Hi Folks,
I'm in the market for a new NVR. I have a Lorex 300 series. For the most part, it sucks.
The basics are fine-- IP 1080 cameras with terrific night vision.
Cameras look great. App isn't too awful.
Suggestions? Here are more thoughts:
What I'm looking for a dream NVR:
-Something that's super easy to operate. Intuitive interface.
-Easy to link to a phone app of some sort when I'm off site.
-Fast
-Doesn't crash or go offline too often
-Compatible with my Lorex 1080 IP (IP Powered) cameras
-Will accept 4K as I upgrade
-Can reset or auto reset a camera if it stops receiving an image from a camera
-16 camera capacity for future use
What I don't like about the Lorex:
-The interface is fairly awful. Clunky, constantly repeating the same clicks, no logic to the layout.
-The networking inside the home works, but getting anything to a phone outside my home network worked for the first year, and I never was able to revive it.
-The NVR goes offline too often. Cameras drop out. You can't restart a camera with a click, you have to physically unplug it. A reboot can get things revived. Sometimes I just reformat the internal drive and that will clear things up.
-I don't have a sense of how this thing is going about its business.
-Can't jog or search backward during playback
What I like about the Lorex:
-Playback and image quality is terrific (It's an HD system.)
-Night vision on the cameras work extremely well for everything but a license plate.
-In Playback it links multiple cameras
-Marker system for easy searching of events
Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
