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T**N
Great Product
I bought this with low expectations. The price is quite a bit lower than the Ring, and I had not heard of the brand name. After receiving the floodlight/camera, I was up and running in 15 minutes. I was happily surprised how easily it was installed and linked to my wifi. The picture quality is excellent, and it tracks any movement. It comes with an SD card, so it was storing video out of the box. One negative is that the app shows you can buy cloud storage, but that does not seem to work. For the price, and even if it was higher, this is a great product.2 MONTH UPDATE - I have reduced my rating from 5 to 3. I have found multiple issues with the cameras I bought. Frequently, the cameras will go offline. They still seem to be recording any movement, but it can not be accessed until it goes online. I have prioritized both cameras with my router, and that has not fixed the issue. Cloud storage still does not exist, so I am not sure why they have it as a n option. The app is a major pain since you have to go to SD storage, then select the activity. Lastly, I want to comment on the usefulness of the cameras. I get approximately 5-10 false alerts throughout the day. Not a big concern. Yesterday, I had a person come to my house, and the camera did not alert me, or film the movement. Luckily my doorbell cam caught it. Unbelievable that it would miss a person in front of the camera for over 5 minutes. The price is cheap for these cams, so you get what you pay for. The lights do go on with movement, just wish the software and cams were better.
A**R
Better than expected. Very happy with it. Just ordered a second one.
7/15/2019: Received the 2nd unit. This time, it only takes less than half a hour installing the unit. The camera was connected to wifi prior to the lighting fixture mounting. Again, very satisfied with the picture quality. One problem common to both cameras is that the motion detection area is far larger than the selected area. I guess, it is a common problem among vendors.One correction to my earlier review: The package while has a USB cable with USB3 on one end does not include the wall unit said in the review below.----------------------------------------------------This floodlight camera is for upgrading an existing motion-activated exterior security light at the front gate. It is well packaged and all parts are in the box including the 16 GB micro-SD. Followed the suggestion from someone else, activated the wi-fi camera first. The USB3 connector takes some effort to plug all the way in. A USB3 cable and charger which is not really needed for its operation is nicely provided. With that, the camera may be set up before attaching to the lighting fixture for power.Set-up for this wifi camera is quite typical. It needs the CAMB app which is supported on both iOS and Android. CAMB requires you to register as a new user first with either an email address or a cell number. Then just log in and add the camera as described in the User Manual. The connection to the wifi did take some time to finish. But once finished, it automatically reconnects after power cycling without any issueSharing through CAMB is supported but not mentioned in the printed documentation. It's pretty simple too. The person to share the camera needs to register on the freecamglobal.com as a new user with either an email address or a cell phone number. Once registered, all the owner has to do is to enter the registration name of this new person as the "account number", very confusing name. The CAMB then sends an invite message to the person. Once accepted, the sharing is done. The person sharing the camera can't change the settings of the camera.The camera is magnetically attached to the lighting fixture, my unit comes with a short lanyard on the camera body. Via a tiny screw, now the camera can be attached to the lighting fixture mechanically. This lanyard, I believe, is new add-on and is nowhere mentioned or shown in the printed Installation Guide V 1.4.Anyway, in summary, I'm pretty satisfied with this unit including the picture quality. Just ordered another one to installed on the other side of the wall. (July 15, 2019)
R**S
Does the job. On-board micro-SD is a real win: avoids the need for cloud storage
I purchased this light to be used on a shed I built next to my house. The installation wasn't too bad. I first spent time getting the camera connected to my wireless network a day before I actually installed it and the light. Once I had the light working I was able to also load the matching iPhone app on my phone and verify that I could stream video from the camera to my phone. The next day I installed the light and the camera and configured the motion detection range and zones.About two days after I installed it, I received a notification on my phone that it had detected intrusion. I immediately pulled up live video on my phone and observed a buck and a doe deer walking around my shed. I thought that was pretty cool. I also like that I can actually access the video stored on the micro-SD card over the network on my phone while I'm at work and as long as I attempt to access the micro-SD video on the same day that the video event was recorded this is really easy. And best of all, there is no monthly fee to be able to do this! If you want to look at a video recorded a few days in the past it can be more of a challenge. It would be better if accessing archived video was a bit easier but this is a minor criticism.
S**N
Almost Great
If this unit had even remotely decent software, I might rate it 5 stars. As it stands, I can't. So far I've been unable to to use the advertised 30 day free cloud storage, it keeps asking for money. The makers need to provide the ability to monitor from a Windows 10 PC as well.Update - The free 30 day cloud storage is available after you click to subscribe...but alas the program bombs every time you click on it.
B**A
Does NOT come with 16GB SD Card otherwise awesome
States in 2 places ion description that this thing comes with an SD card. It does not. It's not in box or camera. Installation was a breeze...5 mins max. Picture quality is awesome, motion detection is crap but it always is with these cameras...App is barebones not the best. All in all its a solid 3.5-4 star and for 1/2 the price of competitor cameras.
A**R
Really wish the camera quality was better.
its not user friendly to setup but I was actually able to get it to work. the camera attaches to the light with a magnet. really not the best way to secure the camera. there is a microphone option that doesn't work. the camera recognizes faces within 6 feet. Beyond that it doesn't focus and seems pixelated. Camera quality is like a cheap webcam. not the best for outdoor use. App also crashes when used by multiple users. Too pricey for the pic quality,and the cheap camera mount.
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