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NVR Buying Advice

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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.

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