1080P WiFi Outdoor Security Surveillance Camera

As a 35 year Electronics Technician, specialized in Electronic Security. This camera is perfect for any novice. Two Way communication capable, great picture and is so far reliable. Works as well as my Video Doorbell.

It's an ok camera, but I did have issues with it disconnecting and later with the audio and microphone, also with the sensitivity, I had like 30 alarms from bugs, then it stoped alerting but the video still good. Lately I can reset it anymore9 also very annoying because it's by my front door and I had to make a hole on the roof for the cables and the reset button is on the attic) and now even resetting it doesn't work anymore, it's been more than a year and once in a while I try again, and nothing. There are better cameras now so I don't recommend this one.

Things I like about this camera: it was a good price, it plugs into a wall jack with an AC adapter, it seems to be well built, the app loads up quickly, and it has a decent wifi range. Things that could improve about this camera: the picture quality is OK, the night vision is OK, but both could be a little better, sometimes the app takes a while when your trying to rewind and watch something that just happened. Overall I am pretty happy with this camera because I just wanted something on my driveway in case of an emergency or theft. I put in the SD card and it just runs on its own, which is nice because I dont have to delete old footage or anything. The night picture isnt very good, but it does its job for about a 30-40 foot radius,

After about 8 months of satisfactory performance I began to experience problems. I no longer received alerts on my iPhone 6S. The events were recorded but there was no alert sound or banner on the iPhone screen. This is probably the most important aspect of the phone app. It was difficult to contact customer service. There is no published e-mail address. I tried sending a message from within the app. No success. I tried leaving a message in the form of a question on the Amazon product page. No success. Finally, I found an e-mail address within a customer review. The manufacturer did respond to my e-mail and our communications continued for several weeks. They had me try different things on the app and on the camera. They even sent me a file to upload to the camera via the micro SD card. Many of these things required me to access the actual camera. My camera is mounted about 12 feet high on a wall and requires me to climb a ladder. At age 70 and after about 20 up and down trips on the ladder over several days I decided to request a refund. The manufacturer responded with an offer for a new camera which I rejected. I insisted on a refund. All communications with the manufacturer ceased. I am currently trying to obtain a refund directly from Amazon. My revised recommendation is to not purchase this camera. I am a bit surprised that this camera has only 52 reviews as of this date as it is pretty nice and performs as advertised. The physical package is quite solid and seems to be well protected from rain water by nice gaskets at every joint. The photos do not illustrate the cable connections and this should be considered since you will have to find a way to bring the wiring into your house. There is a 40" long cable permanently mounted in the base of the camera. The cable has 3 objects at its end. One is a rubber insulated female power receptacle for the external wall-wart transformer. Another is a rubber insulated female CAT5 connection; and the third is a rubber insulated reset button. Taking these 3 objects into account suggests that you will need a pretty large hole in the wall to pass them through. Or you could mount the camera base to an outdoor electrical box with a solid cover that you could drill as required. I took the easy way out and passed the end of the wall-wart transformer through a small hole in my wall and left the camera cable on the outside coiled up. See the attached photos. The black transformer cable can be seen exiting the wall and then I filled the hole with caulk. Luckily I had an accessible attic on the other side of the wall and I had an electrical outlet where I could plug in the transformer. If you use WiFi no other connections need to be made. The wall-wart transformer has a standard looking barrel connector. I am sure it is possible to buy extension cables for this connector in case you want to make your final electrical connection far away from the camera. There are two movable joints which allows you to position the camera and then you tighten them up using a supplied Allen wrench. Setup is easy and the APP works just fine on my iPhone and iPad. There is need to use cloud storage (which is not free). All you need is a micro SD card. I used a 32GB card which costs around $8.00. That's it. You can now see both live action and saved alerts from anywhere in the world. The APP could stand some improvement. It continuously records video and sound in 1 minute increments for a time span consistent with your SD card. It alerts you to movement with a one minute recording. You'll get a tone on your phone the moment the movement occurs. The recording, however, takes a minute or two to appear on your phone. Here's where it's a little frustrating. Lets say the movement happened 50 seconds into one of the standard 1 minute recordings. Then the recorded alert you see will consist of 50 seconds of no activity and 10 seconds of movement. I think the APP could be a little more intelligent in its presentation. There are infrared lights that glow continuously to light the area at night. You can see them as dim red LEDs once it gets dark. Bugs seem to enjoy these lights so it would be nice to be able turn them off. Especially if the area you are watching is otherwise illuminated. There is no way to do this. Flying insects will cause alerts. You can, however, turn off alerts during periods of darkness. I had a different camera that offered the option to turn off the infrared lights. Perhaps this manufacturer will offer this feature in the future. This other camera also had the ability to reduce the size of the alert area. This could be handy if you have tree branches or other moving objects that might be within the range of the camera. Perhaps a slight improvement in the APP could solve this problem. You can easily take still images and make short videos from both live action and recorded alerts. These images are saved in an Album on the APP and in your phone photo album. You can then easily send it out to by text or e-mail. All-in-all I am very happy with this camera. I don't think the manufacturer has an English language website but they have an e-mail address and they promptly answered my technical questions in excellent English. The camera also includes a 12 month warranty and Amazon shows it as a no question "free returns" item.

Wow! This is a steal. App is super user friendly. Connected to an Ethernet cable and plug in and it’s set up! I use it to watch my cat while I’m away, and pet cameras are $100+ so this was a steal. It takes a video each time it detects motion so you can watch later with a time stamp. Picture is crystal clear. Picture of my cat for reference

Product is average... it does what it suppose to do.. it's not a 1080p.. it looks more like 720p.. the pixels suck in this camera. Images in people looks like mindcraft.

The camera is AWESOME! It’s very easy to set up and install. Where I installed it is much further than the recommended distance from the router, but it’s still very sensitive. And both day view and night view are very clear. Best choice for the best price!

Camera just needs its wall wart, included. Wirelessly connects to an access point. 2.4 gig only, same wifi as phone running the software. eSmartCam panning is jumpy. The audio from the camera and through the software sounds hollow, as if a tunnel.