For the last ten months, I have been busting into my baby's room to check on them in the night. They used to be a sound sleeper until very recently. I used to be able to run Roomba while they were sleeping. Not anymore. I needed a way to check up on baby without waking baby and traumatizing everyone.I set up this camera in the room and it's been great! At first, I plugged this camera into the short bendable cord and into a power bank to sit on the window sill. The camera battery only lasts for about an hour, so it needs a power source if you want monitor something for longer than an hour. The short stubby cord is supposed to stay where you bend it, similar to wired ribbon. It did ok, but I was only seeing the top part of the bed. My kid likes to 'travel' so I needed to be able to see more of the bed.I'm super classy and I decided to utilize the magnetic feature of the camera and put a large binder clip on the side of the crib and the camera attached right to it and I ran the power cord to the wall. Now I can pull up my phone to take a peak at what they're doing. Sometimes they're just goofing off during naps and I'll be better prepared for overly tired meltdowns. Or, if I hear them in the night, I can see if they're transitioning through a sleep cycle or if they need me.I have noticed the colors aren't really representative during the day, for example the blanket looks a different shade than in real life, but it's not like the kid's skin is green or anything. Night vision is in grey scale and enough for me to see.The app has more functionality than I expected. You can turn off the indicator lights, which is great for not having a green and blue light visible at night. They don't seem like much, but they will illuminate a dark space. The app has a background of a generic room while it loads the feed, which is kind of amusing, but a good indicator you're waiting for the feed to load and not looking at an old image posing as a live image.If you want to playback your footage and review it, you must buy a mini SD card. One does not come with the camera. I haven't needed one, yet, so I can't comment on recording footage.I needed this for a simple use and I'm happy with it. If you're trying to spy on someone it might not be great since it needs a power source, and you have to hide the cord and the power source. If you're trying to film yourself doing a backflip outside and no one is around, great use case.