Tonton 10CH CCTV Camera System Wireless Outdoor, 5MP NVR with (4) 3MP PT Cameras and (4) 3MP Bullet IP Cameras, Motion Detection, P2P Remote View, 2-Way Audio, Color Night Vision, 1TB Hard Drive

Having used the system for almost nine months now I feel that it might be helpful to share my experiences with those who are considering installing one.We have a large house with outbuildings in a remote part of the countryside so it is reassuring to be able to know what is happening particularly when we are away. With this system it is possible to view live and playback video and sound from any location in the world (subject to phone or WIFI access). Individual cameras can be programmed to send motion alerts through notifications.The network video recorder (NVR) has an inbuilt wireless hub and the four cameras (or more if you have them) are pre-configured to work with this immediately. This makes set up very easy. Most people should be able to get the basic system up and running without difficulty. To see the live view or recorded playback you can plug a TV into the HDMI output on the NVR or a VGA screen into the VGA output (or both if you want to!). Alternatively you can view on a PC, tablet or phone using the appropriate application.Initially I connected the NVR to the router via a powerline adapter (TP-Link NV500& WPA4220). This was not a good idea. It appeared to work but connectivity was intermittent. I have now connected the NVR directly to the network and I would recommend this.The system is supplied with a mouse so that the channels can be configured in different ways to detect motion, send alerts, etc. The NVR has an inbuilt buzzer to signal motion detected locally if required.The NVR can record eight channels and with a 2 TB disk that is about six weeks of continuous recording before the system automatically starts to overwrite the earliest recordings.Image quality is very good indeed. I have tried several other systems and they all seem to have lower quality and suffer from “barrel distortion” – a defect caused by the lens where straight vertical lines at the edges appear curved. Tonton cameras produce clear undistorted video with good colour reproduction. You need a good display to get the best out of them.Another benefit of the TonTon system is that it supports ONVIF standard (Open Network Video Interface Forum) so it allows other makes of camera to be connected. I had a number of existing Dericam internal cameras and these are now fully integrated and recording on the NVR. Surprisingly not all manufacturers support ONVIF so probably best to avoid those that don’t as you may want to add different cameras when you change or upgrade parts of the system.Be aware that WIFI range is limited particularly when trying to pass through thick external walls. Fortunately the cameras can be connected by ethernet direct to any point in the network (not just the NVR). This is useful for the cameras that are too far for the WIFI to reach and prevents the “No Video” display which will occur on that channel either intermittently or permanently in the worst case.Finally, and many people have mentioned this in their reviews, TonTon support is very good. These are complicated systems and can be affected my many external factors. It is reassuring to have speedy and knowledgeable support by people who really will do everything they can to make things work for you.

The media could not be loaded.  This product offers true HD (1080p) both during the day and during the night. As others have said, car number plates are legible, for example.Alerts come through the app within literally a couple of seconds of motion being detected in the areas you have specified. Emails arrive promptly, too; these contain a still of the period during which movement was detected.I did not receive this product as part of any promotion, and so these opinions are my own and unbiased.Motion mode works perfectly during the day. PIR mode is better for nighttime, in this reviewer's opinion, since rapidly changing lighting conditions at night (e.g. caused by passing car headlights) do appear as motion to the system. The great thing is you can actually schedule motion detection for one set of dates and times, and PIR for another, and so the system allows you to get the best of both approaches. I use PIR at night.The interface is easy to use. If you want to see all alarms during a period of time, on a given day, for a particular camera in your setup, for example, then you can easily specify these conditions, and any matching motion-containing video segments are displayed for instant viewing.The cameras have a metal housing, which gives the product a quality feel. I have been using this system for a few days, and there have been zero video feed dropouts (I would know because the system is configured to email me if this ever happens) and there has been no video feed freezing/stalling during any footage I have reviewed. This reliability and continuity are subject to the user ensuring a good signal between the cameras and the NVR, obviously.The most important feature, which I absolutely insisted on when choosing a CCTV solution, was the ability to 'draw a box' around parts of a video image, to be able to exclude areas of the video feed which I knew would contain motion - motion which was of no interest to me. For example, you may position a camera such that some of a road/pavement is picked up in the feed, but you may not be interested in receiving an alert every time a car/person passes on said road/pavement. This system allows you to draw that box, thereby blocking areas outside of your property boundary from triggering alerts.I think Tonton could make the above feature clearer in this product's description, because it is a real boon.Finally, I must mention Tonton's support. In my case, I had a lot of questions about this system while I was learning the ropes, and I received very prompt responses to all of these questions from Milly at Tonton. It was a one-to-one service, and a friendly one at that. I got the distinct impression that Milly - and, by extension, Tonton - cared about my experience and my safety (safety being a big part of why I chose to install a CCTV system in the first place). Milly was very patient, understanding, and she went to lengths to help me with my queries. Where my queries were technical, Milly referred these to Tonton's technicians, who in turn responded promptly, via Milly.Note: In the video I uploaded, as I strolled into frame I was promptly notified about it on my phone. Test successful. :)