Dahua DHI-NVR4104HS-P-AI/ANZ 4 Channel 4K PoE AI NVR — Up to 16MP Cameras, Face Recognition, Human & Vehicle Detection, WizSense (No HDD Included)

Most homes need four camera spots: the front porch, a carport or garage, a side passage and the back deck. The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR records those four views on site, so the clip of a car idling in the carport at 2 am is waiting on your own hard drive in the morning. Plug the cameras into its rear ports, add a drive, connect it to the modem, and it records around the clock.

In the comparison table below it sits beside the eight-port DHI-NVR4108HS-8P-AI/ANZ, which carries the same recorder AI. Where four views do the job, the Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR is the AI NVR that fits, and the budget saved on unused ports can go into a sharper front-door camera or a bigger drive.

One Box Powers Four Cameras — The PoE Switch Sits Inside

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR has four PoE ports to IEEE 802.3af/at on its rear panel. Each port can feed a camera up to 25.5 W and the four share a 45 W budget, so tally your cameras’ rated draw against that figure. Run one Cat6 cable from the eave above the porch to the recorder and that camera has picture and power together, with no power point to add under the gutter.

Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 Channel NVR — Cameras up to 16MP, Recorded Locally

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR takes an IP camera up to 16MP on each channel, with 80 Mbps of incoming bandwidth shared between the four. For viewing, Dahua rates decoding at four 8MP streams at 30 fps with the recorder AI off, or four 5MP streams with it on; the other mixes are in the specifications below. Playback runs on up to four channels together, so the carport and back-deck clips from the same minute play side by side.

People, Vehicles and Familiar Faces — WizSense Recorder AI

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR does its own AI work on the camera video. SMD Plus covers four channels with secondary filtering for humans and motor vehicles, giving you human and vehicle detection you can search by target type. Perimeter protection covers two channels with up to 10 IVS rules each, such as a line drawn over the driveway entrance or a zone marked out on the back lawn. One channel is set aside for faces: it detects them and recognises them against up to 10 face databases and 20,000 face images; at home, the camera over the front door is the natural choice for it. Cameras with their own AI can add ANPR, people counting and heat maps through the recorder.

Live View on the Lounge-Room TV — HDMI to 4K, Plus VGA

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR shows live view on the lounge TV through its HDMI output, as sharp as 3840 × 2160, and its VGA output suits an older monitor at up to 1920 × 1080. Show one camera large or the four in a quad split, then plug a mouse into a USB port to scroll back when a parcel goes missing from the porch.

Storage Sized to the Weeks You Keep — One Bay to 20 TB

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR ships without a drive, so the capacity is your call: the single SATA bay holds one surveillance drive of as much as 20 TB, and Dahua notes that maximum varies with operating temperature. Smart H.265+ compression keeps recordings lean, stretching each terabyte over more days. Size the drive by how many weeks you want kept before the oldest footage is written over.

Full specifications for the Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR, from Dahua’s current datasheet:

Where a Four-Camera Recorder Fits Best

🏠 Homes with a porch, carport and back deck — a camera on each plus the side passage, face recognition on the front-door camera, and the footage kept inside the house

🏪 Barbers, florists and single-shopfront retailers — the front door, counter, stockroom and back laneway watched from the office out the back, with human and vehicle detection sorting after-hours motion

🏭 Machinery sheds and trade yards — tripwire rules on two channels for the yard gate and the shed door, with camera power sent down the Cat6 to spots without an outlet

🏢 Medical suites and strata lobbies — the entry, lift lobby and car-park ramp on a reception monitor, with motion searchable by people or vehicles

⚡ Installers who stock one Dahua part number — the PoE switch inside, a 0.86 kg case for the comms cupboard, ONVIF for mixed camera brands and Dahua’s phone app for the handover

Against the 8-channel DHI-NVR4108HS-8P-AI/ANZ, the decision is camera count. Both share the recorder AI and one drive bay to 20 TB; the eight-channel model adds four more PoE ports on a 78 W budget, 256 Mbps of incoming bandwidth (180 Mbps with the recorder AI on), a gigabit network port and larger split screens. If four cameras watch the doors and the yard, the Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR is the right-sized buy; if a fifth camera is already planned, start on the eight-channel model.

Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 Channel NVR — Frequently Asked Questions

The Dahua NVR4104HS-P-AI 4 channel NVR, sold as Authorised Australian Product, is part of the Dahua NVR range at Comms Direct, backed by Dahua’s manufacturer warranty and sent out from our warehouses in Melbourne and Sydney. Which four spots around your place will the cameras watch first?