[PTZ & Auto Track] xmartO 1296p HD Wireless Pan Tilt WiFi Security Camera w. 2-Way Audio, 80ft IR Night Vision & Flood Light, 8X Digital Zoom (Works standalone or NVR, SD Card& Cloud Storage & Alexa

Pro: good picture quality on pan tilt and zoom camera, no network cabling needed, excellent wireless rangeCons: powered cameras do not seem to be made for outdoor use, human body detection is poor(Side note – I have used and installed other DVR/NVR cameras and systems including DPro, Hikvision, and others)I liked this system because it has its own Wireless camera network. When dealing with a large multi building facility, running wires is impossible. You can wire the NVR to your backbone switch or it can be run wirelessly and then the cameras connect to the wireless network on the NVR not your local WiFi. The range, without the repeater, is very impressive. A repeater is available and easily connects to the NVR without manual configuration.There are wireless/solar cameras that you can get for this NVR, but I just got the wireless ones that require line power. The cameras have a changeable wall/ceiling mount which is nice, but this part of the product could use some revision. When you remove the mount and put it on a wall, the camera and mount top both have open areas to collect water. This is problematic in the winter if water freezes in there as it will break the camera enclosure. I used some of that waterproof “flex-tape” to try to cover over it. Time will tell if that is successful.On normal outdoor cameras, the wire is routed back into the mount and the camera is usually mounted on a jbox. This keeps the wires inside where they are not exposed to weather and cannot be cut. These wires are draped below the camera and then have to be run through some type of penetration so that the connections are inside the building. This camera has a compound cable with an ethernet jack and power connector, so all of those need to be protected. The cable is pretty short, and you need to be sure to have a drip loop on the cable. For a shed with just siding and no insulation or finished wall thickness, I purchased these little electrical fittings from Ace Hardware. I had to ream the inside of one of the pieces to be able to push the ethernet jack through. I then mounted the fitting on the siding tightened it down. Inside the building, I could plug in the power cord and run to an outlet. Doing this on a building that has a 4” or 6” insulated wall is nearly impossible as the cord is very short. I ended up putting a jbox in the wall behind where the camera was mounted.To configure the NVR and cameras, you will need a computer monitor with either an HDMI or standard VGA 15 pin connector and a USB mouse. The local UI is a little clunky when you have to type on the screen computer with your mouse, but for most drop-down fields, it is not difficult and does not take too much time. It finds the cameras instantly without any effort.That said, configuration has some bugs. I tried taking the NVR off DHCP and setting it to a static IP outside the DHCP range. No sequence of setting, saving, and rebooting could get it to change. I gave up and left it on the assigned IP, though I did still disable DHCP. Since it seems to always come up on that same IP, I left it there.The reason that the static IP is important is that I then enabled DDNS. I started with a free name from No-IP, put in the settings and verified it worked. I then contacted my ISP (since I have a managed router) and got port forwarding enabled for port 80 to go to that IP. Once I confirmed it worked, I purchased the DDNS from No-IP. I did try another DDNS (one that was on the drop down, but I don’t remember which) and could not get it to work.I can now use my browser and go to the NVR configuration when not on site. From a security standpoint, I am a little nervous about that, but I did put in a firewall so the NVR is not near anything else. The browser-based configuration is easy, but like the local configuration, does not always work. When asking tech support, they told me not to use the browser-based configuration. Some of the configuration items are counter intuitive, and the names of them don’t make much sense, and there is not much of a manual that explains anything beyond telling you the label on the checkbox on the screen. Remote configuration is one of the primary reasons that I would buy an NVR system, though, so I keep trying.I also set up the PC app and the Android app. The android app is probably the easiest. It installs quickly and did allow me to have several different people create their own accounts and still get access to the camera system. The iPhone app seems to work well, too. The apps are very capable for viewing the cameras live and even has the pan-tilt-zoom ability for those cameras.The app can also get alarms on human body detection. This feature does not work very well. It triggers on everything. I lowered the sensitivity to lowest, and changed it so that it had to see movement for more than 5 seconds. I was still getting hundreds of alarms a day. Next, I removed all areas in the view that had leaves (no more pan and tilting). That helped a lot. I got down to a couple dozen alarms a day. It still seems to trigger on the movement of shadows on the ground from the trees on sunny and windy days and I have not been able to eliminate that. It definitely finds vehicles, humans, and lots of wildlife which I don’t mind at all.I am told there is a firmware update. I have not tried to do that yet, so I cannot tell you how difficult it is and whether it helps any of my issues.The PC app can be used to download the videos from the trigger events along with the time-based videos. Doing it remotely is slow, but I have slow connections on both ends, so that is probably unrelated. You do need to go into the configuration in the app and change where it saves the videos though. The default is in a protected location on your computer hard drive so access to that will be denied. Change it over to “My Documents” or “My videos” and you will be fine.

