Yale SV-4C-2ABFX Kit-HD1080, 2 Camera, 4 Channel, 1TB Harddrive, Black, Smart Home CCTV

Great item,easy to install, absolutely great day/night pictures.

I’m pleased. App easy to follow. First one I’ve had and easy to set up. Good picture. Moved cameras lower night vision ok too works well on my iPhone

This is the 3rd video camera set up I have had dealings with. They all seem to share the same user interface which seen for the first time is very techie and has a lot obscure settings accessible from the control panel. However the basic functions can be set from the app, which is also not that inutitive.There are a lot of pit-falls with CCTV for the DIY installer. You really have to think carefully about camera placement and what you are capturing as images, when, and why. The mistake I made this time was allowing emails to be generated, forgetting that if usual people or animals are going to be in the selected field of view, and you are using the motion sense facility they will of course generate a lot of false alarms. This filled up my inbox with 100's of messages.The next bad mistake was fogetting the system password, because the only way of stopping the emails is from the console screen, not the app. Unlike almost any other 'smart' product you can't directly generate a reset password link. It has to be done through an off-line support. Amazon's helpdesk were a waste of time as they gave me information relating to a different product altogether. The Yale helpdesk never called me back after I explained what wanted to do. In the end I had to master reset the system and install everything all over again. (You have to take the lid off the HDD and press a tiny button on the PCB. There's no intstructions about this either)In summary not the easiest thing to set up, but they are probably all similar. Image quality good in daylight, less so at night, but good enough to see the cat that triggered the device!

Easy app to use

Not impressed

The build quality on this is brilliant and all the bits feel robust. You get two cameras (weatherproof so they’re safe to use outdoors) and you can set it up to receive alerts or see a live feed at any time (on your phone, there’s no monitor in the set).The added bonus is there’s a 1TB hard drive so footage can be automatically recorded, useful should something happen and you need to see it later - a lot of the cheaper home systems don’t include this.I think initial installation is a bit fiddly but you only need to do it once. It’s a no-frills system but a good bit of kit from a trusted brand.

After downloading the app its suppose to send a verification code by email, unfortunately, as I have my own domain it would not send it, in the end I had to use an outlook email address for it to work, don't know why they cant send a text like most other people, banks for instance do. The next problem is trying to download the manual, mine is the wired system and when you find it online it takes you to a Yale page which tells you its the wrong page and to look online! what's that all about? It appears you can download it from a third party web site but then you are bombarded with download popups for drivers for various software. I did eventually manage to find on Yale's web site but it took a lot of searching for.I did get it working and the quality of the equipment and software is fine, a small point with the camera, if you want it to point downwards it leaves the cable cutout at the top of the pattress which can allow water in unless to silicone round it, a bad design fault,

Top notch working well Would recommend.