The video was crystal clear: not a raccoon, but her neighbor’s free-range house rabbit, Mochi, squeezing through a gap in the fence, nibbling her petunias like they were a five-star salad.

Maya bought a simple PoE network camera. She ran one thin Ethernet cable from her router, out the basement window, and mounted the camera under her eaves.

The results were a mess: baby monitors, dashcams, and a $2,000 Hollywood film camera.

Maya loved her small urban garden. It was her sanctuary, a patch of green squeezed between two brick buildings. But for three weeks, something had been shredding her prize petunias every night.

She needed a solution. She typed into her search engine: "best camera to watch my garden at night."