ANNKE H500 5MP PoE Security Camera System w/ 6MP 8 Channel NVR, 8 X 5MP Turret IP Cams, Support RTSP, 24-7 Hour Audio Recording, 100 FT EXIR 2.0 Night Vision, IP67 Weatherproof, Built-in 2TB HDD

I have had this system for about a year now and no complaints it is still crisp clean clear, the night vision is decent, and sound is nice. the app works decent at times it lags to connect but the motion sensors work great they are even alittle to sensitive but you can pick sections it sees motion or turn off other spots. I am trying to see if i can add a speaker for 2 way sound but no luck so far. But yes i would recomend these to someone and would buy them again.

Realy nice price for a quality system especially for night time vision. The reason i'm giving this 4 stars is that the camera's housing is plastic which should have been metal to compliment the camera itself which is metal alone. Other than that it's a really nice system; for motion, night time clarity and quality overall.

This was a great DIY project. Easy to install and works great. Only option missing is I have not figured out how to backup to a cloud service.

I'm going to give this device an average grade at the moment. There are many great features with it and the picture is good in both day and night. It takes some effort to get use to the software, but once you do, you can do the basic setup functions fairly well. As you get use to the software, you will have questions on some various functions that are hard if not impossible to find an answer to. The Annke Support FAQ page generally will guide you, but the lack of interaction with a live being is frustrating. I sent a question in and have yet to get a response.For those who set this up to get email alerts when motion is detected, be prepared to get approx 1000+ alerts in a given day. The emails include three snapshots of what the camera is seeing. Your results may vary depending on where you live as the software detects insects flying and poof, emails galore. Yes, I have set the sensitivity to its lowest setting, which is ridiculously high. The lowest you can set it to is 20. I have also set up the motion grid to reduce its motion alerts, that had a good result in that it reduced 2000 emails in a day to 1000 ish in a day. This alert feature is basically useless at this level of emails. Maybe they will work on the software to reduce the sensitivity of the motion. It will even pick up a moving tree blowing in the wind at a great distant. It just needs to be tweaked more to be useful to the user.Now for the most serious issue I am having with this unit. I have set up the recording of video to only record when motion is detected. (It is much better at only recording motion when larger objects are present, it doesn't record every fly that cruises by, but it still records a lot of useless movement) My biggest concern is that 5 times now the recording stops. I go into the software to look at the HDD and it is in "Abnormal" status. I can't find an answer to why this is happening. I did notice that many people in the Help pages have had Hard Drive issues and it seems that I am no exception. So, Because of this, I give this device a fail. What good is it if you cant record an event if one should occur. It is still possible that I have a setting that is not correct, but I have looked everywhere and all setting seem like they are correct.Until they come up with a more reliable hard drive system, I feel I have wasted my time and money. I am sure that I will spend more time working this issue that I don't want to spend time doing, but what choice do I have at this point? Spend a day removing the hardware to send it back?

The night vision is great, but there must be a outside light on that shines in the camera angle for the picture to be in color. The picture quality is good until the picture is zoomed in, then it becomes grainy with the digital zoom, but overall is okay.

Ive had zero customer support and cannot get this system to stream live feed. Had a tech come and look at it and he said there's nothing he could do. He couldn't figure it out either.

Whish it had two conversation

Great to use with your phone or straight on the monitor. Nearly impossible to use with alexa. Need to be a experienced professional to get it done? Yes. Would recommend except for the alexa/fire stick part. Would be great to be able to see the cams anywhere in the house