Which wifi camera for Home Assistant ?

Hi everyone

So here's the thing: I'd like to put 2 or 3 cameras in my house and probably 1-2 outside (front and back). I'm looking for a budget but reliable solution (yay), likely with no 3rd party cloud storage.

I'm currently running Home Assistant on a RasPi III and I use Deconz (and NodeRed). So Zigbee is needed (I think).

I've looked around but I see vast price ranges for wifi cameras, and it's really confusing.

The requirements I would have are:

- Wifi or Lan (I can hook some to my Orbi router or statelites)

- They can be on battery, I don't mind having to charge them from time to time.

- Preferably no drilling massive holes in the walls (inside. Outside it's ok)

- Should record only when active and movement is detected. Idealy I can just send a command to activate the cameras when I leave.

- Can detect pets (I have a cat).

- Easy integration in HA. If there's a native app in addition that's cool, but not really a requirement.

Any suggestion that comes to mind immediately ? :)

Thanks !

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