OK, i'll play along. Arlo are battery powered wifi toys, Ener-j are low grade Chinese rebrands, so are ESP, EZVIZ and Lorex, in fairness Eufy are slightly nicer, Netatmo we're back to over priced toys again, Reolink aren't garbage tier, but they're distinctly mediocre on anything other than paper. Swann is a horrible suggestion, remember when they broke app support over night because they changed Chinese OEM and didn't extend the developer support contract? Tapo (TPLink) has a nicer ecosystem than Reolink, but again they buy-in and re-brand and the cameras are cheap, often lack PoE which requires two cables run and the cloud pricing.... Yale is basically just the same business model as Swann, but with slightly less cringe/horrible history. Unifi also has an uncomfortable journey to get to protect, the cameras don't last well and certainly not in a seaside environment, but the NVR side isn't bad, and the cameras are getting better, Dahua/Hikvision make decent camera's and reasonable NVR's and my question clearly lends itself more in this direction. Oh and oddly
ChatGPT you missed Nest and ANNKE, HiLook and Ring, they feel like more obvious suggestions if you're trying to push consumer grade choices, that is if you were actually replying based on knowledge. Ajax is more alarm orientated, but not an awful suggestion given the brief.
Anyway, i'll seek my answers from people who know more than me about the subject, respectfully in this case that's seemingly not you, but thank
ChatGPT you for the list