I live alone and my neighbor found some drunk and/or high folks trespassing on my property while I wasn’t home the other day. I want to put up cameras as a safety thing, but I hate Ring.
I’m a broke botch rn too, so the subs for the cameras or whatever can’t be crazy.
I bought these d-link cameras - dcs-8302. A two-pack set me back $30. They do WiFi or RJ-45. There is an app and cloud subscription, but you don’t need the subscription.
They can store to an SD card, which you can play back through the app. If someone takes your camera you lose the content. The camera also serves a stream over RTSP. I run software called ‘motion’ on ny home server that captures a snippet whenever there is movement.