Hidden Camera Smoke Detector, Spy Camera for Home Surveillance with Night Vision Motion Detection, 1080P Security Cameras Indoor Wireless, Nanny WiFi Cam, 180 Days Battery Power

Very good.

very difficult to connect, absolutely unsuitable

This is a somewhat good camera in my opinion. The good parts: - Camera supports a MicroSD card of up to 64 gigabytes in FAT32 partition. - Camera has a nice range of video capture to the side, not straight down. - The battery seems to last quite a long time, not just a couple of hours. - Records audio too even though this is not quite advertised. - Application needed has push notifications when camera gets triggered. The bad parts: - Video is 1080p, but with low quality and maximum 15 frames per second. - Videos are maximum 1 minute. However, this 1 minute can not be configured through current Yi Eye application (version 2.2.5 at the writing of this review). Duration of video can only be configured with version 2.1.9 of Yi Eye application, which needs to be downloaded manually from other websites. - The manual included in box is for version 2.1.9 of Yi Eye application, and this version has settings that newer versions do not have (like video duration). Newer version has camera trigger on certain area, which older versions of Yi Eye app do not have. - The camera can absolutely not be configured with version 2.1.9, but instead it needs a newer version of 2.2.3 or above. This is due to the different ultrasounds which are issued through the phone for its WiFi configuration. - Camera can only be configured through the app with an active online connection; and only afterwards it can record videos without the app onto MicroSD. - Camera can not be accessed without an online connection. - Camera needs online connection to keep track of time too. Without online connection there is no time printed on video either. If camera boots without a connection, the video names will start a date from year 1970 and there will be no time hard-coded inside video picture. - The Yi Eye app is not open source, therefore nobody knows what is behind it or how we may use the camera in future. The really ugly parts: - Basically this camera NEEDS to be online. Problem is: who else watches my camera? Or who else on their servers has access to the camera? - There is no registration on their servers. There is no account. There is no terms of service or contract for privacy. - There is no way to capture streaming through other software or LAN protocols. - All configuration is accessed through producer's online servers. - All videos can only be accessed through producer's online servers (or by manually removing and reading the MicroSD card from a computer). - If the app is no longer supported in future, camera basically becomes unusable, due to how it can not be configured or accessed anymore. If the app is gone, the camera is gone too. This makes it feel as if they don't sell a product, but instead they sell something like a service: as an access to their own servers through their own app, for a period which only the producer knows (because there is no contract or registration for that app). At such price point maybe is better to simply hire a surveillance company where their distribution handles everything. All in all this is a weird product. It is sad they struggled to connect it to their own servers, instead of allowing a simple streaming interface on it with an open port for easy access through a simple browser. This is one of those products with a great idea, but a bad execution probably to keep customers under control (my guess, otherwise I can't understand why use absolutely everything proprietary, even camera access).

Returned faulty product

The camera is too small it coved one side of the room. The quality is not too good

Didn't work overly complicated so sent it back.