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Most Cameras supporting the ONVIF standard will work off net/grid.

ONVIF feeds info about camera capabilities, and URLs for the camera’s RTSP streams which can be used with many things including VLC.

ONVIF is a discovery/configuration protocol for many security/access control type things.

There are a number of open source etc programs that will discover/config the cameras.

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ONVIF is only the local protocol, right? I want the users to be able to use the same app whether local or remote.

ONVIF is the discovery/configuration protocol. Most all of those cameras stream RTSP/MJPEG/etc.

I’m fond of the cheap Chinese cameras off of Amazon — Annke in particular, which I think are just rebranded Hikvision cameras.

On the cheaper end, the Eufy cameras can be configured to run in non-cloud RTSP/ONVIF mode. The C24 models run between $30-40 a piece (they go on sale often) and have great video quality. They are USB powered.

I see. I would still need to set something up for remote access via NAT traversal or something. I’m hoping I can buy a solution that does that transparently.

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