Anpviz 4MP PoE IP Dome Camera with Microphone/Audio, IP Security Camera Outdoor Indoor, 98ft Night Vision, IP66 Waterproof, 2.8mm Wide Angle Lens, 24/7 Recording, Not PTZ, NDAA Complaint (U Series)

Hooked it up , configured in Scrypted and piped it into Homekit and onto my iPhone. Easy peasy. Good quality picture day or night, POE and the price is right!

I'm typically not a 5-star kind of reviewer, but I have to say this was a good purchase, at least so far. No trouble getting it going on the network, got it installed without ruining anything, and it's unobtrusive enough that I don't think it's going to get noticed and vandalized too terribly quickly. Biggest problem was predicting the angle-- was tough to reach the spot to mount it and had to work left handed so there wasn't much opportunity for trial and error. I got it reasonably right.

I got the Anpvis 2.8mm 3MP Dome camera for its wide-angle and to monitor an entryway as part of an integrated security system using ONVIF cameras and a 1080P NVR. THe Anpvis was connected via a 1G wired Ethernet connection to the system NVR. The camera was easy to install on the network with the Anpvis supplied software, IPSearchtools, downloaded from their website and installed on a Windows 10 PC. The software found the camera on the network and assigned an IP address within the network so that it could be found by the NVR. From there and accessing the camera's configuration page directly by entering the IP address in a browser, I was able to configure the cameras for 1080p. I was impressed with the amount of configuration control provided by the camera's configuration menus. Now using the ONVIF features, the NVR immediately found the camera and I was able to install it as 1 of 8 cameras on the security system. But after 1 week of continuous use, the camera failed. Read on for my impressions. The physical installation was good. The dome is removed and the base is attached and then the camera is positioned. The dome attaches using captured Allen screws. Also, the Ethernet dongle has blinking activity light for good feedback that the network is connected. I was happy with the wide-angle that gave me reasonable coverage of the entry. I was a bit disappointed in the daytime video fidelity but after all, I'm downgrading the camera to 1080P so I cannot complain too much. The night video however in IR mod was excellent. I have attached pictures of both the daytime and night views from the camera. UPDATE: After 1 week of use, where it was working fine, the date and time would not set and the audio stopped working. Along with that, the camera's video erratically updated the image taking several seconds sometimes and became very sluggish to control via its own IP webpage. I tried resetting, resetting to factory defaults, and powering down and up all with no success. It not worth the time to invest further so I returned the camera. Conclusion: At first I was very happy with the professional quality of the camera's configuration menu and ease of installation and how quickly I was up and running on a 1080P NVR but after 1 week the camera went bad. I'll give it 4 stars assuming I had a rare failure and it would be replaced if I asked but I'm going to go with a different brand as I've lost trust in the AnpViz.

Quality Camera with GREAT ceiling mount. Very easy to install. Set up was easy. Picture quality is very good and motion sensing works good. Very happy with my purchase. I have been using it for a couple weeks. No problems.

So I have purchased 6 of these cameras over the past several years. The first few were the IPC-D230W, which I believe was replaced by the current model the IPC-D240W-S. I love the level of configuration, I love that ONVIF and RTSP work without the trauma that you get from some other cameras, and I Iove that you can use a modern browser (or their configuration software - a little clunky) to configure them. The picture quality is good, and they look good at night. The original ones have been running perfectly for years. I have several of the newer models that went up painlessly. Here is where I have knocked 2 stars off. About a month ago, one of the newer ones stopped working, which is 4 months after it was installed. It is on a remote pole on my property, and I have had issues with bugs or frogs out there before, so I figured that was the case. It is not a super important position, so I neglected to play with it for a while. Then last week (5 and a half months after install) , another one stopped working - my front door. This is more important, so I tackled it this weekend. I broke out my trusty Fluke meter and tested the cable, all good, I tested the PoE,, all good, I checked the connectors, all clean and fine. So I took the camera in and plugged it directly into my test PoE switch - dead. I tried it with an exterior power supply, still dead. No response. So I figured I would go pull the one on the pole and see what was up with that one. No frogs or bugs - ran all the same tests, same result. So now, within 6 months of install, I have 2 dead cameras. All my other 14 cameras on my network, both of the same brand (I have only buying Anpviz for the last 3 years because I liked them so much) and different brands are working just fine. I can find no reason on my end that would cause them to fail. I had one new in a box that I was planning on putting up somewhere new and had not gotten around to it, so I swapped that into my front door position and it is working fine...and very fast to configure and get running. So now I need to try to figure out how to contact the manufacturer and see if they can help me. I really like these cameras, I just hope that I can figure out what the issue is - did I just get a bad batch? The two that failed were purchased very close in time to each other. I don't know. I will update this as I learn more information.

I needed additional cameras for my WD ReadyView 8 camera system purchased in 2019 but didn't want to pay the outrageous price they're charging for them now especially considering how non-existent WD ReadyView documentation and support is. I took a chance that these ONVIF-capable cameras would work with the ReadyView ONVIF-compatible system and they work perfectly. They actually conform to the ONVIF standard and are more feature rich than the cameras that came with the ReadyView system. The picture clarify is fantastic, better than ReadyView, the night vision is comparable to ReadyView cameras, and the price is significantly lower. I added them to weekly Nessus vulnerability scans and they were not flagged for anything worrisome, especially if you're properly securing/isolating your camera network. I'm already planning to buy a couple more.