The camera is held in place by a handful of hex bolts that twist down to securely hold it in space. The mount is adjustable in all three dimensions: side to side, up and down, and rotationally along the center axis. That said, the mount’s’ footprint is slightly larger to accommodate the speaker. Setting up this latest system has gotten me motivated to add a few additional cameras around our property…sadly that is going to mean more trenching 😒 Hardware specsĮven though it is more compact than its predecessors, Swann packs more resolution and features into the NHD-885MSFB’s smaller form factor. I also wanted to have a camera looking out from our detached garage towards our entry gate, so I dug a trench and ran nearly 200 feet of direct bury Ethernet cable…both the power and video signal haven’t had any issues over the years. For the far side of our house, I used a 100 foot cable from Amazon that worked well with length to spare. Though when I originally ran the wires, I needed longer cables for two of my runs. Swann includes four 60 foot Ethernet cables to connect the cameras to the NVR. But setting up the new NVR-8580 systems took all of 30 minutes, since all I had to do was unmount the old cameras, connect the new 4K Bullet Spotlight cameras to the Ethernet cables, then mount them back in place. Originally that involved half a day crawling around our attic, drilling many holes throughout our house, and pulling Ethernet cable through both interior and exterior walls. The difficult part is deciding the best vantage points for each camera and then getting the wire to those locations. Once you pull the Ethernet wires to the locations where you want to install the cameras, you simply connect the two and mount the cameras (but be aware, the mounting screws are I highly recommend upgrading those).

Being PoE there is only one cable to run to each camera. Like its predecessor, this modern day 4K security camera/surveillance system is designed to be simple (though not necessarily easy) to install, basically plug and play.

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