Amcrest AI 4K IP PoE NVR Security Cameras - Now has Person and Vehicle Detection.

[@sickegg2000]

Total agreed Amcrest need to really update their software in all platforms. I owned about 8 Amcrest camera, hardware is really good, but the software on IOS and PC are pretty bad and old. I am also one of the very few who actually uses their free PC-NVR… but again, very buggy, big learning curve, hard to use… but reliable after you really spent the time to set it up. They have the fastest notification and wide range of selection. But lack on “smart” and new feature, they didn’t even make their doorbell to be google/Alexa compatible. That’s one thing really stop me from buying more Amcrest….

[@cjjohnson6959]

I’ll take software that is powerful and customizable over one that’s “easy” to use.

[@gregorycarroll3793]

Perfect timing as I have recently found your channel and was looking at cameras like Ring and Eufy but lately have learned about NVR systems and was hoping you were going to make a video about the Amcrest and Reolinks....great vid as always!

[@mebroukcherifi9685]

Go for reolink 811A

[@LifeHackster]

Awesome! Thank you!

[@alexbruski]

Some of your complaints like spotlight, siren, two-way audio. Not sure if the 127 horizontal field of view would be too big though. Would love a review of this one! IP8M-TD2685EW-AI

[@mariathomas4815]

Thank you LH, my dear friend, for being honest about the truth about the products, I really appreciate your truthful nest.

[@MaximilianImaging]

Night Vision can be easily programmed in the web browser user interface under Camera/Configurations/Profile Management. This way you can program any ip camera with a Day and Night Schedule. Then under Camera/Configuration/Day&Night you will need to choose B&W for your Night schedule and the Night Vision turned on. That being said, it would be useful to always give your ip cameras and NVR static ip addreses.

[@jeffshamus1914]

I saw another video you did on the Reolink 811A. Do you like the IP8M-2696EW-AI or the 811A better?

[@primemegatron22]

Question, what is a good camera with *COLOR NIGHT VISION* ??? I am trying to avoid black and white night vision.

[@josephj6521]

Good question. From what I’ve noticed in the reviews, the Reolink RLC-811A seems good as the spotlight comes on to assist when it detects someone. I’ve seen Hikvision reviews and they seem to have the best colour night vision without any added lighting. Hikvision are more expensive. I’d like to get one or two Hikvision cameras and connect to a Reolink NVR but I believe it’s not possible.

[@macster1457]

What I don't understand is why do I need a separate app for the Amcrest doorbell. Would be so much better to just have the one app for all Amcrest cameras.

[@fatemehnazari6847]

Please do video on Reolink 811A, its very popular and I would love to see more reolink products for POE and Wifi!

[@LifeHackster]

I do have this but I haven't checked it out yet...will do soon... I also have their 1212A though that I also need to check out.

[@fatemehnazari6847]

@@LifeHackster thank you please make video it’s very interesting. Also LOREX Noctrunal is very popular if you want to do more of those videos

[@bobdroidsky225]

Yes, they are confused about their products. I ordered the ip8m-2796ew-AI and got sent ip8m-2696ew-AI (the one that has many wires). And it's even listed as both on their website. I wrote them a message about this.

[@Carsondreed7]

Did you receive your ring glass brake Sensor? I just ordered mine

[@jordyduran6558]

Reolink vs amcrest which is better I'm going to install a system of canaras and I don't know which one to choose

[@emmag7398]

How do you set up person motion notifications? I put "human" in the push settings but it's giving me alerts for all motion like a leaf blowing 😕

[@fatemehnazari6847]

Can you do a showdown with audio quality from all POE cameras please? i think it will do well on youtube and you can compare stuff from Lorex, Ammcrest, Reolink, Swann and other brand since you already have them?

[@LifeHackster]

That will be a good idea..Thanks.

[@fatemehnazari6847]

@@LifeHackster looking forward to it!

[@johnbod]

Considering your experience then the ultimate question comes in: Amcrest or Reolink for NVR?

[@lelandclayton5462]

In my honest professional opinion I would match the cameras to the NVR to keep things simple. I would go with Reolink. It's more user friendly and better bang for the buck.

[@fatemehnazari6847]

Do you think lorex is better than Reolink?? The problem with reolink is that their round dome cameras don't have siren or spotlight or two way audio!

[@mebroukcherifi9685]

I believe that reolink 811A is way better than any lorex camera

[@fatemehnazari6847]

@@mebroukcherifi9685 I agree it’s just that reolinks dome camera are really bad when compared to lorex as they don’t have siren or two way audio. I replay think reolink needs to create a fine camera with the same feature set as their bullet style ones

[@LifeHackster]

As to app and overall user experience, Lorex home app is better. The Fusion series that I have tested have 2 way talk and siren plus they have rich notifications... but you cannot beat Reolinks video quality, decent app and price.

