4K WiFi PTZ Camera, 30X Optical Zoom for Outdoor Security, BU-H800

I only use it hardwired (connected to power and POE Cat6 ethernet) to a 1GBps switch. The windows software that comes with it feels like it was made in the 1990s. Half the functions don't work. You can't even see the video in the P2P Client (v6.5.2.9) that comes with the camera. Logging into the camera directly you can see it (grainy) through an onboard website. Further to this the FPS is a max of only 15 and the variable rate limit is a lowsy 6144 kbps which means any motion at all causes it all to go grainy. Yes, you technically get 4K, but not at the standard video rate of 28fps (or more ideally 60 fps) and it only compresses at a dreadful 6144 kbps, so while the optics are good and sensor may be decent, the way the video is stored removes the clarity through lackluster compression. My iPhone 13 runs at 400,000 kbps at 60 fps. Meaning an old iPhone 13 compresses 65.1 times faster than this camera. The video is very delayed so if you're trying to, say, track a porch pirate into their vehicle, they may have very well left already as you're reacting to video that was actually recorded 10 seconds earlier. Night vision is decent at close range but sharpness falls of quickly. No ability to manually focus, so if you're recording anything distant it constantly breaks in an out of focus as it sees fit and you just have to watch and get frustrated. It may work well over the phone app, but I don't have any desire to monitor security with my phone on all the time. Plus all of the technical limitations above are on the camera itself. Would not recommend despite the very pretty marketing materials. Edit: I previously gave it one star as I couldn't get the presetting zones to work. I finally figured that out which helps a lot with some of the movement issues I was having.

Lets be honest. The real reason this camera is this expensive is because of the 30x zoom, the long distance night vision, and the human tracking capabilities. All three of which this camera excels at. The night vision has three setting options: 1)"COMMON VISION". This is the typical color during the day and black and white IR night vision that is found in most security cameras. With the exception being that when you are zoomed 30x the area is lit up nicely from pretty far away. It has the option for the IR LEDs to be "ON", "OFF", or "AUTO". In my case "AUTO" seems to do well at changing from color during the day into black and white night vision at night time by it's own sensor. 2) "COLO NIGHT VISION" I believe is just missing the "R" so it's "COLOR NIGHT VISION". Which honestly is kind of funny to me because I have been using security cameras for a while now and the "high end" versions really do have "COLOR NIGHT VISION" with clear pictures in color at night without the use of LEDs. But this camera doesn't have that. Technically I can see them getting away with calling it that. Because you can see in "color" at "night" but this is achieved by using a very bright white SPOT LIGHT. I think it would be more accurate to call this "SPOT LIGHT VISION" instead of "Color Night Vision" I don't think I would leave this setting on all night, (if you do use it at all) because I could see it getting very hot if you use this light for too long. If you are trying to be discrete about tracking at night time this setting will not work for you. It will look like the spot lights outside of the Academy Awards or something. 3) "INTELLIGENT NIGHT" This setting is supposed to automatically switch between "Color Night Vision" and "Common Vision" based on what I'm not really sure. It seemed to be a bit buggy when I was testing it. I would not be tracking any movement but the camera would randomly switch modes even though I could see nothing in the view that could have caused it to switch. Also there is a couple of seconds where the picture is unviewable as the camera is switching from one mode to the other. So that is annoying. Especially when I could not see why it was changing to begin with. I find that using the "common" mode worked best for me. I've used lots of PTZ cameras before and many of the expensive ANALOG models use controllers to do the steering of the camera. There is a joy stick and it's just like playing a video game. The way those hardware controllers are set up you can use one controller to control over 200 cameras. Which is great. But if you have a lot of cameras on one controller you have to have a cheat sheet nearby so you can remember which number is assigned to which camera. I never liked that. It also has presets that you can program by using the "GOTO" "SET" and "DEL" buttons. This camera I believe could work with those type of joy stick hardware controllers, but it's not required, because the software they provide has a digital "Controller" as part of the software that does all of the moving of the camera and zooming in. The thing I am not fond of is that there are some settings that you need to be able to access for the camera that can only be accessed by using special "PRESET" "CALL" "CODES". For example: Setting the camera to start auto tracking when a human is detected in the camera. It's not on by default. And you have to use one of the preset codes in order to turn it on. It would be ok if the software would allow you to change the name of the preset numbers to easily identify which preset did what. But it doesn't look like you can do that. It's just labeled "Preset001", "Preset002" etc. So you have to remember which code does what. I wish there was just a toggle switch in the settings where I could turn these features on or off without having to use the call buttons. There are some settings you do have to toggle on in order for the camera to start tracking humans or vehicles. But even after toggling them on you still have to activate it using the code in the presets. So keep a cheat sheet nearby with all the codes that are preset into the software or if you are like me you will never remember that preset467 is what you want to make the camera do the hula dance. (I got Jokes) HUMAN TRACKING works incredibly well. I am actually quite impressed. There must have been a jump in the tech for this because in some of my previous PTZs that had auto tracking it could not keep up with people slowly walking. And the tracking was only panning left and right but not in and out or up and down. But amazingly this camera can not only follow people who are in the target area. But it also zooms in on them to give you a better view of what they are doing. It can zoom in and out perfectly so that I can see the maximum view of the person in the shot. It does well when a person walks behind a tree the camera instantly picks them back up on the other side of the tree. It continues to track them until they are out of the view of the camera then it waits a few seconds and returns back to it's start position. Once or twice it got a little confused and thought the fire hydrant was a person but when it didn't move at all the camera quickly re-found the correct target and went on tracking correctly. VEHICLE TRACKING- So I expect in certain situations this feature might be very helpful to some people who need to track vehicle movement. When I tried out this setting the camera immediately put a dot on each of the cars that were parked in my driveway. But it stayed locked on those parked cars. So for my use i don't see myself using this feature. 30X ZOOM For most home security users this 30X zoom will be more than they will ever need for their purposes. For parking lot security or wide open spaces like a ranch or something the 30x Optical Zoom is great. But that is where it ends. You will only get the 30X Optical magnification as far as I can tell. I was under the impression that this camera could be used with Alexa. I haven't looked for a skill yet to enable me just asking Alexa to "show me the front door cam" or something like that. What I did confirm is that it is compliant with most "Browsers" so I can see and also use the camera controls on the webpage if I punch in the correct IP address for the camera and then enter my credentials. This includes "Chrome", "Firefox", "Brave", "Safari" and to a certain degree "Amazon Silk". Using my "Echo Show" with the silk browser allowed me to view the control page and the settings for the camera. And once I lowered the resolution to the lowest possible setting the picture showed up on the Echo Show. I was unable to get the camera controls to work using the Amazon device. But if you already have it set to automatically track people it will show you the camera view on the screen. I haven't tried my Fire TV yet. But hopefully it works with that as well. ONVIF also works great with my DVR. Once I had the correct IP address I was able to easily connect it for recording to the dvr. Most of the viewing I do is on my computer using the software they provide. I wish I could use my mouse on the picture to click and drag the PTZ function of the camera. And using the mouse wheel to zoom in and out would also be a big help. All in all this is a great camera. This is one of the best cameras I have purchased on Amazon. Obviously I will never find a camera that has EVERYTHING I WANT but this camera has more than any of the othersI have tried. Thank you. UPDATE: It's been about two and a half years since I got this camera. I have to say I did purchase a couple of different cameras between then and now and I'm sorry I did. This is hands down the best ever camera I have purchased from Amazon. It is the ONLY CAMERA that I can get to do ACTUAL TRACKING of pedestrians. AND ACTUAL ZOOM TRACKING. It is incredibly accurate. There is a fire hydrant that gets identified as a person more often than I would like but it only sits there for a few seconds and then goes back to home position. The AUTO TRACKING is so so so important. You can't always be sitting there at the controls of your PTZ controller to move the camera so that people stay in the shot. Suprisingly I have found that this is the only high end version camera without going to the next level of HIKVISION or DAHUA that does AUTO TRACKING CORRECTLY. Then believe it or not Citronics (budget camera) also does pretty well. But with limited zooming capabilities. I LOVE THIS CAMERA. I will probably purchase either this one or the same branded camera one with slightly higher zoom for my next camera. THANKS AGAIN.

