I appreciate when people clearly state what needs improvement on a product. It's good for potential buyers as well as good info for the company that makes them.

@RickvanderValk14

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for comment Bryant! appreciate you telling me what you liked about the video.

@RedondoBeach2

2 жыл бұрын

Do you have an opinion on how the hardware holds up to climate conditions such as direct sunlight, high heat, rain, high winds, etc?

@beencraftn6612

Жыл бұрын

@@RickvanderValk14 Great video! Have you purchased a new system since this great video? If so, what do you use now? Thank you. :)

@ronedelenbos272

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Rick, it's been 4 years now, are you still happy with Lorax. I'm not really a tech guy, but I need to install some security. Are the new Lorax setups upgraded ? Have you looked at the new Costo Lorax setups ?

One of the best videos I have seen recently. Extremely informative:)

I just purchased Lorex 6 Camera 8 Channels from Cosco and your video encouraged me to go with brand and couple of reviews, your video is fantastic really likeit, thanks a lot.

Looking at all these systems myself right now and this was perfect information. Thanks so much for the thoughtfulness and thoroughness.

@RickvanderValk14

3 жыл бұрын

Your welcome. Good Luck!

Thanks for the feedback haus. I was pretty sure I'd pickup this system and this is the third video I watched on the subject and helped solidify my perspective. Cheers my man.

You did a hell of a job on this video. you get 100 out of 100. thanks again.

Thanks for putting in the work! I will more confident in purchasing this system now. Cheers mate!

@RickvanderValk14

2 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

I got my Lorex 4K Ultra NVR system right before you posted your first video on you purchase of your system. Mine has worked flawless also. Thank you for the time you spend and the info you provided.

THanks Rick, very useful. I just had a car break in, and it was petty, but time to buy a good home security camera. Your review on Lorex 4K really helps, thanks!

Thank you for the video I think this is the most comprehensive video on yt about the lorex system.

I'm in the process of looking for a security video solution and am surprised that I'm now looking at NVR systems. I found your video/thoughts to be very insightful and helpful. Thank you.

Very well thought out and nice review, thank you!

Thanks dude really good review

Hi Rick, very nice review. You covered all aspects and tell us very honestly about it. Love it. Subscribed ;)

This is a great review. Straight forward and informative. Good job. :)

Great video and very helpful information... Well done!!

Lorex is really an outstanding system! Very nice quality!

Excellent video. Very informative. Looking at installing the Lorex NVR IP system.

Great info! Thanks for sharing.

So glad you did this tape. Something it can be confusing. I'm convinced. Thx

Yeah I considered wireless cameras as well. However, the wireless cameras I tested only recorded 2 minutes at max and drained the battery real quick. Ended up getting the lorex so I can record 24/7. Your tutorial with the lorex software was really helpful!

@elbello1975

3 жыл бұрын

How many days you can keep on the memory? Before it gets erase?

@savegrow6146

3 жыл бұрын

@@elbello1975 depends on how big your storage is and the number of cameras. But at least 10+ days for 4K 24/7 recording.

@SickNastyyy

6 ай бұрын

Not only that, but the amount of videos I've seen of people and company employees easily hacking and watching everything you do and say is terrifying.

Honest, with full detail review. Good job.

I have a Lorex system & just like my old system I always purchase a 6 - 8 TB harddrive & swap out for the larger drive. It gives me about a month and a half of saved footage. All in all the system is good for me. This review was great thanx.

What a fantastic review. Many thanks.

Thanks for the great video! 👍

Thanks Rick for your feedback, I am a Lorex customer for a long time, I have a WiFi system installled almost eight years ago and still up & running no issues with an old app Lorex SD Pro. I recently got my Fusion NVR and connected my two Pan tilt cameras. So far so good with Wi-Fi cameras. I really like about Lorex is a customer service very responsive and always there to help. I would defenately recommend Lorex.

Very informative video, Rick. Thank you, sir.

