I’m looking to add Cameras to my main house and shop next year. Only requirement is POE. I plan on running a vlan/subnet isolation and dual nic or trunk on the L3 switch. I don’t have unifi stuff and plan on Omada right now for wifi updates so don’t say Ubiquiti.

I am not camera smart. I understand networking and can build a NVR like blue iris out and network it.

I have a quarter mile driveway, all fields around my house and one of those rural lights by my shop at night. So good IR nightvision Is a must.

I would like to track animals around chicken coop etc if able which Is about 70 feet from house.

I can mount and block on soffit. I plan on hard wiring cat6a for this project.

For the driveway is a PTZ necessary? What am I looking for focal length/ir/ etc?

Around the house out to 80ft IR what am I looking at their for a decent cam.

I plan to build it out 2 or 4 at a time so a qy channel nvr/ switch should suffice and can hit mid to high end cameras. I prefer long lasting and quality over cheap and blurry.