GESKS 4K Triple-Lens PTZ Camera

A 3.6mm lens falls midway through the security-camera range. It is narrower than the 2.8mm wide lenses on most bullets, so each view reaches a little further into the scene, and three of them together widen the coverage again without stretching any one picture.

• Driveway and front door from one corner, plus the lawn between them.
• A farm yard, which GESKS names among its uses, with the gate, the barn door and the track in separate views.
• A garden where one lens holds the path, one the shed and one the fence line.

The resolution is quoted as 4K 8MP for the camera as a whole. GESKS does not state how that figure divides between the three lenses, and where iCSee cameras carry several lenses, the quoted figure is normally a total. Do not expect a full 4K picture from each view; the resolution guide explains why.

The feeds appear together in split screens in the iCSee app, and they can be watched on a PC too. Seeing all three views at once is what the design is for, so a larger phone or a PC monitor shows it at its best.

1. Open live view and steer the head until the first zone, say the gate, sits well in frame.
2. Save it as a preset with a clear name.
3. Repeat for the drive, the door and any other zone worth a fixed look.
4. Choose the resting position the camera returns to after it has tracked someone.

Auto tracking takes over when motion appears: the head follows the movement, then returns. Smart motion detection sends a real-time alert to the phone, and email notifications can go out as well, useful for a farm office or a second home where nobody watches the app all day.

With the cloud and AI function switched on, GESKS says alerts become more precise, sorting people, vehicles and pets. That sorting depends on the cloud service; without it, the camera still detects motion and records to the card.

On a yard with a dog, the pet category matters. A dog on patrol otherwise sets off the same alert as a stranger, and after a few days of false alarms, alerts get ignored.

Name presets for what they guard rather than where they point. A preset called side gate is quicker to find in a hurry at night than one called preset 3, and anyone you share the camera with will know what they are looking at.

• Aim one lens short, at the door or porch, where faces come closest to the camera.
• Aim one lens mid-range, at the path or drive, where people walk toward the house.
• Aim one lens long, at the gate or fence line, inside the 64ft reach.

Beyond that reach, figures turn to silhouettes after dark, whatever the resolution. If the far gate sits further out, add a motion-sensing floodlight there, or choose a camera with zoom.

Check the first night's recording from each lens in turn. A lens pointed at a pale wall or a parked white van close by can bounce infrared back and wash out the picture, and turning the head a few degrees usually clears it.

Storage and downloads

The SD slot takes cards up to 128GB for 24/7 recording. Three live views write more data than one, so a card on continuous recording fills sooner than in a single-lens camera. Event recording or a recorder copy stretches the history, and the SD card guide shows how to estimate days of footage.

Video can be downloaded straight from the phone app or from a PC, which helps when footage has to go to a neighbour or the police. Multi-user viewing lets each person in the household watch on their own account.

Two-way audio works through the same app. Tap the microphone in live view and your voice carries through the camera's speaker, whichever lens the visitor happens to be standing in.

1. Pair it in iCSee over 2.4GHz Wi-Fi next to the router; the setup guide covers QR pairing.
2. Reserve its address on the router.
3. Add it to the NVR by ONVIF, or pull the RTSP stream into PC software; the RTSP page has the address format.
4. Check that all three views arrive before scheduling recording.

Pick the triple-lens for breadth, with several zones watched at once from one mount and fewer blind corners than a single-lens dome can manage. The GESKS 9MP or the 6MP 3-lens PTZ suit a property where reach matters more, since both add zoom.

At 8 × 3.97 × 10 inches this is a larger housing than a plain dome, so mount it on a solid wall or post rather than thin cladding. Keep the cable entry pointing down and the head clear of gutters, which drip onto lenses in heavy rain.

Wi-Fi is 2.4GHz only, and three streams ask a lot of it. Check live view on all three views at the mount point before drilling; if any view stalls, move the router or add an access point closer to that wall.