Hands on: I tried the TP-Link VIGI NVR1004-4P, see what I thought of this surveillance and recording solution
This comment first appeared in Issue 356 PC Pro.
TP-link may be affordable Business Network Product, but it’s in Video surveillance market. Its Vigi family offers a range of network recorders (NVRs) and cameras, and in this review, we check out its NVR1004-4P quad-channel NVR and tested it with TP-Link’s latest C540V outdoor PTZ IP camera.
NVR is under £100 and looks valuable, but you need to add an extra fee to SATA harddisk Store video recording. Behind are four webcam ports, each with POE+ service and a total power budget of 53W.
HDMI and VGA ports support local Monitorprovides two old-fashioned record player jacks for audio and provides a separate fast Ethernet port that facilitates NVR Web Management. Setting up is easy; after installing the 4TB Western Digital Red Pro Hard Disk in NVR, we connected the HD monitor and followed the on-screen wizard.
To ensure access, select the Admin password and provide the recovery email address. You can also set a global username and password and recover emails that are applied to the Vigi camera when it first goes online.
The wizard is done by displaying the QR code of the TP-Link Vigi mobile application. To use them, you can create a TP-Link ID account and then bind the NVR to its web console. We also loaded the TP-Link Security Manager application on the Windows host and linked it to our ID account for remote NVR access, although this does not provide event management.
Add C540V camerawe connected it to the POE port and waited for ten seconds when NVR discovered. All security settings and firmware updates are available to us, and NVR allocates a set of video parameters, including enabling the latest H.265+ codec.
This IP66-level camera provides excellent image quality. Apart from good contrast and color balance, it has a sharp focus that handles bright sunlight well, and its electric cooker and tilt features cover a lot of the floor. IR LED provides good night lighting up to 20 meters, its white LED is very bright and powerful points are indispensable speaker Will scare the invader’s life daylight.
The NVR1004-4P does not match Synology’s DVA appliance, which provides glitz-free number of people, facial recognition and crowd control, but does offer good detection and recording capabilities. For basic motion detection, you can draw multiple polygon shapes in the camera view you need to apply, set object height and width filters, adjust sensitivity, and enable human and vehicle detection.
Smart events go further and allow you to draw lines in camera view to represent digital fences and choose one-way or two-way directions. Custom detection areas can be monitored to see objects to be deleted or objects that linger during a specific period, while the entry and exit areas are used to closely follow specific areas, such as building entrances.
In addition to event logging, triggering operations can also include popping up warnings, sounding NVR and camera audio alerts, and activating the camera. Safety lamp. Recordings can be viewed from NVR’s local monitor or web console, security manager, and mobile applications, and there are options to select a camera channel and browse its schedule to understand the points.
The NVR1004-4P supports ONVIF-compliant IP cameras, and once we connect them to the POE port, we will find our D-Link model. We customized the live view to show all camera feeds, but the functionality is more limited because we can only apply basic motion detection events to them.
You need to get the best out of it using TP-Link’s Vigi camera, but NVR1004-4P is a good choice Small Business Seek affordable internal video surveillance. It offers many video analytics features, the C540V camera scores high in image quality and offers components at a very competitive price.
