WEBVTT 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:13.440 with its Factory tuning and data center DNA an Intel 730 series SSD is an 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:18.240 amazing choice for gamers and performance enthusiasts so this is a 00:00:16.119 --> 00:00:22.279 little new for us and full disclosure guys we're only doing this review 00:00:19.760 --> 00:00:27.760 because these guys kard reached out to us when I happened to be already 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:30.039 shopping for a monitoring system for our 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:35.879 headquarters so I actually don't know know if their Aurora series AR 421 ckt 00:00:33.160 --> 00:00:40.480 001 is necessarily the best thing for the price but what I will tell you is 00:00:38.160 --> 00:00:43.840 that it's been torture tested Beyond just reviewing it it's been torture 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:48.879 tested as if we're going to actually deploy it because we are going to 00:00:46.360 --> 00:00:53.160 actually deploy it the unit came well packaged with everything safely tucked 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:59.960 in the cameras were in protective foam and inside the ample nicely built outer 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:01.399 box the included cables are fairly unex 00:00:59.960 --> 00:01:05.640 exceptional in terms of the quality but they're nice and long at 60 ft and 00:01:03.879 --> 00:01:10.119 they're completely standard so they have one BNC connector and then one DC 00:01:08.520 --> 00:01:13.119 connector that comes out of each end of the cable so you could replace them with 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:16.960 something else if you wanted to it should be noted one of them is thicker 00:01:15.119 --> 00:01:22.119 than the others for the higher end camera and that is to support the motion 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:25.720 tracking feature of it and it's got a little tracking control toggle right on 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:29.759 the camera I personally didn't find the motion tracking that useful since I'm 00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:33.680 more interested in constantly monitoring my my employees here but for some people 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:37.399 it would be great because what it basically does is it takes any motion on 00:01:35.640 --> 00:01:41.439 the screen digitally zooms into it enhances it a little bit and then it can 00:01:39.320 --> 00:01:45.159 do all kinds of cool stuff like start recording so it can trigger a recording 00:01:43.079 --> 00:01:47.479 or it can email you a snapshot whenever something moves in that Zone on the 00:01:46.399 --> 00:01:52.000 screen this would be great for something like your front door um the inclusion of 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:55.000 a mouse along with the remote in the Box was a little bit confusing at first but 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:59.600 when I started navigating the menus it made a lot more sense the unit 00:01:56.799 --> 00:02:03.960 definitely operates best with a mouse so let's get onto General specs and 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:08.959 functionality the DVR outputs to VGA composite or even HDMI to up to a 1080p 00:02:06.520 --> 00:02:12.879 display TV or otherwise the cameras themselves are weather resistant and 00:02:10.520 --> 00:02:18.160 record in 800 line or 700 line resolution with 30 m and 20 M of night 00:02:16.160 --> 00:02:22.360 vision depending on which model so I got one of the higher end one and three of 00:02:20.599 --> 00:02:26.239 the lower-end ones with this particular kit it includes a 500 gig drive inside 00:02:25.000 --> 00:02:29.920 this one of the first thing I did was like rip it open and find out what was 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:33.599 inside it's just a standard Cate Barracuda I would have liked to see a 00:02:31.640 --> 00:02:37.599 nasg grade Drive in there such as a wd purple but most people will probably 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:41.200 never noce the difference and the good news is it's extremely easy to open up 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:45.239 and replace with something else if you want to all right so let's get into the 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:49.920 quick start guide it's actually really solid um so all you do to hook it up 00:02:47.920 --> 00:02:54.120 physically is plug in your four BNC connectors plug in the power to the to 00:02:52.040 --> 00:02:57.560 the DVR unit here and then plug in an additional power adapter to the wall 00:02:55.760 --> 00:03:00.400 which has four pigtailed connectors to power the cameras themselves you 00:02:59.239 --> 00:03:05.080 position the CER cameras wherever you want them plug in an Ethernet cable plug 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:10.959 in HDMI for monitoring and boot this bad boy up it drops you into the quick start 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:13.920 menu which for straight recording and 00:03:10.959 --> 00:03:17.599 live monitoring is pretty much plug-and playay you can set it so that the quick 00:03:15.959 --> 00:03:24.120 start menu comes up every time or it doesn't come up every time you power it on you can disable it um and yeah I 00:03:21.200 --> 00:03:28.480 think my mom could actually set up this just just basic monitoring and