Top positive review
5.0 out of 5 starsWorks as I hoped!
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2023
I bought the system to replace an older 1080 P camera system. I wanted to upgrade to 4K cameras but also needed more features like FTP in order to back up my recordings to my Nas storage in case something happened to the unit or the drives failed.
I currently have three cameras recording on motion detection, but the ability to schedule people, cars, animal motions specifically between each individual camera is extremely nice. I have one more camera to hook up, which I have plugged in and tested. It does have PTZ, and zoom which was easy to maneuver with the app along with setting the guard mode and auto follow options. Using that to capture license plates on cars in front of my house on the street so it’s nice that this can quickly identify a vehicle and follow that based on your configurations.
Notifications were another issue with my old system, but this one has worked flawlessly since day one for me. I have it push notifications during specific times of the day customized between my different cameras. So if it detects a person in my driveway or backyard, I get a notification immediately, or within five seconds typically.
The ability to have this copy recorded video files to my network storage was a huge benefit since this NVR is located in my garage and if it were stolen, I would know I still have those recordings saved on a secondary storage device. But that is not too much of a concern because of the push notifications showing me which camera detected people. And if I see one come from my inside garage camera, I know there’s a problem. (:
It performs as expected when I am outside of my home Internet. Using data or someone else’s wireless allows me to quickly check the cameras and view live feed along with reviewing camera footage previously recorded.
Based on what I need for options and regarding quality, I’m very happy with this product and the cameras I’ve purchased for this NVR. Their PTZ camera is amazing with optical zoom. I can read license plates from my neighbors cars across the street which are around 120 feet away so I was very happy about that.
Night vision works pretty well. The cameras do work fairly well without the LED lights turned on and lower light areas that have street lights around etc. but when they are turned on, they are fairly piercing to look at or see from the corner of your eyes. However it does allow a very clear night image in color at that point and you do have the ability to adjust the brightness of the LEDs on each camera independently. I did buy additional IR night vision cameras for areas that I thought would be better used so that my neighbors weren’t annoyed with the brightness. Those do work as expected for black and white night vision. Nothing special but not lacking compared to other brands of used. The PTZ camera I got however does have multiple infrared and LED light options which is very nice so you are able to pick one or the other or both. That one has very good infrared lighting which makes the black and white pictures even clear.
Firmware updates are easy and no issues thus far with upgrading. Great system, easy to use, very reliable after over a year using at this point.
