1080P Wireless Security Camera System, Firstrend 8CH Wireless NVR System with 4 pcs 1080P Security IP Camera and 2TB Hard Drive Pre-Installed, 65 ft Night Vision and Easy Remote Monitoring

After a 4:am visit from LVMPD regarding suspicious activity on my street and neighborhood, I spent several hours researching security camera surveillance systems. After determining my needs and many other factors including NOT needing fancy bells and whistles. Just a solid, reliable, functional, simple and affordable security camera system and the fact that it came with a 2T hard drive didn't hurt my feelings. Most of the others were 1T for about the same price. It came down to three candidates. I'm so glad I chose the "Firstrend 8CHL Wireless NVR System". Mainly because the cameras are factory linked to the NVR before they're shipped. Truly is Plug & Play! You'll definitely need an HDMI Monitor or TV to get started. I just happened to have an old 2008 21" 1080i TV that I could use as a monitor. (See Pics). I spread everything out in my home office, plugged everything in, followed a few simple instructions and BAM! there it was. 4 very clear images on the monitor! Couldn't have been happier! Now the real work begins. These are powered, hard wired cameras. 110vac power supply to each camera is needed. The cameras themselves were very simple to mount but It will take some thought, enginuity and a bit of craftyness if you are like me and didn't have a power supply anywhere near where I wanted to mount the cameras. As you can see by the pics, I managed to get power to all of them. Just took a couple days of climbing through the garage attic, pulling wire and mounting elec. boxes etc... but it was truly worth the work! Once everything was installed and powered up I turned on the monitor and BAM! once again the images just lit up. The daytime images are clear and crisp, the night images (although black and white) are also very clear as well. A little adjusting on the camera angles and my setup was perfect! Now it was time to download the software to my desktop. Windows 10, no problem. Mac desktop. still can't get the software to download, Stupid Apple thing I guess. Proprietorial POS won't accept dmg files without dropbox or something like that. I do have a call into tech and will let my wife handle that. It's her crApple. The apps on our phones were a snap and simple to use. My android and her iphone came right up no problemo! Still learning the ins and outs of setting up and using the many fine intricacies of the software. I decided to leave it hooked to its own monitor. Just simpler to manage the system from there rather than from downloaded software. I was lucky, I had a monitor to start with. You will need one too. Even if you use your big screen HDMI input. Or, Walmart has a great 22" HDMI 1080P monitor for under $100. You won't be able to use your laptop to set up the system either. It's not a monitor. Now, to make a long story even longer, (but this is the sweet part and hence the Headline) System installed complete on sunday. The following tuesday early morning, there was a thief prowling the neighborhood and he was caught on our new system! Our next door neighbor is an LVMPD lieutenant and the punk was caught on our system getting into his car, then moving on to my house and checking the locked doors on my truck using a flashlight to look inside, then moved on across the street where he successfully got into my neighbors truck. Must have seen something he liked cause he jimmied the locked door and spent several minutes in there. then went on to two other neighbors homes checking gates and vehicles before moving out of sight. LVMPD came to our home at 7:30am this morning (yes, I'm writing this review just 12 hrs later) and asked if they could review our video from early this morning. Of course we let them in. The detective was able to pull up a fairly clear image of this punks face, downloaded 30 seconds of the video we had and took it with him. On his way out, he sincerely expressed his gratitude for people like us who take an interest in the security of our homes and neighborhoods. It made his job much more successful. He said with his equipment he would be able to clearly enhance the image and catch this Punk SOB. He would let us know when they do. Bottom Line: Money well spent on a great security camera system. Thank You Firstrend! Now if we could only get it to work on the Mac :) hmmmm