A police detective of 30 years said, having cameras, and having “camera signs “ is 50% of theft deterrent . 💯💯💯💯

Excellent video, thank you so much for doing it.

@RickvanderValk14

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

Very well explained! Thank you

Hi Rick! You said just about everything I have been thinking about my lorex system. I bought mine thru Amazon with 6 cameras and I just added 2 more. So far I have caught 2 coyotes eating my neighbors cat (sad), a catalytic converter thief (driving a newer mercedes, believe it or not) and a drive by shooter from around the corner. Unfortunately because it was 1130 at night, all I could see of the shooters car was a red blur as he was flying past my house. When you have cameras the neighbors knock on the door asking if I saw anything. Then the police knocked on my door asking about the shooter. I also have ezviz wireless cameras as well as a wireless reolink that I mounted to a street sign hoping to catch license plates. The lorex system is the most reliable, the wireless systems are easier to place, but are prone to drop out or are late in activating. Anyone who would ask me what I would recommend, the lorex system would be my first response. Followed by, "get a doorbell camera." Most people don't look up at your cameras, but they all look down at the doorbell camera. Thanks for the video!

@guadalupeceballos8176

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your extremely informative comment , I’ll go ahead and buy this at Costco that’s on sale now 10/23/21 for $679 here in California

@paulmiyagishima7655

2 жыл бұрын

@@guadalupeceballos8176 You are welcome. Don't forget to purchase a doorbell camera. That camera will get a perfect picture of who is in front of your door and will get a picture of any package thieves. Burglars will also knock on your door to see if anyone is home and then break in thru the back of your house. A wired doorbell camera is always ON. A battery powered doorbell camera will take a second to turn on. By that time the thief has your package and you will only have a picture of the back of their head. Thanks!

@QuincyKintay

2 жыл бұрын

What doorbell camera you recommend?

@paulmiyagishima7655

2 жыл бұрын

@@QuincyKintay Hi. I use a Ezviz DB1 system. There are a dozen reviews of different models. Each will have their strengths and weaknesses. If your door is facing south, the camera could be blinded by the sun. If it is in a dark area and there is too much sun behind the person, you won't get a clear picture of the person. Take your time before choosing and look at the reviews. Hope that helps.

@christinalove1309

2 жыл бұрын

Was the lorex camera the one that showed the red car driving by and you were not able to identify the car?

Very informative thank you!

Rick, thx for this video…. A breath of fresh air…what we consumers need !! Better the most of the reviews…uhh.. actually the new form of advertising, that you’re not sure to believe. Bravo

Beautiful review 🙏

Very useful advice thanks a lot

Lorex has been good for me. I have had no system issues - no reboots needed. Granted I still don’t have my cameras mounted but I have one looking over my cats liter box and one in my indoor garden rack. Lawn guy said the window broke so I thankfully had cameras at the basement window and saw if it cracked or not. No issues with exporting video footage. The only con I have is the lack of storing the video footage on a network share. I understand you can connect a usb drive and then storage it there but I want to offload it to a network drive.

Thank you. Blessings for your family.

Thanks for the great review. Them damn birds letting loose on your car at 9:10 😂

Great video thanks for the info

Thanks for your instructive video which decided me to order my kit today. For an update about your video, now their Fusion system allow to combine POE and Wifi devices but this functionnality is only available on entry NVR recorders.

Very informative. Thanks i may consider the same

Very helpful... I'm feeling good about the system.

Love that Focus in the driveway!!!

I use mine to monitor lawn conditions while at work. I'm even thinking of buying a few more cameras just for that. Worked great also for catching a hit and run driver who hit a car parked in front of my home. I was able to use the camera footage....and audio....to trace where the driver went. The next day we found his car parked a few blocks down....got pictures of the his license, the damage on his car, and called the police who watched the footage and immediately investigated the person and cited him for hit and run. Without the footage we would have had no idea what car to look for.

@RickvanderValk14

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment about your lawn made me laugh. I look at mine all the time too hahaha.

