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Sure you can allow your cameras access to the web if you want, I would just have them on a seperate network to my LAN if you don't trust them. For me.. That means a VLAN for the cameras which is trunked through to my POE switch. Not something you can even do on a consumer router usually.. hence...

Mine were just ebay/aliexpress with the specs I wanted - specifically Mic & PIR for indoor cameras, and zoom dome cameras for outside. Much harder to find vandal proof dome cameras, with PIR and audio. Vandal proof domes with audio and PIR would be SO nice, since most of what I film is shadows...

Personally would recommend delving into Mikrotik routers if you want to play around with VLANs, although would recommend using a Mikrotik router just for routing, not as a VLAN switch. Smart switch for that.

I have cameras which false trigger all the time due to movement, is there a way I can wire PIR sensors into a system via onvif? like a onvif alarm input

creating a VLAN for all Chinese IP Cameras... -no internet access -no access outside known destination ports to my router

Looking for an outdoor camera I can attach a PIR sensor to via an Alarm input. I get a lot of random video being recorded due to wind triggering, so I'd like to use a PIR sensor to cut that out. The cameras I've seen that can do this dont have inbuilt mics, and if I was powering it over POE then...

noticed my IP camera was reaching out to some China based IPs, so dropped those outbound packets (60k packets in less than a day). Should I set my hair on fire? Currently the camera is still on my LAN, just blocked from reaching out. No idea what it was doing :(