish I went PoE NVR to begin with and didnt have to deal with this tragic wifi equipment. Ive even seen really cool HA automations which can describe suspicious events through you speakers using local LLM and your local feed. Ie. (suspicious man in black hoodie hanging out in your front yard for last 5minutes)
I have 3x E340 floodlights in my setup and they're the best eufy cameras I have used. The 3C cams in my setup aren't great but ok to plug blindspots around the house and the S340 solocam is decent for dealing with the side of the house with no electrical wiring. I really wish i had electrical wiring on that side as I could have done with a 4th floodlight there.
Agree that PoE setup is best… but if wifi is the only choice, I would get a bunch of E340 floodlights.
The wall light is also not bad for those who want something aesthetically nicer than the floodlights but at the cost of just a static cam.
I am about to add the E340 doorbell to my setup… wife needs a doorbell and also a cam monitoring packages left on our porch.
No … Never had any hassles just dust of the spiderwebs every now and then
Imou, the budget brand from Dahua
I use reolink. Previously used Eufy. Replaced all the Eufy wifi battery ones because they all failed.
reolink solar or hard wired?
Hard wired. We didn't go solar after our experience with eufy. Hard-wired is more consistent with recording, alerts, and can do continuous recording.
Both are good, though PoE ones are cheaper and have more features, biggest one being battery cameras rely on PIR sensor for trigger whereas hardwired one trigger based on pixel change on camera feed.
Best bang for buck, Reolink.
Commercial install? Most installers use Hikvision. Higher grade home install, Ubiquiti, but you need to buy into their whole network ecosystem to get the full usage out of them.
I use Reolink myself. No subscription required, can save to an internal SD card or a local NVR (or both for some redundancy). They also have cloud storage but why would you?
As for the cameras, do you mean wireless data or solar/battery power?
The reolink wifi cameras work fine, very little difference in usability compared to PoE wired. The solar/battery ones however have slower notification times as they have to wake from sleep to send. All battery/solar cameras have this issue. They all get their long battery run time by running in a very low power state until a detection event wakes them up.
I’m assuming you are looking at battery powered, fully wireless 2C four camera kit currently on sale for $399? If your max budget is $400 or you cannot install wired cameras for whatever reason and must have a fully wireless camera setup then they are ok, but there are some serious drawbacks. The main one is that you only get a few seconds of footage for PIR motion based events, meaning there is no 24x7 recording, so you are very likely to miss a lot of important events. PIR motion sensing has very limited range, and if installed outdoors they can be triggered by a lot of things. Of course, you also need to charge them, and you are not going to get anywhere near the claimed 180 days if you set them up in a high traffic area, you will be lucky to get 100 days. A wired system is a far better option if you can install and afford one.
Reolink is far better than Eufy for quality but Eufy has the best notifications. The pricing is similar so it's up to you what's more important, actually seeing the details and faces or just being notified with snapshots of what's going on but no fine details.
OP, eufy is pretty much the tried and tested wireless security system with a homebase for storage (assuming that's what you're after).
Reolink has been improving their products in this space (see youtube creator 'Lifehackster' for product reviews) but I don't have experience with reolink. I've been very happy with my eufy products (though I use the E340 floodlights, two eufy wall lights, and a few wireless cameras in the areas that don't have electrical wiring for power).
Check out lifehackster's guide on how to use an internal security camera to monitor the outside from a window. Could help with gaps in the external cameras.
Also look at gutter mounts and downpipe mounts… saves on drilling into your walls.
Arlo is the real tried and tested wireless brand. Better security also
We are going Eufy NVR in my parents in law's place. We have Hikvision and cameras are great but the software for a PC is useless - or at least what was put in place by our installer is useless. The app is fine but if you want to use software on a PC that is not connected to the NVR what was put in place for us was not great and has now stopped working
I have a Hikvision Pro NVR, it has a web interface, while it can be slow and not very intuitive, you can still do all the basic stuff like view a live stream, watch recorded clips and download saved footage.
i am EUFY user, installed wired cameras with WIFI connection and a bunch of door and movement sensors. i think they are good enough for mine, but with a very important flaw. the app does not notify when a device is disconnected or offline. so if someone cut your CCTV power or use a wifi jammer to disrupt the connection, you wouldnt know.
depending on your home setup you can easily do this yourself with home assistant or automated job/script pinging it. So while annoying it isn't built in, it isn't a difficult issue to overcome.
my set up is just a home based with multiple non camera devices connected to it. the cameras and home base are connected to 1 WIFI. i did look at that at scripts and home assistant, but never have the time to dive into it. However considering that this should be a consumer product that nearly ready to use out of the box, i think we shouldnt expect the end user to learn and set up all of those.
The feature you are after is actually rare on any of the cheap or even the higher end stuff.
I've only just started looking into anti-wifi jamming solutions… apparently, there are devices that will trigger an alarm if a wifi jammer is detected. Not sure how prone it is to false positives but this, along with stand alone interior cameras facing the outside from window sills that save to SD cards, is part of what I'll be using to work around wifi jammers.
Such is life when wired security wasn't factored into our house build and my wife only mentioned she wanted security cameras after our house was built.
If you're cabling your cameras I am of the firm opinion that it does not matter in the slightest.
Get something of the grade / quality you require and make sure it supports onvif / poe too ideally. Add whatever NVR is in your budget that also supports onvif and not only their ecosystem and you're good.
Whether that is the most dirt cheap temu/aliexpress cameras that support onvif or something much higher end. At least you have flexibility.
Hard wiring / affixing proprietary crap to your house is silly in instances where you can avoid it in my opinion.
I'm using a TPLink Vigi NVR which is…..quite good for the price but nothing amazing. Cameras are aliexpress crap with 1 tplink sprinkled in there. Cameras ranged from $30-50 depending on when I bought them. Most are 4K but I also have a cheap wireless one in the shed and a wifi one in the house I plug in when I go away - all connected up to the same NVR despite being a complete (profanity) of brands / styles / wired vs wireless.
I have eufy sensorsbon doors and movement sensors
For cameras reolink POE and NVR
Google door bell
No issues so farI can't compare them but I went with reolink. An NVR and 6 poe cameras and doorbell camera. Working flawlessly.
If I ever start a security camera company, I’m calling it Wroik. The exact letters I typed when I slammed my head on my keyboard.
Is Swann in a similar league?
Swann is rebadged HIK mostly
Reolink is highly regarded. I've used Hikvision as well and never had any issues. Reolink has been great for last few years, their remote app works fantastic from overseas etc and it's free unlike many other subscription providers out there.
They're the go. I have 4. Had for about 4 years and still going strong
None of the consumer based stuff, as they're not rated for the humidity levels experienced outdoors, not at least without several mitigations that will void the warranty.
But they do seem to hang on for a while, so if you dont mind replacing them every couple of years…
I'd only use them in highly sheltered locations / indoors.
Careful with ANY wireless cameras.
I'm not sure what frequencies the Homebase uses but there's too many cheap WiFi scramblers out there that will render your cameras pretty useless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuNTbekmqnM
Or make sure you can put an SD card in it and do so for local storage.
Had a eufy setup a few years ago. However the Homebase would randomly disconnect with only way to reconnect cameras was to factory reset it. This happened 3 or 4 times in the first month.
I sent it back to Amazon and got a Reolink PoE setup that hasn't dropped a beat in about 3 years.
No
They record to micro SDCard
Eufy is just another cheap camera system. i recently went with reolink.