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No since we're starting from scratch and will be doing full rewires/renovation/refurbishment work anyway and the site is empty, will definitely be running RJ45 cables everywhere so PoE is the plan. Just don't know what to plug in specifically!
Great, how do they compare to the UniFi cameras which everyone in the other thread seems to be recommending?
Dunno
Unify is too expensive for what it is. Only buy Unify at the companies expense
Would never let it anywhere near my home network
I guess the boys in your thread know what they're talking about so go for it
Unifi cameras don't seem to be great value for money. They score major plus points if you already have a Unifi network as they just plug and play but you pay a lot for that. I bought a G5 bullet to try out and it's no better than the £35 Chinese job it replaced. At this price point, any future purchases will be Reolink cameras of which I already have two.
You can add the Reolink cameras to the Unifi Protect app and record to a Unifi NVR or router based hard drive via ONVIF but there's no motion detection markers applied to the recordings ie it's pointless!
Just be careful with the 4k turret reolink, the FoV is very narrow at something like 75 degrees. Much lower than the G5. Reolink as an ecosystem is great however, I've recently installed some of the £55 cameras you talk about for specific areas, along with dome camera (140 degrees fov) where needed, and rounded it out with their doorbell to replace a Ring. Seems solid so far.
Have a look at Eufy. Don’t know about the Google TV connections but it has everything else you need.
Not completely to you specs as Eufy are battery / solar, but you can also hardwire some. Having said that the solar seems to work a treat! I've just swapped my Arlo system to Eufy and it works as i'd expect the Arlo to work.
My parents have two Eufy solar powered cameras and they’ve never had to top them up in well over a year of use. The cameras can be a bit slow to react to movement sometimes but they do work well
