Swann Home DVR Security Camera System with 1TB HDD, 4 Camera 8 Channel, 1080p Full HD Video, Indoor & Outdoor Wired CCTV, Colour Night Vision, Heat Motion Detection, Spotlights, Flashing Lights

I bought this to freplace an old wired Swann security system. Fortunately, I was able to use all the old cables and fitting the cameras was easy. There is a definite improvrment in picture quality both at night and during the day. There is no ptz connection but my ptz camera still works with the new system although I cannot steer the camera.

Quite a lot of work to set up and pull cables up into attic to attach the cameras to. So worth the work as the motion detection is fantastic and the pictures are clear. Works great with the app on your phone and you get the notifications. I would recommend this for your home or office.

After research bought this system as it was a established brand.Camera set up was easy. Running the wires to the hard drive was a bit of a mission and had to buy small cable clips that held the wires.Used a wireless adapter to connect the hard drive base unit to the home router. This was very complicated and needed lots of research and ultimately a YouTube video about the adapter to get it working. I connected a pc monitor to the hard drive to view the recording or live view. Smooth and clear.I bought camera mount/ wall brackets to put the cameras onto.The picture quality is very good. Clear and detailed. The cameras field of view is a bit narrow. Would have preferred it wider. Night vision is black and white normally. It becomes colour if you switch the camera light on.The biggest disappointment is the sound recording or rather the lack of. I had to contact swann customer support to know how to switch sound recording on.Once done I got....Nothing..just a wierd clicking sound. Utterly useless at recording sound.The app view is just ok, slow and glitchy. Much slower than when viewing it straight off monitor connected to the base unit.The app doesn't let you do much adjustments at all. You need to always make adjustments via the base unit menus.The menus are quite complicated and the instructions aren't much help. It took a while to work everything out and I still believe I could set it better if I knew how.Overall it is a good system if all you want is picture recording. If you want sound recording too then look elsewhere.It's been running for over 6 months and has been very reliable.

Good, this is 2nd time I bought Swann but it good and can check camera via mobile anywhere

Good bit of kit ,easy to install with great picture quality and night vision.i got this as we were getting kids throwing eggs and stones at our house .within a few days of the cameras been fitted ,we were able to give the images and videos to the police and all the offender's were caught 👍🏼

Just to update we couldn't add the 4th camera until Wednesday 13th sept and it wont work , tried everything going , swann ignoring messagesSo reached out to amazon who think that I'm just going to climb in the attick take all the wires out and camera down and send it backFor a replacement to then go through the process of popping it back again , what a absolute joke , for this reason check your camera especiallyIf your trying to add any of the rest on later. Big thumbs down not happyHad a swann camera set for over 8 years and it stopped working , we decided to replace the system completely so choose this one , ive not completely made up my mind yet wether it's worth it as we've had a couple of issues , one being the infrared at night, warning to others do not have the camera bouncing off gutters or windows as you will end up with a black picture, we needed to move ours previous had shields to stop this but these don't meaning any gutter or to much window white will make the picture black . Second of all the mention detectors keep switching on even when I switched them off it's annoying picks up everything so need to solve that one, however picture is better than last camera set and when you have positioned the cameras properly the night vision is good , I just stick to black and white at night , spotlights would just attract insects and stuff .we shall see how long this system last for . No other issues quick amd easy to set up .

These are very good, took a bit of setting up getting the cables round the house but now up and running they are a good deterrent and also have a motion sensor light that can be time set to start at a certain time. It has paid for it’s self already.

Easy to set up with help, we needed to buy additional cables for length of coverage and cable protectors. Image quality day and night is very good. Has SD and HD function. HD is obviously much better. However the light failed on all four cameras almost simultaneously after only a few months. They were in constant use including motion detection. But this was and remains very disappointing. Although this hasn’t impacted on the quality of the image for us feels frustrating as not expected when purchased. Plenty of settings to secure coverage and preventing neighbouring properties being inadvertently covered. Looks very neat when installed and the app use on mobile phones has been very effective and ‘touch wood’ has performed consistently. Will be looking to replace with more advanced cameras soon. But still effective as first time users.