LIONVIS Bullet IP Camera POE HD 1080P Security Camera

I bought two of these to supplement the dome camera over my front door. They point in opposing directions covering the front yard and the street and overlap with the dome camera in the middle. I used them to solve a case of car vandalism of my neighbor's car. Low light capability leaves a little to be desired, but it is good enough to identify people from the front of the house to the street (about 35-40 feet, but not much beyond that). Color in bright light is good. I set them up inside to get the IP settings correct before I installed them to make sure they would work with my NVR. I put them near soffit vents so I could more easily pull cable. I'm now replacing them with some 4K cameras because rats or squirrels or something chewed through the cables in my attic including connections to two of my cameras, but I've had them since mid 2017 (almost 4 years), and they've worked fine all that time until now.

These are good cameras for the price and I know you can get better cameras, but you'd also be paying more for them.Only ding on this is that they can be a little tricky to setup, especially if you don't keep you network on default ip settings. I wish these cameras defaulted to DHCP rather than defaulting to a static ip of 192.168.1.10 which right out of the box if you place two together, they'd conflict with each other. Most routers default to assigning IPs by DHCP so, Lionvis should just default their cameras to DHCP. If people cannot setup their router to DHCP, I have doubts they'd be able to set up these cameras. But picture is clear enough and I feel confident, they'd be able to pick u faces well enough. Plus, I have some 4MP cameras in more important areas that catch people there before they reach my lesser quality cameras. They do have a nice quality to them but can be a little tricky to adjust as well, but unlike previously said in other reviews, you CAN adjust them even after you hang them. You just need to use the allen wrench they provide to loosen the joints and then tighten them after you are done adjusting.

If you know what you are buying and have experience with cheap chinese cameras, this is a great deal.Neighbour has a quail nest so we decided we wanted a camera on it so I was looking for a cheap poe ipcam and came across this one. Got it, after a bit of fun setting it up it has a very good picture quality and I am happy with it. Bit of advice is unlike most other chinese ipcams, the software included is VERY useful, though changing the network settings from it does not seem to set it as static and instead enables dhcp, so to do that you will still need to use internet explorer with activex enabled.Once setup, seems good. boots nice and fast.Update 3 years later, camera drops connections a lot and is just unresponsive for large portions of the day. Not sure why it is failing like it is but it is pretty frustrating. The sensor also seems to be going bad as there are a lot of artifacts on the image.

Initially I gave these 5 stars and I wanted them to be great...but night vision has an issue.EDIT: 8/2018 Another one just died....not good camerasEdit 10/3/18 all cameras are dead now...5 of 5I have now bought five of these cameras and three out of five have a problem with night vision. I returned the first two bad ones, and now you can see how one of the replacements does not have any issue. Sadly, the other replacement does. I would have to say, if you are going to use it in lighted conditions, the value is great, but if you need night vision also, then it seems there is a bad build in the mix somehow. Really I wish they were all good because the upgrade for me from 1MP to 2MP was a big boost. I might just order two more and hope for the best and return the rest. I know amazon wants me to be happy, but climbing up a ladder a third time seems stupid if it happens again. Sadly, I thought to check them before bothering to get on a ladder again and inside, in a dark room, I saw no halo so you can't seem to be able to bench test them and swapping them out is not a trivial task.On a side note, I have seen cheap cameras spam dozens of IP addresses which obviously seems shady, so now I restrict the camera IP to never allow them internet access. Using blue iris software lets me view remotely without worrying about what else the camera does.. This keeps them local and I can still see the cameras on the road.These are the first cameras the Blue Iris set up in 3 seconds, so they are easy to get going once you have the ip correct for your network.

The setup was easy and the image is pretty good for the price, but it has one big flaw -- the connection drops every few minutes. I spent weeks troubleshooting this thinking it was the software, so I eventually bit the bullet to buy better software only to run into the same issues. I have a 48 port PoE gigabit switch in my home -- it's powering only 2 other cameras over PoE which have no issues at all while recording 1080p and 1440p at 30fps and 25fps respectively. The server also recorders several other wifi cameras at 720p (15fps to 30fps) all at the same time. I disconnected ALL of the other camers to see if maybe I just reached the breaking point for the server, yet this one still caused trouble.I should have known better when this one was priced less than used/refurbished offerings of other low to mid range cameras and still had PoE.