ANNKE C500 5MP PoE CCTV Camera Compatible with Alexa, Color Night Vision, Waterproof Outdoor Security Camera, Audio Recording, Smart Alerts, Home IP Camera with Micro SD Card Slot

A couple of months ago, to relieve the boredom of Lockdown, I replaced out aging, manual, up-and-over garage door with an automatic roller door. Like many modern garages, ours is full of 'stuff', rather than a car. One of my concerns since fitting it is that one of us could accidentally open it without knowing. Something that concerned me greatly, since security was a key requirement.Lo-and-behold, I left the house a little over a week ago to find said garage door wide open; the contents, invitingly accessible to the world. A quick check suggested that everything was where it should be and that nothing had been disturbed. I then check the CCTV recording that covers my car on the driveway to see, almost out of sight, that the door had opened at 11.30pm, the night before; precisely when we'd gone to bed. We'd had a very lucky escape.Something needed to be done immediately. Actually, I added two different mechanisms, but here, I'll focus on the use of this camera. I have a HikVision 8-channel Network Video Recorder, which had 3 spare channels, so the idea was to add another camera in the garage, looking out via the main door. Being an Amazon Prime member, the camera was here the very next day. I already have a POE switch in the garage, as I have a WiFi Access Point that connects to my car. So fitting the camera was trivial. After identifying a suitable spot, a couple of screws secured it to a rafter and an Ethernet cable connected it to the POE switch. I downloaded the Annke Vision app (which looks suspiciously identical to the HikVision Connect app) onto my iPhone and configured in the new camera. Image quality is very good, whether in colour when there's some light, and monochrome when it's dark. I configured by router to allocate a fixed DHCP IP address, so that I could easily reach the camera over the network, and added it as a 6th camera to my HikVision NVR, providing 24x7 recording.Next, I configured the motion detection feature of the camera to recognise when the door opens, having it send me an email. I could do more direct integration with other parts of the house, but I'd addressed that need a different way.The motion detection seems entirely reliable, notifying me quickly via email if there's any significant movement in the garage including, of course, the door opening. It also attaches images so that I can see exactly what's going on.The camera was relatively cheap for a POE camera with a relatively high resolution. Image quality is great and motion detection is spot-on. I have another couple of Annke cameras connected which have also performed very well, so I'm confident that this will do the job for a good while, yet.

Much better than other cheap(ish !) cameras I have. Excellent in good and poor light - not bad in the dark either with adequate infrared. I was a bit dubious about the plastic body at first but it seems fine. POE makes it easy to install with minimum wiring.

This POE camera offers excellent quality of picture. The installation and configuration is not easy but skilled person can do it. There is a need for some experience and practice to do it well.I have seen better solution of POE cameras where the connector is hidden in the base. In my case i had to use external metal junction box and internal double gang box so that the installation looks professionally without external cables and connectors visible. To do it with minimal hole a cramping tool for RJ45 is needed so that cable around 8 mm diameter can be passes through wall and then RJ45 connector put on the end.

Meh useless

I really like the video quality this camera produces and how well the night vision performs. The body of this camera is made from plastic which I was initially worried about as it doesn't seem particularly strong but I live by the sea and have had metal cameras erode away quickly with the sand/salt air; hopefully this camera will last longer for not being metal.I can't comment on the app or smart features because I use this camera on a private LAN without internet, I use open source software to record from the RTSP stream; you'll have no issues with compatibility if this is also what you want to do.I've only had the camera installed for about 6 weeks and haven't found any issues yet but I'll update the review if anything changes.

I bought this Ankke C500 and the C800 at the same time.Picture quality is ok, so is night vision - it’s on par with basically any 5mp IP cam. Note that if you want to view the cam stream in the Web UI you do need to download some dubious browser plug-in (not the case with the C800).My biggest issue with this camera is the fact it’s made out of plastic, with a very fiddly method of positioning the camera with cheap screws threaded straight into plastic.It looks the part in photos but in practise this is just cost cutting from Annke and the price should reflect that.My recommendation is either spend an extra £20 on the C800, or just find a different Chinese IP camera as this is the only one I’ve seen at this price point which has a low cost plastic housing.

Bought these to secure the house a bit after some trouble locally, added into my BlueIris setup with ease, POE powered so works a dream. H.265 works with blueiris as does the IR controls and AI based motion detection in blueiris by using sentry. Fitted with 8mm Blue Fischer rawlplugs gives it a good fixture to brickwork. Cant fault the picture quality either, main and sub streams are cracking for the price.

Bought this as a possible add on when I upgraded my NVR. It didn't work on my older NVR, to be honest I didn't expect it too, but I'd already bought an Annke N48PAW to replace the older N44 model and when plugged into this it came straight on. I did have to cut my cables to allow fitting of the weatherproof shield, which have ever so slightly changed & had re-drill holes as the base has changed too.The camera gives excellent pictures in daylight and is very clear at night, I haven't tried the starlight function yet though. I can't get my Synology NAS to see the camera yet but it might be possible by changing the camera to ONVIF, again a test for the future.No issues with the seller, indeed I've bought a couple more as Amazon had a discount offer on. Seller also sent further info from Annke, which was helpful.

Después de probar varios modelos de otras marcas la cámara Annke está fenomenal, la calidad de la imagen es muy buena, funciona muy bien con Onvif, además puedes crear un usuario solo para usar con Onvif y la conexión es bastante rápida.Ademán tiene otras opciones muy interesantes poder personalizar la dirección del servidor horario (que en mi caso me viene fenomenal ya que tengo un servidor NTP por lo que no se tiene que conectar a internet).En cuanto al rendimiento en la visualización en Onvif a 1080 le cuesta un poco, pero va mucho mejor que cámaras más baratas

ottimo firmware.ottima qualità immagine.base e gambo di plastica !peccato manchi di uno snodo per permetere un ulteriore movimenti H assieme al movimento V per migliorare il puntamento.