Buying guide
PoE or battery? A decision that is mostly about your walls
Cable runs cost more than cameras. Here is the honest arithmetic on when a wire-free camera saves money and when it quietly costs more.
New — NC800 series
See colour after dark,
not grey shapes.
An f/1.0 aperture and a 1/1.8″ sensor pull usable colour out of 0.0005 lux. When there is genuinely nothing to work with, the spotlight steps in — gently, and only for the seconds a person is actually in frame.
0.0005 lux
Colour threshold
8 MP
3840 × 2160 @ 25 fps
IP67
−30 °C to 60 °C
Colour night vision
On-device AI · no cloud
- Free shipping over $99US · EU · UK · AU · CA
- 24-month warrantyAdvance replacement, no fuss
- 30-day returnsIncluding opened boxes
- Engineers on supportReal ones, 7:00–20:30 EST
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Forty-one models in stock across three warehouses. Everything ships within 24 hours.
What people are actually buying
Ranked on the last 30 days of orders, not on what we would like to shift.
The engineering
Four compromises we did not make
Every one of these costs us margin. We kept them because the alternative is a camera that photographs well and disappoints at 3 a.m.
ColourX night vision
An f/1.0 lens and a back-illuminated sensor, not a brighter LED. Faces and plates keep their colour at light levels where an ordinary camera has already switched to grey.
0.0005 lux · f/1.0
AI that runs on the camera
Human, vehicle and pet classification happens on the chip. Nothing leaves the building to be analysed, and detection keeps working when the WAN link does not.
< 120 ms · on-device
One cable does everything
PoE 802.3af carries power, video and control over a single Cat-5e run up to 100 m. No mains socket at the eave, no separate power brick to fail.
802.3af · 100 m
Built for weather that bites
IP67 housing, 200 hours of salt-spray testing and a −30 °C cold soak before a batch is signed off. Gaskets are replaceable, not moulded shut.
IP67 · IK10 · −30 °C
ColourX vs. standard IR
The same wall, the same night, 22:40
Infrared gives you a shape and a rough height. Colour gives you a jacket, a number plate, a delivery van’s livery — the details that make footage worth keeping. Drag the handle to compare.
See the ColourX range
Standard IR
Cloubay ColourX
Pick the kit for the job
Four starting points. Tell us the site and an engineer will mark up a camera plan for free.
Homes
Cover the door, the drive and the back garden without a trench across the lawn.
- Battery cameras where cable will not reach
- Doorbell with a 180° head-to-toe view
- Local recording — no monthly fee
Retail & hospitality
Till-side detail, entrance counts and a clean evidence export for insurers.
- 4K over the till, 180° over the floor
- Two-way audio at the back door
- Export clips without an installer visit
Warehouse & yard
Long dark runs between racking, plus a gate that has to read plates at night.
- PTZ with 25× optical for the fence line
- Plate capture down to 1 lux
- 16 and 32-channel recorders
Construction & remote
Sites with no mains, no router and a perimeter that moves every fortnight.
- 4G LTE, no site broadband needed
- Solar keeps it up through winter
- Re-site in ten minutes, no rewiring
Wholesale · OEM · ODM
We are the factory, not a trading desk
Fifteen years of SMT lines, our own mould shop and an in-house firmware team. If you want your logo on the housing and your app on the phone, that is a normal Tuesday here.
- Private label from 100 units — silkscreen, packaging, manuals, app skin
- Full ODM from 1 000 units — tooling, PCBA, certification, FOB or DDP
- CE, FCC, RoHS, UKCA and ONVIF certification handled in-house
- Samples in 5 working days · production in 25–35 days
15 yrs
Manufacturing on our own lines
46
Countries shipped to in 2025
2.4 M
Units built last year
0.38%
Field return rate, 12-month
Installers and homeowners, in their words
4.7 average across 11 400 verified purchases.
Verified buyer
“We replaced a five-year-old analogue setup and the difference at night is not subtle. The gate camera now reads plates under a single sodium lamp, which is the whole reason the project got signed off.”
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Marcus B.
United States · Facilities lead · 14 cameras across two sites
Verified buyer
“ONVIF actually works. It dropped straight into the client’s existing recorder without a firmware dance, which is more than I can say for two of the brands I used to fit.”
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Elena R.
Spain · Installer · 200+ deployments
Verified buyer
“Through a winter at −18 °C: no fogging, no dropouts, no dead units. Support answered a firmware question the same evening, in German, from an actual engineer.”
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Thomas K.
Germany · Verified purchase · 8 months in service
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Guides worth ten minutes
Written by the people who answer the support line.
Field notes
What 0.0005 lux actually looks like at 2 a.m.
We put four cameras on the same fence line for a fortnight and pulled the frames at 02:14 every night. The results are less flattering than the spec sheets.
Install
Sizing storage for a 16-channel 4K system
H.265+ changes the maths considerably. A worked example for a warehouse running 16 channels at 25 fps with 30 days of retention.
Firmware notes, field tests and the occasional discount
One email a month. No countdown timers, no fake stock warnings.