Finally, an inexpesive system, that does not require the internet, or a cell phone app to operate. You can simply power up the system, and everything starts working by itself. You don't even need a hard drive, if you don't want one.
I have a camera outdoors. The wireless reaches 50ft, through two walls, with no problem.
You can turn off the white lights, and/or the IR lights, and only use the low light feature. The low light visibility is very, very good. At 6AM, or 9PM, in the East Texas summer, when there is just barely any light to see where to walk, the image on the monitor from the camera looks like the light of a cloudy day.
I use this to monitor some goats. The pan/tilt has preset positions, so you don't have to manually move around to see things, and it will return to the exact position that you like. If I want to pan to the left, and see if a gate is closed, and can just pan to position #1. When I'm finished, and an pan back to position #2, and it's at my default location, to oversee everything. If the dog is barking, I can pan to position #3, to the right, and then return to #2.
I installed my own harddrive, and even used an old 160GB SATA drive, and it worked without any trouble. It will hold up to 6TB, according to the manual.
The motion dectection only works about 35 feet away from where the camera is mounted, as stated in the instructions. You can see much farther than that, like several hundred feet, but I guess the software can only detect what is close to the camera.
The chainlink fence, and cattle panels create a grid effect, so the motion detection struggles to see through the fencing reliably. Sometimes it detects motion through the fence, and sometimes not.
I have not yet used the cell phone app, and the system has not been connected to the internet, so I'm not sure how well that works. It has a little, red warning sign that pops up at the lower, left corner, when there is something the system is trying to tell me. You can set the system to warn in case it identifies certain things, or loses connection. It will say 'human detected', or something. You can see the time of the warning, and review the recording. It's pretty cool.
When you search through the recordings, you can select to only see the motion detected events. When you play, it will jump to the next motion event automatically, which is very convenient.
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