ZoneMinder Dev Here...

Someone in my neighborhood has either an old cordless phone or microwave that totally kills all 2.4GHz wifi. I live in the middle of nowhere.
Most cams don't have 5GHz.

So if at all possible, go wired. POE is great.

Ubiquiti are actually ok too.. I think once put in rtsp mode you can't use them with the Ubiquiti dvr but that's ok.

I enjoy TP-Link Tapo cameras. They are onvif compliant (mostly) and actually put out firmware updates.

HIkVIsion clones are great.

Amcrest are the only manufacturer that has actually sent cameras to us to support.

Reolink work well.

We have recently begun crowd sourcing a camera database so you can see what others are using successfully. https://cloud.zoneminder.com/c...

Yes, setting up security requires you to turn it on.

This is not a limitation of ZoneMinder.

We have been putting a lot of work into zoneminder lately to make it easier and to support more devices. You might want to take another look.

yes you can install other things but they don't work well. they are crippled compared to what they were like in natty.

im shopping around for something else.

and typing one-handed hence the lack of capitals

For me anyways:

1: Better multi-threading support

I have written a huge estimation application (web-based). The calculations are something like O(n^n) or worse... point is, processors aren't getting faster. We are however getting a lot more cores. The algorithm parallelizes very well, but perl does not do efficient multi-threading. So I will have to re-write the estimation engine in something else.

2: Compilability

For the companies that want to keep their code proprietary... there are projects that pretend this, but they just append the code to the interpreted. Trivially reversable.