Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Bought this floodlight form Amazon, was looking for something that didn't require a monthly fee to record and save video. The light comes with a place to put a micro SD card. The card depending on its size and the configuration of the unit can store weeks of data on it that is easily accessible from the app installed on the phone. The good: We installed the light on the back of our house over our deck. Light was easy to install. Downloading the Geeni app and connecting to the unit was also a breeze. The lights are very bright. I could not find a way to control the brightness but they work for what I need. The unit has a microphone and speaker and it is possible to hear and speak to someone using the app. It is possible to setup the unit to send notifications whenever the motion sensor detects movement and the motion sensor is VERY sensitive. Perhaps a little too sensitive. If the user could control the sensitivity, this would be a great feature to add. Night vision seems to work just fine. I can see most of the deck and part of the yard with the unit . I configured the unit to only record motion events. It is possible to configure it to record continuously. I installed the 32GB micro SD card in it. After 2 weeks of recording only motion I've used about 8 GB of storage. My understanding is the unit will overwrite data once the card is full. I used an SD card we had sitting around. The unit wouldn't accept the card until it was formatted in FAT32. The app has the ability to format the SD card but the card was not recognized until I reformatted it using my laptop. The Bad: Unfortunately the user can only access the unit through the app. There is no web page and there appears to be no way to access the camera with any existing security software. This was a big disappointment for me and I almost returned the unit because of it. There seem to be too many of this type system on the market with no ability to interface with other security software other users might already have in place. My second issue with the camera was the way it attaches into the junction box. It comes with a faceplate that can attach to the junction box in a variety of ways which was nice. But the unit itself uses a smaller faceplate with three screws that leaves the junction box exposed to the weather. It requires the user to come up with some sort of system to protect the junction box. For now I have used some silicon caulk to seal up the junction box but it will requires me to come up with something that looks a bit nicer. If it hadn't been for these issues, I would have easily given this 5 stars. The unit is supposed to work with the Alexa App and Google Assistant. I loaded the Alexa skill but was unable to get Alexa to control the light. This was not a big issue for me. I haven't tried the Google Assistant app to verify if that works any better. UPDATE: Since using this light for almost 2 months now some other issues have appeared. Because of this I've dropped the rating another star. First, the unit recently has started losing connection to the internet. This has happened multiple times in the morning. Each time it requires the user to delete the unit from the Geeni app and reconnect it. Each times this happens, all the settings and schedules are lost and have to be input by the user. Would be nice if the app let you store this information in a config file the user could retrieve and reinstall when this happens. Second, I would also suggests that when the unit loses connection to the internet, it still retains the settings on the unit itself that control it. The most disturbing thing I found when the connection is lost is that the light no longer functions as a motion detector and the light cannot be turned on manually if needed. This is a big drawback for this product. I have other lights with cameras at our house and all function normally as lights even when the internet connection is lost. This device is essentially useless without an internet connection.