REOLINK 12MP PoE Safety Digicam System, 8pcs H.265 12MP Safety Cameras Wired, Particular person Automobile Pet Detection, Two-Method Discuss, Spotlights Shade Evening Imaginative and prescient, 16CH NVR with 4TB HDD, RLK16-1200D8-A

Built to last!
Not only is this camera great picture and sound, which is what you want. It is built so well mine withstood a lightning strike. My cameras are being used as a live deer cam and we had a bad storm the other day, the tree I put the camera on was hit by lightning and I thought the camera was done for. I pulled out the RJ45 and 2 of the copper vampire clips were burnt badly, but I just cleaned them off a bit and plugged it back in. Well to my shock and amazement it booted right back up. I was so impressed I have started to upgrade my cameras to the wide angle view ones. If this company builds all their stuff with this level of quality, they have me as a customer for life!

Overall very nice, but need minor adjustments/additions
I’ve installed a number of HIK vision camera systems, including for my father and my sisters homes, and they seem to have probable at least twice a year that needs the tech to come out and fix it due to IP change or whatever, and they’re so much more expensive, so when it came to my own house I decided to shop around. I’ve only had these cameras installed for about 5 days now, but overall they seem very nice, especially for the price, compared to HIK and other brands. A big selling point was the audio record and talking, as the wife wanted Ring but I feel like those are a rip off if you want more than 3 cameras.Installation is just as easy as any other similar camera, just running a CAT5 or 6 which when it comes to running it nice and snaking it through walls, you can either do it or you need professional installation, it would be no different with another brand. The key CONS that I had with installation were 1) there is no set screw to not only lock the camera in place so wind and whatever else doesn’t knock it off it’s angle, but it also means that someone could just grab the camera, give it a quarter turn and unplug the cable and be gone with it. I was blown away at how that was overlooked by Reolink. The other thing, if you’re like me and need to run pipe on the outside of your house, which also means using standard weatherproof electrical boxes to mount the camera and hide the wires, then you’ll find that the mounting holes for the camera don’t like up with the screw threads for the electrical box. Another oversight that should be pretty basic, as I’m sure there’s a lot of people who need to use these round weatherproof boxesThe app works great and you have full control through the app to set motion alarms, change settings for lights and alarms and detection, whatever you want. I like that you can turn off push notifications from individual cameras and even set it so it recognizes people from cars from animals, so you can turn off animal notifications if you live rural and don’t want to be woken up by a rabbit at 2 am.HOWEVER, the most annoying part and a super easy software update; the max amount of time you can set between push notifications is 2 minutes, and as far as I can tell, you can’t silence the notifications for a period of time. So if you’re out in your yard or patio and just enjoying yourself without any need of cameras telling you that someone’s at your house or not, you’re still gonna get a notification every 2 minutes until it stops detecting motion. And that’s every two minutes from each camera, so if you have 3 cameras detecting motion from say a party, then every 2 minutes, you’re gonna get 3 notifications saying camera 1, camera 2, camera 3 detected motion. There’s needs to be an easy select button that mutes notifications for a selected amount of time, then automatically turns it back on. Like if you could acknowledge it and say mute for 2, 3, 6, or 8 hours because you don’t need to know that there’s motion when you’re the motion.That’s my soapbox. Overall they are very nice, the spotlights are surprisingly bright AF which is nice. The alarm is loud if you want it but I turned them off cause I felt they would be annoying. Image quality is super clear, the app is very user friendly, but they need to make some easy adjustments