Review on 🔒 4K PoE NVR 8-Channel Security Camera System with 2TB HDD, 4K/5MP/4MP HD Video, 24/7 Surveillance, Expandable up to 12TB - REOLINK RLN8-410 by Flex Morgan

This thing is really amazing considering the technology you get for the price. Just 5 years ago it was advanced technology and now it is available at electronic novelty prices. As someone who remembers a time when 10MB hard drives were the state of the art, the fact that it comes with a 2TB hard drive is just mind-blowing. its own graphical user interface that runs surprisingly smoothly and is full of well thought-out details. It was good. The Bad: They flipped their own graphical user interface. It's very rough around the edges. I really thought the device would be more web based. The web interface is essentially non-functional. It's weird because the web interface on the cameras isn't really that terrible. Playing back events through the web interface sucks. In most cases, if it detects motion, it simply can't play the content it detects. Sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't. Strangely, it can stream live video normally. You need to set up cameras/channels through the local console. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this via the web interface. For cameras/channels, the camera tag/name is ignored in the UI and all channels are named CH01-08. Text input on the local console. stupid. Everything is done with the mouse. There is only one USB port on the back, so the keyboard's design doesn't match. The playback controls suck. The current position is shown in yellow on a white indicator. What the hell? Even in playback mode, there's no real visual indication of what's happening. Is the video paused or just nothing happening? Some frame/time references would be very helpful. The playback panel cannot be repositioned, which means it blocks all OSD text when the text is at the bottom of the camera frame. possible, albeit with some pretty sharp edges.