Night Owl Security LTE-DVR8 DVR with Smart Viewing

• View your cameras anywhere in the world from your smartphone or tablet
• Compatible with all 3.5-Inch. SATA HDD (up to 2 TB)
• Free "Night Owl Lite" application

I got this to replace a 7-year old Honeywell DVR that was no longer sending video. My cameras were already in place. As another reviewer noted, there is no real secure place to mount your hard drive. I used stick-on velcro. So far, so good. Hooking up the cameras and connecting the unit to a monitor, and setting it up to record, was super simple. The internet interface was harder. The big thing that's not clear from the manual is when you change things (IE, input IP addresses and passwords) you have to reboot the DVR. This is not obvious because you get a nice message saying your changes have been saved, but then it still doesn't work. Once you get the right info inputted, and saved, and you reboot, everything is fine. The app for phone viewing (I have an android phone and my husband has an iphone) works great. I did send a couple of questions to tech support by email and got reasonably prompt and helpful responses.

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bought zomodo before this unit, had to return unit trouble with some of the channels from the beginning. Replaced the zomodo with a night owl, been using for 2 months with great results, would recommend this unit. Sets up very easy without the instructions. I purchased without a hard drive, no problems installing a hd. It will accept any HD.

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When I received this DVR, I opened the case to install the hard drive, and discovered that there was nothing in the case or inside the shipping box for mounting the hard drive, just a few smudges on the case wall. The SATA cables were there, yes, but that left the hard drive free to bounce around inside the case. Surely I could expect brackets and screws for installing an HDD?

And if they couldn't get this right, could I really expect the product itself to last?