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Message: [QUOTE="jleves, post: 2710731, member: 757"] There are pros and cons to just about any system. Wifi cameras are really easy to setup, but unless you get lucky and can easily get power to them, you have to charge the battery from time to time depending on usage. You can get solar chargers for them, but from what I've found, they are usually expensive and not well rated. The biggest problem with wifi cameras is that anyone with strong intent can just get a wifi jammer and you have nothing. Hard wired Ethernet cameras avoid that issue, but they are more expensive and you have to run the wire to them and you have to power them so either electrical with the Ethernet wire, or use POE (power over Ethernet) which means you'd have to get a POE switch to connect to your network. Additionally with your own hardwired cameras, you have to have a recording device which adds complexity and they are typically not nearly as easy to setup as the wifi systems. As someone else pointed out, if you are recording everything to the cloud, a simple cut of your Internet connection negates the system. I've been playing with stuff for years and at this point, I have an in house automation system (insteon) and for now, just a handful of Arlo wifi cameras. I figure it's better than nothing while I decide how to do POE cameras. The one nice thing about Arlo over Ring is that you can throw a USB drive on the base station so it also records locally. Costco has a nice 5 pack bundle of Arlo for about $900. Getting all the different home automation pieces, in my case, Insteon, Eccobee thermostats, zWave door locks and Arlo cameras, working together is definitely a challenge. On the bright side Alexa integrates with all of them. Home automation is a rabbit hole once you get serious and creative. I'm sure over the next 3 to 5 years there will be much more integration and whole house packages from Google, Amazon and Apple. Perhaps Netgear, Linksys and/or Asus gets in the game too. Hopefully IFTTT makes all these thing work together. [/QUOTE]

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