ANNKE 3K Lite Security Camera System Outdoor with AI Human/Vehicle Detection, 8CH H.265+ DVR and 8 x 1920TVL 2MP IP67 Home CCTV Cameras with Smart Dual Light, Color Night Vision, 1TB Hard Drive - E200

Absolutely would fully recommend. This is not a paid review or anything like that. Just a straight honest opinion after having them for a month.We had our back fence cut and our sons raptor 80 stolen, we did get it back, but we upped our security. We were in a little bit of a rush to get some cameras put up and I didn’t look through all their products, because I should have gotten their 16 channel one so I could add on additional cameras. I may still upgrade to that so I can have two additional cameras facing directly at the back door and front door.These cameras do have really good range from side to side and up and down to view a large area with just one.The night vision is wonderful and as long as there is nothing blocking the night vision light you will be able to see a good distance out. Also with night vision it doesn’t matter if you have outdoor porch lights on because it doesn’t alter it and you still see the same. Once it gets dark I’ll post a night vision picture up. One thing with the night vision is make sure nothing is hindering the cameras and if you have white walls outside the night vision light will reflect a lot off that, which you will be able to see in my pictures, look at the top row far left and the middle row center cameras, those two cameras are on the sides of our house facing the side wall ways. You can see well that area but as you can see the light does bounce off the white of the house. When you look at the other cameras you will see that it doesn’t do that. It doesn’t make a difference to us since our other cameras will pick people up if they walk through those areas. You can also set hat time the cameras go into and out of night vision mood.As far as the motion detection they go off all the time because of the trees moving or animals, this isn’t a big deal for us because we are just using these to be able to check on the house while we are gone and if something does happen we can go back and see it. If you download the app on the phone I highly recommend you turning off the notifications for motion detection because you will hear it 24/7.For the wifi connection. You do not need Internet to operate these cameras. However if you want to view them on the app from your phone you will need a internet cable from your internet router box snd plug it into the back of the security camera box. Without doing that you can’t use the all you view cameras. The wifi does not connect to the box that’s why you have to have a cord. The wifi only works from the box to the app on the phone.The cameras will continuously back up to the box 24/7. I do go in and manually clear out data to make room so I’m not sure what it does if you don’t do that. I’m sure there are others on here who have more detail on that.I did try to save a clip of data from the box but I didn’t have anything externally hooked up to it for it to back up on, so that’s something you will need if you need to save clips. HOWEVER, I got around this because I used the app and on the iPhones you can screen record I just did it that way and it’s much easier and saves directly to your phone and then you can save to iCloud if you want.The cables that come with it for the most part were long enough and I’m sure if we put multiple holes in our attic the cords would have been fine. However I did order a four pack of 100 for cables for the cameras on the far side of our house since we ran everything through the same hole in the attic and we needed that extra length because of that. The cables that do come with them are 60ft so they are pretty sufficient.The cameras were easy to install we just used a screw driver and tucked the cords up into the trim. I do recommend using electrical tape and wrapping up all the connection areas that are outside to help protect from weather and especially moisture. I’ll take some pictures of the cameras outside snd lost them on here as well once I get a chance.We have had these cameras for about a month now and we haven’t had any troubles at all. Our neighbor behind us has a really expensive big name security camera system and honestly this Annke system hands down beats what he has. These have better night vision, better range, storms don’t set them off left and right like our nieghbors do and their slightly clearer and have better picture quality.This is not a paid review or anything like that. I literally sat for hours comparing brands and prices and too a leap of faith with the Annke brand based off others reviews and the rating of this product and I’m so happy I did. Hopefully this helps others out when looking for cameras.

For my purposes, this unit is great! I installed a Q-See system 10 years ago. While it still worked, the images were terrible by today's standards. I needed a system that I could used the existing, installed BNC connectors and wiring.This system, though inexpensive, is a HUGE upgrade from where we were at. The resolution is so much better. Super easy to install. Up and running with 6 cams in about an hour of time spent switching out the old cams. See the comparison example in the photos.

I had a difficult time setting this up because I wanted to monitor it through my laptop, not a desktop monitor and there are no instructions for that. So I called the company directly and worked with an amazing customer service rep, Alejandro. He helped me get everything set up through my laptop and also enabled it on my phone as well through the app. Im so grateful for his help!!That aside, the cameras are great and I would recommend this to anyone looking into cameras.

These are excellent for the price. Overall I'm extremely satisfied.ProsVery good video quality.Very easy to install.ConsNo audioSoftware is a little funny to figure out but once you take some time to figure it out it's fine.I didn't realize I got the ones without audio, which is fine it makes sense why the proce is so good. So I'll be ordering one camera with audio so that I have audio at the front of my house which is good enough. Not a big deal at all.I would also recommend ordering the either the wite extension kit or just the longer wires in general. The 60 ft they give you works great for most locations in my experience but being that the kit includes so many cameras you'll find yourself putting them in placed you wouldn't have otherwise expected and you'll def want longer wires for them.All in all I'm very happy with my purchase, and I'll definitely continue to use these products.

Purchased to test while on sale, ready to return if not satisfactory. Had three days/nights and have cams on props during test. This is a keeper, i have three other systems, advertised by specs that should be superior to Annke brand, they are not. Bottom line this is a great unit. We live rural, woods on acreage, no light pollution,. Rain/humidity will decrease visibility as it should, but very very good coverage. Pretty much plug and play unit. Worth every cent IMO

I purchased this unit in 2021 for our new house and it has worked flawlessly up until a few weeks ago when we got an early spring thunderstorm and the lightning knocked out one of the (2) small plug in power supplies for the cameras (so basically only 4 of the 8 cameras were working). I did some poking around on the unit with all the connections and noticed that any camera plugged into that one PS would not work but when I moved it to the opposing PS everything worked fine. No cameras or the main unit has any issues. The item that failed was CS-1202000. I was happy to see that a replacement PS was only $9.50. I also saw my original Amazon order from 2021 and we paid $189 for this unit at the time on sale I am sure. For the money this thing has been great. We are able to go back and scan anything from the previous 14 days (or more) with no issues. I also should mention that all our cameras are under the eaves of our house and workshop. So no direct sun and no direct rain at any time. I'm not sure how long these would last in the south with our storms and scorching sun. Good Luck. This is a good unit.