all right i bought this lorex camera at costco cost 2.99 on sale comes with six
wired cameras and the dvr type machine with two terabyte hard drive
it's 4k with the dvr night vision it uses u um what i call them bnc connectors not the um
ip with the um network cables that use b and c um the reason why i got that is because it's cheaper
for 299 you get a pretty good deal here's another angle of it the light itself that
they give you isn't all that great um the motion works okay not you know it's it's it's it's like
all of the motion detectors sometimes it picks up really well sometimes it doesn't
it's got a little siren you could that you can like to if you see somebody there you
can remotely toot it from your phone or whatever um so and it comes with 60 foot cable so there's
six of those for each camera now the thing is you can buy this is a lorex system but you can buy um
from home depot they have a product called zozy and here here's one of the products here
so you get six cameras but you can put two more cameras on there those are 4k cameras
but i'm not going to pay 120 dollars for a camera i'm not when i have six and the only reason why
i want eight is because i want the screen to be in full so um home depot sells this brand
and they come in 1028 resolution and here's the um actual label for it if you want
and they run about 29 now they have four different types this is a white one they have a black one
with a different different serial number or a model number actually um and this is the
180 degrees um they make some that are 120 so you might want to check if you're going to order this
also at home depot they have extended cable so you get 60 foot but sometimes you need to
go a little further so they sell these 100 foot cables at home depot you could buy them in one
or four packs a four pack of these cables with these connectors which you don't really use but
they give them to you a four pack cost thirty dollars so at home depot you're getting really
good prices for that um they sell the uh another adapter if you want a power adapter they sell
on on the power adapter there's a three-way splitter so they give you um that too i actually
just bought another power adapter off ebay for like five dollars and i bought the splitter at
home depot for like six i think so that we got all six all eight cameras instead of just six
but these supposedly allow you to extend the cable but you're not going to get much further than 120
feet you could probably take two of the standard wires that you have and combine them and get 120
feet but after a certain amount of feet the damage doesn't come through so you can't put a 60 and 100
together and get 160 because i don't think that i tried it and i couldn't get the cameras to sink
so it's just too far so i i've been using a lot of 100 foot ones alone by themselves um and um all
right so here's some of the outage you could buy at home depot let me get that wire out of the way
here's the um four plex cable that you can buy for thirty dollars
they come in white and black so i put both in there i probably would have choose the white i
took the black without knowing i had white and here's the actual camera that i bought
29.99 for a 1080 um camera and it has a switch on it where you could switch to different modes
all four modes work with this system this bnc lorex system um it does do 1080 so you set your um
your cameras to 1080 in the app i'll show you the app in a second
all right i'm not sure how good this is gonna show up but this is the actual
website that they give you within the device it's a local website that you can go to
when you set it up and it could show all the all the camera angles that
you have right now i got eight cameras so it breaks it down into um eight different views
you could you could change them and
stuff
so you could change the views and stuff um that's the live feed i don't really use this
this website though that much i use my phone and my my tablet more this is if you want to
get into more of um configuration and if you want if you don't have the ability to have the monitor
being viewed you also get you could also hook up a monitor to the dvr and you can see it directly
um like here's the camera you can adjust all the brightness and the contrast on each channel
and it shows the image of the the camera um you could record continuously which is what i do on
all my cameras and i i actually have the highest resolution the 4k resolution you don't have to
go that high you probably save some time on your hard drive your hard drive is a two terabyte drive
but it does fill up after about five or six days probably maybe even more because um i have the
eight camera system now because i bought those two extra cameras but you can do all kinds of stuff in
here i'm not going to show this stuff because it's way too much this thing's like really um
nitpicky as far as you can do a lot of stuff with it
um so that's the camera and then you got your events and you could actually set up the um
events you can um like here's one camera you could set it up here
you could filter out certain parts of the region that you don't want recorded
you just change the color and and it it won't it record it just won't sense motion in those areas
so that's pretty cool um you could there's so many features i can't even go into what to tell you the
