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Review on πŸ“· Swann Home Security Camera System 8 Channel 8 Bullet Cams 4K DVR Indoor Outdoor Wired Surveillance CCTV Color Night Vision Motion Sensor Lights Alexa Google 2TB HDD SWDVK-855808WL by Scott Bradford

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Now I feel safer in my home.

When I first started looking around the market for a home video surveillance system, this camera wasn't on any of the top 10 lists. A colleague told me about it and said he liked it. I looked online and started looking at the base model to save money. After many hours of research, I realized that you can't buy a camera system on a budget. When I came to that conclusion, I grew up. I started watching YouTube videos with different camera qualities like 1080p light. This is a joke, don't buy it. That's less than 720p at 4fps. But I won't go into all of that. The 8-4k camera setting is perfect for my subject. The cameras have a much wider angle than I expected, so only two of them were needed in a real house. living room and kitchen. I finally put one in the pantry so my teen wouldn't eat all the junk food. In general, installation and configuration is quite simple. I recommend printing out the full 85-page system manual for tips and advice on choosing the location of each camera. I have two that I have to move a few inches due to perceived evening reflection and night vision blur. And 60 feet of cord was enough to run from the center of my house to the edges. I entered the wall, went to the attic and walked out. One mistake I made was routing the cables before attaching them to the camera. This created two problems. First, I was able to get to the cells, which were under awnings on the outside of the house, from a very short attic. Second: I routed 6 cables out of 8 in the wrong direction. Simple tip: connect the cables to the cameras, fish them out in the attic and use a pole with a hook on the end to find them more easily. A few other issues I had had nothing to do with the product itself. Just not knowing how to do it and not having adequate help was stressful. For a hub, it's about the size of a full-size Blu-ray player and a bit noisy. In everyday life it does not bother, but in a quiet room you can hear a hum. Program: Difficult at first. So many things to see and click and so many options for your unique situation. Again, I can't be bothered to read the full instruction manual before starting anything. And a few more things to say before I did. The application is good. I would like to make some more system adjustments to the app, but overall I like it. I can watch the live stream perfectly and watch the recordings when I need to. The app only plays recordings with lower video quality. And the most annoying thing for me is the possibility to see all 8 cameras at the same time on a 60 inch TV in 4k quality. It's almost better than going outside to see my garden. The photos are screenshots from the application on my phone. I am very happy with these basses and would definitely recommend them.

Pros
  • handy item
Cons
  • so far so good