blurams Dome Pro, 1080p Security Camera with Siren | PTZ Surveillance System with Facial Recognition, Human/Sound Detection, Person Alerts, Night Vision | Cloud/Local Available | Works with Alexa

As our baby turned more active, I thought a camera to monitor her activities would be useful. Referred by one of my friends, I decided to give this one a try. It turned out to be a good buy. The camera has a sleek look. The installation was straightforward and easy, I registered an account and put in my wifi password and it started working. Looks like the account was used to see your camera online, so that is convenient if you don't have you phone next to you. They also use that account to sell you cloud service, but local storage is good enough for me. The camera can turn 360°, up and down, and works at night as well. The picture quality is pretty good, images are sharp and colors are accurate, I am all satisfied with that.The companion app was good too, i am using an iPhone XR and had no trouble with it so far. I did see people complained something in the app store, and their developer responded and delivered fix promptly, so that is good.I don't have an Alexa account, so can't say anything for that.

I point this at my door when not home to give me peace of mind. I can also use it to check on my cat. So far haven't had any issue with the notifications, at most a 15 second to 2 minute lag. I love being able to see live feed. You can get a free month of their cloud service which is nice to rewind to verify what happened, but I am moving to micro SD card as I don't need that much video storage space.Love being able to turn it on and off from my app. The timer to turn on and off took a little figuring out, but once I did it works like a charm, so if I forget to turn it on it will auto do so around the time I leave for work. Only had for just over a month, so will update if the camera stops working.

UPDATE Sep 23rd, 2019: Upgraded Rating.I have upgraded my review after replacing the camera and receiving help from technical support re: the bug in the UI (now fixed). Blurams responded very quickly to my concerns, and for that I'm grateful. (Still wish there was a live person to talk with and not just email).The replacement camera is functioning as it should.We are now receiving notifications on the phone. (Note: The APP needs to be OFF on your phone to receive any push notifications).I am also upgrading my "trust level" in this device to 80% (from 50%) while I'm away and after extensive remote testing. I have purchased a second one of these to put in another location in our home.If both cameras function well, I'll give it 5 stars, but not until they fully prove themselves.-------------------------------------Previous reviews below:-------------------------------------Would I trust this camera for keeping an eye on my home while I'm away ? .... Only 50/50 at this stage.It has promise, but the APP programming is very hit-and-miss. I would always be worried that it won't notify me quickly (or at all (see 9/19/2019 below)) IF it does detect someone. And that's precisely what I purchased it for .... piece of mind. The push notifications are a real problem.9/19/2019: Sent camera back, and bought another.Now I get videos of motion but NO Notifications ..... incredibly annoying.9/17/2019: According to the blurams company, AJ Steffens (who sold me this camera through Amazon) is not an authorized seller of blurams products. This was bought to my attention in an email where I was notifying them of the problems that this camera has.The company also told me that there is a BUG in the Time OFF setting part of the App. They are apparently fixing this.Reduced to 1 star on 9/15/2019 (after 3 days of use)When an Time ON plan is active, and I pan around the room, the camera will often disconnect and will not reconnect for sometime. And most times, the app needs to be closed and re-opened to get it connected again.This is quite a buggy APP and needs some work.When an event is recorded during an active Time ON plan, I don't get any push notifications. The event will be recorded, but NO notifications. Blurams told me via email, that you do not get any notifications while you have the APP open. So if you want to know if someone is creeping around you home, you had better have the APP closed!The camera turns off about 5 minutes after the set Time OFF. (Not a deal breaker, but it cannot even keep to a specific time on the clock).Tech support is by EMAIL ONLY. They often take 12 hours+ to answer any questions. This is just not good enough. You need a tech support PHONE NUMBER guys !I need a second camera, and doubt it will be a blurams. Just too many issues with the APP. And if I'm away I'd always be worried something would not work, so I need a backup camera of a different make to increase the chances of one of them working if an event were to occur. This shouldn't be necessary.After testing quite a bit for two days:PROS:The picture quality and night vision are good. (But cannot make out faces easily)Motion sensing works well most of the time (but sometimes it doesn't pick a person walking around). Further testing required here - if it keeps doing this, I'll be returning it. It has to work ALL the time. See CONS section.The alarm is nice and loud.Privacy mode is excellent and very hard to find on a lot of other cameras. (My main reason for buying this the camera).The size of the camera is nice and compact.CONS:Motion detection can behave weirdly. Sometime it'll pick up a person and sometimes it will not. About 10% of the time it won't.Picture quality degrades rapidly when zooming. It gets pretty blurry.Sound sensing doesn't work well at all. I was talking loudly and it didn't pick up the noise.The speaker has a huge echo when talking through it from my phone.I cannot leave the app/interface in LIVE mode for continuous viewing on my phone/PC/tablet - it gives me a "play button" to press every 5 minutes or so. Annoying.Notifications: Sometimes I receive them and sometimes I don't. And other times they arrive after quite a delay (which I imagine is a problem with the company's app). I have the notifications set to "ON" and to receive ALL push notifications, so it doesn't seem like a setting issue. Sometimes the camera will pick up motion and you don't know it has due to no notification ... but if you check the "Events" area, there is a video of the motion. This is particularly frustrating.

