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great camera for the price (and a pretty good camera)
TL;DR - not waterproof enough for direct rain. Add silicon glue.app is not great, sharing videos is too hardlag for motion detection is very highsupport is very good though!I bought one of these in august. Since it comes with a solar panel, it's pretty great that you don't have to wire ANYTHING to install it. And, the price, including the solar panel? INSANE!In the first installation, it took forever to get it online. The SD card wasn't reliable. Now, that seems to be sorted out - installation was excellent. Upgrade to latest firmware, install SD card, all is good.You can check the camera from anywhere in the world! This is a security problem for your local network, but... not a terrible one, I hope.Video quality is good. Camera has a nice angle, at least for my yard. If you want more flexibility, you probably should get a pan and tilt camera. The battery, even without sun, seems to last for about 3 weeks. This will depend on your motion settings. With solar, it stays at 100% all the time.The amount of lag in the motion detection is another sore point. It seems to be about 15 seconds. That is, motion happens, the camera has to notice, then it has to wake up, then it starts recording. I have some recordings with nothing in them.... likely because whatever triggered the motion detection is long gone. This is true of all cameras like this, so don't ding them for it.The main problem with the app is in order to capture a video, you have to go into the saved videos, play the video, then go out to another screen, and press the record button. You always lose about 4 seconds off the front of the video. Contact with the vendor they originally say it can't be done, I say just put a button on the "display video" page. I have a Solicom camera that does just this, and downloads to your phone. Maybe someday they will do this, just like other similar camera.After about 4 months, and after a few weeks of rain, the camera failed. I contacted their support, asking how maybe to revive it, and they offered to send me a new one. To be really clear, they wanted me to post a 5 star review, then they would send it... I told them if they wanted to send one they could, and I'd write an honest review. Which they did, which I am doing. Although to be fully honest this is probably a 4-star product, with the problems I'm saying. OTOH.... all other cameras of this type seem to be $250, to have one at $80 is brilliant and I think one shouldn't expect too much.I think the camera failed so quickly because water got in. The camera is waterproof "in name only", in that there are clear seams with gaps, and the seal at the bottom (where it plugs in) isn't very serious, and the connection from the solar panel to the camera is a standard miniUSB, not a waterproof connector like another (more expensive) camera uses.This time, I got out some old silicon glue that I had for a bathroom project, the good waterproof stuff, and I've slathered it over most of the ports. I've left open the bottom vents, where it seems they want condensation to come out. I'm hoping this keeps out the water and maybe it lasts for a few years.If you get this camera, either don't put it directly in the rain, and/or mount it carefully so it's exactly upright and water won't get in the bottom, and/or seal it with silicon, and/or don't expect it to last through a rainy season.Will update if this one fails...
17/08/2021
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