OT: Still deciding on the exact choice of security camera, but i want remote recording. Not cloud-based, but using a wireless hub that connects to my home network via cable or wifi). Why? Because if video is stored on the camera itself, it would be too easy to just grab the sd card after destroying the cam, which means evidence gone. There's also a chance to scare them annoying crows away via built-in speakers on some models, if that doesn't freak out the horses). I put a fat lock on the front/loading door yesterday.
Never connect security cams via wireless, the thief with minimal knowledge will have $2
deauther device running in auto-attack mode in his pocket. Actually to a knowledgeable thief a wireless cam like a cam imitation serves more as an invitation than working as a repellent.
Personally I've found $30 PoE cams from China fitting my needs perfectly well, hell you even get PTZ HD cams for under $100. Ofcourse these cams need to be in an isolated subnet that is only connected to the videoserver (this applies to every other brand too, because you do not want data leaking and also you do not want to get part of a botnet attacking whatever high-profile target).
I use
Zoneminder in two separate installations and it hasn't disappointed me yet and has a very open architecture that allows you to extend it in all directions. If you fit a good videocard (good, like in CUDA-capable) into the zm server you can even get it to detect (and recognize) objects and persons (i.e. no alarming if missus or kids are walking through the yard, but alerts for everything else as long as it is a person and not a stray cat).
HTH
Thanks for pointing me to Zoneminder
I have a spare Raspberry Pi4 lying around here, my access points support two SSID's, i can also put up a wifi router for an extra wlan, last not least i got an old Netgear wifi router with dd-wrt on it, which is not bad acting as a bridge. Gotta look for RTSP capable cameras.
The cameras will be camouflaged using old toys of the kids.
The chance of somebody jamming the surveillance network is very low, at the countryside full of simple minded people, i'm even impressed they can actually use Smartphones... But the risk, while low, is still there.