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Blue Iris is actively developed by a **native** English speaking programmer. Your NVR of choice is neither of these things. The comparison is laughable. You can fault the BI development for choosing tools that only work with newer versions of windows, but that's about it. It is superior...

I used untangle for a few years - They have subscriptions and some free stuff too. My main problem was the Java interface seemed clunky. It may be better now. Not sure what dns filtering capabilities it has but untangle has been in active development for a long time and should be pretty good...

that thing is tiny and can't handle a very big load I wouldn't think. At the very least I would use securedns.eu, nextdns.io or some other malware blocking dns. That + windows defender with active updates is going to be pretty good and basically free.

That's what I did - this box has 6 ports, hot swappable HD,, etc and it was 4 years ago and was way easier than building my own. I think there are trusted dealers now selling smaller form factor hardware but at the time it was the easiest thing to do.

I bought a used rack mountable server from eBay with pfsense already on it and that serves as the router/firewall. It's a little complicated to set up - you are probably better off with a standard Netgear/Linksys router and then if adding something like pihole to block malicious domains. I...

I use pfsense with pfblockerng (their adblocking package). I couldn't imagine a home network without ip/domain filtering at the router.