ANNKE 8CH 3K Lite H.265+ Security Digital Video Recorder, 1TB Hard Drive

Easy to set up and configure. Its only two weeks old so time will tell. Ill update if there is an issue.

The quality of the DVR is outstanding. So far I cannot stress enough how quiet this device is. Recording capacity is fair and setup is easy. no issues as of yet and I have had this dvr for months now. It is feature packed and you do get notifications on your phone for triggers. so far I like what this is.

I got this to replace a very old/dead BNC DVR. The existing cameras and cabling I had worked with this one no problem. The included firmware/software is a bit rough, with broken English, iffy OS/browser compatibility (it seems to favor Windows heavily, which should be up front in its marketing), and the software is rather sloppy. The upside however, is that the DVR supports farming out the camera feeds via RTSP streams, which means you can simply put them into Home Assistant (via the HACS "WebRTC Camera" plugin) and never think about the Annke software again unless you need to do something in the weeds. So points for that. So far, so good. Will update if anything happens long term.

Works great.

UPDATE: Lowered from 2 Stars to 1. I bought the 8mp annke system after this one didn't work as advertised. That one was even worse. Writing a review for that one next. Stay far away from Annke brand. You'll get one response from customer service per day in broken english. They'll give you pictures of where to click and on what menus - but they do not match the system. For instance: they say "Click the 'page' icon and then go to blah blah blah" But there IS NO page icon. The user interface they're trying to coach me on is different than what I have. Different firmware or something. I don't know. UPDATE END. ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW. There is more bad with this setup than good. My main concern is that I can't backup video files in an easily viewable format. I've been fiddling with this for days now downloading all different players and converters and I've yet to play a video on my PC. How are the police supposed to examine the footage??? They're just coming to hang out in my living room to watch the monitor here? And what if I find the criminal and take him to court? How do they view the footage? This is a very simple feature that should take priority. Contemplating returning it since a LOT of the features just flat out don't work: CONS - There is no USB slot in the front of the system. Making it a pain to plug in a thumb drive to backup files. Something this dvr REALLY doesn't want you to do apparently... - The DVR records in weird 15-30 second chunks. I need to backup hours at a time. Impossible when every clips is 15 seconds... (see image) - It SAYS you can backup files as AVI. But you really can't. Broken feature. See images. - The H265+ might be incredible. I have no idea. I can't view it on my PC. Even after trying to download several players and converters as recommended by their customer service. I can only view video ON the DVR itself. - It's VERY difficult to search for a specific time. It just doesn't work. It shows a list of literally one thousand 15-30 second clips. All jumbled and out of order. How am I supposed to find a specific hour? I can't. - I can't export AVI clips. I understand the quality might not be as great. But if you CAN'T VIEW the H265+ mp4 files then who cares how clear it is? My home/cars gets vandalized way too often. I upgraded to this 5mp clearer set up to hopefully help police identify them. The police in my area are just bad. Lazy. I can barely get them to view my shoddy AVI files from my previous system. I will NEVER get them to download a specific player and install it in their computers there in order to just view MY security camera footage. Even if they were technically capable of it, which they're not, they're just too lazy to go through all that. They'll just say "The files wouldn't open". So, again, what good is this system if you can't show people the videos? Just so I can see with crystal clarity the guy who destroys my property and be upset about it? - Smart view: supposedly shows you a timeline of your recording. Regular is blue. Motion detected in red. So you can save time by skipping to areas where motion is detected. Very cool feature.... if it worked. It doesn't. There was no red on my timeline (there were a lot of cars going by). It works the same as regular playback. - Timeline displays time in 24hr format even though I set it to a 12hr format. - The instructions given to me by customer service don't apply to my dvr. They're telling me to click options that just aren't there. PROS - The rewind is very smooth. I'm really frustrated with this system. Custom service was no help with my issues. So much of this just doesn't make any sense. Why can't I output in AVI even though it says it's an option? Why can't I backup more than 2 cameras at a time? Why can't I backup hour long blocks? It feels so broken...

I just installed this unit after having an Amcrest unit for nearly a decade and it is functioning great, so far.

Well as of now works really well and very easy to install and very happy with the 2 extra ip camera you can add besides the 8 CCTV Cameras .

Ive been using an 8 channel annke system for about 6 years. Ive still got the original cameras but the dvr i had to replace bc it stopped working. The entire time ive had annke, the live view is very reliable but the recording and alert systems have never worked correctly for me. Ive activated the record motion feature many many times but still only a few of the 8 cameras will actually record and alert (notification to the phone)

I had a broken Swann Dvr and bought this to replace it. Literally plug and play. Annke even seems to have a better operating system than Swann did with more reliability within the app.

Replaced a 12 year old OEM unit with the Annke and I’m very impressed, easy to install, worked with my existing cameras and the app is fast and reliable, even the camera image is sharper with this new unit. Very happy considering my alarm guy quoted me $2000 for a replacement DVR

I was able to install easily and set up with a phone app. Good quality image and easy to use with Iphone and Ipad. However, I cant give 5 stars as I could not get it to work with my PC which is where I really want to be able to see it. When searching for solutions I could see that I was not alone and many others had same issue.

I bought this to replace an older Swann DVR that had stopped working and their app was no longer supported. This worked perfectly, it was a straight swap, I just moved the BNC cables from the old unit to this one and it worked. Setting up the app was easy and it has some great features like person and car detection. Great value, great product.

infra red stopped working in 1 month