Little bit of background info:

Currently living in a house with not very good internet (60mb down, 15mb up) and am using the Eufy doorbell with Eufy homebase2, and 2 satelite cameras.

My issue with them is that they never seem to actually record anything that I want them to. They’ll pick up steam from the boiler exhaust, or a hedge blowing in the wind, but not someone dumping a load of stuff in the skip literally right infront of the doorbell, or a truck dragging a neighbours car down the road…

In my previous house we used a Nest doorbell and wired nest cameras and they were excellent (not because of event recording, but just because they had 24/7 and you could manually skip back if needed). However, I can’t imagine my upload is going to be able to handle 3 cameras (and I’d ideally like to put in another 3).

Is there a decent quality doorbell + outdoor camera setup that has 24/7 recording to a local storage, but is accessible via an app, has event/detection alerts, and does not upload anything significant to the cloud other than event clip thumbnails (and when you’re viewing the clips via app etc) ?

I’ve read that you can set Ring cameras to be local only.

Oh also, I appreciate that Eufy can’t do it because they’re battery. I’m quite happy to get these hard wired if I need to. I just can’t spare the upload 🙁 Would love even to get some PoE cameras so I can install some in the garden.

Thanks for any help. I’m just about ready to bin these Eufy cams off.