Great name, great video, great information!

The biggest and best think about Lorex is that their system works both backward and forward. Meaning the tech can be older or new and Lorex has your back. If you have the BNC cable of the system, you can add wireless

Hi Rick, you said everything. Great advice for new users. I work with Lorex for over 8yrs. Just one tip for system IP 4k I use Amcrest cameras. It work great with Lorex, and customers happy. Better zoom, better fish eye, and everyone with better microphone.

@RickvanderValk14

2 жыл бұрын

interesting ;)

@chriscopp8090

2 жыл бұрын

That's good to know thanks, I'm about to get an 8 ch 4 cam IP Lorex. I liked my old one off Amcrest.

@buckfifty-two-thousand8640

2 жыл бұрын

I could never get my wireless doorbell to work :(

This is exactly what I needed thank you.

@RickvanderValk14

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Great video, very informative, looking to get a system this may be the one. Have to say, the segment where you talk about the bus, the car getting sprayed by the bird that flew by was just too funny! Not sure if anyone else noticed 😂 great content!!

You can change the lenses on all these lorex / dahua / hik cameras and get any zoom you want. It's all based on field of view. The default lens on a bullet cam is like 2.8mm. Takes 10 minutes or less to replace it with a narrower field of view (closer zoon). Maybe a couple screws to undo, remove old lens -- usually threadlockered in -- screw in new lens while it's hooked up and make sure it's focused. Then reassemble. New lense will run you

@chuckb2175

2 жыл бұрын

where do you get the lens you are talking about

@MoY206

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah where can you buy these?

@bobnewhart4318

2 жыл бұрын

What are the name of these lenses and do you have a link?

@beastslayer9153

2 жыл бұрын

where can you buy these?

@rubenfabela9285

2 жыл бұрын

🦗🦗🦗

I too bought the Arlo and returned it for the same reasons as you stated, bought the Lorex but the feature I liked about the Arlo is " Geo Fencing " whereas the notifications are shut off when you are connected to wifi. Which is nice because you don't have to remember to turn them on when leaving home.

GREAT EDUCATIONAL VIDEO! Thanks so much for taking the time to do this video, we are looking at a LOREX dome camera system for our home Sir do You have any experience with them, once again many thanks for sharing your experience with LOREX and most of all PLEASE stay healthy and safe up there!

thanks for sharing!!! Lorex did a commercial during me watching your video. Hope they contacted you and sponsor you in the future.

Very good information...

This is a well made video by an excellent speaker. Rick does not bore and is refreshingly succinct in his dissertation. No dead air space or vanity; and no arrogance! Rick is straight to the point! I just had a six cam Lorex system professionally installed for $1400; system cost $400 at Costco. I am not at all pleased with it, but I have only had it a week and maybe I don’t understand how it works yet. Have not read instructions or called Lorex, but thought the installer would have been more helpful to teach me the ropes. I dislike the cams.there are lights only on some cams, but they are worthless anyway, and no voice. Cams are grainy. . Every cam must load Every time I want to see it. Videos are jerky. You could never make out detail. I really hate this system. It freezes up my phone at times- so if I saw someone in the yard I couldn’t call the cops anyway! Uggh!

@RickvanderValk14

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for the nice comment, sorry your having some issues with your system, call Lorex make sure you are setup properly, maybe some settings are not good yet. What system model did you get?

I appreciate the timing that flock of birds had to lay down carpet bombing raid as it was being filmed. AND the accuracy was impeccable.

2 thumbs up, great info. After watching this, I will be buying the Lorex NVR system. Thanks!

Great info!

@RickvanderValk14

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Is this a good camera to identify passing cars at night? Does it have. A good night vision?

Nice Vid thanks. Going to check out your others for sure. I am new to Lorex. Got my bundle at Costco too. 18 channels with 8 wired cams. Have added 3 additional and my first PTZ cam. You hit the head on the nail about the OS. I find it very difficult to navigate the UI to adjust the system. Hoping you have some vids on that topic.

