Thanks. My friend does have vpn/ssh capabilities, however, he is looking for something that he/family could connect from work or their homes. I do not believe they could use vpn/ssh from work. I do see how this can be utilized by his laptop.
I was playing around with an Axis encoder which support https, however, the unit (7401) only supports 1 camera. He would need 2 units, plus some solution to capture the video. A synology nas has security software built-in (which he has as well), however, I could not get it to work reliably so I would prefer not to use the synology surv software.