First off pretty good to install but the cameras seem to not communicate as good as I thought they should. One of them still won’t communicate with the system but it is through a metal wall, maybe that’s why. One of the cameras stared to have issues rotating up and down. Usually I can just mess with it a little and it will start working again. At the end of the day though I use it still and works for security on my shop. Would buy again if need be.

So I figured I would wait four months to post a review on this camera system first off one of the cameras that I got was DOA it was past the 30 day window by the time I got back they have it installed company would not replace it strike number one. When company got back to me about the camera system they wanted me to uninstall the whole system that I professionally had installed and send it back for replacement so not only did it cost me to have it installed professionally is the cost me again they have it uninstalled to send back. The system has now completely malfunctioned it will not connect online it won’t detect any cameras now I have talk to tech-support and I get the runaround about possibly the system not being hooked up correctly when I know it was because it was professionally installed. I would not recommend this camera system to anybody MB where you get what you pay for if you want a camera system that’s going to work For a month or two this is it past that good luck.9/13/22 update so seller has made it right and is a lot more willing to work with you than Amazon they sent a new system and has been installed we will see if this works better. A++++ to seller for responding to this problem and stepping up and trying to resolve it.

The NVR and PTZ cameras were easy to connect and begin recording. The NVR menus don't match the User Manual at all and are less than helpful when it comes to setting up the cameras for auto-tracking. As it turns out, the auto-tracking only works until the cameras point down and then they stay there and won't move back up again. I have to go in and manually attempt to move them down 3x before they will look up and begin tracking again. There were 3 NVR FW updates to get to the latest, and each one made the problem worse. After a month of operation, one camera is missing yellow about 90% of the time. The other 10% it has too much yellow. THERE IS NO FW UPDATE FOR THESE CAMERAS! They cannot be updated. Overall, not worth the money for the NVR and XmartO's newer cameras don't look much better.

Nach dem Auspacken auf dem Tisch funktionierte alles tadellos. Nach der Montage der Kameras war es dann aber mit der Freude vorbei.. Bereits nach wenigen Metern ohne Zwischenwände war eine Funktion nicht mehr gegeben. Ausführliche Beschreibung Fehlanzeige, Frage an Amazon Erwartungsgemäß ebenso Fehlanzeige. Die Programmierungist mit der mitgelieferten Beschreibung grade noch machbar, aber Fragen wie z.B. für welchen Zweck ist der Netzwerkanschluß an der Kamera ist , kann man die Kameras auch über ein LAN verbinden wird nicht beantwortet. Aus diesem Grund ist die Anlage nur brauchbar wenn sich alle Teile möglichst in einem Raum befinden. Dazu kann man wesentlich kostengünstiger kabelgebundene Kameras nutzen. Daher 0 Punkte auf alles hauptsächlich auf die Dokumentation 1 Stern nur weil ich sonst nicht abschicken kann

I was REALLY looking forward to getting and installing this camera and had planned to get a few more of them to finish off my system, but after it arriving in this terrible condition I will REALLY REALLY need to be convinced otherwise.

Camera is great but antenna range is below expectation and seems to be non replaceable with a stronger one or an extension. Recommend the camera for clarity and features.

Worked straight out of the box like it said. Images adequate for domestic use., very happy with it.

Excelente producto muy satisfecho