&gt; but ultimately would you trust your home to something you can throw together in a few weekends?<p>More than I trust it to something that sends it over the internet to someone else&#x27;s cloud over insecure channels, yes.<p>&quot;trust your home&quot; is somewhat misleading. The house won&#x27;t fall down if the surveillance cameras are off. I&#x27;ve been in that home for years now without surveillance cameras and it&#x27;s fine; I&#x27;d be a bit happier with some video feeds in various places but it will <i>contribute to additional security</i>: It&#x27;s not all or nothing.<p>Also, wi-fi isn&#x27;t the only or necessarily the best option to hook it up. I did mention that storage is harder that image capture now, but I believe that a Synology NAS or similar is the preferred approach. Multi-Terabyte HDs have gotten affordable.