I purchased this system for my back garage because I didn’t want to run cables underground from the main house to expand my existing Samsung system. At $104 for a four camera system, expandable to 8, you can’t beat the price. The system itself worked as advertise but there are some cons, see below. I am giving it 3* because of the software and tech support.
Pros:
1 Price is Affordable
2 Picture quality is good.
3 Easy to install
Cons:
1 The embedded software is not the best and need some work. I am use to the feature pack software on my other systems so I am somewhat bias.
2. The only PC app that works with this system (AVSS) requires an active internet connect to work. It will not load if you don’t have a internet connect to login to their servers, why? This means you cannot use the software on a stand alone LAN to simply view the live video or playback recordings. This system is located in the back garage so I wanted to connect it to my home network for remote viewing. I have other software that work fine without a internet connect so I am not sure why this one requires one.
3. Tech support is basically nonexistent, I think most of the replies I received were from BOTs.
4. The USB ports are flaky and didn’t work with some of my devices. I had problems with some of my wireless mouse and flash drives. The front port would not recolonize some of my flash drives and would kill the mouse when a flash drive was plugged the rear port. The USB port was stable when only one device was plugged in.
5 . The backup process is slow. I took over 5 min to backup one min of video but this could be a USB port issue.
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