I'm updating this review today Jan 28, 2020: I've had the system installed and working fine since Oct 2018 I wrote the review below soon after we got her up and running without problems. Last month we had some sort of power glitch or unprotected power spike (as noted on the recorded time-stamp of video feed.) Both exterior cameras went on the fritz. Since the unit is just a bit outside out of its 12-month warranty and after a short email exchange with the manufacturer’s representative (Neal) requesting a couple of steps to get the two cameras back online, they, Firstrend have been gracious enough to offer sending me two (2) more exterior cameras which we were not able to repair and get back online. My 15-month experience with this product and the help of their rep. Neal still justifies me giving them 5 stars! Their email help is quick and efficient and their out-of-warranty product support is what's to be expected from a successful company! FIRST REVIEW: "This review is for the n1080P Wireless Security Camera System, Firstrend 8CH Wireless NVR System with 4pcs 1080P Security IP Camera and 2TB Hard Drive Pre-Installed, 65ft Night Vision and Easy Remote Monitoring. Got it set up in about 5 hours (running extra ethernet cable 65 feet to garage and hanging 5 cameras) and the screen views are excellent! Do spend the few extra bucks and get the 1080p system. Motion sensitivity program algorithms need some work though. Too sensitive, even at the lowest settings. Workaround is to record only during motion activation at select periods of time and eliminate the continual recording (if you don't want to overrun old recordings on your drive or if your drive is not big enough or absent and you only want to get notifications either by email or text) You can record both continually and when motion-activated and then separate files into two folders for easier viewing later or you can record either continually only or motion detection only. One big plus is that all cameras record even though only one camera was motion activated. And they only record for 30 seconds after motion activation, not hours, sucking up your hard drive space. This parameter of recoding time is not adjustable. 1080p picture quality of viewing live shots and recorded shots is EXCELLENT, whether it's on your iPhone or your Windows machine! Daisy, in their service group, is wonderful! She was able to resolve the major two hiccups during the set-up, syncing of extra 5th camera (deleting and adding a new ip address of new camera that didn't come with the new 4 camera system, a simple procedure since everything is menu-driven) and why a black and white picture when should be 1080p color (default of system during low light/night conditions in area where camera was surveilling.) The color came back during daylight :)

Love Love Love our security system and it was pretty easy to set up, has night vision which is great for the backyard at night. They also have excellent customer service too, they are very prompt at getting back to you with helpful and understandable responses. It's all through email/Messages which works great when you work nights. I want to send out a Thank you to Yvette for assisting me. Looking forward to continuing to use this product that will add a few more cameras down the road. :) I did get help from Amazon to found out where and how to ask for assistance. So I want to make it simple too for others, Here is where you find the path to get the email/messaging started. You go to "Sold by WiseArrive and Fulfilled by Amazon.." section on the right hand side of the product, click on "WiseArrive" the company who's selling the wonderful product (which is below the buy now button). Once you get to the next page you will see info about the company and to the right you will see where it says "Have A question for WiseArrive?" you click on "ask a question" and it begins. :)

I purchased this product in June 2022, and I just completed the installation today. The actual physical installation was very easy, took 30minutes or so. It was nice to have the ability to use a wired/wireless option to connect the cameras. It is as advertised as plug and play for the most part. When the device turned on it connected to the cameras quite quickly. There was some issues with the interface that I had to contact customer service for. Jespen at firstrend was absolutely fantastic. Jespen was able to efficiently diagnose the issue and came up with fixes that were straightforward to implement. The text interactions made it easy to communicate and allowed us to show pictures and videos of the problem and fixes. This is one of the better experiences when dealing with customer support call centres. This really does show the company’s commitment to their product and their willingness to stand behind its product. Thanks for all your support and positivity, Jespen!

There's not a lot to do to get your camera system up and running. It's easy plug and play. They all connect automatically when powered on. Image quality is decent and the NVR menu is easy enough to navigate even if it's your first time with this type of product. I emailed customer service about a power adapter issue and I received a response 12hrs later. Michelle wanted my phone number to call me about fixing the issue but I manged on my own before I could respond. Can't beat that for service. I can recommend Firstrend at that price and quality. Update June 2022: The weak link in this product seems to be their power adapter units. I've had two fail within the first year. I would also like to have one camera with sound recording but still happy with the system overall though.

The cameras are working but programming is not user friendly. Never been able to setup the motion detection function. Do not expect any customer service whatsoever, there is no answer neither from email or by the phone. Oh, and the app used for distance viewing is average at best. There are plenty other cameras on the market, do not buy this one.

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