Swann SW344-DWD-US000 ADW-400 Digital Guardian Camera and Recorder (Gray)

The side of the camera came a little scratched up, but I imagine this is from it moving around inside it's box; no stopping that. Setup was simple, video quality is legible; you can make out a person's face. Night vision works well, sound has a bit of a whine in the back ground, but you can still make out what's being said.

Set up this system and tested it several times connected to a video display (TV). It worked, and we could see clearly persons in the camera view even in dim light. However, with the "Arm" button always glowing red on the receiver, it was hard to know whether the system was "armed" or not! Next texted the system NOT hooked to a video device. Was unable to read the tested results either from the receiver hooked up to a TV or by reading from my computer (even downloaded software as SWANN recommended). My thought was that should we need to read the SD if we had a breakin, someone surely would be able to read the SD. What happened next, however, did not occur to us...we left for a 2 week trip the day before hurricane Irene arrived in our area. The electric went out...no big deal, we have a large, whole-house automatic generator that kicks on in 15 seconds. What we forgot was that the SWANN "security" system would have to be physically turned on again and armed. Bottom line I am ready to return this system for something we can rely on when we're not home!!! Two calls to SWANN did not help in being able to read the SanDisk Ultra 32GB card. Having just returned from vacation, I have not yet called SWANN for their comments.

other than missing one of two antennas, unit worked fine. after a request to seller about missing anntennea and seller mailing me an anntennea, i am happier.

Needed something to monitor another residence, Bought this hoping for the best along with 3 additional camera's. Finally had a chance to put it in place, seems to work great so far, 2 weeks working time. Actually works better than I thought it would. Will update if it changes but so far I'm happy with this item for the purpose intended. For everyday usage, spend more and you will get more, This is great for my purpose and video quality is more than enough to Identify someone

I have had mine two and a half stories up on my house for almost two years. It still works great BUT, it is slowly starting to get moister leaks in the front where the cam is and the inferred lights that really don't see anything unless you have flood lights to back it up at night. The moister leaks have shorted out the inferred lights for night vision but the cam is still going, for how long I don't know. I will say it has been through some very heavy and intense rain storms along with high winds. I would rather say moister leaking into front of cam when it rains for days. Otherwise it is ok. I bought a second cam only to find out you can only record with one cam at a time to an SD card. You can have from four cams but after you have more than one cam online you can't record all of them, ONLY ONE CAM!!! Do yourself a favor, spend another two or three hundred bucks and buy a non wireless cam that is not plastic. YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR! This cam has always given a clear picture, the mic is for crap unless your standing under it with a megaphone. Well actually the mic picks up car engines almost three blocks away coming down the road. After two years i can tell a ford, toyota, chevy coming before the cam see's it! Big deal! It works but if I where you, I would spend more money.

We chose this one not only for the price but for the ease of installation. The only thing we changed was to replace the provided 2 gig SD card for a 32 gig card. Installed easily, Pictures even using IR are good. It does the job we need it to do.

This camera system would be be decent if the motion detector was not so sensitive. I called tech suppport and they said there is no way to adjust it. It fills up the SD card in less than 1 day. Not so good if you are gone for 1 week and want too see what happenned around the house when you get home.

Returned - unable to get to work. Very cheap feeling product