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trying to find security cameras
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Without wires you have no permanent power. Also, it sounds like you want it to be wireless transmission without a network. That's a challenge.
Lets Ignore the "no cables" part then. If you want this to be cheap, highly reliable, and non-networked... use wires. You can't go wrong.
You can get 4 camera systems with local storage from companies like Lorex for a reasonable price for good quality. I got mine at CostCo for $299. It might support cloud storage (maybe?) but I never enabled it. It just records locally. It's been running for years with no downtime or issues and the cameras still look great.
Second this, including buying from Costco. I don’t love the Lorex interface, but they’ve been around for a long time and can’t really compete on the modem Ring-style features so they’re now advertising the privacy benefits of their local storage.
PoE (Power over Ethernet) cameras are the way to go, connecting the camera wires directly to the NVR box, which doesn’t itself need to be connected to your network. The NVR box has a hard drive and an HDMI port. If you do optionally connect it to the network (but just don’t), then their app will facilitate connecting to your box either locally or over the internet so that you can stream your video directly from your hard drive, not their cloud.
If you want it protected against power outages, you just put the NVR on a UPS and you’re done.
Of course, if a burglar finds your NVR and takes it, then all of your footage is gone.