Customer Ratings & Reviews

Boasts about do it yourself, you would think its a simple procedure of running cables through your attic and plugging it in right? Wrong. Spent an entire weekend running lines and mounting cameras to only hook it all up to find the four 720 cameras with images of the other cameras scrolling across the images, one of the 1080 cameras has a blurred image, called the help line, (barely spoke english, shocker) they said to switch the cameras around to see if its a camera issue or a cable issue, same problem, sent email this time, they recommended changing some settings, same thing. The email set up is a nightmare to figure out and doesnt work either. I would rather just tear the whole thing out and return it but im sure I will get screwed with that too. Spent almost $500 for 3 cameras to work and 5 not. Wasted my time and money. Very disappointed with this DIY so called system.

We were looking for a new camera system to replace the one that I "self build" (two 700 TVL cameras and a DVR we bought off the shelf at Frys) and came across this gem. 8 Cameras, 4 1080P and 4 720P and a 1TB DVR is an amazing price. Most systems like this will run well over $1k. Easy installation, just plug and play. I saw a couple reviews where people said that they couldn't get it installed... I don't know what they were talking about, it's two cables per camera (Video / Power). Camera quality is amazing. I can read license plates of people using my driveway as a trashcan. And the night vision is very clear and lives up to the 100' of advertised vision (with the help of an outside light). Posted screenshots are from the SwannView Pro on Windows. Both are from the 1080P cameras. The quality of the capture is alittle degraded due to the way the application pulls the stream over the network. The PC / Mobile App leaves something to be desired. BUT, that is the same across the board with all these DVR manufactures. We had a Q-See DVR last time, and that software was just as bad. If hook a monitor up to the DVR, it's amazing. The web interface is good, only works on Windows though. The SwannView DVR software will work on Windows / Mac. We went ahead and bought a 3TB WD Purple drive to upgrade the capacity. Was an easy install and the system prompted on start-up to initialize the drive. The HHD that was in the system (which I was quite surprised) was a 1TB WD Purple drive as well. With them putting such a good quality drive in the unit, tells me that they care about the quality. Even though the Windows App / Mobile App is a little buggy, I am still giving 5 stars. It was going to be 4 until I upgraded the HHD and saw they put in a good HHD. Highly Recommended!

The system was easy to install. The 4 hi def cameras are great as the lower defs quit we will be replacing those with the higher def cameras as there is a big difference if you are wanting to zoom in for clarity on a persons face. We are having to go in to Best Buy because the system is not as easy as it says as far as linking it to our smart phones. So we are taking in our router and the dvr to see if the geeks can get them communicating. HDM cord is very short. I like being able to switch it on when I want to see my front door, I like the since of security it gives us as we were burglarized.

I had swanns older 960H 700TVL system and it was good,but I needed something clearer. All I can say is WOW!! the picture resolution is so much clearer. There is so much more detail in the picture. Before even if a car was in my driveway I couldn't makl out the lic plate on the car. Now I can. I can tell the make and model of the cars driving down the street of my home. I know it seems expensive,but can you put a price on security? the peace of mind being able to see your house WITH NO MONTHLY FEES whenever you want is amazing.

Video is clear day or night. Software easy to navigate. Saving video to flash drive is easy, play back from flash drive not so much. No direction provided. Apparently you have to download some kind of player app to play back, haven't been able to figure that out yet. Exterior camera presence has eliminated undesirable presence next door,just what we were hoping for!

I am totally happy with the picture quality but I do admit it will take some time for you to learn how to operate the system . Very easy to get the app on your iPad or iPhone and it's totally great! I did have it professionally installed, I think for the homeowner to do it by himself and hiding all the wires and everything you have to do you will need help definitely . But is totally a good system. For the money you can't beat it! The night vision is totally an incredible as well .

It is my first system. The picture is good, and has good clarity on slower moving objects. Have fun getting a license plate on a vehicle going more that 10 mph. Also, one of the 720P cameras is glitching right out of the box. Haven't tried to get it exchanged for a warrenty yet. Other then that, good system for keeping an eye on stuff.

Great cameras with picture quality exceeding my expectations, I do not give a five because the supplied bnc cables do not have varying lengthens, I can only use 6 of the 8 cameras, the other two cameras need 60 feet cables but all cables supplied are 50 feet.

I purchased this system thinking I was getting 8 1080p cameras. That's not the case. I guess it's somewhere in the fine print. Regardless, it's a great camera system at a fair price. Setup on your iPhone or iPad is a breeze! You just scan the QR code on the DVR itself and you're done. I can view it on and away from my network. I would have rated it 5 stars if not for the 4, 720p cameras.

Very useful and very easy to install Crystal clear images

After placing these cameras after a home invasion, I purchased these cameras. This pack gives a good quality video 8 locations throughout the house. Do recommend!

This system was easy to install by myself and brother in law. It only took about a day. I have already installed one at my house so this one went in even easier than the first time. This one is well put together, however not all of the cameras have metal bodies. I will be interested in how long they last.

Cameras are good and I would recommend. Viewing directly from the device is great. However, the remote app is still not working. Swann's ddns is not updating or something. Still trying to troubleshoot.

Good product - some are high def, some are not - but they still all work great.

The cameras are good the system take long to install in your computer used internet and keeping freezing pictures but overall nice system very but on your phone is 1 2 3 step.

Great view. Excellent quality. Easy To install. Good image.

Aside my meticously and time consuming way on running wires hardware part was easy to install and the nternet monitoring was Up and running in no time. I will recommned this product .

We were looking for 8 cameras with a easy set up and we are extremely satisfied with our purchase.

I have my entire house surveillanced with the eight cameras. It gives me peace of mind to know my home, family and belongings are protected. If and when someone is brave enough to come on my premises, the notification gives me plenty of time to respond and call the authorities, as well as to make a surprise stop. I can use my alarm system and not worry about using the security company's services.

I really like the cameras! I would recommend these to anyone looking for security,