okay this is the lurks security system extended review part one
okay i i did one review on um the lorex camera security system and here's a little bit more
information so that you can determine if this is something you're looking into i have this
um this is the output of the dvr directly um this is how you can configure the um device
initially and then you could go and use the url and get to the device as well later after
you configure it right now i have it on a tv screen that's only a 10 80 i system um
the camera can do 4k but i don't want to buy a new tv just for this because this is just
something we use occasionally um but you can actually get a 4k camera um i'm sorry a 4k
tv and and display the um really crisp output of the device directly from the dvr
okay this this tv is connected to the um dvr itself so i get to um configure it this is
where you first configure it then you can configure other items from other devices like
the wi-fi on your phone or through like the url that they give you um so when you log
in you'll get this screen now if you hit this you'll get the live um pictures as you can
see i'm getting some pretty nice pictures here and this is a 1080 camera these are the
4k cameras and the ones inside the garage are 1080. there's my um freezer so i could
know if it's ever read or turned off i can see it every day so you right click and you
go back to main menu and when you go to um get some tech support from lorex which is
pretty good as soon as you call them i got picked up within two rings and they seem to
be decent halfway decent people so um you hit information and you're gonna have to give
them your system info basically your model number here
and um so that'll show your model number and all these other items here what port the url
is on right now it's on port 80 which is http you could make it 443 if you want if you want
to make it secure i p address and build date and your firmware version it's pretty nice
um here's your disk drive right now we got a two terabyte drive if you ever want to update
that drive i think it's pretty simple you could put like a larger drive in there and
get more storage space i i think it's pretty straightforward but i haven't looked into
it yet but you can upgrade this drive on your own and i think it doesn't have operating
system information on it i think it just has um videos so you can actually format it on
another screen i'll show you later um this is the resolution of the cameras right now
as you can see my seven and eight are not as high as the other 4k cameras because i
bought those cameras aftermarket from home depot and the cameras i bought are in another
video but here's the um brand zozi from home depot 29 cameras they're 1080 cameras i'll
try to get the um serial number model number here let's see you could probably zoom in
on that or something and those cost 29 that's the 180 degrees they got 120 they got black
they got white so at home depot you could kick cameras that will work with this system
and it's got four different display options on the camera there's a little push button
on each camera that i show in my other videos log file tells you how often it's saving images
and stuff that stuff i don't really use the log information alarm status there was one
alarm status some motion detector status um i disabled most of the time those things this
is this one just happened to come through uh network
i guess that tells you how much traffic's going for your network card at a time and
you can actually test it which i've never done i don't know why you want to do that
and here you can check for new firmware updates i have the latest firmware as you can see
but you can check for new ones and um it's pretty good you could import or export your
um
your your configuration settings what you do is you put a usb stick in the back or hard
drive in the usb port and it'll show up as a device that you can select here and then
you can format it for the system that it uses a different format system so you format it
first i would assume and then you could back up your configuration file so that if you
ever screw it up you can import it back in so that's a pretty nice feature right there
that should be it for the information tab now um you right click to get back to this
screen and then you um we're going to go into the storage tab now
let's go to the basic part here it shows you um that it's going to overwrite the hard drive
after when it runs out of space so it continually record till it runs out of space then it'll
overwrite 30 minutes of the previous recordings starting from the beginning and you could
adjust that in minutes how many minutes you want to format at a time or you could do file
size depending on how big the files are i don't know why you want to do that just do
the file the time overwrite or you could actually stop it and it won't record over anything
then you're going to get alerts and say that your drives full so you're going to have to
clean it up manually here's the hard drive manager you can see that i got a two terabyte
drive that can be updated in the future if you want you can actually do it yourself i
think if you click on the drive you could actually format it on the bottom it takes
about two seconds to format and then it'll start back up at 1.79 terabytes again this
is a code the feature this is where you can actually um determine how much space you're
going to use on your drive so if you put like a 2 000 capacity drive it'll tell you that
recording days you're gonna with my current recording setup i'll have six days worth of
recordings um it's probably not going to be that much because it's really 17.99 but if
you got a bigger drive this is where it would come in handy um this requirement same thing
if you want to um store let's say 30 minutes of of current video it'll use
30 days a current video would take 8 terabytes to actually record that so that's not going
to happen i i think we can only get about five days out of this thing as you can see
you'll get 1400 1.4 terabytes would be five days six days maybe two months well six days
i can basically get six days of recording my current um bit rate and my recording features
right now i'm not recording camera seven or eight because they're in in the garage now
if you wanted to you could go to ftp and you could see that um you could upload all your
snapshots and your videos to an ftp site which i don't think is feasible i would never do
it but you can set it up in here
also in storage there's a schedule section which i must have missed before and here you
can schedule when you want the recordings to occur like right now i have continuous
on camera one i don't have motion or alarm or smart detection um well i do have motion
and continuous right now and what you want to do is like say camera ones when you record
all the time you go here to this um little um
knob on the right here on camera one and you can see i'm gonna record zero to 24 hours
a day continuously and on motion and you would select all for every day of the week and say
okay and then you go apply and then you'll get all the recordings every day on that camera
now let's say we want to go to camera seven which i'm not recording as you can see i have
no um colors here which means it's not being recorded at all i don't want to record seven
or eight they're the 1080 cameras that are in the garage there's no reason to record
and waste space so if you go to this um gear over here just like the other one you can
see i'm not recording any of these this doesn't matter i can hit all and it's not gonna and
i said okay and apply so every there's no recording going on on camera seven or eight
right now i'm just trying to save some space right now so see there's no recording you
go into this gear to change this stuff it's kind of misleading that they let you click
this stuff here they should lock that out in her app but they don't and this means nothing
so don't just ignore this part so that should be it for storage all right um when you get
the um lorex system you'll get a mass a wired mass i hooked up a wireless mouse a usb one
to my system it works fine i put a 15 foot usb cable on a system and i put the cable
into the attic closer to the where this um where this um tv is and the reason for that
is i i want to use the wireless and it wouldn't reach from where the actual dvr is right now
so you can connect a usb um wireless mouse probably a wireless keyboard at that to the
system and use it
okay we could go to networking and on tcp ip you set up your ip address i put a static
ip in because if you want to connect to it with your computer you should have a static
ip you can also do dhcp but if you do that then you're gonna have to figure out what
ip it gave your device and that's kind of frustrating port number all the ports that
this device uses some of them are incoming some are outgoing you use this in your firewall
or in that other screen or you went to the last time ddns is if you have a domain name
you can actually connect to this for your domain name of your computer email address
i'm not going to show you because i'm my personal stuff in there but um that's where you set
up to get alerts and stuff like that to your to
your phone you set up um a google account i'll show you in a image shot of what that
should look like
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