YIDual-Lens Indoor Camera, 2.4Ghz Home Security Camera System with Fixed Lens and Dome Camera in 1, Expanded Viewing Angle, Motion Tracking, Dual-Screen Display, Two-Way Audio, Phone Alerts

Camera was fairly easy to set up and the video is nice and clear - BUT - there doesn't seem to be much documentation on the camera and navigating the phone app and computer app is a bit confusing, even though there are not many controls. We were just out to the vet's office with our pooch and while we were gone, we got a UPS delivery. Didn't even pick up the driver bringing the package to the front porch. Should have been clear as day that this was taking place, but it picked up our neighbor leaving their house and coming down the street in the van. What's with that !!!!!! It seems like hit or miss with capturing motion. Inserted an SD card in the outdoor camera, which we just purchased and it doesn't seem to be storing any videos. And the SD card I picked up from Amazon for the indoor camera doesn't even work after being inserted. It just seems difficult to figure out the workings of this camera. Although the price is enticing even that doesn't convince that this purchase was worth it. I was really excited about this system until this writing. I was going to purchase a couple more cameras for both inside and outdoors, but now, I don't think so.Update on Camera 11/15/17 Ok ready to eat my words. After some deep fiddling with this camera and it's associated apps for both my phone and thru the computer, this thing is working like a charm. The SD cards are now working in both the indoor model and the outdoor model. At first I could not get the SD card to work in the indoor version, just removed it and re-inserted it and it seems to be working fine. This camera picks up everything, it even picked up a golf cart driving down the 10th fairway across the street from our house - amazing. The outdoor camera was picking up the flag waving in the breeze on our flag pole in front yard. But a modification on the capture area solved that issue. Figured out how to navigate to and work the timeline when replaying videos. Gonna go out and buy another outdoor camera and set it up at the other corner of the house. Love it now.

These outdoor cameras are amazing. I love the image quality. The installation is quick and easy. Just make sure you know something about your WiFi like it’s name and password and you won’t have any problems. Also, no need to sign up for their cloud service. Simply buy the largest Micro SD chip that is appropriate for the camera you get and in a couple of months, you’ll more than save on the cloud service. I find that I can save months’ worth of motion detection. The camera doesn’t pick up cars going down the street, trees or plants moving in the wind, but picks up people or animals in the yard including birds. It has home and away features. Away setting is more sensitive in terms of what it picks up. You can also set it to continuously record, but why? The software gives alerts (if you want) when it does record. Keeps them by date and time. So you can search without scrolling endlessly. I have noticed that once or twice it has missed separate motions when they occurred closely together in time, but not immediately right after each other. All in all, for the money, they are tough to beat. Some folks wished the cord was longer. I can see where that could be an issue, but it wasn’t for my application. If you need to, you can get a USB coupler and add an additional length of USB cord.UPDATE: still love the quality of the image. Couple of things I wanted to mention. I have this at my vacation home in the mountains. If I don’t log onto the same WiFi the camera is on often enough, it will disconnect me and I can’t get back on until I return to the vacation house. The other thing is, the connection got wet where the usb cord from the camera goes into the plug. It rusted. Granted, they had some unusually hard and frequent rains during my absence. That camera stopped working. The other end of the cable is hardwired into the camera. Good thing I had another camera. The connection is now wrapped so it can’t get wet. So I guess it isn’t as waterproof as they say.

