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DO NOT trust your life, or even your property, to these cameras.
READ THIS BEFORE BUYING: Motion detection only works some of the time. Someone bashed out 3 windows on my car last night. I had the motion detection "box" drawn around my car in a fairly large area (we don't have assigned parking so I have to re-do the motion detection box pretty much every time I come home, wouldn't be a big deal ...if it actually worked). I had it set to the 2nd setting in power options ("up to 60 seconds recording time", but it never does, the videos stop before the person even walks outside of the box), with "human only" checked so it doesn't go off every time a car drives by, and the sensitivity turned up to 6. I had my window open in my bedroom, I heard it happen, it wasn't from a passing vehicle. The rocks in and around my car are big enough that he couldn't have thrown them from outside of the motion detection box I had drawn around my car (it was a large area). They just wouldn't have made it that far. There's no video of the incident. Only one of me coming out at 5am to see what the noise was. it was dark enough at that time that even when I looked at my car from the stairs, I didn't see the broken glass. It sounded more like someone getting their front door kicked in, anyways, so I wasn't looking for broken glass (I guess auto glass doesn't sound like a normal house window breaking) ...so I didn't notice the damage until I left the house this evening to try and pick up some last-minute thanksgiving meal ingredients... It didn't record me coming out at 3am to see what the 2 prior noises were, even though I HAD TO have walked into the motion detection zones to get down my stairs. It didn't record me all of the times I've gone in and out of my door since I noticed the damage. These cameras are basically worthless. They're even worse than worthless, because without ANY cameras, I wouldn't have had a false sense of security. Basically, they only work when they want to. There's only 1 video of this entire day saved, and that's of me leaving the house at 5am after I'd heard another loud noise (I guess that was him coming back to hit my rear window). This is a large apartment complex, probably 20 people have walked past my car today, that it should've recorded, but didn't. I've had other security cameras in the past that this wouldn't have been a problem with. I know I have it set up properly (I'm pretty tech-savvy). It's just a sub-par product. (and of course it's past the amazon return window, I believe, I may have to take this up with my credit card company if there's problems sending them back). Motion detection seems to fail completely past 30 feet or so, then only works randomly when it's up close. The car was well under 100 feet away (more like 40-50 feet from the camera). Also, I've only had these for about 2 months, and have had to take them down to charge them about 4 times already, so don't believe the hype on the battery life. Unless you're way out in a rural area where there's nobody to ever trigger it. I'm a rideshare driver, that car is my livelihood. I've been home quarantined, so don't have enough to cover the deductible, I barely have my rent saved up ...So this is probably going to wind up with me being evicted and losing everything I own since I'll have no way to pay to get it fixed. ...all because I trusted these cameras. Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you all are having a better one than I am.
November 2020 · Electronics · verified purchase
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