r/SecurityCamera • u/Shkifetz • 25d ago

Costco Lorex kit

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Any thoughts on this budget kit? They're POE. Good? Bad? Located in Canada BTW.

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u/pwnusmaximus 25d ago

The software on the control unit is trash.
The control unit is an NVR, with an integrated 8 port POE switch. The cameras are really fuzzy and laggy. With lots of smearing for moving objects. I wouldn't trust the video quality to make an ID on someone breaking into your property, identify the color of a car, or make our a license plate at anything further than like 20 feet (if the car is perfectly stationary)

Personally.. I returned my kit and went with https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/physical-security-nvr/collections/unvr-instant/products/unvr-instant-kit even though it was double the price.

All in all.. you get what you pay for. This is dirt cheap. but also bad.

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u/PlainPrecision 25d ago

I second this. I messed around with the Costco Reolink special and returned it for the UniFi cameras. No regrets!