Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I bought this one as replacement for my Foscam that recently died. I thought that I'd give this one a try. I found it to be a much better product that my old Foscam. For one thing, this one has a greater field of view (camera angle), pan and tilt moves fast, and was very easy to setup with the Amcrest app. The drawback is that i still have a few Foscams at home, which forces me to use 2 different mobile apps. I intend to replace my other Foscams with Amcrest over time. I find that the Amcrest is also more secure, and easier to manage using the Google chrome plugin - the Foscam required Internet Explorer with Silverlight. From a security standpoint, I don't have to open a port on my home network firewall to allow me to access my webcam from the Internet. The Amcrest has a P2P setup that is extremely easy to do - scan the cam OCR code, enter your userid and password, and you're all set! You cannot however delete the admin account, but the initial setup requires you to change the default password, which is great. I am a bit paranoid when it comes to security, so I created two additional custom accounts in the webcam setup - one for me, as a admin, and one for my spouse as a user. I am more comfortable setting up easier to remember user password for non admin account. For the admin account, I generated a 12 chars random password, that I stored in my password vault. I would have preferred to delete the default admin user account, but the webcam configuration won't allow you to do that. So that's how I solved the problem. I don't intent to ever use the admin account, as I assigned all these privileges to my custom I account. The Amcrest is also compatible with the Blue Iris that I run in Windows at home. This application allows me to have both Foscam and Amcrest in the same view. I setup monitor and motion detector recording, which store recorded files on my computer in a folder that syncs to my cloud storage account, which gives me access to recordings on my mobile device. The Amcrest webcam allows you to setup motion detection and recording on the cam configuration itself, which can be stored on the cam SD card. I set that up too, but I found accessing these recordings through the Amcrest application a little slow. However, accessing the webcam recordings from the SD card from the Google plugin when connected on my home wifi works really well. I highly recommend this product for do it yourself in house security.