What’s a good wired home camera system?

Second for reolink. Good cameras, good computer and phone apps. Cheap.

Also a plus for Reolink, and they have some good sales going on. I have their CX810s, and they are really a great value.

Can someone explain to me how much storage I typically would have with these systems coming with let’s say 6 cameras 2 TB hard drive

I assume you can leave them 4k or scale them back to 1080p to have a longer range of recording?

Like do they have 72 hours? A week? Typically before it starts erasing ?

It really depends on what you are storing. I have 7 cameras around my house, the 3 on my door record 24/7, and the other 4 only record motion. With that a 4TB hard drive gives me about 10-15 days depending on activity.

I have a Swann system that either came with a 1TB or a 2TB hard drive and it lasted about 3 days, upgraded to a 4TB from NewEgg.

FYI, I do not recommend the Swann as I am dissatisfied with their night and I am not a fan of their app. Love the fact that they do have an app, but it always gives my troubles.

So each camera has an Ethernet chord going from camera to the main hub
And also a power chord all the way from the camera back to the hub?



Or does the one chord do both?

We have Montavue cameras and are very pleased with them. I bought from their website and saved $ by not buying from Amazon.

After thinking about it for a bit, I have a recommendation. But first, some history.

Several years ago after much research, I started off with a Reolink system that was using their new 12MP cameras. I found that they were great - in the daytime. At night, not as much. Using the LEDs on the camera, you get pretty much the range they advertise, but not in color. However, the LEDs attract bugs - spiders particularly. And if it is raining or misting at night, the infrared bounces back off the water in the air making for a pretty bad picture. I learned to live with those downsides, because the daylight images really were great!

Back then, I thought that they had the best value, especially since you didn't store data in the cloud. It seems that a lot of manufacturers have caught on and have local storage these days, so maybe that is not such a big deal for Reolink now. I haven't done any real research on that.

Within the past year, I upgraded my cameras to their new CX810s (8MP cameras) that offer color vision at night with very minimal illumination - A standard LED bulb equivalent to an incandescent 60 watt bulb is more than enough to have color vision for hundreds of feet, with no infrared or white LEDs being used! In fact with a full moon out, you see very, very distinct shadows of items - It really looks like daylight! And with no LEDs, there are no problems with bugs or rain at night.

The CX810 cameras still have some problems at night with movement (as do most other cameras, except those that cost much more), but generally, the closer and slower moving the object is to the camera the better the quality. I have no problem making out slower moving small animals (skunks, possums, etc) at over 100 feet at night, but deer at 100 feet can be a bit blurry while they are moving.

So I still like Reolink (although other manufacturers may be just as good for the same price - I haven't looked into any other manufacturers, so I just don't know), and I will recommend them as I think that they are still a good value, but I would really advise going with their CX810 cameras. Looks like Amazon has a four cam system with a 2TB HD NVR for $570 right now and the cameras by themselves are $88 each. I know that this was a good bit to read in today's world, but I wanted to give you the good and the bad. Good luck!

UniFi cameras are all PoE deployment. Their entire platform is very robust with an intuitive UI that has very little learning curve.

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just bought the 'controllable' camera when it went on sale to add to my reolink system.

2 thumbs up. i have:
- 6 regular outdoor POE cameras
- POE doorbell
- controllable outdoor POE camera (not installed yet)