C800 Bullet Camera

I bought this Annker C800 and a C500 at the same time, I’ve had a few different Chinese IP cameras over the years and I’d say the C800 is one of the best I’ve seen, especially for the price: - Incredible picture quality - 4k@15fps, then higher FPS for lower resolutions, decent night vision too. - Very wide field of view with minimal fish eye effect - Cleaver, tool free method of positioning the camera... far better then fiddly grub screws. - Premium build quality. - Plug-in free WebUI. HTML/CSS for the menus and HTML5 for the browser steam with no need to install any dubious Active X/browser plug-in’s. - Supports H265 compression, but not H265+ (With Annke firmware). Im using this with Xeoma in a Linux VM, however this camera supports RTSP (again, same URL string as Hikvision) so should work fine with pretty much any NVR. As others have pointed out this is very similar to the Hikvision DS-2CD2085FWD-I, so much so that I’m willing to bet that’s why the firmware upgrade button is hidden in the Web interface 😜 With the Hikvision firmware the main improvement I noticed is you have the option to enable H265+ encoding plus a few other options such as the ability to enable SSH and a few basic ONVIF settings, unless you have a specific use case for H265+ (or you’re a geek) the shipped Annke firmware is perfectly fine for most people. Tl;dr - if you’re looking for a good value, crisp 4k stream with H265 support, excellent night vision, excellent build quality, decent Web interface this is the one I recommend.

Very professional unit. Password security required before anything. Usable immediately then, but with many settings available to tweak whatever bits you want to. Very very satisfied. I wanted to use this with ONVIF, which must be enabled. (Configuration - Network Settings - Advanced Settings - Integration protocol tab). After that I could use it with PC software. I use Netcam Studio, I found it the most useful after trying about 6 programs. A few wouldn't pick up my other domestic camera, a couple had long image lag) I found the default video to be slightly blurry, when really I wanted sharp stills for security pictures. There are of course image settings for this (configuration - Image - common/day/night). there are iris (shutter speed) settings from 1/3 of a second to 1/10000 and even 1/100000. I have no clue how well these might work with a lot of light, for my uses a nice 1/500 was perfect for recognising faces at 50 feet. This setting was no good with auto-switch night cam as it just became black. I set it to 'scheduled-switch' and that allowed me to put separate image and exposure settings for day and night. It will mean me going back every month or so to adjust the dawn/dusk times, but this is a small effort for such strong day/night controls. I set my night iris to 1/25, this gives me fairly sharp faces without compromising the image too much. Noise controls helped here too. Overall, a superb, very adjustable camera. No wifi, doesn't come with a PSU or net cable, which suited me fine as I wanted it to replace a failed camera that I already had ethernet cable directly for. I will soon replace all my cameras with these. Update: Just bought another from Annke, version I91BL. Setting scheduled switching day/night for variable iris, is now six optional modes. There is a month by month scheduler to select when you want each mode to be active, max 4 per day. More complex but more flexible.

Excellent camera and features. Set up easy, configuration good but detection sensitivity not too good at a distance unless it’s a large object. Biggest problem I had was cannot view recorded triggers wirelessly on IPad or android using Ankee vision App. Browser works ok but anything viewed via Annke App (recorded files) hardly work or won’t work. Had lots of emails to Annke tech but despite lots of tweaks, no different. Tried two different Wi-Fi routers ( all good spec) but still problems loading recorded files. Either fails to load files or comes up with network unstable. Browser works ok wirelessly but Ankee App won’t. Can’t view anything using browser on iPad or android, so Annke app only think that works ( live view).

mine developed a fault very shortly after installation. the Annke team were very good once they heard about it, despatching a new unit that has worked flawlessly since being installed. One star removed for the time and energy needed (and the ladders!) but can't fault the product or the company.... Thanks to Maggie!

As another reviewer suggested, this is simply a downmarket Hikvision unit and in the unit I have the firmware update options were hidden in the web interface. A quick bit of Chrome debug tab to "show" the hidden section and I was able to update this using the Hikvision G1 platform firmware and add all the extra features I expected to see. Note that the unit I received did NOT have a micro SD slot and so without the firmware update to allow network disk recording it would require an NVR to work for you. The video quality is excellent, comparing to a Geovision 1080p cam from 5 years ago that cost 10x as much. Night vision is also much better overall. Just started playing with the on-board motion events so cannot comment much but they seem to do the right thing. The three images - assuming Amazon allows them through - are the one I received in a single email after changing the motion detection area to cover the "path" area of my rather worn garden.

I bought 3 of these in total so far after buying the turret version as well and realising how easy it was to configure against my 4K Hikvision NVR. I bought these when there was an offer on and will look out for further offers as I need another 12 of these! I also bought a branded Hikvsion turret camera. These Annke cameras are far more responsive and have more feature support than the actual HV camera which surprised me. I expected it to be the other way round. I will 100% be buying more of these to fill my 16 channels up. Just need those offers to pop up. For use on the HV NVR, you just need to plug the camera direct into your network (not the POE on the NVR), used one of the readily downloadable config tools to get the IP address (or get it from within your router), then connect to it via a web browser on HTTP and give it a password (I used the same as my NVR), and most importantly, enable ONVIF. That said, it does connect using plug n play mode as Hikvision protocol so maybe it would work without ONVIF on. I might try it.

This camera is a terrible option if you want a simple CCTV set up - the camera is easy to install but fro there it become a problem - I use Mac and the software I needed to download came up with a serious alert when I tried to install it - Mac OS would not allow me to actually install in the end. I then tried to use the camera with security spy, but the streams would not work. I am frankly now convinced this camera is worthy of its price and I suspect that the camera is full of spyware - I’ve taken it down and bought a traditional brand which worked out the box.

Bought 2 of these for the front and back of a property. They have a great field of view and can cover the whole front and back areas of the house. The night vision on them works well. The camera has ample settings for you to configure, and I've had no issues getting it to work on the XProtect NVR software. Depending on your setup you might also wish to buy the camera juntion box, this will allow you to conceal the extra cabling.