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Samsung really needs to get their act together and overhaul their horrible software, it is incomplete and finicky. The Good: - Amazing IR night vision - Great low-light performance - Small camera footprint The Bad: - No snapshot is sent when detecting an event (my older SNH-P6410BN uploaded a picture to Picasa) - Only supports 32GB (again, my older SNH-P6410BN supported 64GB) - iOS app live view is worthless and choppy when trying to view in "High Quality" (camera is connected via ethernet and the frame rate drops to 15fps - Motion detection is very sensitive even at the lowest setting. It triggers and event with rain drops, snow and even when the night vision IR comes on (pretty annoying when you receive around 200+ event alerts in a few minutes just because it's raining/snowing) - Video quality is good, but not 1080p. It is pretty choppy at times. - Constant camera disconnection (again, even when using ethernet exclusively) - You CAN'T download/save a video file to the computer without physically removing the microSD card from the unit and plugging it to the computer. All in all, this camera could be so much better if Samsung really wanted to spent some time on really finishing the software. To me this camera feels like a step back from the older SNH-P6410BN, with the only advantage that it can be used outdoors. Update 12/9/2014: I found a very annoying issue with the camera's recording capability. After a very suspicious person came to my home yesterday and seemed to be casing my house, I went back to review the video and of course the quality was very choppy and couldn't make an ID. I then decided to take out the SD card to download the footage to my computer and hopefully review the video at 1080p, but to my surprise the video recorded directly to the SD card is bad or even worse than the one I could get from the stream. I'm knocking down another star. Update 4/30/2015: One good ting and one bad one: The good - It withstood a miserable winter with temps averaging 20*F (-6*C) and several snow and ice storms. The bad - The camera does not detect motion when in night (infrared) mode. It doesn't matter how sensitive I set it, I won't detect a person walking by the motion "area". *One more thing I noticed over the past few months is that the camera seems to stop recording events every 30 days or so, even with plenty of space left on the SD card. The solution is to power cycle and everything is back to normal.
December 2014 · Electronics · verified purchase
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Samsung SmartCam Full HD Outdoor SNH-E6440BN 1080p WiFi IP Camera
3.7★ · 236 ratings, as of 2023
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