This HXVIEW 4K PTZ Camera is so far the best camera I have used. First the setting are great. I can use the app for most settings, or type in the cameras IP address into chrome and this is were the full setting are. My old DVR cant handle the 4K image so i was able to reduce it to 1080p. The pictures i posted are in 1080p so I would probably be blown away by 4k. the picture with the silver gate is from the back yard of my property all the way to the front and across the street. The camera also has ONVIF which makes it super simple to set up with my more recent NVR. I'm also happy that it has 2 ways to connect either wired or wireless. if you have any picture issues I highly advise using the ethernet port if that is possible. At the moment I'm using Ethernet and the picture is stable. I will be adding more tips to this post as I go through the camera fully. but this camera is definitely worth it. I will be purchasing another. Here are some tips for using the camera . To find the IP address of your camera go to the app settings scroll down to device information. Log into your camera from your browser. If your not using onvif you can disable that. If you will be using it you should go to network setting and change from dynamic to fixed ip address, also change RTSP Permission check to on.

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THIS CAMERA IS LISTED AS WATERPROOF, BUT WATER LEAKED INTO THE CAMERA ON THE FIRST RAIN. Now the lens is fogged up and that section of the camera, the black ball, is where the electronics is housed. So now I am sure that the electronics in the black part of the camera is being corroded and will soon stop working all together. Tracks trees really well! When there is a breeze, the camera tracks the branches on trees, so it will identify a part of the tree with a red square target mark and then zoom into that spot. It will waste some time looking at this spot and then think that it sees other targets in the tree and then track those spots. In the end it will not be looking at the area that it is needed to guard and will waste time looking at tree branches. It will then turn on the white spotlights and watch the spot in the trees. I wasted my return time with Amazon trying to commucate with the seller to get this camera working, when I gave up on the camera after it rained and I learned that the camera was not waterproof, it was too late to return it. Now I own a broken Chinese camera with no way repair it, no place to repair it, no parts available, and it is broken.