Mark and I recently took delivery of a full Luma surveillance package from Snap One, including the 220 series 8-channel NVR, 820 series 8MP outdoor bullet camera, 31 series 2 MP indoor bullet camera, 520 series 8MP outdoor PTZ dome camera, and 520 series outdoor turret camera. Everything comes packaged in well-labeled boxes, making it easy to hand off to your installation team for them to install in the correct location. We both immediately noticed that the NVR is only 1U, saving valuable space in the rack. One change we would like to see is the placement of the identification sticker on the NVR because once installed in a rack, it’s difficult to view and we’d like to see it placed on the back of the NVR instead.
We really love that each camera has an SD slot (SD card not included) so the cameras can be used standalone without an NVR on smaller systems when a client just needs one or two cameras, which is frequently the case for our NYC clients who just want a camera pointing at the front door of their apartment or a nanny cam if they have young children. We also love the LED lights on the LUM-520-IP-TFCW camera (probably Todd’s favorite camera of all time). This light can be scheduled to turn on and off at certain times of the day. That way there is always light, which is especially useful for areas where there is no external light source. We would love to see the ability to adjust the schedule to compensate for sunrise and sunset times, as well as to activate the lights only upon events, and not have to be on the whole time.
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