recording 00:03:26.640 --> 00:03:31.799 I did again I found it quite slow to navigate with the remote didn't the 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.239 remote that useful I suggest that people keep a mouse you know just kind of 00:03:33.040 --> 00:03:39.480 hooked up to it and nearby but once you get things going with the mouse 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:43.400 everything in the menu is fairly intuitive so you right click to confirm 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.920 left click to go back if you've ever used Android with a mouse then you'll be 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:52.239 quite familiar with that and you know some of the the headers aren't that 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:56.239 welln named but the good news is that the manual is surprisingly good so I was 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:59.799 able to figure out what everything does and everything largely works with one 00:03:58.439 --> 00:04:04.599 exception which was a little bit disappointing I wasn't able to get the 00:04:02.120 --> 00:04:09.560 Dropbox feature working what that does is when you trigger a particular event 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:14.280 it can take um a snapshot and then automatically upload that still to 00:04:11.319 --> 00:04:17.759 Dropbox for you I suspect it has more to do with my ISP than the unit itself 00:04:16.280 --> 00:04:23.199 since they weren't able to replicate my issue but their support was overall um 00:04:20.440 --> 00:04:27.440 actually extremely helpful all right so let's get into live monitoring and DVR 00:04:25.479 --> 00:04:32.080 control so that's going to be in display over here there's a few different things 00:04:28.639 --> 00:04:35.360 you can do you can set set up um so you 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:38.199 can pick all or one on cycle so actually 00:04:35.360 --> 00:04:42.320 we're going to go here out of the menu out of the menu ah okay so that's all 00:04:41.080 --> 00:04:46.280 down here so you can pick a single screen you can go okay I want to spy on 00:04:44.240 --> 00:04:50.080 Luke or I want to spy on the new guy or oh my goodness is that a bathroom or you 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:54.320 can cycle through or you can see all of them or you can cycle through them and 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:59.199 you can change the cycle speed by just going into display and then Auto 00:04:56.880 --> 00:05:03.560 sequence changing the dwell you can also change things like the actual layout of 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:06.440 the of them on screen so because they have models that support up to 16 00:05:04.919 --> 00:05:09.400 cameras that's more of a concern for those ones because if you have four 00:05:08.080 --> 00:05:14.039 cameras you're probably just going to want the the 2 by two since there's not 00:05:11.440 --> 00:05:17.240 a whole lot of other options there um you can this is kind of cool you can 00:05:15.280 --> 00:05:21.919 actually mask off certain regions so in that bathroom for example uh we had 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:25.919 masked off you know a bit of a privacy Zone here so you can just kind of go 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:29.280 okay we don't want to see people's Peeps and uh you know whatever's going on in 00:05:28.039 --> 00:05:36.720 that corner we're not that interested in that you Mas that off and that'll actually be masked off in the recorded 00:05:33.080 --> 00:05:39.680 file um you can toggle the camera name 00:05:36.720 --> 00:05:44.319 as well as the time stamp on and off so there you go so see that up there in the 00:05:41.440 --> 00:05:48.800 top and then you can trigger alarms Now alarms can be used for all kinds of 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:53.120 useful stuff let's just go into the alarms setting here D doop doop there we 00:05:51.680 --> 00:05:59.080 go alarm can be used for all kinds of useful stuff including disc error motion 00:05:56.479 --> 00:06:02.759 and video loss so yeah guys in the Spy movies where they just like cut all the 00:06:00.960 --> 00:06:07.160 wires to the security cameras and nobody notices cuz they just happened to not be 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:11.680 this is like a home or small office class DVR and it supports triggering an 00:06:09.400 --> 00:06:14.800 audible alarm when video is lost so there you go anyway you can also add on 00:06:13.440 --> 00:06:21.919 additional sensors but that's not something that we did motion is something that I think will be used by 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:23.759 um the widest variety of people since 00:06:21.919 --> 00:06:29.880 it's it's pretty useful so it can be done by schedule so you can have um you 00:06:27.440 --> 00:06:33.639 can just have it recording at times or you can have it actually triggering an 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:36.880 alarm if there's motion at times so I'm going to go ahead and there we go so the 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:40.840 schedule here there's normal or there's alarm and then you can adjust a whole 00:06:38.639 --> 00:06:46.280 bunch of the settings inside of it as well so here we go sensitivity can be 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:50.160 changed to anything from profoundly not useful because it's not sensitive enough 00:06:47.880 --> 00:06:54.280 all