Yeah, IP cameras are a good addition, and I can stream pretty much any of those to my local server (aka "NAS") and/or to my offsite server.

For home monitoring, I'm thinking more "burglar alarm" style (motion sensors, door/window sensors), as well as keeping tabs on the smoke alarms, water, freezer, furnace, and sump pumps.

I can build/assemble sensors for all of those, and have them all report to my central server, and text/email me of important changes in status etc.

But if there were an off the shelf system that did most of that, without using "The Cloud", it might save me some time.

Thanks.