only thing i don't like about this system is the password it goes to us s unlocks the screen after
i think the maximum is um like 15 minutes so you're constantly having to put the password in
if you're going to use this type of screen even on the dvr side but there's all kinds of
settings you could put in here um it's pretty straightforward um the storage is pretty cool
um two terabytes on the actual system you could click this and format the drive it takes about two
seconds to format it and then it's totally clear see i have no space right now on on the system
but it erases space as it goes along so it just removes the older videos
and here's the dvr itself two terabyte drive um all the power packs that come with the camera
and then i have it going into the wall into the garage where the um cameras come from
in our house we got this this goofy desk here in the kitchen
most people put a computer in here i guess at one point i don't think anybody ever used it
but we put a monitor in there instead and it shows all our channels in the kitchen
um you could see all the it'll do each channel by itself at first and then it'll do it'll show all
eight um i got a couple cameras in the garage right now the 10 the 1080s they're not really
doing much that one we're going to leave because the face is outside and we get to um see if the
garage door is open um so now it goes to a four plex and then it'll go to another four plex
and then i probably go to an eight let's see there's the eight cameras right there
and here's one of the 1080 cameras we got for 29 at home depot it's the zozi um here's the
connector that you get and there's a button on there and you could switch to four different
modes one mode i could notice uh a difference in the resolution um it was lower so i kept pushing
the butting until i found the resolution that was decent um the other three modes seem to be
really good for 1080. all the other cameras are 4k except for this and another one in the garage
i don't really need high resolution in the garage because it's just going to be checking the door
the other one i don't know where i don't know where i'm going to put this camera yet
if you notice here too these are the bnc and the power connector and they're pretty thick i got to
put them in my soffits and hit them pretty well um but they are kind of bulky that's the only thing i
would say about this is it's kind of bulky um the reason we went with this system is because there's
no fees to store it on your local hard drive on the dvr i mean there's like a two terabyte drive
so there's no cloud storage fees or anything like that but you can still access it for your cloud
for your wi-fi so your phone and your tablet you can see all that i'll show you that in a minute um
here's one of the cameras installed i put those big chunky things inside the soffit on this one
and here's the first one i installed it's got the camera in the soffit as well i didn't do too many
soffits i started putting them on the side of the house after this here's one on the front door um
the wires will be hidden after a while i'll i'll paint in the same color and try to make them look
a little neater this is the one i had trouble with i couldn't get to this and this whole side
actually of the house so i had to do something i'm just going to paint them white and or not
white but the color of the house and then kind of try to match it and glue it down but i did put all
here's where i put the wires in that crack in the soffit you can't even see the wire so
for the most part it hides it here's another camera i have um
it's connected to the side of the wall but the wire is still going to the soffit i also added
this um today um motion detector with the light and it's battery operated i'm gonna see how that
works i'll probably do a video on it if it works well so far i haven't gotten one to work well
but it even those these work at night it's gray and stuff and i'd rather have some color sometimes
all right so this is the app you could see that it's on a certain day of the year the week you
could go back and check other days here's one that i did this morning i a lot of detections because
i was out there all morning so you just click on one of the the times and pictures and it'll show
a few seconds usually before the video starts the motion starts um that was me um there's a whole
bunch of other ones you can go back to another day let's say this one here and it'll this is at
night um this was a false alarm i think because there was a something on the screen or something
but usually it's pretty clean and you could you could go back and the cool thing about this is
you can click one of them and you could go back a couple of days and actually play the whole video
if you want or or a certain time you can move the lever back and forth and it'll change the
the time of the day um the reason why we went with this system it's a wired system instead
of wireless is because even if you have wireless you still got to have power going to the cameras
unless you're going to go up on the ladder and change the battery every like three months or so
also bj's has a system similar to this it's just a four camera model for i think 249 this
this um this month if you want to go look at that that's 249.
costco has mine that has eight camera ability but comes six for 299 i don't know if that's still on
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