the way up to profoundly not useful because it's too sensitive and 00:06:51.919 --> 00:06:57.800 everywhere in between you can set up so that only a certain area triggers an 00:06:56.120 --> 00:07:02.879 alarm so right now I have it set for the entire screen to trigger an alarm but if 00:06:59.960 --> 00:07:07.000 I was to say for example not care if Luke is benchmarking which is his actual 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:10.960 job and I only want an alarm to go off when he sits down you can see that those 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:16.280 red ones spin in your chair like you're having fun at 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:18.680 work he's going to refuse to do it hey 00:07:16.280 --> 00:07:24.039 Luke spin in your chair spin in your 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:28.319 chair there you go so you can see the red dots going off because he's clearly 00:07:26.160 --> 00:07:33.000 having way too much fun thank you very much all right 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:37.199 um so you can manage what an alarm trigger does including setting up a 00:07:35.080 --> 00:07:41.280 pre-record window before the triggered event so you get a little bit of preo 00:07:38.639 --> 00:07:46.080 footage a post- record window pan til and zoom which is supported by the DVR 00:07:43.759 --> 00:07:50.240 but not by these cameras unfortunately the alarm ringer can go off uh anywhere 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:53.560 from 10 seconds to 30 minutes and it's Extremely Loud which is why I have it 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:58.800 off right now it's not something that we want to be having go off while I'm trying to do a video here and then you 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:02.680 can set up push notifications or email notifications as well as that Dropbox 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:07.080 feature that I told you about before now when you consider that a home alarm 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:12.400 system with no video will cost you however much a month um and basically is 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:16.800 doing the same thing as this except now you get a live view of the action um 600 00:08:14.960 --> 00:08:22.039 bucks actually sounds like a pretty good bargain if you don't mind the setup 00:08:20.400 --> 00:08:25.520 under information you can head over to record to see what kind of quality 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:29.720 you're recording in which you set up in the sort of the other menu uh you can 00:08:27.599 --> 00:08:33.680 also see how much data you're taking up per hour then if you go to Disk 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:39.000 Management you can set up how you want it to overwrite automatically whether by 00:08:35.800 --> 00:08:40.159 capacity or by days or just never 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:46.000 although that's not necessarily something I'd recommend if you plug a USB drive into the back you can go ahead 00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:51.800 and format that and you can offload footage to it by using the ah yes the 00:08:48.959 --> 00:08:56.519 record search here so this is kind of neat in fact I'm going to go try and 00:08:54.480 --> 00:09:01.120 find a clip to play for you guys that has the uh the motion tracking feature 00:08:58.839 --> 00:09:05.640 on Luke's camera working there we go so let's go ahead and play back so you can 00:09:03.560 --> 00:09:08.839 go ahead and scrub through the footage see okay there you go there you go so 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:12.560 you were able to see that Luke's camera is looking for motion and then zooming 00:09:10.959 --> 00:09:16.600 in a little bit on it as well you can scrub through the footage just like that 00:09:14.920 --> 00:09:19.720 pick a different time it's not the fastest most responsive thing in the 00:09:18.040 --> 00:09:23.839 world but if you had an approximate idea of when a theft in your store took place 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:29.000 or whatever else then you wouldn't have too much difficulty tracking It Down 00:09:26.079 --> 00:09:32.480 based on the UI here permissions Within These Menus can be controlled by user 00:09:30.920 --> 00:09:35.720 account by default there's just one admin account and I didn't play around 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:40.240 with it too much because I can't think of a reason why anyone else would really 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:44.880 need to use it one thing that was kind of funny in the playback and review 00:09:42.760 --> 00:09:48.480 section is that they did some QC testing on my unit on the 6th of January 00:09:47.000 --> 00:09:53.880 unfortunately it looks like I have it set to overwrite by date so it's not 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:55.640 there anymore but uh there you go they 00:09:53.880 --> 00:09:59.640 do actually test them before they go ahead and uh and ship these babies out 00:09:58.079 --> 00:10:03.480 there are some color settings that can play around with I didn't really find 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:08.720 them necessarily that useful so you can adjust brightness contrast Hue stuff 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:14.680 like that uh and then you can do that by Channel or on all of the channels and 