Unless I’m careful I find I obsess about things, and it isn’t sustainable. Either overload or burn out on it. Nowadays I try to pace my obsessions, do a bit at a time and enforce breaks, sometimes a few days or even weeks. It allows me to think about the subject, lock things down and make links. Sometimes less is more.

If it happened frequently enough, the government would find a way to tax it.

I have a couple of setups, one has poe ip cams writing to a surveillance nvr which looks after motion detect etc. The other system relies on the camera software detecting motion and writing to a Nas.

Both systems are on their own subnet and are firewalled from everything else. I VPN as and when required.

I’ve found motion detect with alerts to be difficult to tune to get good detection without false alarms.