@RickvanderValk14

Жыл бұрын

I do go through the menus in some of my videos hope that helps

Thanks for this informative review. Do all cameras on your Lorex system are capable of two way talk?? THANKS

I'm just building my new home and I am going to purchase a lorex camara system for the third time. I bought my first system from lorex in 2016 and after hurricane Maria I was living in Puerto Rico and some of the cameras got damage. I went and purchase a new system for the second time. It's working very well. I am very happy with this product. I sold my house and I am getting my third system from lorex. My wife and I Love the system. It's easy to use and the service is great.

Can you view history on your phone or just devices hooked up to the hard drive?

Can it display two different views on two different monitors at the same time?

Very well thought out video.

@cal4327

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of consideration put into it and makes me think about how I should install mine.

@RickvanderValk14

3 жыл бұрын

thank you

@ernestoditerribile

3 жыл бұрын

@@RickvanderValk14 do you still talk Dutch?

Hi Rick, i have a question, in case the thief enter the house stole everything and the nvr and is there possible way for playback what happen before the thief disconnect the nvr?

I'm trying to figure out what type of monitor/ smart tv would best be compatible with this system. I would prefer just to hook it up to a standalone monitor if possible. If so, would the wireless mouse that it comes with it be functional with a standalone monitor?

Good work! Never seen any reviews on Lorex systems.. would be nice

Great information, thank you Rick.

Good video, will surely look into your Lorex reviews and will help answer some questions on the comments section 😁

@hotjesssica954

2 жыл бұрын

this system has / comes .. with two way talk? sound thanks

Hi important question 👋 is it possible to buy a Lorex set of 6 and install let’s say 3 in office and 3 at home on the same DVR? Thanks it would help so much

I have a question! Can you pull the feed from these cameras to be used in your own software or website?

So can it read license plate while some one is backing out of the drive way or driving by?

I bought the $250 bundle from Costco and details say 2way audio , but I can’t see microphone on mobile app and can’t hear anything.

Hi Rick love the vids help me a lot. Question : I have to change the hard drive twice because its getting corrupted after few hours of recording. Do you have idea why would this happen? Thx

Thank you from USA.

Hello I have the same system and wondering if you can also add audio because on the wires from the camera itself shows there’s an audio port but have not been able to find any online

Quick question as far as the 2tb do you think it holds up storage and how is it doing currently? I have ring but it always deletes my footage especially if I miss a day of payment and it’s annoying since I would like to have my memories if god for bid something happens..!

Great camera & Floodlight Combo

Ive got a 16 ch system from lorex. Ive had it for 2+ years.. You can add wireless cameras to this system through your network / wifi router. So in my instance I didn't want to run a bunch of wires all over the yard from the front yard to the back yard.(my old flooded house is in the front yard my RV I live in is in the back yard) so I purchased a unmanaged poe switch since it was 1/2 to a 1/3 of the price of a managed switch. The 7 cameras there are connected to that poe network switch that switch it connected to my RV about 200 ft away with a nice heavy duty uv protected cat 6 cable to my wifi router in the RV I then have a few cameras mounted around my RV and 1 wireless camera at the back gate. Now on a fresh boot/restart yes the cameras plugged directly into the NVR (Network Video Recorder) do pop up quickly the others can be slightly sluggish to pop up on the screen but as far as real time video and quality there's no difference either way they they are hooked up. Yes I too have caught many people with my cameras from neighbors trying to take my dog the kids playing outside crazy family members coming over while I'm gone looking through my stuff and taking it. Had 1 guy try to destroy a camera unsuccessfully he just broke the wire and then come driving by hours later when I was outside with my local PD making the report needless to say BUSTED. Lol The PD sped off after him and he was caught. Ive also caught some beautiful humming birds mid flight checking out the camera to see what it was. I love the camera system the only 3 major cons I have about the lorex system is the setup/menus is not very user-friendly for novice users. The ai (artificial intelligence) that is suppose to pick up or detect people and vehicles for alerts is not that great. It alerts me there is a person in front of ???? Camera when in fact its a dog or other animals and last thing is on video play back. I have used different systems in the past including commercial once with previous employers and you can't quickly scroll through the video. Like other systems ive used you can roll the wheel on the mouse and it will scroll through frame by frame as fast or slow as you spin the wheel and as far as hitting fast forward you sometimes get decoding error messages where the unit is not able to process the video fast enough to match as fast as your trying to play it and so therefore it through up that message. Well there is a 4th con im sorry but lights like headlights and lightning set off the motion detection at night and sometimes the lightning causes the camera system or app to take random snap shots like it was a flash from a camera taking a picture. Besides all of that its an awesome system thats been very reliable. Arlo had the best ai ive seen on the market it detects people animals packages and vehicles its just the cost of the system the monthly service fees swapping out batteries cause its a wireless system no true on-site recording beside a thumb drive and internet is required for playback unless you remove and place the thumb drive or USB flash drive into a computer etc its just a huge expensive headache stick to the lorex system you will be pleased.

