SWANN Master 4K 8 Channel Home Security Camera System, 2TB NVR, 4 PoE IP Cameras Outdoor, 8MP Wired Surveillance CCTV, Heat Motion Vehicle Detection, LED Light, 24/7 Recording Security Camera, 876804

I would give this Swann product 6 stars if I could. This is a wired system. The 4k video is great. The movement or heat detection is excellent. The sensors pick up objects even before they are even in the camera viewing range. Wired is the most reliable communication for security. The WiFi systems always have that time delay sending the info to your phone app, There is still a time delay on this system because the nvr still has to send the info to your phone app. but it is only a few seconds. Much faster than WiFi. Make sure to get the wired system that has CAT 5 or CAT 6 or Cat 8 PoE cables, not the cable that has the power on a separate cable, the old style , Better video and less clutter on your house than the solar panels and dealing with charging batteries. So far I have had excellent help on the phone with a tech. Helped me with two problems so far. Installing the app on the nvr was a bit of a job and could have been better. The phone app is easy to use with a little practice, very similar to Arlo, and Reolink, but better. My system is the 8580 NVR, and the swnho875wlb 4k cameras. The nvr comes with a wired mouse and the password has to be entered one letter at a time and does not remember it ever, and the mouse is old style, and the nvr program screen could be larger. But this is the hard drive NVR program. Not bad, but once the App was on my phone you almost don't need the nvr, the phone app does most all of the controlling of the cameras and playbacks. Although you can not delete single recorded videos on the app. You can only delete saved recording on the nvr by going to Settings and FORMAT (erase) the entire nvr videos, so be sure to save, and down load the ones you want to keep. Of course the hard drive is 2 Terra bites which is huge and you can go a long time with out needing to do this and the nvr will record over old recordings by default. It is great to have a hard drive and not pay the security company a monthly fee for storage. Although the company's like Arlo wire less are easer to use to store your videos than the nvr for your home, which takes up space and uses electricity. The quality is great on these cameras and the heat detection, night vision and 4K quality. I would buy this Swann brand again. I tried two other brands and sent them back, I will keep this one. This is only my 3rd day and so far it's a keeper. Update 4 days of use. Great system and cameras. I am very impressed with the video quality of the cameras. I can not say enough about the early detection and recording from an alarm. Because the NVR is recording 24-7 The camera is recording before I walk out my front door. So there is not that delay that WiFi has that is not quick to record a moving object. This system catches what needs to be recorded the best.

I buy it for the security of the house and it works perfectly good night vision.

Do not buy. Very cheap system poor image quality. It literally lock me out and Swann could not fix it after HOURS OF PHONE CALLS WITH NON ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLE!!! We are trying to get our money back!!!

Working great

I FINALLY got rid of my crappy battery-powered Arlo cams and bought this 4-cam POE system. I LOVE how responsive it is - within one second I am viewing live 4K video. Cameras seem well built, the NVR is fine as well. My only complaint would be the startup process - there is no obvious link to the manual, so you're kind of on your own. Additionally, the console is a lot to take in. I appreciate the many configurable options, but it's quite complicated. I get a lot of false positives, like tree branches, and even shadows of tree branches. I kinda gave up trying to tweak it out, and instead just record 24/7. It still alerts, so I can search events, but I can't have the constant alarms popping up on my phone. This is an entry level system, and doesn't have all the AI stuff you hear about. I'm not overly disappointed, I'm happy to be able to quickly call up my cameras, but it's not super useful overall. I also wish the cameras were a little wider-angle. Tsk. I'd buy again, but next time I will look for more AI features to help with the false alarms.

Fast delivery and quality is very good

Great product

One star off for not being able to turn off the night vision One star off for no owner's manual One star off for irrelevant tutorial videos One star off for software that is not compatible with the current windows operating system. I am unable to turn off the night vision on the cameras. There is no owner’s manual, and the "quick start" guides are useless they do not have any step-by-step instructions. I tried to use the Swann tutorial videos however they are for either outdated systems or for systems of a different system models and do not apply to my new system. If you are going to rely on video tutorials, then you need to keep them current for each and every model of system. Swann does not. As far as video clips, I save them to a thumb drive in mp4 format however my windows operating system which is the current operating system for windows does not recognize the video and or audio formats.

Work as shoul be. Easy setup, video quality very good recommand

Not overly impressed with the way this was shipped. The box was completely empty of packing material except for a thin piece of paper, not sure what that was supposed to do. If I'm spending over $500 on something I expect the packing to be a little better. The cameras worked anyway, so you get 3 stars. Do better next time.

Swan’s tech-support was not helpful at all I’m not tech savvy and I knew more than the person I spoke to over the phone They don’t have a toll-free number It was a very expensive 45 minute call I just returned the system and bought a better one that was cheaper