Customer Reviews for Night Owl - 12 Channel 4 Camera Indoor/Outdoor Wired 2K 2TB DVR Security System with 2-way Audio - White
Customer Rating
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Killed my system, no discount or credit to upgrade
on May 19, 2026
Posted by: Unbelievable
from California
Gender:Male
I have been with Night Owl for over 10 years. They decided to kill the Mobil App making your system worthless. If you wish to stay with a Night Owl you have to purchase a whole new system with no consideration of your years of loyality.
Worked for a couple of years then the hard drive stopped recording, so I bought another surveillance hard drive and swapped it out but no matter what the system doesn't recognize the hard drive at all. So now we got cameras that just show a live image but don't record a thing since the original drive is dead and it won't recognize the new one at all. IT supports has been no help except for the only recommendation is "buy a new system".
The cables are to short for 60 ft. I have to buy additional cables. They sell the 100 ft cables, they should put those in the package instead of the 60 ft.
Positives of this product are that the color and picture clarity is good. Easy to install, connects to both monitor and phone app. Negatives of this product is that video relay to screen is a little delayed and the wide angle distortion starts to far from the camera for our needs.
very easy setup for beginners especially. instructions are clear and easy to understand. great picture, crystal clear. sucks that you can’t speak into it or even hear but good picture.
Don’t waste your money on these cameras unless you want a lot of notifications of your tire’s. Hardly records when there is human in front of the camera but send you back to back every minute on the minute notifications of insignificant things like a back bumper or a back tires . Not worth it find better cameras