This podcaster's oral communication skills are excellent. He really knows how to use podcast time effectively without all the antics and multimedia distractions that other podcasters attempt. Because he knows that we are here to learn. We are not here to be entertained. And this podcaster understand that about his audience (me) better than any other podcaster.

Nice video!

Will I buy again? Well right now I am just wondering should I even keep this one. DVR came with bundle had pooped hard drive. Replacement stuck on welcome screen. Waiting for the 3rd one to see what happens.

Thank You Rick

What do you guys think about using a system like this for an airbnb? Most of my monitoring would be away from the home.

I appreciate you reviewing this camera. Can you give some inside on the quality of sounds from recordings? Does it tend to cut out? Do other sounds mask people talking? Is there a way to improve recorded sound quality?

Thank you .

Great video, to the point, not a lot of unneeded chatter. I was looking to buy to replace my current 1080p system and this helped seal the deal.

@RickvanderValk14

Жыл бұрын

Glad I could help hope you did and like your new one

I have one and i love it.

@DJKiDDKlashez

3 жыл бұрын

Are you having any update firmware problems? .. im planning on buying a WIRED home security system, would you recommend it?

@nelsontan8353

3 жыл бұрын

@@DJKiDDKlashez no issue updating a firmware. But if you do, they have a fabulous support. I recommend it

Hey man I got a ? What would u do.. I can use 3 lorex lines but 1 of my cameras going in the back yard and no access to run the line.. my builder ran a cat5e cable to a box in the back yard but where I want the camera I need to extent the line 35ft... so option 1 is a coupler but idk if that works with the poe switch. Option 2 is cut the lorex line and solder or nut them together? What would u do

Great info. Thanks! by the way....9:41 🤣🤣

I think one of the best security system that checks my list

you mentioned that the zoom on the bullet cam is not that great, how does it compare to the dome cam? is the dome better?

@lleaha

2 жыл бұрын

dome zoom is better- i ahve both, both are nice, u wont regret either

Great video Rick. 9:13 is hilarious. Clean car......dirty car.....lol....

I am in the beginning stages of researching an outdoor camera security. I am currently using ADT and I believe that the DIY security systems could be better. Thank you for such a clear and relevant explanation. I'd like to do a wired system but I just don't think we could manage the install on that. Yet, I'll check it out. Thanks again.

@Lugweeny

2 жыл бұрын

Y

@RomanticizingThyself

Жыл бұрын

Yes this is better then ADT.

@EZNutz

Жыл бұрын

REOLINK

Great system I recommend it.

Hi, cam you remote view on iPhone with out a monthly charge?

Excellent video. I too am looking for a system as well.

@RickvanderValk14

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

Pls ..How far does motion detects motion? And starts recording?

Do security cameras have arm/disarming system?