Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We've had a recent series things being stolen from around our neighborhood (small stuff to a whole boat motor). I finally had enough when our Christmas lights got stolen from us and bought this unit. Unit arrived on time and was packaged amazingly (see screenshots)!! I was able to quickly understand the setup without much time and had my first camera up in about 60 mins. Running the wires was a bit difficult as I hate getting up in the attic and fishing wires, but this was honestly the hardest part of the whole job. It's very important you run these wire through the interior of your house to your unit. Not because of of weather related things, but because of the length of the wires/signal. If you try wrapping the wire around the outside of house and extend the cable with 25 feet or longer of extending cable, you will soon realize you get a fuzzy picture or diagonal lines. So do not, I repeat DO NOT use extension cables for these cameras, instead find a single place for the unit in the house that all cameras can reach with a single line of cable that came with unit (65feet) and run it interior of house. Once I had my pictures all clean and was ready to go, I was off having fun with this guy and configuring it away.. however, this is where my 5 start drops to a 4 star. I've been battling over the past two days the motion detection sensitivity and the sheer number of alerts my wife and I get on our phones now (over 99 first night). The issue is that even with properly configured motion grid patterns (to trigger an alert), you just can't account for all the different conditions such as night time, rainy streets, bright head lights, heavy rain drops, bugs and yes you guessed it animated or blinking Christmas lights. The software does not allow you to schedule the sensitivity of motion alters depending on the time of day, and even if it did trying to make sense of these conditions would only leave me with a less than productive camera at night to prevent theft at night. Do I expect this system to know the different between a flashing light and a human's motion, or a large rain drop vs. a thief, absolutely not it's just something that I didn't expect and now know plague most surveillance systems. But, there are a few areas in the software that would of helped mitigate these situations had there been just a little finer level of schedule configuration across all features of the camera(s). Lastly, I was not aware of this, but only 1 camera has a audio abilities (I could be wrong as the audio icon on the rest of the cameras is not available to be clicked)..? I assume this camera was for my front door, but I put it way up above my garage on the second story thinking all cameras had audio abilities.. so I got a move that one next weekend. In conclusion, this a great product for a great price and would recommend it, however it's lack of the finer tuning in the system software that I would like to see in updates around or future releases adapt, that prevents me from giving it a full five star. (UPDATE: Amazingly as I was writing this review, some drunk girls came down my street and started messing with our lights and I scared em off by pointing out the new cameras and a threat of putting their faces all over facebook if I see them again, so it works!)