Home monitoring system -- recommendations sought

[Advil]

If you can program and set up a pi on a network ubiquiti will be easy for you.

 

[Dhal22]

Great info here, thank you all.

Otherwise seems like Ubiquiti is the first to look at, per @matthewsx, @400bird and @Advil. It is hard to answer the computer proficiency question, I can program in R and am comfortable in the Unix environment, have set up several raspberry pi systems. Not proficient in networking but can google up answers to my questions. I am comfortable going out beyond my competence (and get stuck). Have looked at Home Assistant, which I'd be happy to set up at my house but at Mom's just need a turnkey. Will take a serious look at Ubiquiti and will separate the water monitoring from the rest and will look into Water cop, @Dhal22 .

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[projectnut]

Another good camera system is Arlo. The Pro5 system has a 160* viewing angle and a range of around 100'. They are good for indoors or outdoors, have sound, color and 2k video, can distinguish between motion, animal human, and vehicle, and have night vision. The audio and video sensitivity can be set to avoid things like cars on the street or small animals in range.

The nice thing is they can be monitored using your phone. The recordings can be stored in the cloud or on your own computer. The cameras can be purchased individually, or in sets of 2, 4 or 6 with a router, either online or at brick & mortar stores. Best Buy stocks these and several different Arlo models. The system can handle up to 15 cameras and has 3 levels of monitoring. Monitoring costs (if you choose to use it) are as low as $9.99 for the basic service to $29.99 for live 24/7 monitoring.