Q-SEE 8 Channel 1TB 720p Analog HD Security System with 4 HD 720p Weatherproof Day/Night Cameras

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   Fantastic logic for home security!, December 6, 2015

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   SirLancelot –

   This review is from: Q-SEE 8 Channel 1TB 720p Analog HD Security Logic with 4 HD 720p Weatherproof Day/Night Cameras (Electronics)

   For disclaimer, although I am a complete Amazon junkie, this item was bought at Costco (on sale for $200!). That said, I rely on Amazon reviews for all of my Amazon buys (and those from other sites such as Costco) and want to contribute my review of this item, hopefully for your benefit.

   Everything comes compacted in a surprisingly small box. The cords are wrapped very tightly and the cameras and DVR are all safely and securely packaged as well. Setup is incredibly simple. Simply connect the camera(s) with the supplied cords and multi-power supply, connect the DVR to a TV or computer monitor, and you’re off to the races. It’s really THAT simple. I set it up in my living room at first without hard-wiring any of the cameras in. It was up and running in the amount of time it takes to unpackage everything and set it up. I connected it to my router (hard-wired), scanned the DVR QR sticker on top with my phone and the QC app from Android, and it was up and running here, too! Setup with my computer for remote viewing was a piece of cake as well after registering with Q-See’s website and entering the DVR’s series number.

   Once that’s done all you have left to map out is everywhere to place the DVR, everywhere to mount the cameras, and how to run the wires to the cameras. I chose to set it up in my garage for several reasons. My garage stays cooler in the winter and cooler in the summer than the rest of my house. Computers function better and last longer in cooler environments. That was one reason. The second and more vital reason was that I want the DVR tucked away and out of sight from burglars must one really make it inside my home. If it’s set up in my living room or within sight all the burglar has to do is steal the DVR and the recordings are lost forever. Setting it up in my living room has the benefit of being able to hook it up to my HD TV, but that’s literally the only benefit of it.

   Setup in my garage allowable me ease of routing cables without fishing them inside interior walls. I wanted the cameras mounted outside the garage and near my front door and the DVR being inside the garage made getting the cables to those cameras a guarantee. Simply drill through the exterior wall in the precise location you want the camera and you’re excellent-to-go. As I’m in a rambler, I can then run another cable up through my attic to set up a camera at the rear of the residence. All this, without running a single wire through the residence.

   This presented one other problem though: how to connect the DVR to the router? I bought a Netgear Wireless Extender for $19 on Amazon. Setup of it wasn’t without some of its own challenges, but once that was done, I place the extender in the garage and was able to hard-wire the DVR to it. I now have remote viewing access through my Android phone and laptop.

   The camera quality is better than I expected in some respects, and worse in others. I bought this specific logic because it was 720p (50% better than 960H, so I’ve read), and as I couldn’t afford a 1080p logic. For subjects/items within about 20 feet, here is a fantastic amount of detail and clarity. For anything outside of that, details get fuzzier and fuzzier. I hoped I’d be able to read a license plate crosswise the road, but I can’t. Perhaps if I connected it to an actual HD TV and not just a basic flatscreen computer monitor that would still be possible. Not with the monitor but.

   Initially I was disappointed that here didn’t grow to be any settings available for adjusting what part of the viewing area of the camera you could set for motion detection or ignoring of motion (i.e., excluding traffic driving by, even as allowing motion detection of someone on the sidewalk – or excluding those bushes that wave around when the wind blows, etc…). I came up empty on how to adjust this or if it even existed, but finally found instructions on Q-See’s website: https://qsee.custhelp.com/ci/fattach/get/183672/1396662550/redirect/1/filename/How-to%20QC%20New%20GUI%20-%20Motion%20event%20triggering%20setup%20QC%20Analog%20HD%20DVR_NVR.pdf. I’ll be playing around with this as soon as I get home tonight.

   All that said, this logic is very simple to set up, is packed with features, and has fantastic value. I’m very pleased with the hold and wound undoubtedly hold it again – unless I could afford a 1080p logic, in which case it’d be a no-brainer for privileged quality video.

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   Q-SEE: Simple and facility out of the box, December 27, 2015

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   jswest –

   Verified Hold(What’s this?)

   This review is from: Q-SEE 8 Channel 1TB 720p Analog HD Security Logic with 4 HD 720p Weatherproof Day/Night Cameras (Electronics)

   This was a hold after I tried an Amcrest manufactured goods that didn’t work out for me. Amcrest was way too complex trying to set-up and configure.

   (BTW – Q-SEE and Amcrest are the same company or somehow closely related)

   This Q-SEE version was simple to set up, and worked out of the box.

   Quality is exceptional, software is simple to use and know.

   The web version of their software is not equipped for fill in time, but they have a software version called QC View that facility fantastic.

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