WiFi Micro Cloud NVR Network Video Recorder

I have been running a UCam247 set up for 12 months and although I have been impressed with the quality of the images and videos, storage issues has been a headache especially with accessing the cameras onboard micro SD cards with me experiencing cameras not able to find SD cards, stop recording after certain number of files saved but loads of space left on card, time consuming to delete files and slow downloads.The this NVR comes along and transforms storage for my wifi cameras in one simple package.- Very easy to set up- Very reliable and always connected- Very small and easily hid out of view from thieves- Doesn't take up any Ethernet ports from your router as it is wifi (temporarily needs connecting to router to set it up)- Firmware on NVR allows you to set up easily identifiable folders for each camera, play or download videos and select individual or all videos to delete.This is a simple solution to a techie headache ..... Love it!

Seemed like a good idea but its not been reliable in a setup of 4 cameras that are quite busy. The 54mbps Wifi should be sufficient but somewhere along the line the writing files to disk (and retrieval of video via app) fails with all too much regularity. It might work better on lower quality settings, but then what's the point of a high res camera? Or with fewer cameras, but again not helpful. Will be putting SDs back in the cameras.

Plus points:- Very small so can be hidden in the home easily (conventional recorders are likely to be stolen by an intruder).- With a 128GB microSD card you can store many thousands of images.- Easy and quick set-up with UCam camerasNegative points:- No place for a re-chargeable battery so that if mains-power fails it continues (intruder can simply switch off your incoming supply to defeat the system)- Very slow access time to access the storage, so if you have thousands of images the only way to effectively search through them is to copy the complete contents off while on your home LAN.

Excellent product. Amazingly small, easily fits into a comms cabinet or nearby your router. Just buy a micro SD card and insert it.It can to your network either wired or wirelessly, I have mine wired, it allows recording of full rate 1080p video. It seems as though it will support many cameras simultaneously which is brilliant, am planning to add more.As someone else has said, don't forget to configure your router so that it gets a fixed IP address, otherwise every time your router reboots, you will need to tell the cameras the new IP address of this device. Common sense really. Can't fault the ease of installation. Tech support is very fast at responding (confirmed my firmware was the latest & greatest one).

Instead of using just the microSD in the camera I bought this for the network. Maybe it's my Windows10 setup that persistently drops the connection to this and the ucam247 indoor cameras. When it's working it's extremely good but, and it's a big but, one does need to have a reliable source for security purposes. Perhaps, as I say , this isn't the fault of this device but Microsoft who regularly with their updates alter settings on Windows pc's. I've checked online to see how to resolve these UCAM247 issues and have read that to avoid a dropped connection one needs to allot a static IP address. This I attempted to do but then halfway through the instructions it refers to entering a DNS address which you can get from the provider. Not being a church goer this left me none the wiser so I gave up on that. I'd be interested to know if anyone else has managed to remedy this issue.

Bought this to go with the Ucam.Ucam works fine but thats all that does!The NVR instructions are not clear and not detailed enough so takes too long to set up or troubleshoot.Its so slow updating changes or recording footage and sometimes and can take minutes to register.Then, when I format the card sometimes, it stops recording to card even though the interface tells me all if set up ok.I am regularly having to do a NVR reset and start all over again..which can take an hour or so as is so slow and troublesome.When accessing the NVR and webcam interface through the internet its ok (but often very slow).The iphone and ipad app's are very poor. Live view does not always work and you cant playback footage often - even when you have the internet version open next to it and live view and play back are fine.Technical support is email only and takes at least a day or longer to respond. Then they just send excerpts of copy repeated from the limited set up guide and ask you to send a screenshot.I would say that the NVR works fine (eventually but not always) but is easily prone to stop working. Then takes a long time to set up again.The main problems appear to be with Ucam servers that are constantly slow to update settings or new video footage etc....then the ipad and iphone apps are very poor.This is my first home recording security system so i cannot compare to others...except to say all i do is spend hours trying to sort out problems and constantly reset the NVR so its a total waste of time having it.I would strongly suggest exploring other products...

Just set up my second NVR box and when combined with a 128gb micro card it allows continuous HD recording from my ucam - stores over a week of recording before it overrides and recordings can be accessed minute by minute by scrolling through the dates/times - can also be downloaded to a PC if you catch something interesting (Yeti anyone?). Pretty straightforward to set up but you will need a degree of PC competence. All in all a good unit that works well.

A very cheap way to record the images frum the UCam247 cameras without losing any of the quality. This device is about the size of a matchbox and so can be hidden away quite discretely, as long as you can't see the power lead. It also has a small LED on the top so you may want to cover that.It connects to your network either wired or wirelessly, I have mine wired via a powerlink which is also wher it's power lead is plugged in.One thing I would advice is that, once set up, you ensure that your router assigns it a static ip address/non expiring lease or you may find that it stops recording unexpectedly if it changes.I currently have two cameras writing to this device and it handles them without any visible problem.