Personally, I've had good luck with Reolink cameras. I block them from the Internet at the router, just in case, but they do seem to respect your choice if you disable the cloud/mobile app feature.
The cameras will upload jpegs and mpegs to a local FTP server based on configurable triggers, which include 'AI' detection of animal/vehicle/human, all running on-camera.
I wrote a simple script to put all the daily uploaded jpegs on a HTML webpage (each linked to the video) for review. Home Assistant also has an integration that can do streaming and grabs the detection triggers as well.
Personally, I've had good luck with Reolink cameras. I block them from the Internet at the router, just in case, but they do seem to respect your choice if you disable the cloud/mobile app feature.
The cameras will upload jpegs and mpegs to a local FTP server based on configurable triggers, which include 'AI' detection of animal/vehicle/human, all running on-camera.
I wrote a simple script to put all the daily uploaded jpegs on a HTML webpage (each linked to the video) for review. Home Assistant also has an integration that can do streaming and grabs the detection triggers as well.
Most people I know in a similar situation went with generic ip cameras paired with a synology nas for an inexpensive option.