Swann - Enforcer 8-Channel, 6-Camera Indoor/Outdoor Wired 4K UHD 2TB DVR Security Camera Surveillance System - White

Cameras are good. If you put them under a gutter get them low enough so the infared doesnt like bounce? back to darken the night vision. Any bush branch movement will send you an alert. Cables are only 60 feet, so if the cameras outside, to in the house dvr. you'd better be close. Youll need more cable. The DVR runs really hot. Really needs to have a clear instruction manuel. If you have an all in one computer, you need a seperate monitor. Good monitoring system, but overpriced for what you get.

Works great and has a clear picture and works with other cameras

Best thing I've in awhile. No monthly fees. App works great.

This is my second time I purchased swann security products. My last set were still working but were only 720p and I just wanted to upgrade to clearer picture quality. Very easy to install, ran everything through the crawl space so that the wires wouldn’t be visible and to protect them from direct sun light. You can turn on camera lights and alarm from the mobile app to try and scare off anyone out there as well as take snap shots and record video directly to your mobile device, Besides the HD recording. I recommend this to anyone looking for a simple, easy to install security system.

I was looking to replace my 1080p wireless cameras with a wired system. Wireless system are susceptible to hacking and jamming. You can buy wireless signal jammer on the internet which will completely disable your wireless camera for a short period. This is a nice system for the price and the deterrent feature is the first I have seen on cameras. I have videos where someone came up in the yard between 2am and 4am and the light and siren went off and they looked like deer in a headlight before taking off. It has also stopped people from turning around in my driveway on a dead end street. DVR system has all the features you would find on high end systems costing much more. Detection by motion and IR work well.. probably too well. IR is supposed to prevent system from recording events caused by the wind or sun but even at a low sensitivity level, I still get a lot of false positives. The 4k cameras are decent but only slight improvement over my 1080p cameras. You can only read a license plate at no more then 20 feet away. My 1080p could read license plates at that distance. Night vision is just average. Camera with no light can barely make out the rode and bush 30 feet away. With the driveway camera and streetlight, I can see over 100 feet away but in both cases, night vision cannot make out features of person even at 15 feet away. Motion capture of person is blurry.

This is a nice system! I think its worth the full price, but I see it on sale a lot so might as wait for a sale and get an even better deal! The install was pretty straightforward. We put the 6 outside our house and other than 10-15 minutes in the attic, the install was easy as pie! We ran over 360 feet of wire for these cameras and the only wires you see are the 2 feet of wire we pulled from wall to my command center. My biggest complaint is that the software if pretty hard to learn and theres no easy way to get to a manual for reference.

Great! - Went from a wifi-based Zomo system to this. Pros - Crystal Clear Pictures Easy to use Mobile App Great motion detection Definitely Recommend Cons - Complicated Windows App to setup Mobile Notification process can be annoying, wish it had a notication by period option (where all notifications for X minutes where sent periodically)

After installing and using the Swann Enforcer system I have found the overall system performs fairly well but there are some shortcomings especially in the mobile app. Below I have tried to list out everything that I really liked about this set up as well as the items that I felt were problematic. This system uses analog cameras and bnc cables – old school cctv, the downside is they aren’t as flexible as most of the newer digital wireless cameras or even ethernet based wired camera systems (NVRs) but on the plus side this system is far less expensive. One thing to keep in mind when looking at these 4k camera systems is that the resolution you see on your phone app is not 4k. What you see on your phone is the substream video at a far lower resolution. The actual default resolution sent to the mobile device is 362x240 with a max resolution of 704x480. Quite a difference from the 4k resolution of 3840x2160 which is the mainstream video that is stored on the DVR. Because the mobile device’s screens are small the image is still quite sharp even at the lower resolutions. To actually gain all the benefit of the 4k cameras you need to be looking at 4k monitor attached to the DVR via an hdmi cable. Also when recording in 4k the frames per second fps drop to 8 which means the image can be very choppy when viewing anything that is moving fast. If you lower the camera resolution to HD 1980x1080 you can then record at 15 fps so it’s a trade off of resolution vs frames per second. Luckily Swann gives you the ability to vary each camera’s resolution and frames per second so you can configure the cameras to meet your requirements. What I liked about the system: - Swann provides good documentation on getting the system initialized and its relatively straight forward. If you don’t feel comfortable installing the cameras and system Swann also provides information on how to contact professionals to do the installation. - The information provided for configuring the cameras within the DVR application is fairly comprehensive and the downloaded manual offers even more details. I highly recommend looking at the manual and checking out on line videos for additional help. - The 4k video images are clear and there are options to help enhance the image quality. - The Motion detection worked well and setting up the motion detection zones were easy. - Setting up alerts and email notifications was simple and they work really well. - The Enforcer alarm and blinking lights definitely draw attention when set off. - The night vision is bright and clear but not very colorful under normal night lighting. - The mobile app was easy to use but its slow opening and buggy as explained below. - Swann uses “modes” which allow you to set up different configurations for home, night and away. - The camera head can be rotated and angled on the mount to meet nearly any type of installation. - No additional cost since the video is recorded and saved locally on the hard drive. What I don’t like about the system: - The mobile app takes a long time to fully load. First you get the Swann home page and spinning wheel, then you get an image of a DVR and the spinning wheel, then you get camera icons and the spinning wheel then eventually you get your camera images. The app usually takes between 15 to 30 seconds to display images. This is using an Iphone 12 pro on my home wi-fi network using the default substream of 360x240 resolution. Comparatively another wired system I own takes 5 seconds consistently to load. Both my wireless doorbell and wireless outside camera take about 15 seconds to activate and load images so the Swann app is the slowest. - The mobile app doesn’t work correctly on all settings. Using the app I configured a camera’s motion detection and hit save. When I went back to check the setting I found that it is back to the default setting with no explanation as to why. Because of this issue I do all my configuration directly in the DVR. - The mobile app doesn’t include all the options that are available in the main DVR configuration page nor does it match or mimic DVR configuration screens. - The cameras have a small viewing angle of 90 degrees. Many of todays newer cameras have a 130 degree or more viewing angle which means they see a wider view of what is in front of it. - These cameras use BNC type cables with Siamese power taps and they can be a pain to run through the house. The cables provided are approved for in wall use so you cannot expose the cable or connections to the outside environment. - The supplied wired mouse is cheap and limits the distance you can sit from the controller. - There is not a pc app that works with this model. I tried to get the Swann Home Safe View app to work on my windows pc but it does not recognize the DVR. When I checked the Swan support page it does not show the DVR8-5680X as being compatible with the Home Safe View app. - The mounting hardware and the screws to lock the camera head to the mount are cheap and you can strip out the heads without much force. - There is not an all camera Alarm On/Off setting in the Mobile App. There are times when I would like to be able to Arm or Unarm all the cameras at once with a single button without having to use one the three mode settings. It does have a Do Not Disturb but that is not the same as being able to arm/unarm all the cameras with a single button. - The cameras do not have microphones so they do not record any audio.