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I have eufy for two doorbell cameras (since my house is technically 2 separate apartments), a garage floodlight camera, and a couple security cameras I put up in my house. I've never had any of the problems you mentioned. Sounds like your cameras might be too far away from your HomeBase; you're not getting a reliable stream across your network.
I switched from Ring to eufy specifically to avoid paying for a cloud subscription, and to store all my security footage locally. I heard about Ring collaborating with police to hand over your video feed without even notifying customers and I said, "hell no!"
My only complaint about eufy is that the video stream is a bit delayed. The live feed is maybe a few seconds behind, even if I'm standing right next to the camera to stream. Which makes it a little difficult to chat with people over the camera.
Also, by the time the phone app notifies me that there's a car in my driveway, the person is already standing at my door. Ring would ping me when a car was halfway up my long driveway, and the video feed was near instant.
eufy is terrible at determining movements too. If it's a sunny day, I get pings constantly because the shadow of the trees swaying across my driveway set off the motion detection. I have to remember to switch it to human only detection so I'm not bombarded with notifications all day. Which just makes it less likely to notify me of someone in my driveway until they're already gone. I've narrowed the detection area to keep the tree branches from pinging movement, but I can't stop their shadows in the driveway. I need to know when there's movement in my driveway.
The sacrifices I make to avoid a surveillance state...