ULO Webcam USB, Wifi, Wireless

The design is great, the little gimmicks of turning it upside down to enter settings and connecting the first time, are innovative and creative, as indeed are the spooky eyes following you. As a camera, which ultimately is what counts, you might as well forget it. The functionalities when it comes to the camera are virtually non-existent. More than half the time the app does not recognise the cameras at all (I had 2 of them at the same time), accessing footage live or otherwise, from outside the network, just forget it, several hours of my life I will never get back. If and when you then connect, the camera quality is appalling. Unless you have full daylight, you could hardly make out what you were looking at. I just returned both cameras.

This is a really, really difficult review because Ulo itself is adorable, beautiful, engaging, fun, cute, special, clever and absolutely bursting with possibilities. For the uniqueness Ulo brings in this sterile world of smarthome dullness within which we should not have to live, I give 4 stars for the ambition, braveness and rebellion against the norm that Ulo exudes.The experience of using the app however ... is a pain that no person should have to go through. What the designer gave to the hardware, they robbed in equal measures from the onboarding experience of the app and the general usability.- The cloud and direct access UX is totally different in the app- Logging in via cloud and connecting to the WiFi, requires that you type the SSID in manually ... usually several times, and then hope that your submission has been received, for no feedback shall be forthcoming- Logging in via direct access however (on the one single occasion that I have been able to) gives you a full list of available SSIDs to choose from. If only that were in the cloud access login.- The app has no sense of home, the solitary burger menu that is provided to manage the device settings only appears when you have accessed the Ulo and start live streaming. (changing the iris colour, shape & pupil size is stunningly impressive btw)- Alert mode On actually means that the camera is available to stream- Alert mode Off just switches it off- The quality of the stream itself is diabolical, and there is no night vision ... that's right, no night vision so when a burglar comes into the house, he had better turn on all the lights if you want to see him- The lens angle fisheyes terribly making for a poor visual experience when you can see what's going on- Delay between the cloud and the footage being filmed is significant- Direct access appears to randomly record footage and store it locally, not so much a legal privacy concern as it's stored locally but Ulo doesn't squint its eyes (Sneaky mode) when it's recording in direct access mode like it does in cloud mode.Is this worth £220?Hmm,Hmm,Probably not, buy a QHQS robot cam if you want somethig quirky, it has 1080p (unlike this) and does 2 way audio.I really, really want it to be heaps better than it actually is. For something that has been in development for nearly 3 years now it should be a LOT better.Beautiful hardwareBeastly app

It is beautiful, but doesn’t work well unfortunately