PoE NVR 4K 8 Channel, 8MP CCTV Security Camera System Network Video Recorder Supports 8MP 5MP 3MP 1080P HD PoE Surveillance IP Camera, Human Detection, NO HDD

I was a bit reluctant at first especially from reading 1000s of reviews online but i finally did go for this. I thought at the time it was a good value for money and i also liked how easy is to setup the whole system. The cameras itself work great, there is a great picture and the whole software is very good designed. All the motion sensor technology is also impressive especially the fact that you can choose the area of the scene to be activated. Night vision is also good, though remember that it does not work for long distances but it does the job. The only down side is that you cannot switch off the infra red. The reason i am making this point is because a lot of people will experience this, one of my cameras that i placed outside the house covers the house entrance. Because it is mounted on the wall, almost half of the wall is shown in the frame which makes sense since i am pointing the camera at the house door. The problem is during the night when the night vision is switched on. Because almost half of the wall is in the frame, you can only see the wall during the night and nothing else. Everything else is covered by the wall contrast. Just bare this in mind. other than that, the installation is very easy and the overall quality you get is 100% value for money. It has a mobile app so you can view things remotely, it sends you notifications when motion sensors are activated, it is a very good gadget to have.

No issues at all. Using with a Sannce NVR and quality is great. Metal housing and solid feel. Night led's are great and zero issues. 4k quality and a good sensor.

Received this today and spent probably 6 hours just playing with this on my desk and pointing cameras in various places and playing with settings. Right now the only thing that really bothers me is you will never see a number plate at night with these things if the cars lights are on front or back, other than that 1 detail which could be quite a big 1, it's excellent at everything else. (Upon reading a lot about cameras that are able to spot number plates it is evident you need a totally different type of camera for the job) The quality of the cameras feels good, there is plenty of movement in the brackets and once tightened up they are firm and secure. Some people would probably say they are flimsy while adjusting but I think once tightened up they should last well. As I already said they aren't ideal for number plates at night, but without a light dazzling the camera and the IR from the camera doing the job of illuminating you get really good coverage at night and with excellent detail. Day time viewing is much of the same, obviously the light isn't an issue. The IR of the camera cannot be turned on and off at will, it's purely automatic The western digital hard drive that comes with this is purple grade for surveillance devices and has to be fitted to the recorder unit, it's a simple process, 4 screws either side of the box and the top comes off, then 2 sata plugs to attache and 4 screws to put into the base of the drive from under the recorder unit, then top back on. The box will format it automatically and begin using the drive. The interface of the box itself is OK....I wouldn't say user friendly, it took me a couple of hours of hashing my way around to get it all worked out, now I have I found a lot of functionality and find it good at everything it does. The alarm functions seem to be working well, I had it set to trigger on cars and people passing a window by my house which it did throughout the day. Playback can only be done on 1 channel at a time but is fairly easy to use. Remote viewing for me was a doddle, I literally plugged it into my router, made an account, added the device serial number to the account and that was it, the system shows up on everything I view it from. The android app is accessible from the play store under 'XMEYE' I didn't find this mentioned in the instructions anywhere but google helped me there. Final word I will share that I couldn't find much info on before, using these cameras over a network is easy and it works well, in my case anyway. I plugged a camera with a PoE injector into a secondary router, this router was linked to my primary router with around 15m of CAT5E cable, then the CCTV box was linked up with my primary router via the main Ethernet port and the camera actually came through, so there was 1 spare camera port on the CCTV box, 1 less cable to worry about. After working out how the cameras are setup on the CCTV box I found it actually happens within seconds of adding a camera to a network.

The user interface is poor and not very intuitive, the phone app is worse! As the ‘Chinglish’ app is lanched you get a full page advert, then have to click on the tiny strip at the top to ‘continue to app’ There is no sound, if you want sound you have to use an external mic! With the four cameras viewed on a monitor plugged into the base unit, reproduction is poor and extremely grainy. Onece you click on a section of the screen to view a single camera, the definition is perfect. It's really anoying that you can't leave all four cameras on view and have any sort of decent quality. It really is an awful view with loads of noise with four cameras showing. The mobile app is useless. Setup is not straight forward and HD or SD make no difference to the viewed quality. I left the mobile app screen and discovered that is continues to run in the background eating away at my mobile data. I had a notification from my service provider telling me I had no data left, only to view the statistics on the phone and find that the app had chewed all my allowance. The remote viewing is web based so 'phones home' all the time, even when not being used. When you use the app to view anything there is at least a 15 second wait with ‘buffering, please later’ They couldn’t even get someone with a better understanding of English to help! Reviewing recordings are quite straightforward but difficult to do from a mobile with many connection errors or log in errors. I have been unable to use another app with this system, so am stuck with it. I'm disappointed and can not recommend this. *UPDATE* 19/12/21 I have had enough and ordered another system from Reolink. The Sannce system is just dreadful, it really is!