Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been waiting for a very long time to get a wireless security camera which I could stick on my house, connect to my web, Alexa, without wires and not have to plug into house power. I had high hopes for this camera. It is such a great idea. However, this camera did not do anything I expected it would do. 1. The night vision was so so. The daytime recordings weren't much better. You can’t really see a persons face, because the camera angle is so wide everything is so small in the frame. The picture quality isn't all that great, especially at night, so it is hard to see any quality of the image good enough to capture a distinguishable image of the person. The 16mm angle or whatever it is, is too big to capture a good image of a person who isn’t right up in the camera. 2. The camera and the settings are too buggy. The settings I would set the camera at weren't what got recorded. For example, I set it to 60 seconds of recording. It would only record 20 seconds at a time. Then it would do another 20 second recording and another until the movement in the camera was over. The problems with this type of recording is that they programmed in, at least a 10 second delay between recordings. So it misses a lot of the activity. I installed my camera at the front of my house looking out into the street. It had my driveway, the street in front of my house, to the left and to the right of my home in the view of the camera. Hardly ever did it actually catch any of the activity out in the street. (I did set the recording parameters to catch a very wide swath of the camera view.) Maybe once in awhile it would catch a car driving by but that was rare. So most of the time, all I got was the tail end of any movement that was up close to my home. And when I say up close, I mean like the last foot/edge of the screen. In other words, as they were closest to my house, both coming and going and only recorded the top of their head. So when they were facing the camera, no face, just the top of their head. Hardly in between where all the actual activity happened and where you could actually see who it was. It would also, but less so, just catch the person far away as they arrived. Examples like - never did it catch any delivery truck or driver, except at the very beginning as they pulled up or the first second of leaving. So in other words, it never recorded or captured a good shot of anyone's face. I got a lot of dead space, dead air. A lot of before any major activity or after the activity was over. Not much in between, the actual activity/movement. I called customer service a couple of times, although they were nice and tried to be helpful, they couldn’t fix any of these problems. So I think for this to be a good product they need to do the following: 1. Make the recordings actually record any and all of the activity not just 20 second clips AND there should NOT be any delay between recordings. It should just be a continuous until any and all activity is over. 2. The camera should have a better image quality. So you can take a capture of the persons face, zoom in and see who they are. 3. The delay between motion, recording it AND notifying me that there is motion is too long. I hope they fix it. But for now I had to return it and wouldn’t recommend this camera.