ANNKE 3K Lite Wired Security Camera System Outdoor, 8X 2MP Cameras, 1TB HDD

This product was a great deal! We got an excellent price on it, and it arrived early. It was well packaged and everything was secure with boxes and boxes of cameras, hard-drive and wiring. Install was super easy, since we were replacing our old system. Took my husband approx 1hr and 30 mins to get all the old cameras down (4) and new cameras (5/8) installed. We were able to use the old wires to pull new wiring through. Setup was also super easy, as we have not run this through our wifi. When we go through that process, I will try to update the review with information regarding setup and app installation. Picture quality is great day and night, but the night vision is fairly limited depending on light. The scope of details for the cameras are bright to dim where there is little to no light, covering an estimated 10'W by 30'D area. In well lit areas the distance is much greater with clear picture for up to 150' or more. That is the one negative and would be the one area needing improvement, or there may be another system that offers further coverage at night. The 2T hard-drive is big but not bulky. The system we replaced was only 1T and was about 4 in more narrow from front to back. We chose this system because of the ability to hook 8 cameras up. It also has the capabilities to mix and match so we can use wireless cameras if wanted as well. Since we were going from wired to wired, with the exception of one, we chose to keep the wired cameras instead of buying all new wireless. When we get the 3 wireless I will update the review with that info if able. Setting up the system was as easy as following the prompts. Password protected or not, it is up to you. We chose to go with a wireless mouse of our own rather than use the corded mouse that is included, and it works fine like that. Easy to configure cameras and set them up. The one area that we don't like is viewing options. You can set them up with all 8 on the screen but not just 5, so we have 3 black screens where those are not connected. 1 is displayed larger than the other 7, that are all smaller around 2 sides of the 1 larger. You can also display them 1 at a time that flips from 1 to the next, and if motion occurs it will jump back to the screen and hold there for designated time. There are other options as well if you decide to do the wifi and internet option- you can set alerts to shoot an email and even contact the monitoring app for remote viewing of every alert if necessary. The motion sensitivity can be set to certain areas in a grid or for entire screen and you can have it sensitive enough to alert when a leaf falls 20 yards away during the day or less sensitivity so that it doesn't trigger further than 5ft away. The whole program is really easy to maneuver and the possibilities are endless with this system. Hopefully this review helps. I definitely recommend this product if you want good quality, excellent picture and an easy install, all for a very competitive price.

I bought this system to replace the Blink system that’s owned by Amazon because i was sick of paying the subscription and the crappy service. Install was simple if you have the know how and the tools. I absolutely love the picture quality even the IR/night vision is INSANE and clear. This system can be local view only and/or the ANNKE Vision app, which is very simple to use once you get your settings tuned in on how you want them. Each camera you can draw a zone to which you can also set a particular sensitivity for each camera. The notifications are very quick and no lag time to view which was the selling point. Now. The reasons for the 3 stars, about a month ago, we had a power outage, which dropped the WiFi, which you need for the app, i have gone through each trouble shooting step to gain back my app viewing, keep in mind my system still works but its local view only at this time. I have followed the steps precisely and even involved support. I’m still waiting to hear back about what else we can do to get my app back online. Just sucks that customer support isn’t as quick as it was. But all in all, a great system and very responsive for identifications. And VERY customizable. EDITED 1/30/26 After weeks of trouble shooting and doing EXACTLY what they say and still no results. They ended up sending me a whole new DVR. I’m back online for local and REMOTE. They were very helpful, the reason the issue took forever was due to time differences and availability on my side. I’m glad i stuck it out.

Excellent product, easy to install and use. Works anywhere you are in any country! Excellent!

Easy to use interface, great picture quality. Had to buy extensions for the cameras as some areas of the house were not reachable.

Affordable, easy install, great features, video is good, highly recommended.

Lovely product! Installation was a breeze. Came with enough storage to store videos for a long period! Haven’t tested audio yet as the WiFi still hadn’t been installed but so far it’s very good

Five stars, perfect. Affordable and reliable after several months. DVR holds over thirty days on the five cameras I used. Customizable regions so I don't get road traffic alerts. You can enable/disable alerts easily from Android app from the alerts/settings menu. Highly recommended

