HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit — 6x 8MP 4K AI Cameras With Sound, 4TB HDD, Facial Recognition, HiLook Pro NVR-108MH-K/8P + IPC-T381H-MU 2.8mm Turrets

Why the HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit Is Worth Buying as a Kit

Pricing a 4K CCTV system part by part means matching a recorder to the cameras, counting PoE ports against the power each turret draws, and picking a drive the recorder will accept. This HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit has that matching done: six IPC-T381H-MU 8MP turrets, a HiLook Pro NVR-108MH-K/8P (STD) recorder matched to their power and bandwidth, and a 4TB surveillance-grade drive supplied alongside, bought together on one invoice.

Six 8MP turrets put a camera on six of a bigger home’s ways in: the porch, the carport, the street-side fence, the side passage, the back deck and the rear gate. The turrets nearest a door or a path give enough detail to crop to a face, and each one records the sound around it to the 4TB drive supplied with the kit. A seventh turret can run on the recorder’s PoE power as well; an eighth can join it on a 12 VDC power supply, sold separately, which keeps the recorder inside its 75 W budget.

What the Cameras See — Six 8MP Turrets in the HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit

Each IPC-T381H-MU turret in this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit captures 3840 × 2160 from a 1/2.8-inch progressive-scan CMOS sensor at 20 frames per second. That is the resolution to lean on when you pause a clip and crop: the logo on the jacket of whoever tried the back door, the face of a caller at the porch, the car that pulled into the driveway and who stepped out of it. The 2.8mm lens spreads that detail over a 108° horizontal field, wide enough to take in a carport and the path beside it from one corner.

After dark the turrets change over to night vision, with 850 nm infrared reaching 30 m. Smart IR dials the infrared down when someone stands near a camera, so a visitor’s face at the porch keeps its features rather than glowing white. In daylight, 120 dB true WDR keeps detail in a high-contrast scene: a caller standing against a sunlit doorway, or the shaded carport beside a bright driveway.

Metal housings sealed to IP67 sit out in the weather, and each turret is rated down to -30 °C and up to 60 °C, enough for a west-facing wall in a January heatwave and a frosty Ballarat morning alike. The bracket adjusts on three axes, with 360° of pan, 75° of tilt and a rotation that levels the image, so a turret fixed to a raked soffit or a corner post can still be set straight.

Hear What Happens — A Built-In Microphone in Each Turret

A built-in microphone (an arrayed dual mic) sits in each turret of this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit and adds sound to the footage: the knock at the front door, a gate latch clicking shut, the car door in the carport just before someone walks into view. Playback keeps that sound in step with the picture, so each noise lines up with the moment it happened.

The Recorder — HiLook Pro NVR-108MH-K/8P (STD) With a 4TB Drive Supplied

The recorder in this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit is the HiLook Pro NVR-108MH-K/8P (STD): eight channels, a 75 W pool of PoE power split across its eight ports, and up to 80 Mbps of camera traffic coming in. It records at resolutions up to 12MP, so the 8MP stream from each turret is kept at its native resolution, and HDMI output up to 4K sits alongside a VGA port for a second screen in the office or the garage.

H.265+ compression trims the space each hour of 4K footage needs, which lets a 4TB surveillance-grade drive keep a working archive from the six cameras of this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit before the oldest footage is overwritten. Recording stays on the premises, the HiLookVision app connects to it directly, and there are no monthly fees for storing or viewing it.

Finding an incident is quicker with smart search and smart playback, which skip to the stretches where something moved in an area you mark on the image. Through the HiLookVision app this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit puts live view and playback on your phone, from the office, the footy or a holiday up the coast.

Smart AI — Human and Vehicle Detection on Every Camera, Faces on the Recorder

This HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit runs two kinds of AI, and they sit in different places. Motion Detection 2.0 is the cameras’ own analytics: each turret tells a human from a vehicle in what it sees, and the line or zone you mark out can key off those classes in place of raw motion. Facial recognition belongs to the recorder. It works on one camera’s video stream at a time, or by face picture comparison, against up to 16 libraries and 20,000 faces, so the porch turret can be the camera that checks a caller against the faces you have saved.

Who This HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit Suits

🏠 Bigger family homes — 8MP detail down the driveway, sound with the pictures, and the recorder’s facial recognition on the turret at the front door

🏢 Car yards, plant nurseries and trade counters — 8MP detail on the gate and the yard after hours, and a 4TB drive holding the footage on site

🔧 Electricians and installers quoting the 4K tier — price this HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit as the premium option in one line, with the recorder, six 8MP turrets and drive on one invoice and junction boxes and Cat6 cable ordered alongside

What’s in This Kit — 3 Components, One Complete System

HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit — Full Specifications

HiLook 8 Channel CCTV Kit — Frequently Asked Questions

Comes with manufacturer’s warranty — Authorised Australian Product. See warranty T&C.

The HiLook 8 channel CCTV kit is part of the HiLook range at Comms Direct — supplied as Authorised Australian Product, covered by manufacturer warranty. Ships fast from Australian warehouses. Mounting on brick, timber or a pole? Add junction boxes and mounting brackets to the same order.