Are you able to expand? What exactly did not impress you? Motioneye (which I briefly used 3-4 years ago with a dodge camera) and Frigate seem to be those that are used mostly as OOS solutions and hooked up to either OpenHab or HA.

Yip, I already have pfSense installed with an isolated virtual network just for my home automation.

But setting up a VPN on a VPS is not really going to do much for privacy is it? It wouldn’t take much to work out who is renting the VPS and the VPS has no incentive to hold back any info if a they were issued a search warrant.

Feels like it becoming more and more challenging living on the Internet without leaving breadcrumbs all over the place.

GrapheneOS can make a difference here I would say. As long as a you don’t fill it with loads of crappy socials apps. These are the real killers.

Sound like a great journey you have taken. Well done. I did more or less the same transition, except iPhone bit , and using the same apps you use. This difference is that it took me 10 years to complete this journey in full but that reflect my age more than anything else. Gen X

Really helpful, thank.