[throw0101a]

> Probably the same reason video is always hard, there's 7 million codecs.

ONVIF has specifications/profiles for management, functionality, and codecs (S and T):

* https://www.onvif.org/profiles-add-ons-specifications/

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF

[tw04]

Sure but none of it seems to work for battery powered cameras which is a giant missing piece.

[maven29]

https://github.com/OpenIPC/firmware

You can get onvif-compliant firmware for some of those, but battery-powered operation cannot be expected to remain practical, given what onvif focuses on.