Received my Dakota Alert DVR-01 yesterday. After going through the manual and setting up the time date stamp, it was ready to go. It worked as described. Haven't truly tried it yet for the purpose I bought it but it will be put to work tonight. One thing I noticed, if this is going to be a covert device, the green recording light should have been positioned behind instead of in front with the lens and PIR. I solve that issue by putting a black electrical tape on the green led to hide it's recording function. The PIR is very sensitive and record exactly 30 seconds of video everytime the PIR is activated. I would give this a 5 star but because of the placement of the recording LED, I'll just give it a 4 star. I might buy one or more of this product for other applications I have in mind. I highly recommend it.ADDENDUM February 20, 2012
This is really a good product. It does what it described to do. I covered with an electrical tape the flashing green light when it's recording but the 8 IR leds glows in the dark during recording. So much for covert? If I had known, I probably would not give the review a 4 star but I didn't know it and it was never stated in the manual that IR leds would glow while recording. There were about 20 recordings of 30 seconds each during the night. Some were triggered by the dog walking aimlessly and also captured my waking up twice in the middle of the night walking on the hallway heading to the bathroom. Overall, I'm satisfied with the product and I wish I could also cover the IR leds with electrical tape but then it would lose it's IR recording capability.
Things I liked best: small size, easy to hide. Stand alone DVR w internal micro SD card (4gig).
Things I liked least: Red LED's for night operation, Complex date and time setting procedure.
However, I'm satisfied so far.
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This camera works exactly as advertised. I did buy (separately) a 16gb SD card so I could capture more hours of data before the device starts copying over existing files. Resolution is decent and it is easy to download the files to a PC. Only drawback is you have to view individually a lot of 30 second files to find the one(s) with the bad guys.I purchased this unit from Home Controls Inc. through Amazon. It is a basic unit that does pretty much what it says at the Home Controls site When it senses motion it films 30 seconds and saves the video and audio to an on-board micro-SD card (expandable.) Video quality is good for an inexpensive unit and it requires no wiring or external video recorder. (Daylight images are a little washed out because of the IR night vision, which is normal for this type of camera.)Unfortunatley I received a defective unit which does keeps filming clips over and over once it has been triggered by motion. The manufacturer seems willing to back it up but since I purchased it through a third party I can only exchange by paying return shipping and waiting to get a replacement. Since I needed this camera for a specific purpose this week I am afraid that will be returning it.This is a product that delivers exactly what it advertises. The product takes very clear videos and is fairly easy to setup and use. The only improvement that I see that could be made is if the product had a longer battery life. I would highly recommend this product. When I called the company for support an actual human answered the telephone (wow).
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