Hi everyone:
I am looking for a new system for a brand new house we built and moved back in last July. I have had builder run 6x Cat6a cables around the outside of the house but I only intend to use 5 cameras as I need one of the wire run for an outdoor Wireless AP. Currently I have a Ring Pro doorbell camera and Ring Floodlight camera above the garage doors since we moved into the new house last July. I am a huge fan of Ring just because of the convenience of cloud and everything however not happy with motion based recording because I have noticed significant delays from time to time between the initial detection of motion and the start of recording. I still like Ring but since I have made the investment in the Cat6 cables during the construction process I would like to get solid wired solution.
I am ready to spend upto $200/camera and upto $500/NVR for decent setup but I am curious about the Costco Lorex 4K 8-channel NVR with 6 bullet camera package for $700. Can someone comment on the Lorex 8-ch 4K system from Costco and share their experience?
From home network perspective all my Cat 6 cables go into the basement in an AV closet and I have all Ubiquiti network gear with 5x indoor APs, 16-port PoE switch, 8-port PoE Switch, Router so I was also looking at the Unifi G3 cameras and came across Ubiquiti's brand new Unifi G3 Pro cameras but they are a bit pricey at $299/camera.
I have a friend who has 4x Axis M2026 cameras which I really really like in terms of quality and are attached to a 8-port Axis companion NVR but they are too expensive and his remote viewing setup is not as great and convenient as Ring, in fact my friend even complains about the remote viewing setup on Axis but the system was installed by the AV installer when he built the house and he just agreed to whatever AV installer sold/pushed to him.
I do have one specific requirement for the camera which is the color of the camera - it has to be black or be able to paint black (not worried about voiding the warranty). Our house has all exterior trim (Windows, soffit, fascia, gutters, leaders, exterior lights etc in black with white stucco so want to maintain the color scheme. My Ring products are also black. Finally I am in norther NJ - Parsippany vicinity.
Sorry for the long essay but would appreciate the feedback. I started reading the IPCamTalk Cliff Notes and I am upto Dahua International vs US model page.
Thanks.
I am looking for a new system for a brand new house we built and moved back in last July. I have had builder run 6x Cat6a cables around the outside of the house but I only intend to use 5 cameras as I need one of the wire run for an outdoor Wireless AP. Currently I have a Ring Pro doorbell camera and Ring Floodlight camera above the garage doors since we moved into the new house last July. I am a huge fan of Ring just because of the convenience of cloud and everything however not happy with motion based recording because I have noticed significant delays from time to time between the initial detection of motion and the start of recording. I still like Ring but since I have made the investment in the Cat6 cables during the construction process I would like to get solid wired solution.
I am ready to spend upto $200/camera and upto $500/NVR for decent setup but I am curious about the Costco Lorex 4K 8-channel NVR with 6 bullet camera package for $700. Can someone comment on the Lorex 8-ch 4K system from Costco and share their experience?
From home network perspective all my Cat 6 cables go into the basement in an AV closet and I have all Ubiquiti network gear with 5x indoor APs, 16-port PoE switch, 8-port PoE Switch, Router so I was also looking at the Unifi G3 cameras and came across Ubiquiti's brand new Unifi G3 Pro cameras but they are a bit pricey at $299/camera.
I have a friend who has 4x Axis M2026 cameras which I really really like in terms of quality and are attached to a 8-port Axis companion NVR but they are too expensive and his remote viewing setup is not as great and convenient as Ring, in fact my friend even complains about the remote viewing setup on Axis but the system was installed by the AV installer when he built the house and he just agreed to whatever AV installer sold/pushed to him.
I do have one specific requirement for the camera which is the color of the camera - it has to be black or be able to paint black (not worried about voiding the warranty). Our house has all exterior trim (Windows, soffit, fascia, gutters, leaders, exterior lights etc in black with white stucco so want to maintain the color scheme. My Ring products are also black. Finally I am in norther NJ - Parsippany vicinity.
Sorry for the long essay but would appreciate the feedback. I started reading the IPCamTalk Cliff Notes and I am upto Dahua International vs US model page.
Thanks.