I bought 2 of these and will be returning them as there are just way to many bugs in the APP. the Camera takes great pics when it works, but I spent way too much time watching a lag screen stuck on a pic taken 5 minutes ago, then it re connects and the apps shows 10-25KB/s for appx 10 seconds, then it lags again for minutes, then reconnects again, then long lag, etc etc over & over & over. This is not suitable nor acceptable for anyone I would think. with a 30 meg up/350meg down speed internet its now for lack of speed on my end.a great & accurate Review by AB dated Sept 13 2019 is well worth reading as I'm experiencing many of the same issues. For those who may have missed that review I am reposting it to give him/her the full credit for it. here it is listed below.-------------------------------------Would I trust this camera for keeping an eye on my home while I'm away ? .... Only 50/50 at this stage.It has promise, but the APP programming is very hit-and-miss. I would always be worried that it won't notify me quickly (or at all (see 9/19/2019 below)) IF it does detect someone. And that's precisely what I purchased it for .... piece of mind. The push notifications are a real problem.9/19/2019: Sent camera back, and bought another.Now I get videos of motion but NO Notifications ..... incredibly annoying.The company also told me that there is a BUG in the Time OFF setting part of the App. They are apparently fixing this.Reduced to 1 star on 9/15/2019 (after 3 days of use)When an Time ON plan is active, and I pan around the room, the camera will often disconnect and will not reconnect for sometime. And most times, the app needs to be closed and re-opened to get it connected again.This is quite a buggy APP and needs some work.When an event is recorded during an active Time ON plan, I don't get any push notifications. The event will be recorded, but NO notifications. Blurams told me via email, that you do not get any notifications while you have the APP open. So if you want to know if someone is creeping around you home, you had better have the APP closed!The camera turns off about 5 minutes after the set Time OFF. (Not a deal breaker, but it cannot even keep to a specific time on the clock).Tech support is by EMAIL ONLY. They often take 12 hours+ to answer any questions. This is just not good enough. You need a tech support PHONE NUMBER guys !I need a second camera, and doubt it will be a blurams. Just too many issues with the APP. And if I'm away I'd always be worried something would not work, so I need a backup camera of a different make to increase the chances of one of them working if an event were to occur. This shouldn't be necessary.After testing quite a bit for two days:PROS:The picture quality and night vision are good. (But cannot make out faces easily)Motion sensing works well most of the time (but sometimes it doesn't pick a person walking around). Further testing required here - if it keeps doing this, I'll be returning it. It has to work ALL the time. See CONS section.The alarm is nice and loud.Privacy mode is excellent and very hard to find on a lot of other cameras. (My main reason for buying this the camera).The size of the camera is nice and compact.CONS:Motion detection can behave weirdly. Sometime it'll pick up a person and sometimes it will not. About 10% of the time it won't.Picture quality degrades rapidly when zooming. It gets pretty blurry.Sound sensing doesn't work well at all. I was talking loudly and it didn't pick up the noise.The speaker has a huge echo when talking through it from my phone.I cannot leave the app/interface in LIVE mode for continuous viewing on my phone/PC/tablet - it gives me a "play button" to press every 5 minutes or so. Annoying.Notifications: Sometimes I receive them and sometimes I don't. And other times they arrive after quite a delay (which I imagine is a problem with the company's app). I have the notifications set to "ON" and to receive ALL push notifications, so it doesn't seem like a setting issue. Sometimes the camera will pick up motion and you don't know it has due to no notification ... but if you check the "Events" area, there is a video of the motion. This is particularly frustrating.