This under $100 camera is definitely not IP anything weather rated but I have it mounted on a redwood 2/4 and on the outdoors on the ground mount straight up. No issues yet after 5 months of operation. The night vision LEDs is good up to about 35 feet. I have notices that night vision with LEDs (IR) off is better for over 35 feet viewing. The resolution is good enough to read California standard License plates up to 30 feet in day light in motion of not (not readable in darkness). The audio is clear and sensitive up to 80 feet of normal speech level. Highly recommended but don’t mount it on the ground like I do because it might void the warranty. The company support which is just okay (better than nothing but could be improved) is online chat and or email. In my use case, all the setting are default and at highest bit rate and resolution, but with HDR disabled. HDR does not improve overall quality enough and in low light pulsates the video.

This is a great camera that is easy to use. You can just set it down on a table, plug in a network cable into a PoE switch (you’ll need that for power) and you are ready to go. You’ll need to use their NVR to have it work, they cost about 200 dollars. However you can do it free by setting up your own Ubuntu server and installing their NVR software. Takes a little more work, but it’s free. You can view the video via a web browser, or a phone app. Night vision looks good, and you can see clearly. You can set the camera to record on motion, all the time, or never. The recording is HD quality, however you can lower the quality if you wish based on the amount of storage space you have. I’ve included a screen shot of what the image quality is like for this camera, as well as a portion of the dashboard in the NVR server.

The quality of this is really good.. far better than the ARLO2 Pro cameras and Ring HD cameras. That said, the night vision is not that great. Truth be told I dont have a light that turns on to help either, nor did I expect night vision to be of much use. The motion detection is wonky. It works.. maybe too good. Most mornings I wake up to over 100 emails of motion detection, due to wind and a plant that sometimes ends up in frame. I even set up custom zones, but it seems to ignore those. That is more likely the software though, not the camera, as the motion detection zones is controlled by the software itself, not hardware in the camera.

This works great. At first, I thought refresh rate was terrible, but that was because my UNVR (Ubiquiti Network Video Recorder) wasn’t working properly. I had to wait for it to finish formatting my 3 disk drives. After that, it worked great.But I had to place it high above my front door, and I can’t angle it down quite far enough.The motion detection was a bit too sensitive: wind-blown foliage, shadows, and a spider web kept triggering it, but I need to turn the sensitivity down (and clean the spider webs away).I will move this to a different location, and buy a different camera for the front door.

I was able to get this to work with little effort on my DVR software for Mac, Security Spy. Basically you have to set a computer to the same IP range 192.168.1.X and then you will be able to pick up the default IP of .20 for the camera and login with the default bunt bunt user-pass. MAKE SURE TO CHANGE DEFAULT PASSWORDS and USERNAMES EVEN WHEN POSSIBLE. I know, that is common sense, but I still hear of/know that people don’t. After that, setup is easy, you need to place in Stand Alone mode his the first gotcha, then you can change the user pass. The next is that you need to allow it to see the internet and then firewall it off. Blocking internet prevents bad things. Seriously, do you need to see your cameras remotely? Or do you just wanna? Safer not to have that opening that can be somehow exploited.