Great topic as there is no way I would trust any third party with such data, so if I ever buy cameras I’d like them to be able to function in my home network.
I think boot up time is not that important as you won’t be away in a second. Even a one minute boot would be okay.
@ConnorRigby why send the images in base64? Are the raspberry pis too slow to perform at least some compression before sending the data on the wire? For a home network the bandwidth is not a big problem and a bigger computer could receive the images and encode them in a video, but it’s still kind of miserable as most of the time the image won’t change at all. At the very least the PI should send a new image with a timestamp only when the difference with the last one is more than a given threshold, and ideally it would do that only when that diff is big enough that it could be a human and thus potential thief/threat (who cares if a bird or a cat goes in front of the camera for a while?).
This diff algorithm optimised for threat detection is really the killer service I would expect from such libraries 
Oh, and it’s always good to keep some offline data, at least the last couple of hours (that won’t take much space with the aforementioned algorithm). The raspberry pi would be enclosed in the wall so people could destroy the camera but not the brains.