[@DJDynamik]

Have you thought about reviewing a Hikvision/Uniview IP/NVR/POE system? Very interested.

[@RobertFrancis-ir6rh]

Can you use the Ring app on a computer? Like an HP laptop

[@williamnunez9609]

To be honest nothing will be good until we get 60fps and optical zoom at least by 10x and all this at 4k, but till then you always have to give up something

[@mobgma]

gonna be tough to get all this over POE with general limits of 15-24 watts (not including any drop overlong distances). the oem recorders/ switches often have problem with this.

[@gerardo9052]

Even with 4k at 30fps cameras, with 4 cameras the least amount of storage for an NVR Is going to be 10tb to record continuosly at least a week of footage Storage will become an issue the higher the resolution

[@mobgma]

@@gerardo9052 H265 and H265+ helps with this. Dont bother with x264 NVR's

[@gerardo9052]

@@mobgma thats a good tip, thanks

[@zeno15sti33]

Do you know any good resources for cross referencing the cameras between the different Chinese brands

[@chrisxleung]

Thanks for mentioning that this camera's AI can detect moving vehicles while ignoring parked vehicles. I'm trying to find a camera (wifi or PoE) that can do that well. Will you consider making a video for the comparison of multiple camera's ability to detect moving vehicles? It seems that Wyze Cam v3 will continue to notify of vehicles that are parked if they're in the frame.

[@anwar.shamim]

great review

[@LifeHackster]

Thanks.

[@anilranjit6209]

Do we need power wire?

[@theflyerpr40d]

How the notification speed compare between this amcrest, reolink and Lorex fusion?

[@LifeHackster]

About the same on all of them. They are pretty quick.

[@theflyerpr40d]

@@LifeHackster that good to know. Thanks!

[@AmariBowsershorts]

The app was even confusing for me watching this the model number is way too long and I'm surprised They haven't gone out of business

[@lelandclayton5462]

What do you expect for a Dahua OEM?

[@Alan-u1o7v]

Hi. So I am reaching out to you because of your great security system knowledge. Can you do a video on Amcrest model numbers for cameras and NVR's? It so difficult with all their choices to know which products are newer and the differences between the AI and non-AI models. There seem to be so many model numbers with very similar parameters and it is difficult to navigate. I hope you can help here?

[@RoadLifePursuits]

Finally moving up and doing amcrest again :) Crazy about the nvr and if you don't know what AI means, well...you need to read more and understand what you're looking at, I know you do, but so do the people doing research. I have the non AI version and of cource they upgraded right after I got mine. During your testing did you feel the AI was very accurate? I refuse to use the alerting due to so many false positives with the older non AI model. I agree the software is old and could use updating, but it's not that bad IMO, At least it works and really how often do you mess with the settings.

[@LifeHackster]

The AI Human and Vehicle detection are definitely working...no false notifications combining it with their motion zones. The notification and with AI processing is the quickest yet..within a second. It just needs a better app and one of the main issue I have is the one I demoed in the video... I normally cancel, turn off or snooze my notifications when I'm in my front yard or backyard and the process on how to turn it off and turning it back on loses all your settings and needing to redo everytime... the hardware and even the firmware on the cameras are great...just the app..they need to concentrate to make it user friendly.

[@RoadLifePursuits]

@@LifeHackster Would love to see a test in the front of your house at day/night to see how the AI works and headlights don't set it off.etc.etc. I hate the ones I have , a leaf, shadow, headlights...etc.etc.set off the motion so I don't use it, I just use them to record 24x7.

[@LifeHackster]

@@RoadLifePursuits I did, pretty accurate..it only detects and notifies you of moving cars and not already parked ones.

[@RoadLifePursuits]

@@LifeHackster Thought of another one, can you do 24x7 AND AI motion detection or is it 24x7 OR AI?

[@leonfisher]

Great review!

[@asifmohammed2632]

What is the motion detection distance at night in low light conditions?

[@ronm6585]

👍🏻 Thank you.

[@LifeHackster]

You bet!

[@estusflask982]

Amcrest might want to come up with a better name than "AI 4K IP PoE NVR IP8M-2696EW-AI"

[@gerardo9052]

How many days could you record with the SD card? How many gigabytes does the SD card is?

