Understand your point that the Meraki cameras are more expensive, but consider that there's no NVR, no special software, no appliances, no plugins or controls or hassle, no training. It's just a camera and a license and you're done. It's pretty much anywhere, anytime, using any browser on any device and you've got your video, plus with all the goodness and simplicity of Meraki Dashboard.
We all use Dashboard every day and take it for granted and don't actively think about it. Dashboard delivers an easier, seamless full stack experience, by default. It doesn't take any work to get all the benefits of the Dashboard. It adds up to real dollars in troubleshooting time, network management time savings, and makes things very simple, yet very powerful and secure. And it's getting smarter all the time. And it brings the physical security system into the same single pane of glass as the rest of your full stack, which includes self-maintaining spreadsheets for your entire inventory, licensing, change logs, administrator access and camera admin RBAC, etc.
Ok, Dashboard commercial's over. 🙂 Maybe consider the entry level MV12WE, lower list price and half the storage, but certainly still in the 14 to 20+ day range even with continuous recording. With MBR it could be months depending on how much motion the camera is seeing on a regular basis. Plus you'll get things like audio, wireless, and all the cool analytics, motion heat maps, person detection, people counting, and others yet to be developed.
