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I live in Las Vegas and am looking for an outdoor camera for my front door that can handle our high temperatures and potentially be in direct afternoon sunlight.

The camera has to be Wi-Fi, but battery backup would be nice in case someone turns the porch light out (I'm going to use an adapter on the light bulb socket).

This is my first time setting up ZM for myself and so far searches for high temperature are either way too expensive or not RTSP, assuming I understand that correctly. The Argus 3 Pro looked great (rated for 131F according to a review I found) until I figured out how difficult it would be to make it work with ZM.

Look at the specification sheet for cameras. Cameras that are rated for Outdoors use, will have higher temperature ranges. They will also be rain proof.

I have had cameras fail in hot areas, and I have also had cameras work perfectly OK. But I've only had 2 fail. One was an early gen Axis, and the other was Honeywell branded. It's going to depend upon the quality of the camera, to start with. There is this: https://www.asmag.com/showpost/23315.aspx so high temperature industrial cameras are a thing. And I don't live in the desert, so I don't know how cameras fair there. But I've had good luck with used Axis outdoor cameras (not the oldest ones, but ones from 2010 or newer). I have a couple of those running in boiler rooms, and they have not failed.

Try to point it down, away from the sky, so the sunlight doesn't directly shine in the lens. See: https://photo.stackexchange.com/questio ... conditions But common sense tells you that anything in direct sunlight will break down over time. I have a camera on a street with some sky viewable, but it hasn't been an issue. I don't have any cameras directly pointed at the sky (though I do want to set one up to get sunrise).