[@lelandclayton5462]

SD Cards are terrible for primary recording use for Cameras. A SD Card can only write so many times before it wears out. For a example with the Camera that was reviewed with 24hour recording, H.265+ encoding, medium video quality at 30 frames a second and medium activity with a 256GB SD card you'll get around 3 days. You'll probably get four to six months of use from the SD card before it fails.

[@gerardo9052]

@@lelandclayton5462 wow, i didnt know that Thanks for the info

[@chevymudding01]

I think the wyze v3 is the best them and Arlo pro 2 1080

[@Showstopper108]

Let’s goooooooooo

[@gerardo9052]

So if i understand correctly, the cameras were connected directly to the router (using a POE injector as to give the cameras power) and the cameras were recording continuosly to an sd card? And you can watch the footage through the app, the livestream, the notifications and the continuos recording (saved to the SD card) ? If thats the case, this Is a great setup Great review

[@ramramboo]

Hi, will this Amcrest camera work with any NVR or do I need a NAS drive? Also can it record to NVR/NAS at the same time as the SD card? Thanks.

[@armandox7]

I would just save a little more and get a reolink set up.

[@DJDuce5984]

Amcrest has a long way to go in my opinion compared to the other brands. I will stick with Reolink. Hopefully in the future things will change or they will not survive in the market.

[@shadow.banned]

Reolink's night vision is unacceptable.

[@BumpNrun69]

Go ahead and purchase the 12MP camera system... I dare ya' 😁

[@cjjohnson6959]

I like your channel and your videos however this review needs more. I have Eufy, Arlo, Wyze, Ring and Yi. The Amcrest out performs them all. Audio quality sucks but the video quality is great. The software is powerful but has a learning curve. Others have easy to use apps but can’t do as much as the Amcrest. Amcrest also has a variety of cameras to fit different needs. Criticizing an app that has more features than your camera has doesn’t make sense to me. that’s like saying Apple is better than android. I love my iPhone, but android phones give you far more control over your device than any Apple product does. Just my $0.02. I still like your channel.

[@LifeHackster]

You have to try Reolink if you like Amcrest app and you will know what I mean.

[@Blueberrycat626]

Sir is it possible to use hikvision nvr then the camera is amcrest ultrahd 4k 8mp outdoor camera?

[@xander-mk4ck]

best nvr camera system ?

[@arlenreyes4283]

Why do you have resolution at 3840 x 1260, that's not 4k...

[@LifeHackster]

3840x2160 is 4k.

[@arlenreyes4283]

@@LifeHackster So 9:04 is a typo

[@nick34377]

that looks exactly like lorex cameras! which don’t work with TMobile !!!!

[@lukasg5922]

I miss the intro song 😔

[@LifeHackster]

:) I'm into getting the content as fast and as soon as I can mentality now and it is a KZbin analytics thing..so I have to remove the intro...sorry.

[@lukasg5922]

@@LifeHackster no I understand

[@zuhairhlayel]

💐🌷🌹💐

[@johnbecich9540]

You're showing some "big league" testing, because you showed the camera's performance under adverse circumstances: Your neighbor's backyard floodlights spoofed the automatic night-shift inside the Amcrest camera. Thank you for that*. But the acid test, which you failed to perform, is the "nocturnal blur" test. I.e., can a face that is moving be RECOGNIZABLE, in recorded medium? Moreover, the ability to produce crisp nocturnal imagery, of a moving target, speaks to the COST OF THE GLASS; i.e., the lens. To remain cost competitive, surveillance camera manufacturers to cheap on the lenses, which are expensive if excellent. They compensate for this with electronic amplification; i.e., dirt cheap electronic components. Yet Amcrest cameras are not as inexpensive as Reolink, for what you get. UNLESS that nocturnal blur, by Amcrest, beats Reolink's RLC-811A, which my testing showed to have unacceptable nocturnal blur. *I suggest you keep that "neighbor's flood lights" in the test, but THEN erect an optical barrier, like some kind of opaque screen. This could be accomplished using four 16 foot vertical poles, in a line, just inside your back property line. Span the distance with another horizontal pole that goes up and down, and pulls an opaque screen up and down with it.

[@Fryn_Hayn]

So what you're saying is spend a little bit more on the RLC-811A ?

[@BumpNrun69]

@@Fryn_Hayn wrong suggestion... sending my reolink back.

[@COCO_87]

Old app and camera only 20fps max,dont buy! Thx dude!

[@toolate6971]

Ghost Vision

[@pauljohnson9326]

Hmm this camera looks awful and I'm so glad I got eufy . We need a clear zoom feature with higher fps and we golden.

[@RedRyz3n]

I don’t trust this company. There cameras always failed.