Anpviz 4MP PoE IP Turret Camera with Microphone/Audio, IP Security Camera Outdoor Indoor, Motion Detection, Waterproof IP66, 108° Wide Angle 2.8mm Lens, 24/7 Recording, NDAA Compliant (U Series)

NIGHT VISION ISSUE RESOLVED: See my note (*) at bottom of this review for comment on night light IR somehow getting disabled, and how to re-enable it.Review starts here: Although it doesn't say anywhere that these are ONVIF compliant, they certainly are. My Xeoma installation found them right away when just giving the camera's IP address.Very impressed with the quality of these, and love that you don't have to take the camera itself apart to mount it. It's self contained in a ball with cord attached, and the two-part mounting base simply screws to the wall, ceiling, or whatever. Loosening one screw allows to you to swivel to any position you like. A twist-off trim ring is all that needs to be removed for access to the mounting screws. Firmware is full-featured, and shares a similar interface with many other cameras I've used.Operation with standard 48V POE is a no-brainer.Will be buying more of these. BTW I've reduced the main stream resolution on some of these (in the menus) to 3MP to save disk space, and they are plenty sharp for my use, even with a wide-angle room view. Your mileage of course will vary, so just sayin'.*NOTE: A couple of these (but nowhere near all) cameras stopped working in IR mode. Turns out a camera setting somehow got changed, perhaps by the software I am using (Xeoma). The Camera/Image/Light Mode setting for night light got changed to Pure White Light (which this camera does NOT have) from either Pure Infrared Light (or Smart Dual Light, which is the same as Pure Infrared Light, because the camera doesn't do Pure White). Changing the setting back to Pure Infrared and saving the setting fixed the problem. Very odd. I am contacting the software company to see if their software had anything to do with it, but the cameras in question are now working fine.I'll also add here that by now (May 2024) I've bought several dozen of these cameras and not had an issue with any of them, except for the IR problem mentioned above. Per the manufacturer, I've applied a recent software update to the cameras (extremely simple to do, and it leave all previous settings in-place), which has only helped. BTW a camera's configuration can be downloaded as an XML file and used configure additional cameras, a huge plus.Update Sept. 2024: Not a single one of these has failed on me, and I've installed over 50 of them.

I've purchased several ANPVIZ PoE cameras over the past few years, and they consistently perform reliably and are easy to install, configure, and customize. Technical support and post-sales support has proven to be a good experience (one of the devices I purchased was previously owned and didn't seem to have been tested before being resold).This PoE Turret Camera has a really clear picture that streams reliably over multiple protocols. Primary and secondary streams are supported and the streams are playable via the app, a web interface, through NVR/DVR, cloud-based media such as YouTube, and network storage such as a NAS or NFS share, or dedicated security applications such as ZoneMinder or iSpy. Streaming/Broadcast mixers such as OBS connect quickly without needing significant configuration.The ANPVIZ web configuration as well as the app-based configuration are really ready to use and surprisingly robust in the customizations and absolutely feature set.The only issue I encountered was probably a QA/QC test artifact and was easy to resolve; The instructions indicate that the unit will obtain an IP address automatically via DHCP. All of the units I have purchased in the past did this as anticipated until this unit, which had a static IP address assigned. The discover/configuration app still found the camera and reported it's IP address - I just added an additional IP address to my computer on that same subnet and was able to connect to the camera and change the setting back to DHCP.Please see the video for this review for the walk-through of camera discovery and configuration for this particular situation.ANPVIZ PoE camera setup including troubleshooting DHCP setting on camera https://www.amazon.com/vdp/02052684a9d245229d716a8487b12884Unboxing of ANPVIZ 4MP PoE Turret IP Camera https://www.amazon.com/vdp/00c7f7bcc8bf480484b10183972d86f3

Worked while on my desk and during setup. Installed camera at location. Attempted to access camera and could connect to camera fine but video was frozen, no matter what I did. Removed camera and installed a different camera and it worked perfectly. Reinstalled this one and tried again. Video frozen. Contacted manufacturer customer support. Not able to help get it working. Suggested returning for a replacement.Appears to be almost exactly like other "inexpensive" POE IP cameras on Amazon. I bought two POE IP camera at the same time, different manufacturers. The look and feel of the user interface is almost identical on both of them. The buttons on the main page are in slightly different locations but the sub menus are exactly the same. The other camera I purchased at the same time was even less expensive than this one and it has items available in the menus that this camera doesn't. Some of them are significant and very nice to have. I won't go into a lot of detail here but I can't recommend this camera at all.One thing I did notice when it was working on my desk during setup was it was dropping frame after frame. I changed the resolution to 720P and dropped the frame rate to 10 fps and it STILL dropped frames. This was on a 1 foot network jumper going into a POE switch connected to my router with less than a foot of cat5.It seemed to work better at 15 fps and 1080P resolution. Once I installed it in it's location (connected by about 25ft of cat5 to the same switch) it would boot up fine. Once the video finally started coming through, it was frozen (time stamp not advancing). After a reboot still no video. Brought back inside and put back on the same cable I used for the initial configuration, through the switch. Booted up and video still frozen. It seems to take an initial image and then freezes. I contacted the manufacturer and had to get tech support through email. Not able to help me. Returned camera for a refund.