Amcrest UltraHD 4K (8MP) Outdoor Bullet POE IP Camera

*** UPDATED and downgraded from 3 stars to 2 stars *** *** Updated again on 18-Feb-2019 to 1 star (see bottom for details) *** The setup was fairly straightforward, especially if you've installed other Amcrest cameras before. But the browser interface is a train wreck. It doesn't work at all with Firefox or Chrome. I could only get it to "sort of" work with IE, but the video overlays are completely messed up. For example, in the 1st and 2nd attached images, the live video overlay is offset (right and down) from where they should be, covering up some of the menu selections. Forum posts indicate that others have seen and reported this to Amcrest (months ago), but they have done nothing to fix it. The live video is not scaled to fit the browser window. I have a 4K monitor so you would expect the full image to be displayed properly, but only the top-left quarter of the image is visible and there is no way to scroll right or down to see the rest of the image (or get to the menu options that are usually at the bottom of this screen in Amcrest cameras). You can see this in the 3rd attached image in which the upper half shows a JPG snapshot of the full image and the lower half shows a screen capture from my 4K monitor of the live view with only part of the image displayed. In the Playback screen, Amcrest usually has a timeline at the bottom that allows you to select a specific recording to play back, but the timeline and controls are only partially displayed in the lower-left corner. So it's impossible to play back recorded videos (see 4th attached image). While the video fairly clear, the main reason I bought a 4K camera was to get high res photos capable of capturing license plates of front door package thieves. But that is beyond the capability of this camera. In the 5th attached photo, you will see a car in the driveway directly across the street with a blown up view of the license plate in an inset. In that image, the license plate is completely unintelligible. Just for comparison I took my 3-year old Galaxy S6 cell phone - which has a lower resolution sensor than the Amcrest camera - and took a photo from just beneath the camera so the distance was the same. That photo with a blown-up inset of the license plate (partially blocked out for privacy purposes) is shown in the 6th attached image. The plate is easily readable. I really expected much better for a 4K camera - it's hard to believe a 3 year old cell phone outperforms it. Another thing I don't like about this camera is the mounting assembly. The mount only allows the camera to be tilted 90 degrees from perpendicular using a fixed slot. Once the camera is mounted, that slot cannot be rotated - you're stuck with that one angle and any changes require the mount to be removed, rotated, and remounted. That's fine if you plan to point the camera straight out and only at a slightly downward angle, but if you want to mount it to look off the side and down, your adjustment options are severely limited. Amcrest could have at least designed the mount so the slot could be rotated. Finally, I noticed that video clips and JPG snapshots were getting deleted from my NAS server after about 24 hours. I gave the camera a 300GB allocation and it's using less than 2GB, so that's no the problem. I contacted Amcrest and they admitted to a bug in their software but have no ETA for when it will get fixed. I had to write a Linux script to run nightly on my NAS to move files into a different directory to preserve them from deletion by the rogue camera. I really hope that Amcrest does something about the browser compatibility issues and the NAS storage bug - SOON! [18-Feb-2019]: It's now been over 7 months and Amcrest has not fixed this bug. I've been exchanging e-mails with them several times a month and the responses are all the same: "So sorry, we're working on it, stay tuned." This is a major feature that is not working properly. It's shocking to me that this isn't a bigger issue for other users. Perhaps it's because many other people are using an NVR rather than a NAS to store the video clips.