YI home camera (Black)

This is a repeat order ,i been ordered yi home camera few times now. I am really impressed with it's performance.The video quality is sharp, even at night thanks to the clear night vision.Set up was quick and simple, the app is very user friendly. I love the motion detection, it gives me peace of mind knowing I can check in on my home anytime , anywhere.The two way audio feature is also a nice bonus for communicating with family when I am away.Overall this is a reliable, affordable security option that works exactly as advertised .

I have a couple of these cameras now and have been hanging on a for a few weeks to see how they run before leaving a review.Overall I am very satisfied with the cameras. Being 720hd, the picture quality is good but not amazing.I have two cameras set up looking out of front and rear windows of my house. I bought my first camera as I needed proof when couriers were not making deliveries after i received a few 'your parcel has been delivered' notices (looking directly at you Amazon). A second camera soon followed to keep an eye on my car in our communal car park. I didn't need crystal clear quality for these purposes.The motion detection is pretty handy. I get notifications when the camera picks up movement and it is pretty accurate. The recordings have been able to prove that I have had a naughty courier who hasn't been doing the job correctly at times!I use SD cards in my cameras rather than subscribing to the cloud services. I can access my recordings easily and managing the data is straight forward. Playback is a doddle!The audio is ok. I don't use my cameras for their audio so couldn't give a fair review of the quality.Night vision..... Pretty useless in practice. Luckily for me, my cameras point out at well lit areas so when it gets dark they are still pretty decent. You get a fairly good quality black and white image in these conditions.I found my first camera a bit of a pain to set up but my second one was fine. The instructions are really straight forward and the hardware and app walks you through setup well.The phone app is great. Lots of options available to personalise your setup and run multiple cameras. The desktop application is simple but very straight forward to use. I have a second computer monitor running to use as a CCTV screen where I can see both cameras running at the same time.For the low price I paid for my cameras, I would say they are excellent. If you need really high quality images, maybe look at alternatives but for a cheap and easy to setup system, I would highly recommend yi.

The camera's themselves are generally okay, wifi signal not bad at all either so you get a decent connection with them to your WiFi.You cannot turn off the Nightime mode so they will flip into infrared mode even if you disconnect the internal IR Lights, doesn't matter, can't force the camera's to stay in colour mode.Biggest problem though, and this is something you must be aware of before buying these camera's is that the app itself that you must use with these camera's is absolutely terrible. The company has also taken it upon themselves to infest their app with adverts, and I mean totally infested with adverts. You cannot even view an event as a fullscreen popup advert appears now also so you gotta find the "x" and click out of that before you can even see what the event was. Utterly awful practice by yi/kami as a company, just check the reviews on the app stores, filled with thousands of people complaining about the adverts.Oh and if you want to view more than one of your camera's at the same time, like the multiview feature of viewing 4 camera's? Well you gotta subscribe to their expensive cloud plan for that feature too. Awful.Good camera's that have been severly let down by an extremely poor app and support.Cloud plan is very expensive and it's features like multiview do not carry across to friends/neighbours you might share the camera's out too so they can view, plus it's very hard to cancel the recurring cloud plan if you do get it. Support is woeful also.Oh and one final important thing, if their servers go down, which has happened a few times now, even if you're not subscribed to their cloud plan, all of your camera's also go down and you cannot view anything, cannot even view what might be on the SD card or even view your cameras live.Would not recommend at all due to the extremely poor app experience plus the advert infestation in same. The app is essential to use your yi/kami camera's and this company have completely destroyed the app and thusly the camera's.