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Not parent, but Zoneminder locally with the zmninja app works pretty well. VPN allows remote access, so it is slightly complicated but not too bad.
I played with Zoneminder years ago but would like to get something set up for home security. I have a full internal network plus servers and about 60TB of free storage space so there's really no limitations to what I could set up. Ideally I'd like to just hit a local IP from a cell phone to check the cameras (and remote access isn't really needed), so that's where I was trying to go with my previous questions.
The software side seems easy enough, but finding compatible IP cameras has been stumping me. I see the Reolink 4K TrackMix wifi cameras on Amazon for $130, and other than a few hiccups it looks likely that this piece of hardware would work, unless anyone knows of any "gotchas" that I've missed? Otherwise I'll do a bit more research and then order one of the cameras to see how far I can get with it.
The only gotcha I can think of is the 4k bandwidth, better make sure you can handle more than one camera on your network.
Good point, POE might be the only choice then. Although these cameras do provide x264 and x265 compression so that would save quite a lot.