UPDATE: at least half the cameras from both systems have failed now. They've all failed after getting rain water inside them. They are not watertight. Once damaged the image appears purple. You think you can live with that until a crime has been committed and you go to look at the video and the motion record was never activated after the cameras got wet. UPDATE: I guess I should have returned the unit immediately to Amazon. The display output is degrading and there's nothing I can do about it. I wish tech support was non-existent because it's just incompetent. they are incapable of troubleshooting something that's not user error. I bought an additional unit. The new unit is upgraded from the old one. I just wanted to comment on how dificult the technical support it is. It's only email based and they don't speak English and they appear to use Google Translate. there's a problem with the HDMI output on my unit if I do not push sideways on the HDMI cable connected to the back of the DVR I will get a green and red static over everything on the display. But I can't explain that to somebody speaking a foreign language over email. So I guess I'm just going to have to live with the problem. Also this unit does not come with instructions whatsoever! UPDATE: I've grown fond of the system, even though it is ridiculously hard to watch the playback. If you have motion activated recording to view the recording you have to click on this 1 pixel wide sliver that represents that 10-second recording. I can't do it. I've tried dozens of times. I usually have to back up and watch an hour or two a video to get to the spot I wanted to look at. but I'm writing this update today because we had a brown out last week during the night and it fried the hard drive in the security system. my Swann security system, still going strong. also there are no instructions to this! I contacted technical support through email and ask them if there was a link to any online help and all they can ever give me is a link to a very specific question. Is completely unhelpful! when you're using the software on the security system there's a menu item that's titled manual. It seems like it would have some information, but it has absolutely none! when you click that menu item it's simply shows you one of those square barcodes. I almost wish I was a computer, but alas I have no ability to read that. I assume there's not much information encoded in it anyway. well that's my update. initially when I purchased this system it would not work whatsoever with the Emerson 720 P television that I bought just for this. which is caused by the DVR being set to a higher resolution. so you're going to need to get a computer monitor and hope that has a high enough resolution to get this thing working. that's no guarantee that it will work however. When I first got the system it wouldn't work with the monitor I had to unplug it several times and plug it back in and that didn't work the first day but the second day I did that, it started to work. the picture was very purple and it worked like that flawlessly for 5 days and then one day it went back to having an incompatible resolution. mind you however I had never changed the resolution. That's what I found with the system is it might stop working and you'll have to be patient and scream at it and unplug it a bunch and maybe it'll start working again. but it's been working for me for a couple weeks now. and I like several things about this DVR but it's certainly not for everybody. if you need to review the footage that you record you probably do not want this DVR. It is ridiculously difficult to watch the recorded footage. Number one with the motion sensor set to the least sensitive setting it's still continuously activated even when there's no shadows moving or nothing at all that I can see changing in the frame. but what I find absurd about the playback is that you can only watch a maximum of two of the 8 channels at a time and you have to select which two channels up front and you cannot change them during playback. Also playback is a maximum of 4 X. That means if you wanted to watch 24 hours worth of footage from two cameras it would take you, at full fast forward, 6 hours to do that. but there are 8 cameras. At 6 hours per pair you're going to spend 24 hours to review 24 hours worth of footage from all cameras. Not only that but the cameras do not play back in sync. if you don't have a security system then maybe that doesn't make sense to you. But on my Swan when I watch the video all of my cameras are showing me what happened at the exact same moment. with this system when I'm playing it back one camera is showing me leaving in the morning while the other camera is showing me backing into the driveway in the afternoon. it is very confusing to watch. if you don't ever need to playback recorded footage though this might be a really good system for you. The LEDs seem rather bright. the picture is good but not great. according to the product specifications this thing is recording At a way higher resolution then my first system which is a swann. also the cameras on this are supposed to be 800 line where is my Swan is probably under 600 but I cannot tell a difference at all in the quality. In night mode the extra bright LEDs on these cameras light up all sorts of dust just floating around in the air at all times. that you can't see and it triggers the motion recording continuously at night. in fact it always looks like it's snowing at night. With all the white dust floating around and in black and white and with the intensity of the LEDs my grass looks white. they claim to have the world's best technical support. They do not have a phone number available you're going to have to email them. most of the time they respond. It takes them anywhere from an hour to a couple days to respond. they obviously do not speak English and a lot of the messages on the DVR are not properly translated into English. I wanted to change a setting and it gave me something that I think was intended to be a warning that I might not be able to use the DVR if I change that setting. but technically it wasn't a warning it was just poor English. so I didn't feel confident changing anything. when I purchased this system I could not find another 8 camera system anywhere near this price. If you can I would recommend trying another system.I do like this system for monitoring what's going on. also I would discount the high resolution of the system says it works at when you are comparing it to other systems. I feel that either the resolution is a lie or just a waste of resources as it absolutely never looks better than my lower resolution Swan system.

Me gusto que para el precio ya tiene el disco duro instalado y la facilidad para instalar todo el equipo. Lo más importante la facilidad de conectarlo a mi app en el celular y poder monitorear donde me encuentre.

Excelente producto y su instalación muy sencilla .

Es un producto de muy buena calidad solo me gustaria que los cables fueran un poco mas largos, es bastante largo al fin de cuentas solo es un parecer, en si no tengo ninguna queja realmente de este, es excelente y a buen precio.