re: General security camera discussion (was "Unifi Protect security cameras")

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All my cameras are wired

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How are they wired? Are they BNC with 12v power



or are they Power over Ethernet?



Because if you have BNC wired cameras and are upgrading to POE cameras the drops you have won't be very useful. FWIW, reolink's wireless cams can be powered by the 12v power on a BNC drop....

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I currently have an LaView system NVR and 4 cameras. The LaView system and app sucks.

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I think the real difference in the "budget cam systems" (the space I'm personally in) are not the cameras themselves (none of them in this space are great when you really need them to work (low light)), but the NVR software and the apps. I can't speak for Lorex, but I'm been really impressed with reolink's smart detection features where the cams and NVR can identify people, vehicles and pets. They aren't 100%, sometimes it identifies people (me) as a pet, which my kid thinks is hysterical. But I personally like how I can quickly search through a previous nights motion events on either the NVR itself or the App. They're pretty seamless between the two. My one complaint is I've never been able to get the e-mail alerts to work on either reolink NVR (operator error I'm sure) but the push alerts to my phone work so it's a moot point really.

Any my NVR's fan is on all the time as well.