CCTV/Security wireless outdoor cameras recommendations please.

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We want to put a couple of outdoor cameras to check the family home abroad. It's in a village, electricity at times is unreliable, so it needs to be wireless, we also need a battery (probably lithium battery) that lasts at least a year (hopefully more) as we will not be able to change it. We hope to connect them to a mobile phone app and just be able to check it from wherever we are. But we don't want to depend of cloud storage or monthly subscriptions. I would really appreciate if anybody could give recommendations, hopefully not crazily expensive. Thank you so much in advance.
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Ring doorbells appear to have good reviews but personally I'd not go for the battery.
Ring also has indoor batter cams which I guess you could place in a window or a wired one for that matter easy to set up.
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A mate of mine monitors his boat with an old mobile phone running an app called ALFRED which also seem to work pretty well.
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