That's a lovely fairy-tale of US xenophobia and scaremongering that our government played 'follow my leader' with. Stop and consider for a moment, if you are running a secure CCTV system on a site of a sensitive nature at any level, surely you'd air gap that on a dedicated network with no connection to the outside world? Even in a home environment where we are all about the convenience of our video doorbells/cameras and remote notifications, do you honestly think China care what time I let the dog out for a wee or that the Evri driver put 4 rolls of obscenely expensive wallpaper in my cupboard without ringing the bell? If they were, easier and softer targets exist that are generally going to be much more useful.
They may not care, but that does not necessarily stop them collecting the data.
I'd be much more concerned with the UK governments passing of laws requiring meta data collection for everyone and the worryingly large number of departments with tenuous justifications for accessing it. Either way, your logic is still flawed as all the brands and equipment you have suggested are somehow better are still made using Chinese components in Chinese factories by Chinese workers.
Had a good look at this and as an NVR it looks pretty good, I like what it can do.
For non-Chinese software, no subscription, and a company who will warrant and support the product I think it's reasonably priced.
Have you actually looked at what a comparable camera set-up from a non garbage tier OEM costs? I can't get my head round how you can't find reviews of one of the most reviewed brands in the sector, man + dog reviews them, where did you look? If you want longer footage retention, feel free to up the storage or offload it to network storage you presumably already have, CCTV's value isn't in multi-year retention, it's in being able to recall events within a few days or weeks to work out when something happened, if you aren't noticing things for years, that's a different problem. You'll find adding Hikvision etc. works, but without the advanced detection/integration as it relies on the camera's ability to trigger warnings, and without paying even more per camera for the Ubiquiti AI controller for each camera (or waiting till the gen 2 version supporting multiple cameras becomes a thing), you'll struggle.
That's because you aren't buying the cameras, you're being sold an over priced subscription. 5 years from now you've thrown £419 on two cameras that should have cost you significantly less, and that's not including the bump in subscription rates over the same period.
I'm saying I can't find in depth reviews of the cameras themselves, in all conditions to know if they're right for me. By all means, link me up if you know of any. The NVR looks a great bit of kit and yes the HDD is not big enough in the kit, but it would do as a starting point. Their price for buying a hard drive separately tells me they overprice their kit a little, but I don't mind spending the money if it ticks all boxes and meets my needs.
There's a few but none of them (so far) have shown me enough, its that simple. After all, the camera quality is what I'm after and the basis of any CCTV system.
Really? 4 cameras cost £379.20, the NVR lists at £190.80, that leaves £48 for a certified 1TB drive, or 1p more than OCUK will sell you a Seagate 1TB drive for:
Can I just say, you come across as quite aggressive and unfortunately quite arrogant. Do you speak to everyone that way? I appreciate you might be somewhat of an expert or perhaps just an enthusiast, but either way I'd happy to listen to your advice when it's offered without the attitude.
Must be normal, they show as on my ignore list. Lol
Please, feel free, you're entitled to your opinion, I mean if i'd just been asked by someone who was trying to help me what specifically I needed to see in order to make an informed choice and the best I could come up with was 'non of the reviews had shown me enough' and then had it pointed out my earlier statement about price was equally poorly reasoned, I may choose to be butt hurt too, but that would be a me problem, or in this case, a you problem. If you work out what you actually need to see, feel free to ask, I don't hold grudges and may actually be able to help, but I won't loose any sleep either way
Can you actually post a reply without some sort of childish insult? Butt hurt?? I just feel its better to be respectful and polite. My reasoning is perfectly sound for me, who are you to tell me otherwise? I've already stated what I wanted in my first post, but I'm sorry if it wasn't specific enough for you, and once again, none of the reviews of the G5 cameras (so far) show me everything I want to see and I'm also weighing up if I now want colour night vision.Please, feel free, you're entitled to your opinion, I mean if i'd just been asked by someone who was trying to help me what specifically I needed to see in order to make an informed choice and the best I could come up with was 'non of the reviews had shown me enough' and then had it pointed out my earlier statement about price was equally poorly reasoned, I may choose to be butt hurt too, but that would be a me problem, or in this case, a you problem. If you work out what you actually need to see, feel free to ask, I don't hold grudges and may actually be able to help, but I won't loose any sleep either way
For someone asking for help you did seem to be weirdly obtuse about it 'reviews don't show me what I want to see'
