Easy installation, pretty good software, very good image quality.

The system was great and easily installed. The 50ft cables were not usable with the sealed weather proof camera connectors. Had to make my own with out the boots and place the sealed connector on before crimping. When the tech installs the Hard drive they need to secure it or ship it separately! HD only had one screw holding it in the unit and flopping around. Easy fix for a IT person but not so for a standard buyer. Note system will not download the player when exporting files? The issues with the cat 5e cables, poor HD installation and no downloading of the player cost you a full star.

We bought this kit and had it installed by an expert. He was impressed with the picture quality of the cameras at the price we paid. We also purchased the outdoor wire and would recommend a UPS backup with a newer router that has a VPN for remote viewing.

Works out of the box. Need I say more. Buy it, even better for DIYers.

Based on the images, I was expecting a different NVR, but this in fact comes with a LTS security LTN8704-P4. It's very good and doesn't skimp on spec though. The cameras are LTS cmip7422-28m (same as brovision). The picture quality is pretty great and it's reasonably easy to install. You can use a variety of apps to drive the NVR remotely - ivms-4200 also works.

I've set the NVR up so it can't get out of my firewall and use OpenVPN to log in remotely so I can regulate what's coming into my home network. I wish the NVR could do dual stream recording (or if it's there, somehow to easily access that feature) so that a low resolution stream could be sent to my phone and high resolution for the details. The NVR can either do continuous or motion timelines, but not a combination. You can do an event search in post though. I also haven't got the email feature to work regardless of 3 different SMTP servers and a variety of firewall settings. I think this would be rather annoying though since motion alerts are pretty sensitive to wind if you have a lot of trees that cast shadows throughout the day. I tried some other cameras from costco, and the picture quality of this setup is vastly superior for less money.

PROS: Good quality images
Easy setup
Solid feeling hardware
Software adopts known standards

CONS: Short cables
Some software niggles
No VCA (not expected at this price though)

Nice item and I have DDNS setup and checked, but cannot access the camera feed anywhere other than from home.

PROS: Cost, ease of use (sort of)

Very very happy with this purchase. I was specifically looking for a PoE surveillance system with dome cameras when I came across this setup from Monoprice. I took a gamble and ordered it and am so glad that I did. The only two drawbacks are the small Hard Drive size of 500GB. (This is something you could always upgrade yourself or do what I did and only record motion events) and the 50ft cables. It comes with four sets of 50ft cables. I ordered 2 additional 100ft runs of Cat5e to run the the edge of my home. Its pretty much ready to go out of the box and the amount of features that this system offers will take some time to set up if you like to configure things and want to observe your cameras away from your home or business. If not use it as is for most people this will be exactly what you want. Like I mentioned earlier, to save hard drive space I configured my cameras to only record motion triggers rather than continuous. I was able to set exactly where I wanted the camera to trigger these events. For example my American Flag flying off my porch post will not trigger the motion activation since I have this section marked off. Setting up the network features took some time since the instructions are limited but through my research I was able to determine that these are LTS NVR Security receivers which are rebranded Hikvision. LTS has full instructions and several tutorial videos online and an awesome tech support department that helped me with my final tweaking of setup parameters. The cameras are truly HD and capture in 1080. The video image is very clear and details are easily seen. I believe they are also manufactured by Hikvision, googling the model number located on the bottom they show as Brovision cameras which appears to be another LTS brand. The box, packaging, design and specs all match Hikvision dome cameras found on their website. Viewing everything through the network is done through the ip address and through MVNS7000 this is both a phone app and computer program. Setup is simplified with a 2d code that will tell MVNS7000 your settings so that you can be spared entering them yourself. NVMS7000 is available for Windows/Mac/Iphone/Ipad and Android. LTS offers the ability on their website to create a free DDNS. I have mine setup to connect to my internal home network and also through the DDNS site I set up so the cameras can be viewed from anywhere on my mobile devices. Overall minus the smaller hard drive (its a Western Digital Green Series) and the small 50 foot network cable runs its a fantastic system for the price. Two 100 foot cables was under $20 and a new hard drive may run 50 to 100 in the future. Purchasing the four cameras and the NVR separately would easily put you at double the cost of this package. Hopefully this review helps someone in the decision to purchase this system

PROS: Pros: Price
Quality
Performance
Features of NVR


CONS: Cons: Small Hard Drive.
50ft Cat5e cable runs. 75 or 100 would be more practical for most.
No option to upgrade HD or Cables when purchasing.

This system has exceeded my expectations and the price is very competitive for a dome system. The setup is easy and the cameras are detected by the system within 1-2 minutes of connecting them. The quality of the video is good and detailed. These cameras do not support facial recognition or people counting but it appears that the recorder does. You can use other cameras if you wish. The GUI on the recorder is adequate and the menu setup, though large, works just fine. There is an iOS app which works with this system called NVMS7000. The app is actually very easy to setup and let you view the cameras live and playback recorded video anywhere you have an internet connection. I will note that the instructions are not very good but I have not run into any issues that I could not figure out.

Overall I really like the system at the price. Everything has worked for me as described.

PROS: iOS app
Easy Setup
Video Quality is Good


CONS: Instructions are not well-written

Very Easy to set up