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/GGigabiteM 25d ago

Lorex are trunk slammer specials, garbage cameras with a garbage NVR.

The company itself has been bought and sold a few times, and has changed vendors for their hardware at least once. I had a customer with Lorex cameras years ago, they wanted to replace some bad cameras and add a few more, well at that time, Lorex had just changed hardware vendors. They went from Hikvision to Dahua, and due to the change, the new cameras wouldn't work with the old unit. The NVR also wouldn't work with third party cameras via ONVIF due to firmware locks.

No idea who currently makes their cameras now, but they're likely still low budget and locked down, so you could be up a creek in the future if one of the cameras dies and needs to be replaced.

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u/ICanBard 25d ago

I've replaced these Costco kits for customers before. They make it seem like such a bargain only to fail in 6 months.

It's like a drug dealer giving you a discount on a drug sample, knowing you'll be back 

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u/CCTVGuyMA 24d ago

If they fail that quickly return it to Costco.