Elec Home Security Video System- Security Camera Product Review- Buyer Beware

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This is a product review of the Elec Home security video system. I purchased this item on eBay. I was initially pleased when I opened the box, only to be sorely; well, angry with its performance. Elec Security Camera Elec Home Security Camera Elec Video Camera Elec Security Camera Review Transcript This is a review of the Elec Home Video Security System. I just recently purchased it off of eBay. I decided to go with the 8-channel so eight cameras with the DVR hard drive. I believe it was started as one terabyte. The system came in, this is the actual cameras. They are very small, they are very lightweight. They look kinda cool too. One issue I did have with them immediately is if you can see right there, there's a little screw. This adjusts the ability to move the camera around so you can mount it at different angles, that sort of thing. One of those is actually stripped out so I would have to request another one. See next was the DVR. You can see that right there. It's very small so this is with my hand on it, very lightweight, which is kinda cool. As far as from a quality perspective, I'll see if I can actually set this up. I actually have eight cameras, only four are plugged in right now because the power cable's out but it works fine. Let's see if you can get an idea of the quality. I hope it translates. Let's see. So you can see hopefully that it's pretty high quality actually. Let's see if we can get it to go black and white. There we go. So this is the night vision. It picks upthough. Generally speaking, good quality, looks good. Again, minus the little screw issue. Right now and this is the entire setup so there's the DVR, here are the cables. Now the cables are 60-foot cables. I ordered separately three extension 100-foot cables. They actually came in a pack of four so about $20 more. I did that because the nature of my house needed to extend those to a further area. With that said, one more thing. I'm actually getting a roof put on tomorrow, so the plan was, sorry, over the next few days is I could run the wires while the decking was off the roof so it seems like a great plan, great way to knock it out easily because running the wires through those small corners of the house would probably be a little difficult. So with that said, I had everything set up. I was gonna take 'em up to the attic and start kinda spreading them out so they would be ready to go tomorrow, drop a line and overall, we'd be good. Then it got to the point where there's the e-Cloud. So e-Cloud is their system where you have a QR code and you just take a picture of it and everything's magically set up. Well that I'll tell you is bullshit, all right. It is completely not the way it works. It does have a QR code. All that does is essentially show you which app to download. It's not individualized for your product, at least I didn't get one so that was really worthless. So following the instructions, keep in mind, the instructions, they are in English. Clearly they did not have an English-speaking person actually write this because it's not exactly crystal clear. And the first step is to set up on Internet Explorer your e-Cloud system so that was my objective. That started about six hours ago, this entire process. Note, I own an iT company, I'm fairly IT-oriented, I'm fairly IT savvy and I was unable to set it up. So something that says that it's plug and play, a long ways from plug and play, I'd put it that way. I have not been successful. In addition, I've tried to set up the app, which is the second portion of that process, and again have been unsuccessful. Coming from someone like myself, that means if you're not extremely IT savvy, there's almost no chance it's gonna happen. Now this was strange to me because I bought it off eBay and they also had it on Amazon too, but they had it on eBay and on eBay, they have some very high reviews and I could be wrong on this but I'm almost under the impression that on eBay you only leave a review if you didn't return the product. I could be wrong on that, but if so, that would make sense because they sold a lot of 'em and if someone doesn't have that issue then they're fine or if someone purchases it and like myself, almost thought everything was fine and then later on was gonna come back to the e-Cloud process, that would've been an issue as well. I also started looking online a little deeper into reviews. They're on ripoffreport.com, they're on a variety of these very, very negative websites with some pretty negative things to say. I can only tell you my experience. Oh, I also went to the website. Their chat, you can go to their website, chat, it doesn't even exist. It's a null link.