Who Knows A Lot About Home Security Cameras for The Driveway? Recommendations.

In my opinion it all boils down to what your intent is with the system. Do you want external cameras only, or a full-on alarm system for your home/residence? If you only want to record an event external to the residence, a simple camera set-up may suffice (SimpliSafe, Ring, etc). Sure, they offer "monitoring", and the apps can be set to notify you if/when there is activity, but most of the time the monitoring isn't local, and based on personal experience I bet many people turn-off the notifications due to nuisance trips and "false alarms".

Of course you can go all the way up to a full-on alarm system with a CCTV setup recording to a HDD/server....

Once you get over the initial feelings of violation and insecurity, a call to a local alarm/home security company may be in order.