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> but ultimately would you trust your home to something you can throw together in a few weekends?

More than I trust it to something that sends it over the internet to someone else's cloud over insecure channels, yes.

"trust your home" is somewhat misleading. The house won't fall down if the surveillance cameras are off. I've been in that home for years now without surveillance cameras and it's fine; I'd be a bit happier with some video feeds in various places but it will contribute to additional security: It's not all or nothing.

Also, wi-fi isn'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.