ANNKE 8CH Security CCTV Surveillance System 1080P Lite DVR with 1TB HDD and (8)?1080P HD Weatherproof Camera with 100ft Night Vision, Enable H.264+ to Record Longer

Anke is the camera CCTV hardwired system that no other system can compete with in my opinion. I've tried others over many years and I can't let go of the fact that once I got to know how this NVR interface works and easily got comfortable with it I think it is the least complicated of them all. I'm hooked. My favorite part of the display settings is the smart analysis. This actually shows you all of the visual clips on any camera any day with all the 30 second clips of activity for the day of cars or humans instead of searching for files in a directory like other DVRS. So cool. It visualy helps you zero in on the what you want to quickly view saving you time. Snipping a video clip is simple enough in the playback mode and copying it to a flash drive if needed for evidence like I had to. The cameras that come with this system are great through the day and night color or inferred vision is clear. I can say that Anke has cameras that are more superior that will work for this system up to 5K and 5MP but for your bang for the buck you will capture every event with a great picture and video footage with this package day and night. I feel very confident that my home and vehicles are protected with this surveillance system. Your vehicles are far too expensive not to have security cameras on them day and night. It's a good deal for 240.00 bucks to protect a vehicle. Set up is not hard at all but if you have an existing system like I did, rewire with the BNC cables supplied by Anke. From experience I found this out and the cameras did not preform well with older existing cables. If the run of the wire is way more than what you need then roll the excess and wire tie what remains, just use them. Over the years I had very few technical questions about anything and I always got answers from Anke technical support and a lot of times they gave me more than one solution and they always followed through until my problem was resolved. They were very courteous and always followed through until the problem was resolved. Mostly my fault for being anxious not reading instructions properly. The Anke vision app works great and if you have a camera that captures audio it also comes in crystal clear over your phone using the free Anke app. I feel very confident surrounding my home with this system and these eight cameras and you will also. Buy it!

Very good entry-level surveillance system. This Ennka 8-channel system replaces an 8-year-old, 4-channel, broken, and somewhat similar analog H.264 system. This Ennka is surprising, by a big margin with its way more advanced H.265Pro+, such as: Pros:1-Much better daytime color and image. 2- Camera controls and options are vastly superior. 3-iPhone Annke Vision app is fantastically better and smoother, when you receive a notice of events (movement, etc) very fast, tap on the notice link and it directly takes you to the event where you see the recording with all its information. 4-The sensitivity control is terrific and wide-ranging. My wife thinks that we have adjusted one camera, or so we think, to the point where we can exclude cats walking around but still trigger when a person appears. I like this very much. Cons: Night vision is not so good. Amazon description reads “ANNKE 3K Lite Wired Security Camera System with AI Human/Vehicle Detection, H.265+” which you later realize are not the cameras you get which have fewer features (ANNKE 3K Lite Wired Security Camera System with AI Human/Vehicle Detection, H.265+” but this refers to what the DVR is capable of handling, not the actual cameras you receive. Those in the know about CCTV would not imagine getting the 3K cameras with this very low price package. I wish I had known so that, for a little extra money, I would have purchased the 3K system with its added features: https://a.co/d/fAf5NxL. In truth, it was my lack of knowledge that failed me. But I do recommend this more basic system to anyone since it accomplishes a great deal of surveillance and the latest technology for a very good price. Annke stands behind its products with a very good 2-year warranty. Support is available at Annke.com, Annke.com Chat service, and many videos on YouTube. You do have to put a little effort into learning all the details of this wonderful and fascinating technology so cheaply available.

