Home Security Cameras

# Ring Floodlight Cam Wired Pro Review: Fortress-Grade Outdoor Security for the 2026 Smart Home **By Marcus Webb** Network engineer and home lab specialist Marcus Webb brings over a decade of experience in distributed systems, Zigbee mesh networking, and high-availability infrastructure. He tests smart home hardware against rigorous standards involving 4-node Proxmox clusters, 24-bay Synology […]

# Arlo Ultra 2 Review — 6 Months on a Portland Proxmox Home Lab *By Marcus Webb — 8 years enterprise network engineering, 6-year Portland home lab* ## The Short Answer After running the **Arlo Ultra 2** through six months of daily use in my Portland basement, I found it to be a capable 4K

1. THE SHORT ANSWER If you are running a Proxmox cluster like I do in my Portland basement, the short answer is that wired PoE (Power over Ethernet) cameras are the only choice that matters for serious surveillance. In my testing over the last six years, wireless cameras simply do not hold up to the

# Who Should Buy the Eufy Security S330 EufyCam If you are running a Home Assistant instance on a Proxmox node and need a camera that offers decent local storage without demanding a constant 5GHz connection, this is one of the few options left that doesn’t force you into a walled garden immediately. Specifically, if

The Short Answer If you are dealing with extreme cold—think Portland winter lows of 10°F or below—your only real choice for a standalone outdoor camera is the Reolink Argus 3 Pro, provided you understand its limitations, or you pivot entirely to a wired IP camera system like the Ubiquiti Dream Machine Pro paired with a

I spent three weeks testing the Arlo Pro 4 in my own home network, mounting one unit on an exterior wall facing the street and another inside the garage to monitor equipment. I paired it with an Arlo Secure base station connected to my existing 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network, then ran a separate test using a