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Can you share your favorite brands for the key components?

I'm going with Ubiquiti. I tried some of the cheap brands and was unsatisfied with their NVR solutions. Ubiquiti was the affordable and good business class option with HomeAssistant integration. I dropped details in a sibling comment.

I have ubiquity cameras around my property and they work great. I initially had just a UVC-NVR but upgraded to the DreamMachine.

I had headaches at first because my DreamMachine's SATA port was faulty and had a poor connection to the HDD. I used 4 different HDD's to prove this, and getting Unifi support to agree with me was about impossible. They ended up giving me an RMA with a "yeah, buddy.. I'm suuuuure it's the SATA port." I had to pay to post the RMA for a machine that never actually worked.

The exchanged DreamMachine has been working quite well for over a year now though.

If I were to do it again I'd buy it from a reseller instead of directly from Ubiquity for better product support.

I live in a humid area and all my Ubiquiti cameras died within a year. If the NVR powered off without a shutdown mongo would get corrupted, losing all recording metadata. I could import videos but what a pain.

I went with Hikvision and wouldn’t look back.

Not OP but I have a Ubiquiti 'UniFi Protect' system in my home that works well. Lots of different cameras to choose from, including a doorbell.

Thanks for sharing, though pricey, quick ROI based on Nest and Ring pricing.

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