Lets talk “Security”………..

[Bmyers]

We have Wyze camera and floodlight. You can add features for additional money, but we just want the basic, which is free and it sends an alert to our phone when it detects a person and saves a short video to the SD card. We can watch the camera live from our phone/internet and turn the floodlights on and off.

They are easy to setup and my wife, who loves her chickens, have three cameras (non-floodlights) setup in the chicken coop and runs, so she can watch her chickens. Plus these cameras move around (yes, she loves her chickens).

 

[Daferris]

Might be more than what you're willing to spend but look into ubiquity.
www.ubnt.com
My Internet infrastructure and all my security cameras are there stuff. All too notch commercial grade equipment.
Been using them for more than 10 years.

 

[xrocketengineer]

I am cheap, I went with Foscam. The cameras are alright, one of my cameras is at least 10 years old. The PC software takes some learning. However, if you use the PC software (VMS for Windows or Apple), you can set up the cameras and monitor them remotely with a PC without the need of a Foscam account. In my case I have 4 cameras on the same network plus there is another one in my wife's condo on the beach that I can manage and monitor from my PC with a local account. But if I want to use the Foscam app on my phone, then I have to use a free Foscam account. The cloud recording is optional but not free. I bought the cameras one at a time as it became somewhat of a hobby. Only the oldest camera has no SD card capability. The last purchase was the Foscam NVR and that kind of sucks. It does record ok but it wants to override whatever settings you might have in each individual camera and it almost ignores the oldest camera. The VMS software and the NVR don't play well together, so it takes some effort to get them to do what I want.