Bought this to monitor our front door while away on a trip. Delivery of the item was on time and I got it set up on my android phone in less than a half hour. We bought a 32GB micro SD card for it and positioned the camera to view outside the office window towards our front porch and the picture is very clear at all times of the day! I am able to receive the alerts and view them from my phone and/or laptop. I am also able to view more than the 6 second clip if I want to watch the full footage of the movement. It is easy to save the 6 second clip to the SD card; however it doesn't save the full footage. But I found out that if I leave that clip in that day's activities then I can still view the footage. I have set both the sensitivity and alert frequency settings to low and it still picks up passing vehicles but I am okay with that since I am able to delete the unneeded clips easily. I am amazed and pleased that I can be hundreds of miles away and still be able to monitor my front porch. And it's considerably cheaper than the Ring or Nest products. I am very pleased with this product!!!
This thing is amazing. Picture is super clear and detailed. The only thing that would make it better is if it told me the temp in my toddlers room (I use it as a baby monitor). Sound quality is great. Such a great buy.
Good camera, im using it with a 64GB SD card, its been almost a week since I installed it and the card still has over 20GB free space.
The seller is a pain in the @ss emailing daily begging for feedback.
Updated 9/2018:
I have tried several other known name cameras and the quality of this is very good compared those out their with a good app. I just ordered another camera and actually read the privacy policy which I recommend you do, unless you don’t care about that stuff. Here’s my take in the camera itself.
SETUP
Very easy and quick. Only connects to 2.4G wifi.
CAMERA / AUDIO
Video resolution quality is very good. Probably one of the best if not the best i’ve tested (Blink and Canary). If you’re curious about doorbell cams, I currently have a Ring doorbell 2 installed and this video quality is noticeably better and clearer pointing out in the same area. Night vision works well and is clear which can be manually turned off if desired. Streaming is fluid and haven't experienced any buffering or freezing yet. Clear picture and good colors. Motion dection WORKS through dual pane glass window! It will record motion as it picks it up. For example, I have the detection set only on the floor section of the porch so it only detects motions as soon as someone walks onto my porch (not walk by). If someone delivers a package and puts it on my porch which will then activate mobile notifications, the camera playback will record BEFORE the person fully walks up to my porch (the detection zone). The motion notifications to my cell is fairly quick. The microphone picks up sound very well through dual a pane window and the speaker can be heard clearly from outside for example if you put this at your front door and want to communicate.
APP
Nicely designed and user friendly with lots of features. Here are just some of those features: set a 4 digit passcode or Touch ID to view camera feed, ability to turn camera and mic on/off, flip the image 180 degrees, pan view for wider angles in portrait mode (uses motion of your phone similar to the 360 videos or swipe), record while viewing live!, take and save snap shots while viewing live!, two way talk. Customize motion detection area size and placement. I've experienced live view connects in 3 seconds or less.
STORAGE
It has a micro SD memory card slot! Not available with Canary and Blink. With YI you get free 6 second motion clips with cloud storage and if you want to view full clips you will need to add a micro SD card. Clips are saved for at least 5 days (could be longer, I haven’t really paid attention). YI also offers different storage plans so check those out if you plan on using that. I personally just use an SD card.
BUILD QUALITY
First packaging is quality (not that you care but is a nice touch). Build quality is excellent. I know it's a knock off of the Nest dropcam design but I don't care, it's $30! now (I paid $60 at the time) and it's excellent for the price. The camera itself is rotatable and removable from its stand which offers more custom mounting ideas with its design. The camera has to be plugged into power though. It comes with a decent length power cord but I think it should be longer. Wall mount is not included. Bottom of the stand has a rubber pad for sturdier stance.
FINAL THOUGHTS
I am impressed with this camera and what YI is offering their customers. They are definetly competing hard with the more expensive well known players like Nest, Blink, Canary, Samsung etc. If you’re ok with the privacy policy then this a good camera.
UPDATE 2/2019:
A couple things we’ve noticed is 1) the quickness to view the camera and 2) the apps recording alerts. What I mean by the first “issue” is when someone rings/knocks at the door, it takes a bit too long to open the app, load and view the person at the door. We have a pin/fingerprint lock set up on ours so that could be a factor. As for #2, what ever update Yi did to the app is frustrating. EVERYTIME we get a notification alert and go to the app to view it, it stays on loading and doesn’t show the recording or the alert. Very annoying and makes it sort of pointless. I know it’s not the app on my phone because my wife has the same problem on her phone. Hopefully they fix this issue real quick.
I would've given this 5 Stars, no hesitation..but it lasted one week is all. I had noticed a slight degradation of the video quality the night before, two nights before that I noticed it wouldn't hold HD settings..instead of 1080P it looked more like 480p. In actuality it worked for only 4 days. Tonight when I went to power it up, the yellow light came on briefly, it made two clicks then the App showed an unknown error. The 'power on' button wouldn't respond at all.
Edited & updated 6/27/18: After the camera had received updates it began to work what would be considered 'normal' again. So I've changed my rating to 4 stars, as I've used it extensively since. I will now most likely be getting at least one more in the near future.
