195
people found this helpful, as of 2023
ranked #168,076 most helpful
out of 571,544,897 reviews
★★★★★
Quality, Efficiency, Reliability, and Subtlety
I bought two of these cameras, one for my front door and one for my living room and kitchen area to monitor my pets while I’m away and for my own price of mind and safety when I’m home alone. I also purchased a 32gb memory card for each, which was totally worth the extra dollars. I have had the memory cards in my devices for a month and have yet to need to clear my storage from my memory card. If you only want motion detection, you can set the alert settings to notify you. It records 15 seconds and then notifies you. The timing has never been off and it doesn’t take minutes or hours to receive the notification - always about 15 seconds. Lastly, I did see someone say there is no way to change the sensitivity, which is incorrect. You can set it to be sensitive from 1% to 100%. My front door is set to 50% so it doesn’t pick up tree movement or plant movement. However, if a cat walks past my door or someone walks into the sight of the camera, it does notify me, so I’m not getting unnecessary amounts of notifications.
I’d review this product with four main traits that I love about it. First, the quality is phenomenal. For $25 you get an easy to setup product that you can truly tell is quality when you take out of the box. I just wanted a camera that would alert me when there was movement, not so much to go back for old footage, but it’s great for both. The footage is in 1080p and it’s really great (one of the main reasons I bought this camera over the other one I was contemplating). Second, it’s highly efficient and easy to use. The installation process took me less than 1 minute each. All you need to setup is WiFi, have the camera plugged into an electrical outlet and the Wyze app downloaded on your phone. It was fun and exciting to setup this camera (small things excite me!). I’ve never had a problem with this camera not being exactly what I wanted. It’s easy to move around and comes with a 3M magnet which allows you to place on a wall if you don’t have a magnetic surface (which I didn’t). Third, the reliability of this product has truly blown me away. I saw reviews and comments about the reliability and was a little worried, but it had all the features I was looking for. I don’t really want it to be a security system like some people are trying to accomplish, I just needed something to give me price of mind when I wanted to check in on my pets and notify me of movement, which this accomplished very well. Having mentioned security system, there is a setting to detect smoke alarms, which I have set for safety reasons (I mean, why not?). In terms of reliability, I have had an instance where my app wasn’t connecting to my camera while I was away from home, but I was able to quickly and easily reset the camera remotely within my app and it was back up within minutes. Also, I’ve been kicked out of the app twice, but that’s hardly anything to concern yourself with. Lastly, this camera is so subtle. Most people don’t even notice it because it’s so small, I’m easily able to hide the wires in my curtains and it even looks very modern. The camera I have facing my porch is undetectable from the porch, but I have a great view of my front door and no one even knows it’s there. I highly suggest this product for anyone looking for an easy to use, quality product that is reliable and efficient!! I’ve already recommended my family and friends and will definitely purchase more of these when I have my own home.
I have included photos of the living area camera as well as the view from my front porch window, which has a very clear view through an insulated window.
September 2018 · Electronics · verified purchase