Lorex LNR6826K 4K Ultra HD Wired Network Security System with Color Night Vision, Black

I just replaced a Q-See HD camera system with this one. The image quality is noticeably better; a lot sharper with twice the linear resolution (4x better area-wise). Color at night works pretty well too. There is a street light over my driveway, and it is bright enough to provide color video all night long. With my old Q-See system it turned black and white with IR illumination as soon as the sun went down. Installation wasn't really easy. Running the wires is the main task, and getting them out of sight under the eaves takes a lot of ladder climbing. My old system used BNC cables, while this system uses standard network cable. That means I had to replace all the old cables. At least I was able to use some of the same cable mounts, and was able to tape the new cables to the old ones and pull them through the attic where necessary. Also, fortunately two of the mounting holes on each camera lined up with the holes from the Q-See cameras, so I didn't have to drill new ones. But it still took a whole afternoon, working alone. With help it would have gone faster. Flir Cloud software works well. There are a few things you can do with a monitor connected directly to the NVR that you can't do over the LAN on a PC, but once you get the system configured the Cloud SW should be enough. Since my NVR is in the attic, it is essential that I can control it over the LAN from my desk. My one disappointment is that you cannot turn off the IR lights on the cameras, but still leave it in IR mode. I have installed separate IR lights over my back porch and don't need the camera to turn on its lights, but there are only two modes: Color and IR. You can force the camera into Color mode all night long, but then it isn't sensitive to the IR light and in a fully dark back yard you can't see much at all in color mode. IR lights in the camera mean insects are attracted, and insects mean spiders, and spiders mean spider webs often right in front of the camera. So was it worth the cost to upgrade from my old HD system? I'm not sure. My wife doesn't think so. But if I didn't already have a system, this would be a good choice. One other comment: Lorex has a very similar system at a similar price , but the cameras have two-way sound and motion-sensitive spotlights. These are interesting features and I was tempted to get that model. The main reason I opted for this one instead is the field of view. The FOV on the other system is 128 degrees, while on this one it is 88 degrees. While there are advantages to a larger field of view, the downside is that you are viewing a larger area with the same number of pixels, so the clarity of the image suffers.. 88 to 128 degrees is almost a 50% increase, and so an almost 50% decrease in clarity. 88 degrees covers everything I need and there is even overlap from adjacent cameras, so I would rather have the clearest image I can get.

This was an add on to my Arlo Pro 2 system which I run 3 of their cameras, so I can now give an experienced review of this system compared to my Arlo. Things I really like about the Lorex system, the power over ethernet (POE) is super nice! I love the simplicity of my Arlo cameras but I have to either recharge the battery or find a place to extend a plug to it (which is required if you want the 5 second before motion recording). The hassle with the POE is you will have to run and find ways to hide the long cable, and they can be annoying right out of packaging by wanting to coil back up and tangle, but once that is done you never have to mess with it again. Another pro for Lorex over Arlo is price! The new Arlo 4k camera will cost you $300 just for one camera and that's not including the SmartHub which is required, so add another $100 to that. Lorex being right around $600, including 6 4k cameras is really good! Lorex also can record 24/7 with full playback (free), which cost a subscription with Arlo. The only Con I have with the Lorex system so far is it is does not have the most user friendly software. Although I am not an expert with computers, I am fairly capable with them. The Arlo software is a lot more user friendly, even my kids can use it. So far I'm the only one in the household that has figured out enough of the Lorex software to do get it to do basically what I want. It really takes some playing around with to figure out how to get around and manage the Lorex program, but it does have some pretty neat aspects to it such as 12hr review where it plays all movement detected in that 12 hour period and time stamps anything that moved. But at the same time, I can only get that to work on one of the 4 cameras that I installed (again, not user friendly). I have reached out to customer support because I couldn't figure out how to get the snapshot feature to work and so far I have been pleased with them. I emailed them and they replied back within one day, I then called and got to talk to someone in less than 2 minutes and they fixed what I needed. Summary: Lorex provides quality 4K cameras at a very competitive price. Software could improved to be more user friendly but they seem to have a good customer support if you have issues. They also provide the ability to do things free, that their competition charges a monthly fee for. It is a serious video security system that runs 24/7 so you can always see what is going on wherever you place the cameras.

The seller was a quick shipper! The system was installed professionally and it works amazingly well. The 4K is sharp! The night vision is in color or at least as close to color as you can get at night. I followed the band wagon from reading reviews on here and ordered the western digital purple 6TB hard drive as an upgrade. It’s easy to take out the 2TB and replace it. The reason I did this is so I can run 24/7 for over a week before it overwrites.

Excellent 4K six camera system with zoom features plus powered over the Ethernet (CAT5/6) cable. The color night vision and motion detection features on a 2TB hard drive have worked wonderfully. I bought it on sale for under $700.00. Excellent value/quality.

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