SANNCE 8CH 4K POE CCTV System, 8MP Network Video Recorder PoE 8 Channel NVR with 3MP Outdoor Security IP Cameras and 1TB HDD Audio Recording, Metal Casing, P2P, Motion Alert and Screenshot

I was a bit reluctant at first especially from reading 1000s of reviews online but i finally did go for this. I thought at the time it was a good value for money and i also liked how easy is to setup the whole system. The cameras itself work great, there is a great picture and the whole software is very good designed. All the motion sensor technology is also impressive especially the fact that you can choose the area of the scene to be activated. Night vision is also good, though remember that it does not work for long distances but it does the job. The only down side is that you cannot switch off the infra red. The reason i am making this point is because a lot of people will experience this, one of my cameras that i placed outside the house covers the house entrance. Because it is mounted on the wall, almost half of the wall is shown in the frame which makes sense since i am pointing the camera at the house door. The problem is during the night when the night vision is switched on. Because almost half of the wall is in the frame, you can only see the wall during the night and nothing else. Everything else is covered by the wall contrast. Just bare this in mind.other than that, the installation is very easy and the overall quality you get is 100% value for money. It has a mobile app so you can view things remotely, it sends you notifications when motion sensors are activated, it is a very good gadget to have.

Received this today and spent probably 6 hours just playing with this on my desk and pointing cameras in various places and playing with settings. Right now the only thing that really bothers me is you will never see a number plate at night with these things if the cars lights are on front or back, other than that 1 detail which could be quite a big 1, it's excellent at everything else. (Upon reading a lot about cameras that are able to spot number plates it is evident you need a totally different type of camera for the job)The quality of the cameras feels good, there is plenty of movement in the brackets and once tightened up they are firm and secure. Some people would probably say they are flimsy while adjusting but I think once tightened up they should last well. As I already said they aren't ideal for number plates at night, but without a light dazzling the camera and the IR from the camera doing the job of illuminating you get really good coverage at night and with excellent detail. Day time viewing is much of the same, obviously the light isn't an issue. The IR of the camera cannot be turned on and off at will, it's purely automaticThe western digital hard drive that comes with this is purple grade for surveillance devices and has to be fitted to the recorder unit, it's a simple process, 4 screws either side of the box and the top comes off, then 2 sata plugs to attache and 4 screws to put into the base of the drive from under the recorder unit, then top back on. The box will format it automatically and begin using the drive.The interface of the box itself is OK....I wouldn't say user friendly, it took me a couple of hours of hashing my way around to get it all worked out, now I have I found a lot of functionality and find it good at everything it does. The alarm functions seem to be working well, I had it set to trigger on cars and people passing a window by my house which it did throughout the day. Playback can only be done on 1 channel at a time but is fairly easy to use.Remote viewing for me was a doddle, I literally plugged it into my router, made an account, added the device serial number to the account and that was it, the system shows up on everything I view it from. The android app is accessible from the play store under 'XMEYE' I didn't find this mentioned in the instructions anywhere but google helped me there.Final word I will share that I couldn't find much info on before, using these cameras over a network is easy and it works well, in my case anyway. I plugged a camera with a PoE injector into a secondary router, this router was linked to my primary router with around 15m of CAT5E cable, then the CCTV box was linked up with my primary router via the main Ethernet port and the camera actually came through, so there was 1 spare camera port on the CCTV box, 1 less cable to worry about. After working out how the cameras are setup on the CCTV box I found it actually happens within seconds of adding a camera to a network.

First the upside - PoE so simple to install and the cables are long enough for a UK sized house but it does require a lot of time (2 days) to set-up.The downsideThe software provided is just totally out of date; 2014 for a 2018 item.The QR codes that they say to use to get the right software and set up the system don't work (Android, Edge, Chrome, IE)The forum on the Sannce site is just a total set of broken links .I downloaded the latest software - took me over a week to find but I could never get the record on detection to work.I contacted Amazon Support but they could only propose that I e-mail Sannce for help - they have not replied to two e-mails.After 3 months the HDD (included) is no longer recognised so although I can see I cannot record.....UPDATEAfter posting a 1-star review the vendors (Security Direct) got back to me and sent me a replacement (the whole lot, including cameras) not just the disk drive; a very positive move IMHO.The new unit has a very different and improved interface, it's clear and easy to use e.g. The old interface uses buttons that show as "up" when they are on but European convention has this as the "off" position. The new interface has a colour changing square with green squares being "on".The QR codes now work and the downloaded software is functional on AndroidThe unit now can be set to record only when it detects an event.The Sannce website is still a disaster area but you don't need to go there so that's not an issue.Overall - sorted my problems, they have also been very attentive so - updated to 5 stars