If you don't mind crawling thru attic spaces, this is great system. I'm giving it a 4 because of the difficulty of learning the app and stuff. But the quality of the product would be a 5. It took it little while to figure out the app on my phone. It started working right away and then I piddled around with it and lost a couple of cameras. The more I tried stuff, the worse it got, lol. Next thing you know, my hard drive is offline. So I unplugged it and did another start up and got it all back working. The picture clarity is great. Night time view is awesome. So for day 1, this product looks to be really good. We'll see how it does in the long run. Update...5 days later: I turned off notifications on my phone this weekend because I was getting about 80 notifications a night while I was away. I turned it back on and now it doesn't work. While I am constantly emailing Annke Support and they are responding, usually by the next day, it just leads to another problem. First notifications didn't work. Then I got that corrected. Now I turn it off and it won't work anymore. The cameras work fine and they do record to the hard drive 24 hours a day. But don't expect the phone app to respond great. I can use the app to rewind and watch what was recorded. But when motion detect notifications are sporadic and sometimes non existent, it's just frustrating. I've got more important things to do than play around with this stuff for hours every day, troubleshooting and sending emails. I'll update in a few days once I get a correct response. Update...2 weeks later: I had to do a system reboot on the hard drive to fix the motion detect notifications on my phone but everything works fine again. I think once you run thru the bugs and they show you how to fix them, this system is great. The only one issue that I'm yet to find a remedy for and I'll be contacting support about it is, the motion detect sensitivity. I have it set to the lowest possible setting on every camera but I still get 80 notifications during the night, because it catches every bug that flies in front of the camera. I can't set it any lower. Normally, a lower setting would not go off for bugs, cats or small creatures. But this thing is still very sensitive on the lowest setting. I'll post a few pics and you can see the motion detect catches bugs. They look like white French fries on the screen.

My new obsession!! The system has been up for less than 1 full day and I'm having far too much fun watching the cameras. I have been looking for a good camera system for a while now and after a few car break-ins near by and new construction causing traffic to come down my once quiet road, I finally decided on this system. I read the reviews and compared it to other systems. Honestly, I chose it for the price point and because it had 8 wired cameras, which is what I wanted and needed (WiFi isn't good enough to support wireless cameras). I was told by a highly tech savvy relative that for $250 it was gonna be a junk system and I would regret my purchase. Well, so far I am very happy with my purchase, thank you very much! Installation was meh, I did have an electrician friend come help us run the wires through the soffits, into the attic and down the interior wall, because who really wants to climb around in an old Florida attic, but the rest we were able to do easily. Mounting and aiming the cameras was fine, setting up the DVR wasn't an issue, installing and setting up the Android app only took a few minutes. Being that we're not super tech savvy, I'm glad it isn't too difficult to use. I'm still messing around with the settings and trying to figure out how not to get a notification for every bug that flies by at night, but I'll get there. The cameras have a very clear picture both day and night. Even at night I can see my boat on the boat lift clearly, which is about 100 feet away. During the day I can see down the road to the neighbors house where my kid likes to play. With the exception of that one camera, we strategically aimed the other cameras to protect our neighbors privacy. We try to be considerate like that. We have the DVR run to our living room TV so I can see everything on the big screen. I can zoom into the live image and pan around while it's zoomed in from both the DVR and phone app, which is cool. I can even snap a picture while it's zoomed in, which is even cooler. The image does get a bit grainy on the TV, but is clearer on the app. I think the cameras might have sound since there is a sound icon and volume adjustment, but I haven't played with that yet either. Not to talk through from inside, but to hear what's going on outside. Again, not sure, but will fiddle with it later. The app is easy to use and I can set up alerts through it. I have them turned off right now because at night it's super sensitive and alerts me for every bug that flies by. In Florida, living on the water, that's a big problem. I hope I can figure it out because I would like to receive alerts for animals (think coyotes, gators and snakes) and people, but not for bugs, wind and rain (cuz, Florida). I like that my husband and I can have the app on our phones and check-in anytime we want to. I can't help but wave or do a little dance in front of the cameras everytime I walk by them just for fun. I haven't played with the DVR settings too much yet, so I can't say how easy or difficult it is to navigate. Overall, for a $250 system, I am very happy with my purchase! It gives me peace of mind that my property is protected, I can see the kids outside playing and running around even when I can't be out there to watch them and if the system only lasts a year or two, I'm not really gonna be mad at it.

This security camera has been working for two years in perfect condition and without any problems, I plan to update the system with modern equipment (same brand) I highly recommend it