I’m also in the market. I’ve heard good things about Reolink cameras in this regard. I’m planning on linking them up to a Frigate hosted NVR. My plan is to pounce on any black friday deals that come up this month, but curious if people have other recs.

I’m rocking annke cheap-ish PoE cam on a dedicated vlan for years now. Coupled with Frigate. I still keep an eye on sus traffic attempts but so far so good. Before that I was using Synology surveillance station but nowadays Frigate is better imho. Funky to hook to HA for alerting and all.

Set up 4 reolink RLC-510A cameras at my place when we moved in. Was running them off of ispyagentdvr for a while but a friend of mine has been working on an NVR that I’m currently testing out that works well.

Completely local POE cameras that didn’t break the bank and a free NVR that’s easy to set up and manage.

Highly recommend Reolink for this purpose

I’ve been playing around with https://thingino.com/ They have a list of compatible cameras that are relatively affordable.