I think many of the respondents are giving answers without an important piece of the puzzle. Karen: I seem to remember that your vision is quite limited. Would you be able to get anything out of the playback of a video? If you cannot view a video directly, I don't think that any of the proposals would be of much use. Some thoughts (but note that I have no particular expertise in this area): - recordings *inside* you front door would reduce the false positives. In other words, recordings would be limited to someone who actually came inside. Bonus points: an outside recording that could be retroactively examined, (by someone else) once "something of interest" were detected inside. - recordings should include sound since that would be something you could examine yourself. You could develop the habit of saying "I'm home" to mark recordings of yourself. - AI is getting better. Some day it will recognize people sufficiently well to do some of this for you. But I don't know that we're there yet. - There is an AI gold rush now. Perhaps some startup could be interested in your problem as an untapped market. But that's a long way from a simple off-the-shelf solution. - I imagine that most systems ignore the accessibility features you need. An Open Source solution might make it easier to hack in code to make at least the logs accessible. - Some home alarm companies might have solutions for you where they do the monitoring remotely. I've not asked. But that would compromise your privacy and might be expensive. I don't imagine that there is a simple affordable security solution. Other than getting a dog (they have native intelligence).