ANNKE E200 1080p Outdoor CCTV Camera System, 8 Channel 3K Lite DVR and 4 x 2MP Weatherproof Home Security Cameras, Human & Vehicle Detection, 100 ft Night Vision, Remote Access, No Hard Drive

Great system. Bought to replace my old Annke system that I’ve had for about 7 years. The old one has been ok and served its purpose capturing what I needed including a theft but this new one is so much better. Everything from the camera picture quality to the interface and app that has so many more features and much more user friendly.The search features are great. Also speed and quality of the pictures is much better.The alerts were soon turned off as I live on the entrance to a housing estate and it was alerting me every time a car drove past. You can set borders for this but not had chance yet and don’t really need them as have a Ring door bell for that.Big bonus was that it was advertised with no hard drive but came with a 1tb installed Saved me installing one. Everything was brand new and looked like it had never been touched.Easy to install as I already had my cables in so just swapped cameras and plugged in.Would highly recommend this seller and system

Relatively easy to set up. Needs a hard drive to be able to record which is sold separately, however I used one from an old computer I had. Once installed it formatted itself and by the time I connected it to a TV the formatting was about finished. The hardest part of the installation was running the wires out to the soffit of our house but that would be true of any system. Happily all the components are plug and play and we found it easy to check that each camera was working as they appeared on the TV screen as soon as they were connected. It records 4 channels but will only play back 2 channels at a time, so you have to go into the menu and manually select which ones you want to view (it makes reviewing footage a bit pedestrian but it works fine). The picture quality is pretty good and I was impressed. Night time footage is not as clear as you might expect but I'm very happy with my purchase. I would definitely recommend this kit for the money - it's great value.

Tip: The best way to use this device is through the HDMI output on a television. Invest in a cheap cordless mouse to replace the wired one that comes with it, so that you can control it comfortably without being tethered to the DVR.Pros: compact, runs fairly cool and quietly (fitted my own hard drive, so this might vary.) Pretty easy to set up, apart from running the wiring for the cameras neatly around the house (always going to be a chore fitting a wired system.) User interface on the recorder's HDMI output seems fairly intuitive, and the supplied mouse works pretty well for this. Phone app works well once correctly configured.Cons: The web application requires an ActiveX component to be installed, and since the only thing that still supports ActiveX these days is Internet Explorer, that's the browser you have to use if you want to see video (and you'll have to enable 'Compatibility Mode' to get that to work.) You can do most of the configuration in any browser, but you'd expect to be able to watch video via the interface. The phone application is a little tricky to set up, and required port forwarding on my router to be usable outside my home. I was expecting cloud functionality to handle all of this. PC software isn't available at the link given in the documentation, so you need a CD/DVD drive to install it from the enclosed disc. Even once you do get it installed, the PC software isn't very good. Could've used a little more wire on the cameras so that the connections could be made indoors. I've ended up having to wrap them with self-amalgamating tape to waterproof them.Overall: More than happy with it for the money. I didn't expect perfection at this price point, and the good points outweigh the bad. But it's clearly dated tech, when you can see the first queries about the ActiveX issue showing up on the Internet around 2015 and they haven't been resolved.

cant fault this system for the price i paid, i've been looking for a decent budget cctv system for awhile, this one came along without a hard drive which knocked off something like £75, the camera's are all high def, so very good quality i.e. able to read car registrations or get a good clear face shot. just need to bare in mind the distance of the object. The camera's have infrared leds around the lens and switch off when it starts to get dark and provide an invisible floodlight for the camera's at night time. I've not had any issue with them so far.I hooked this system up to my network via Ethernet, and before i'd realized it, I was able to remotely view my system. The system provides a QR code you scan and somehow this is linked up, I'm guessing Annke do some clever routing since i'm on a dynamic IP at home and the remote app has worked flawlessly every time.The system also provides a decent interface for viewing network stats, so you can see just how much bandwidth your cameras are chewing up depending on the level of picture quality you're after. You also can see how well the video compression works.bear in mind if you get one of these kits without a hard drive, you're not supposed to just stick any drive in it, do a search for surveillance drives / always active drives. These are specifically manufactured for always on activity whereas normal drives essentially have rest periods.

Just perfect