First off, I’m a Director of IT for a healthcare company, we have 17 sites in three cities all networked together flawlessly, and have worked in the It field for 25+ years, so this review is coming from a plethora of experience. This camera is poorly designed, I expected cheap (it was purchased to watch a dog), but the software, and camera design is inexcusable.
First, the design flaw, the “reset” button is useless, it is under the camera “orb”, between the bottom of the orb and the rotational housing/case. If you do not have 100% control over the camera, it cannot be reset, ever as it is “at rest” underneath the camera with a few mm space between the camera and the housing. Yet, in the set up instructions they say ” if you have trouble, reset the camera and try again”, which is impossible to do.
The second thing is, The app you use to connect to the camera allows you to connect to the camera, but then uses some mystical “audio transfer” of your wireless configuration to the camera to complete the network set up. Rather than letting you enter your SSID/network name, and the password, your completely at the mercy of a poorly written API to work with a tone deaf camera. I’ve never heard of such nonsense in my life, and I’ve set up and manage a million dollar network for a living. If the API can communicate with the camera, there is no reason to not allow you to configure the camera for your wireless network, but there it is, you cant.
Finally the app provided is faulty, it provides a wireless signal tester that’s crap and downplays your wireless strength. Like I said I work in IT, I have many nifty apps on my phone for my job, including multiple paid apps to evaluate wireless signals, signal strength , channels etc, My wireless dual band router is 15′ line of sight away from the mounting area, with nothing but open air between the two devices and the app claimed the network signal was horrible, while every other app I have has me at full bars, no Db loss and excellent transfer on both Bands. They’ve loaded the app to put the fault of poor performance on the consumer. be warned…. do not buy
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