I purchased several of these cameras to mount outside my house for security purposes. Installation was easy: a small weather-resistant panel on the bottom allows access to the microSD slot, while the four-screw mounting plate allows the camera to be easily mounted and aimed in whatever direction you choose.Regarding installation, I wish the power cable exited the back of the camera, or could be routed through the base (either through a notch in the circular mount that leaves the cable exposed but would stay within the footprint of the mount, or through a hollow connector that'd go through the base and into the wall behind for greater security), rather than exiting from the bottom of the camera. As it is it works fine, but it'd be a minor-but-handy improvement. The camera connects over Wi-Fi, but is powered via the cable.Configuring the camera requires the Yi Home app, which makes setting up the camera easy: plug the camera into the power cord, wait for it to verbally announce it's ready to connect, then enter your Wi-Fi network information and password on the app, and hold your phone about 12-18" in front of the camera so it can see the app-generated QR code with that configuration information. After a few seconds, the camera is linked to your account. Easy.Picture quality in bandwidth-saving SD mode is reasonable for basic use (e.g. identifying make and model of vehicles), while HD mode is very high quality: I can read license plates about 30 feet away during the daytime when they're facing the camera. The status indicator light on the camera can be turned on and off as desired, as can other settings like motion detection, alerts, etc.At night, the IR illumination is provided by 850nm LEDs which produce a dimly-visible and not-at-all-bothersome red glow around the lens. Still, it does emit some visible light (albeit very dimly, and only noticeable when you look directly at it), so it would not be a complete "stealth" camera unless you turned off the IR illumination, but then you couldn't see anything. Night vision quality is surprisingly good and the range is moderate (it can illuminate and clearly see people walking about 20-25 feet away), though retroreflective things like bike reflectors, license plates, etc. dazzle the camera -- you can still see the bike or car, but the reflective object is completely washed out and not readable. If this is a concern of yours, consider turning off the built-in IR illumination and using a separate 850nm IR floodlight placed at a moderate angle to the camera. At night, bugs seem to sometimes be attracted to the IR lights, and their motion triggers the motion detection and sends an alert to the app. Turning down the motion sensitivity seems to help a bit with this.I don't use the two-way audio feature at all, so I cannot comment meaningfully on it. The camera's microphone is decent, and recorded audio is clear and intelligible -- I recently had contractors working at the house, and I could easily hear them speaking normally 20 feet away.I use the camera with a microSD card, so video is stored locally in the camera itself. I have it set to record only when motion is detected: no sense recording continuously if nothing is happening. There's a handy timeline in the app that lets you see what time of day motion was detected so you can play that video back. If the microSD card fills up, the camera will automatically delete the oldest video clips as needed in order to free up space for new clips. You can remotely play back saved videos on the microSD card at any time, but you cannot download them to your phone -- if you want to copy the video from the microSD card, you have to remove the card from the camera and insert it into your computer. Hopefully they allow remote download at some point in the future. If you don't use a microSD card, you're reliant on the Yi cloud system to store your videos.The app also has buttons for taking a still picture or recording video of the current view. These photos and video are saved to your phone, not to the camera itself.There's some confusion regarding the cloud service, so let me briefly explain:1. The camera cannot be used with other recording devices/services like a NAS at home. It can only be used with the Yi app on the phone or the Yi software on a computer.2. For no additional cost, you can remotely access your camera from anywhere in the world (assuming it's connected to a Wi-Fi network with internet access). For most typical home connections, no port forwarding or firewall configuration is needed: the Yi service acts as a matchmaker to the connection so you can connect directly. In the rare cases you can't connect directly, Yi will act as a transparent relay and you can still access your camera.3. At no additional cost, Yi will save a 6-second clip of any motion detected (with certain "dead time", typically a minute or two, between motion events) and send you an alert. You can view that clip for 7 days, and can download it to your device during that 7 day window if you want to keep it indefinitely. After 7 days, the clip is deleted from Yi's server.4. For an additional cost, you can subscribe to the "Yi Cloud" for remote storage of videos (useful if the camera is stolen or damaged, in which case the microSD card containing your videos would also be gone). Different plan levels will store video for different lengths of time ranging from 7 to 30 days. If you set it to only store video when motion is detected (and it will record for as long as motion is detected -- if you start running in circles in front of the camera for an hour, it will record for an hour -- this works the same as saving video to the microSD card only when motion is detected) you can include up to five cameras in a single subscription, which is quite economical. For the same price, you can also have one camera (not five, as with the motion detected-only plan) record continuously to the cloud. You can access cloud videos using the app, again with a handy timeline showing when motion was detected.In my case, I consider $66/year for 7-day storage of motion-detected video for five cameras to be very worthwhile.5. Unlike the local microSD storage, if you use cloud storage you can remotely download your videos to your phone.The only downsides of the camera are that it's a little bulky (it'd be handy if it were narrower or reduced in diameter), the power cable is exposed on the underside of the camera, the requirement that one use the Yi app (rather than a NAS or some other camera-viewing/recording software), and the inability to remotely download video from a microSD card in the camera. A wider field of view would also be very handy. Also, the camera periodically sets its internal clock from some external source (presumably the Yi service), but in the interim it drifts freely and doesn't seem to be temperature compensated. If I view two cameras simultaneously (such as with Yi's Windows software), both can be simultaneously showing the same activity but the reported time can be up to 30 seconds different in the timestamps. No option exists to change how often the camera syncs its clock, or from what source (e.g. a local NTP server). You limit motion detection alerts to a user-specified area of arbitrary size, but it must be rectangular in shape -- no user-set shapes. I wish I could set it to alert if someone were on my property or walking on the sidewalk in front of the house but not if a car is driving on the road, but a simple rectangular zone doesn't allow this.Overall, I really like it. I'd happily give it five stars if they allowed for better clock sync, arbitrary-shape motion detection alerts, 10 second (rather than 6) free alert clips, and remote downloading from the microSD card.If the phone app could handle viewing multiple cameras simultaneously (something the Windows software can), the Windows software could save my password between viewing sessions (having to re-enter it whenever I open the software is a hassle), and the ability to use it with user-specified storage (e.g. a NAS, a different cloud storage service, etc.), so much the better.

Excelente fácil instalación y aplicación amigable, requiere tarjeta de almacenamiento por separado

This camera is easy to install. It is powered by a standard USB cord that is long enough, but needs to plug into the included USB plug (like a phone charger). It is a bit of a challenge to route the cord through tight spaces. Once installed, activating the camera is straightforward by downloading the phone app and holding the phone in front of the camera. The camera accepts a micro SD card up to 32 GB, but it is not very practical to take it out and put it back in. I put one in anyway, but subscribed to the cloud storage as well. The app works very well and is easy to use. Remember to disable the camera (using the app) beeping when it detects motion or you will be up all night. Night vision is average, not great, but for the price, I cannot complain.

Its bit on costlier side and doesn't have a free option to save recordings out of the device but apart from that its a solid item.Previously i was having issues with notifications not coming instantly but i figured out that it was because of my phone's battery optimization. The video quality is great and features works well as mentioned.The best features and for what i bought it for is the intruder alarm which really works wonder.I would suggest to go for it if you are looking to invest in DVR and need an outdoor camera, just put it on higher side so that its hard to steal it with the microSD card inside xDCheers!

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No batallé nada en instalarla. Funciona muy bien, da buena imagen y el precio se me hizo muy justo. He comprado otras tres. La app la sincroniza muy bien. Me encantó y sin problema volvería a elegirlas.