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:16.839 the image quality overall you know what 00:10:14.680 --> 00:10:22.200 it's not the same as having a bunch of like HD camcorders set up as a security 00:10:20.079 --> 00:10:25.040 system but it's functional you won't be reading a license plate from across the 00:10:23.800 --> 00:10:29.640 street but if you were just trying to get you know a good look at a you know 00:10:27.079 --> 00:10:32.920 Shifty character like our new guy here then you'd probably be able it's better 00:10:31.279 --> 00:10:37.399 than a composite sketch based on someone's you know imagination that they 00:10:34.760 --> 00:10:41.959 give to the police for example um back to network setup for a minute other than 00:10:39.360 --> 00:10:46.519 the Dropbox feature upm dealt with the port configuration and this was kind of 00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:51.880 cool is their mobile app actually worked effortlessly which um was surprising to 00:10:49.920 --> 00:10:56.600 me because I've used some of the consumer grade Wi-Fi cameras and their 00:10:54.959 --> 00:11:02.519 mobile apps tend to be really really terrible all you do is fire up the app K 00:11:00.040 --> 00:11:06.440 view QR you go ahead and add a new camera by just scanning the QR code 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:11.399 that's on the top of your unit and then you just go ahead and select your camera 00:11:09.040 --> 00:11:15.240 just go ahead BL BL I unplugged my Ethernet cable on the 00:11:13.920 --> 00:11:19.839 back of this we'll be back in a moment oops and we're back anyway the apps 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:23.399 available on iOS and Android is fairly straightforward you can take screenshots 00:11:21.880 --> 00:11:27.200 you can check which channel you want a monitor if nothing else even if you 00:11:25.639 --> 00:11:31.079 don't care about remote monitoring because you can do it on a PC as well 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:33.680 you don't have to do it on your phone um even if you don't care about it at all 00:11:32.279 --> 00:11:37.399 it's pretty useful when you're running around the house or the office setting 00:11:35.560 --> 00:11:42.120 up the cameras because you can actually have a live view of what you're looking 00:11:38.920 --> 00:11:45.200 at as you walk around and try to work on 00:11:42.120 --> 00:11:47.519 it so what's the conclusion here um I 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:52.440 mean it's hard to say I you know it's like you know it's pretty cool you can 00:11:49.920 --> 00:11:57.720 monitor your employees you can you know monitor the back yard I think the one 00:11:56.079 --> 00:12:02.040 thing that I guess felt kind of missing like because I'm not a super a heavy 00:11:59.839 --> 00:12:05.040 user like I just wanted some basic video monitoring so the one thing that I kind 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:10.320 of felt was missing is I'm a bit of a pack rat so I wouldn't have minded some 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:12.160 kind of a networked Nas Nas automatic 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:16.720 backup of the footage so I could archive more of it but I guess I could just put a bigger hard drive in the one concern 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:21.360 there is if I like if I was a thief breaking into a house and I realized there was a camera system I'd probably 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:25.199 try and find the box that goes with it but then you could always be smart about 00:12:23.440 --> 00:12:29.320 that and hide it somewhere or make it somewhere difficult to access and then 00:12:26.920 --> 00:12:33.120 also just have a a home alarm system so they don't have a whole lot of time to 00:12:30.320 --> 00:12:36.160 look for it until the cops come and uh that's so maybe that maybe that's all a 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:39.959 non-issue I mean like I said I haven't tested many other products in the 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:43.120 category so I can't really compare to anything else I'd love to hear your 00:12:41.199 --> 00:12:47.720 guys' comments if there's something else that I should be checking out it's 00:12:45.560 --> 00:12:52.959 definitely like much more feature complete and much better to use than a 00:12:50.040 --> 00:12:58.880 lot of the consumer grade like nanny cam on steroids style home monitoring Wi-Fi 00:12:55.959 --> 00:13:02.920 cameras way way better than that um and not even that inordinately more 00:13:00.880 --> 00:13:05.760 expensive but let me know if there's anything else that you feel like we 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:08.959 should really be checking out in this category I think that's pretty much it 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:12.320 guys like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave a 00:13:10.600 --> 00:13:16.320 comment in the video and let us know if you have any other thoughts about it any 00:13:14.360 --> 00:13:19.160 requests for other like you know security system stuff or if you thought 00:13:17.920 --> 00:13:23.279 this was 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camera in here isn't there I guess I'm showing you guys 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:18.240 the uh infrared feature so this is what it looks like at night spooky Vision 00:14:15.240 --> 00:14:18.240 okay we're actually done 00:14:28.040 --> 00:14:31.040 now 00:14:31.839 --> 00:14:34.839 he