Cheap 720p IP camera with IR?

Hey guys, can anyone recommend a small form factor IP camera, preferably with IR leds.
I tried the search, but could not find what I was looking for. Thanks for any tips!

There’s a plethora of cameras that fit this description so it really narrows down to the following:

Is there a web UI built in or some method of getting the image stream via a direct URL.

This is the question you need to ask because as long as there is a method to access the stream via a URL, you should be able to use the camera in HA.

A great place to check this is https://www.ispyconnect.com/sources.aspx, because it maintains a db of most of the cameras out there and you can use this as a basis to connect with HA.

I have two Foscam 8918s and one old Netgear IP cam (both no longer made) as well as two outside mounted VStarcams that I purchased from eBay (dead cheap, 720p with good IR) and two Android IP webcams (repurposed phones).

I use the generic mjpeg cam with the Foscams and Netgear, and I use FFMPeg for the vstars. I could have used generic for them as well, but FFMPeg gives me larger images.

I’ve heard that the pi noir camera performs very well even without LED

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can you please share the config you used for vstarcam?? i have C7816WIP

digoo mini has served me really well https://www.banggood.com/Digoo-DG-M1Q-960P-2_8mm-Wireless-Mini-WIFI-Night-Vision-Smart-Home-Security-IP-Camera-Onvif-Monitor-p-1123595.html

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did you set it up on HA as a onvif camera? does it work well?

Mine is connected to my Synology surveillance station and then I connected that to home assistant, because I only have to maintain the one component then. But it is an onvif camera

It also has an rtsp stream at rtsp://admin:20160404@ipaddress:554/onvif