Wired Lorex systems provide dependable, always-on coverage with continuous recording to your recorder’s surveillance-grade hard drive. This helps ensure important activity around your home is captured, even if your internet goes down, you miss an alert, or you need to review footage later.

A dedicated recorder brings your cameras, footage, storage, and settings together in one place. This makes it easier to manage your home security system, review recordings, and keep coverage organized across multiple areas of your property.

Lorex wired systems store footage locally on the recorder, helping keep your video private, accessible, and under your control without required monthly cloud storage fees.

Choose a system size that fits your home today, with room to add more compatible cameras or upgrade storage as your needs change.

Check live cameras, receive alerts, and review recordings from your smartphone, helping you stay connected to your home while you’re away.

Clear, detailed video helps you see important activity more easily and capture footage that can be useful for evidence, identification, or reviewing past events.

Color Night Vision, infrared night vision, and advanced imaging features help maintain visibility after dark, making it easier to capture useful footage no matter the lighting conditions around your home.

Person, vehicle, and other smart detection features help you stay aware of important activity around your home, reduce unnecessary alerts, and know when something needs your attention.

Visible security cameras can help discourage unwanted activity, while features like warning lights, sirens, and two-way talk, help draw attention and allow you to respond when needed.

Lorex outdoor security cameras are built with heavy-duty exteriors designed to handle extreme temperatures, rain, snow, and tampering, helping provide reliable year-round coverage.

Place cameras where visitors, deliveries, and daily activity are most likely to happen.

Monitor vehicles, garage doors, tools, equipment, and garage entryways that may provide direct access into your home.

Cover patios, gates, side entrances, and outdoor areas to help detect unexpected activity around less-traveled parts of your home.

Add coverage to lower-level windows, basement entrances, side doors, and other access points that may otherwise be overlooked.

Plan coverage for sheds, workshops, barns, guest houses, detached garages, long driveways, and distant property lines.

Before choosing a system, think through your home layout, camera locations, and long-term coverage needs. A little planning helps make installation easier and ensures your system has room to grow.

• Choose a recorder with enough channels for the cameras you need now and future additions.
• Measure cable runs before installation to confirm distance requirements.
• Decide where the recorder will be placed, preferably in a secure, ventilated location.
• Consider storage needs based on camera count, resolution, and how long you want to keep footage.
• Plan for harder-to-reach areas like detached garages, gates, sheds, or long driveways.
  

Proper installation helps your cameras capture clearer, more useful footage while keeping cables and equipment protected.

• Mount cameras high enough to stay out of reach while still capturing faces and activity.
• Angle cameras toward key movement paths, such as doors, walkways, driveways, and gates.
• Avoid pointing cameras directly at bright lights, reflective surfaces, or the rising/setting sun.
• Use overlapping camera views in important areas to help reduce blind spots.
• Use junction boxes, conduit, or protected cable paths for cleaner, more durable installations.

Increase how long your home security footage is stored with security-grade hard drives built for continuous 24/7 recording in NVR and DVR systems.

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Connect wired cameras to your recorder with the right cabling for your system, including Ethernet cables for IP cameras and RG59 Siamese cables for analog cameras. Choose from pre-made lengths or bulk rolls to support clean, dependable camera runs around your home.

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Support longer IP camera runs, simplify cable layouts, and connect cameras to available NVR channels when your recorder supports more cameras than it has built-in PoE ports.

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Reuse existing coaxial wiring for select IP camera upgrades, helping modernize older camera installations without running all-new Ethernet cable.

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Protect connections, conceal wiring, and securely position cameras on walls, ceilings, poles, corners, or other surfaces for a cleaner installation, better viewing angles, and more complete coverage around your home.

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