I have a friend who already has a combination 16 channel wired (cat 5) / wireless home security system. 8 Channels of each. However, the wired / wireless cameras are on different systems and he wants to simplify everything by having all the cameras connect to one DVR (NVR?), and have one app to monitor all the cameras. I haven’t seen it, but I assume there is a whole mess of stuff going on with POE switches, routers, etc.

In my search to help him find something that would simplify his setup and allow him to keep his current security cameras, I was looking for a 16 Channel Hybrid Wireless / wired NVR system, but they don’t really seem to exist the way I thought they would. They are either wired completely, wireless completely, or they only have 8 channels total, or they only support “their” cameras.

Are there “universal” plug and play type systems that will work with essentially any camera that have app / cloud access?

Thanks!