🦉 Night Owl Indoor Security Microphone for Enhanced Surveillance Review

Great product! Works according to instructions. However, it took forever for the one I bought from. Make sure you order from someone else when ordering.

Please note that depending on the DVR model, you may need to edit the configurations to enable the microphone functions.

A unit arrived without a power supply. Get a replacement that doesn't work. I'm currently working with Nightowl tech support to hopefully get a third one that works. I will update if they call me back from their support and solve the problem.

I use it with just a few audio adapters and connect it to a speaker system (for use in an escape room). There's some static electricity, but I'm putting it down the way I've wired it up now. It picks up almost every sound in the environment, even when people are whispering in the other corner of the room.

I wrote this review so you don't make the same mistake I did. I want Night Owl to say they don't work with the most popular brands of video surveillance systems. We see the audio input on the Lorex NVR. I assumed everything would be fine, but don't be fooled! I plugged this thing in and then wondered why I wasn't getting any sound. The "Audio" option was greyed out and could not be activated. As a normal person, I read the manual at that moment and found that Lorex PoE camera systems only…