We purchased this camera 4 years ago, and it has been a workhorse, with great accessibility. Recently, when moving locations, we experienced some connection difficulties. Ethan, at Amcrest (telephone) Customer Support was an outstanding help - he updated the firmware and software, completely restored the service and added the plug-ins required for newer browsers. He provided amazing help and resolved all connection issues in a single call.Highly recommended!!
11/05/2020
These days I just use these outside under my eve. If I get 2 years out of it, that's OK for the price. Everything works for me, in BlueIris I had to manually use Amcrest IP2M-843, IP8M-2493/96 RTSP. I also had to dig in the web app for the wi-fi mac addy since it is not printed on the box or camera. PZT motor is quiet, I guess they don't use antennas anymore. No problem with wi-fi though from the other side of the house.
11/05/2020
We wanted to use smartphone to watch our pig nursery in the barn, and we do not have internet service. We connected the camera to a wireless router and connected the phone wirelessly to the same router and we are able to monitor the baby pigs without leaving the house.
09/05/2020
This is the best camera I ever had. Good quality, record, and easy to setup wireless and wire.I just setup the camera wireless and It's working perfect . If you are not looking for something fancy, this is the perfect camera.
09/05/2020
Haris helped me with the setup of my new Amcrest 1080P camera. I am very thankful for the help and I'm ready to put my new camera to use. Thank you.
09/05/2020
Stacy was very knowledgeable and she guided me expertly through the setup process. She was very patient
07/05/2020
Cameras like this are hard to find. If you don't want to depend on a company's cloud service and pay a monthly subscription fee, if you don't want to be forced to use a company's mobile app to set up a camera, if you want to store as much footage as you want to locally on your LAN, this is the camera for you. Price is also very reasonable.Setup is simple - plug the camera into your router via ethernet, find the IP address given to your camera, then navigate to that IP address in a web browser - there you can do all the setup. Give the camera a static IP address and port, then add a port forwarding record if you need to be able to view live streams from outside your LAN.I have my camera set up to send me an email with snapshots on motion detection, as well as upload a video clip to my local FTP server. That way the camera is not dependent on anyone's cloud, and aside from the email notifications, it still functions even with no internet as long as the LAN is still up and will still write video clips to the FTP server.
06/05/2020
The function is good, the software is bad. If you want to try to record 24/7 to local or nas or ftp, don't use camera's own software. Use blue iris, or zoneminder
05/05/2020
05/05/2020