I like these little cameras! Setup was a breeze, picture quality is amazing, and the live feed is pretty much actually live (less than a 1 second delay for me, which was the best of all the newer cameras I tested - more about that below). Real time live video is important to me for various reasons. For example, one of my dogs keeps peeing in the house (marking), and if I can't catch him just before he pees then he's never going to learn to stop doing that. With a delay of even 3-4 seconds, I would be too late.
These cameras are small and light. The base is magnetic and very adjustable, and there are also adhesive and screw-in options for mounting. Low light performance is exceptional - the IR night vision isn't needed until it's pretty much completely dark.
The app is so-so.. it is responsive and more or less intuitive, and it does have all the basic capabilities needed. It just lacks some features that I would have liked. For example, you can't fast forward through event videos or continuous recordings. To jump to other points you have to move a bar on the timeline.. it is very difficult to skip just a tiny bit ahead. I keep going too far, then going back too far or not far enough, and it's a pain. You have to guess where to look for things.
For this reason, continuous recording was not a great solution for me, because it was too hard to find events. Recording events only is better, but I'd still like the ability to fast forward, or to see the actual video as you move your finger along the timeline.
Speaking of recording events only to your SD card: SD card recordings are NOT subject to the 12 second video/5 minute cooldown that you get with the free cloud recordings. If you choose "events only" in the settings, it will break time into 1 minute increments, and it will continue recording until motion stops. This wasn't made clear in any of the documentation I could find, and the live chat agent gave me incorrect information. I almost gave up and returned these before even opening them, but first I decided to message them on Facebook. The Facebook messenger representative gave me the correct information and links to where I could find more detailed information on their website. So, crisis averted.
The audio is pretty terrible in recorded events. It sounds like you're talking from across a long tunnel while holding your hand over the microphone. When right up next to the camera outside, I can understand speech, but it still does not sound good. It is slightly better indoors. I don't know what the sound is like for the live feed though, and I don't know how it sounds when I talk through the camera. (I haven't had anyone here to help me test things like that. The dogs won't cooperate, they all want to be in the same room as me all the time).
For me, the fact that there is almost no lag in the live video more than makes up for the shortcomings in audio. Plus the price is great -- a lot more than they were before May, unfortunately, but still very competitively priced. As soon as they're in stock anywhere, I'll be adding two pan cameras for inside, and maybe their doorbell, depending on whether or not there is enough space on my door frame.
Here are all the cameras I've had/tried, to give you all some comparisons. This will be long, but the summary is that between Dericam, Blink, Eufy, Eufy Solo, LittleElf, and Wyze, I liked the Wyze ones best.
I did not test Ring because they are really expensive and have no options for local storage at all. You have to pay for a subscription for each camera if you want to view recordings. I didn't test Arlo because they're expensive and I hadn't gotten to them yet. No need to do more testing now though, I'm keeping the wyze cameras.
1. Original indoor cameras that I want to replace - Dericam 1080P P2, indoor pan/tilt, purchased in 2017. They're old now and are showing their age, but there is virtually no lag time at all in the live feed, and you get all features and local storage without ever paying any fees. The app is kind of buggy and annoying (and slow by today's standards), but these cameras served me well for 3-4 years. They are deteriorating now though, and it's time for an upgrade.
2. Blink mini outdoor, 5 camera kit (ordered on prime day, so I got a really good deal). The Blink cameras were really nice (image quality, sound, features, ease of installation), but I had a consistent 3 second delay in the live feed. (My network is not the issue.) It's really too bad, those seemed perfect otherwise. I tried every single troubleshooting step and anything that other people mentioned having done in message boards. No difference though, I always had a 3 second delay, so I returned them.
3. Littlelf 1080P, pan/tilt etc. Priced around what wyze cameras cost. As far as I can tell this company only makes indoor cameras, so I would have had to get a different brand for outside, and use two apps to keep track of my house. Not really want I want, but Lifflelf promised the ability to see multiple live streams at the same time, so I wanted to try them. That feature does work and is actually really nice. Good image quality (but not as good as the other newer ones), good audio, an app that was a little clunky but definitely usable... but I had a 4 second delay with these cameras, so they went back.
4. Eufy - EufyCam E, 2-cam kit. These were by far the most expensive cameras I tried, but they promise a year of battery life, and I wasn't sure if I'd be able to get power outside at that point. The cameras seem really solid and well made. I had no trouble adding the homebase and camera, although I did have a lot of trouble creating my account in the first place. The app seemed less intuitive than Blink or Wyze - (not a dealbreaker), but worked. Image quality was great, sound was great, but I found that these had a 3-4 second delay. For the price, they would have had to be perfect.
5. Eufy Solo IndoorCam P22 (pan/tilt), and Solo OutdoorCam C22 (which looks like a big eyeball, I really liked the design). The price of the indoor cameras was similar to Wyze, but their outdoor cameras were a lot more. I thought that since these cameras connect directly to wifi and not to a base, they'd be faster. I was wrong though, I had the same 3-4 second delay as with the other Eufy cameras. Video quality is great, but not as good as the wyze v3 in my opinion. Audio quality was really good with these. But the delay was a dealbreaker.
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I was looking for cameras to monitor through my Echo Show 15. I like the ease of setup right out of the box. The night vision mode with black and white or color is nice. I babysit my grandkids and use these cameras as a baby monitor, playroom monitor and an entryway/living room monitor. I had the Zmodo mini cameras prior, but they have stopped linking to my Echo. Then I purchased the Ring indoor (2nd gen) and they timed out after 10 minutes on my Echo, which is not ideal if you’re using them for the same purpose as I am. Wish I had known that prior to purchase. I am very happy with these so far as they do everything I was looking for. If anything changes I will update my review.
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INSTALACIÓN: Es muy fácil de instalar solo necesitas seguir el instructivo y descargar la App. La instalación en la pared es muy fácil, el cable mide aproximadamente 1 metro, así que si ocupan uno más largo necesitan comprarlo aparte, si quieren guardar las grabaciones necesitan pagar en la App o comprar una tarjeta de memoria micro SDXC.
CALIDAD DE IMAGEN: La imagen se ve muy bien y la visión nocturna me encantó!
CALIDAD DE SONIDO: todo se escucha muy bien, tiene demasiada buena calidad para escuchar los sonidos aunque sean bajos.
Anexo fotos: FOTO 1: es lo que viene en la casa, FOTO 2: es la imagen de la visión nocturna en la cámara, FOTO 2: es como se ve en persona y en mi celular.
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