Ubiquiti NVR Instant kit is a great value, and you get 24h local recording without a subscription. And it is well supported with Home Assistant.

Some of the UniFi cameras are amazingly expensive though, $500 for an outdoor 4K camera is hard to swallow. But if you can swing it, you will not regret the investment.

I already have other UniFi gear for networking and it was natural to add cameras to the system.

Apparently UniFi Protect works with 3rd party cameras if they support ONVIF but I don’t know of any yet.

You’d just point yourself in a random direction and see what popped out as interesting.

Fallout 3 was the same, and I loved this so much. Somehow they failed to keep this up with 4 (I never played 76).

I guess they felt like worlds you were a part of, rather than the center of. So many things to discover!

Amazon is a prime example

I see what you did there…