Feature Product
- Please note: items sold by HYGAHFYB are fake items. 24/7 Full HD Recording - F/2.0 aperture, 112 wide-angle lens, 1080p/15fps to capture moments with clear picture. Features two-way audio to allow you to receive and transmit audio from any location with a WiFi connection.
- Enhanced Night Vision - 8 individual 940nm infrared LED's, which automatically turns on infrared (IR) in low light conditions, allowing you to see clearly in the dark.
- Activity Alerts - Baby Crying Detection and Motion Detection features use state-of-the-art technology to detect and send notifications to your phone. Activity Alerts (7-day storage in YI Cloud) available free of charge without a microSD memory card or a YI Cloud subscription.
- YI Home App - Acess your camera with our mobile APP anytime and anywhere. Allows sharing your camera with up to 5 family members or friends, and view multiple cameras on a single account.
- Cloud Storage - Supports YI Cloud to avoid the risk of losing footage from a microSD memory card, and ensures all recorded video is safe, secure, and protected with the most efficient compression and highest protection of data. Local backup supports up to 32GB Class10 microSD cards with FAT32 format.
Description
Building on the success of the #1 best-selling YI Home Camera, the YI Home Camera 1080p delivers high definition videos of your home, so you can view every moment in even clearer quality. Its Baby Crying Detection technology also acts as a state of the art baby monitor, sending an alert to your phone at the first cry of your baby. By connecting to YI Cloud you can be rest assured you'll never lose any footage, even if your camera is damaged or stolen.
The picture quality on this is fantastic! And I love being able to record little videos. We already had a “normal” baby monitor but bought this to help ease our minds when leaving baby with a sitter. We’ve ended up using it a lot more than we thought we would!
Easy setup! We have used Insteon cameras, Arlo cameras, and also have a Samsung camera, which we are having issues with already. Capabilities of the YI 1080P camera are comparable to other cameras we have paid a lot more for. Picture is very clear. We can rotate camera easily with cell phone. Voice out of the camera is good quality. Changing settings and schedule of monitoring is easy, but a little more limited than others. This camera meets all of my requirements for a simple security solution, and I would take this for indoor use above any other cameras we have used, and the price is considerably less than the manufactures listed above. I would highly recommend this camera, but we have not yet used the Micro SD card for storage yet, and we still are impressed with what we are getting
Wow, this camera has exceeded all my expectations. I've had a Canary, Foscam and Amcrest wireless cameras and have returned each due to some of their limitations. I'm not saying that they are bad (By the way I thought the Foscam had the best and clearest picture). Each one of those cameras had certain limitations on what you can do and view unless you signed up for their cloud based service. Accessing the files on the SD card had to be done either by manually removing it, or using some buggy software that would work in Windows IE but not on a Mac or other browsers, or you would have to use a separate FTP program and even that was buggy. Anyway, you had to jump through hoops to view the files (from the phone app) unless you bought the cloud service to be able to access the files. Otherwise you had to physically remove the SD Card each time and connect to a PC. Or use Windows and IE, or use the very buggy FTP which would sometimes require rebooting the camera because the FTP service would hang up.
Fast Forward to the Yi Camera. I bought it on Prime Day because it was cheap and I figured it's better than nothing. This thing is amazing! So easy to setup (the others were also), but the software is very intuitive and you can do EVERYTHING from the mobile App. You can get alerts with short video previews which you can then opt to either view or download the entire clip right to your phone. You can also access ALL of the files on the SD card via the phone app with a beautifully created interface that has a nice timeline of showing the activity along with thumbnail previews. All of this can be done WITHOUT paying for their cloud service.
Night Vision is excellent and the Alert system works great and hasn't missed a beat. I am beyond happy how useful the software is and easy to navigate. It's also very reliable and any file I wanted to review was easily accessible and I could easily share or save with 1 click. I do wish the camera had some kind of mount on the bottom for like a tripod or other universal type connection, but double sided tape or velcro will work if I need to mount it somewhere. The 2 way talking is also better on this camera than any of the other ones I tried. The mic is sensitive and you can clearly hear what's going on in the room and easily have a conversation with a person remotely without it dropping out or being hard to hear. This was another feature that really impressed me and I didn't think was going to work this well on a camera at this price.
I would definitely purchase another one of these cameras (and probably will) not just because they are inexpensive, but they just work!
Love love this camera! For the price you get a lot of bang for your buck. I can see and zoom in. It rotates to see more along the sides and has a two way speaker. As long as you have decent WIFI connection and only need to see one area you are good with this inexpensive but to offer piece of mind while your not home. I coupled this with the ring door bell so I have view from outside and in!
Love this camera! I actually bought it so I can keep my eye on my dog while I’m away at lunch for work & irs awesome. It’s super easy to set up & has really neat features on it like motion detection & sound detection so if for some reason the dog (or baby) cries it’ll alert you directly on your phone so you can pull up the video.
This also allows you to speak to whoever is on the opposite side of the camera through your phone so I can calm my dog down should I ever need to.
For the price of this it’s definitely all it’s cracked up to be. Thinking about ordering another!
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