ieGeek 5MP 360° Solar Security Camera Outdoor Color Night Vision, Battery Wireless CCTV Camera Systems, Wifi PTZ Home Security Camera, Motion Detection, Siren Floodlight,Voice Intercom,Work with Alexa

Great item , easy to set up , handy that it has a solar panel that can be left in to charge , picture is really clear , being able to move camera from phone is great, this is my 3 rd purchase of I-Geek products , first 2 were door cameras , firt one was good but got ruined by person pressing the button 2 hard and it stayed in , 2 door bell really great but does not hold its charge that long, shame that one has to keep buying memory cards , should be supplied with these as a unit

The camera is easy to set up and fix to the wall. The power cable can be easily extended if required, either with extension lead or by cutting it and adding extra cable in between the 2 cut parts if required and soldered back together again. Also if the cable is cut, it makes it easier to pass through the wall and only a small hole needs to be drilled in the wall, then solder the wires back together. The other two cables, reset and ethernet can be tucked inside the unit to get them out the way, if you don’t want to use those. You can do a basic reset by unplugging the power to the unit from inside the house.The video quality is really good, even at night in black and white nighttime IR setting. I have mine set to the automatic setting. Its very quick to respond to pan and tilt changes from the phone. The “tracking mode” seems to work well, I’m not sure if I will leave that on all the time though.This is my second camera from ieGeek. I used the app I already had on my Samsung phone, CamHipro, which is free from the play store.It was easy to setup. I just clicked the + symbol, top right of screen, choose IP camera, selected New Device, powered on and reset (using small push button on end of white wiring loom) and chose the “not connected to the network cable” option. Then on the next screen I chose “AP distribution network equipment” option. This then asked for the wifi password from my router and that’s about it. Camera connected. I haven’t installed a memory card inside the camera as I wanted to connect it to my Synology Disk Station (NAS). This is running a free program called Surveillance Station. This then records movements and stores them on my hard drive in the NAS. I have been doing this for over a year with my other ieGeek bullet camera, a non PTZ version and that has been brilliant, hence getting a second camera for my home system.I like ieGeek products and the customer service people were helpful last year when I needed some info on fixing brackets for my other camera. They are not just a sales team, they are helpful also.I think for the price the camara is great value for money and will recommend it to my friends as I know its easy to set up and from a reliable supplier.

I bought this camera a year ago largely because of the reasonable price and good user reviews but only got round to putting it up in November 2019.Positives1. Build quality seems good. Compact and solid2. Picture quality is good especially on the HD setting3. Power supply has a long lead (3m) so no extension cable requiredNegatives1. Despite the IP67 rating, my camera let in water to the extent that it stopped working. Water behind the lens and in the SD card slot (see photos). Maybe I put it up in a too exposed position. So my advice is try and install it somewhere that is a bit sheltered e.g. under eaves.2. The reset switch and power cable connector need to be housed in a dry place e.g. a waterproof connection box. (A waterproof connector is supplied for the Ethernet cable)3. PC Software Hip2P is quite slow and clunky and not very intuitive to set up. Later versions of the software are a bit better. They can be found on the Iegeek or IPcam websites. The mobile phone software is a bit easier but is more limited.4. There is no option for secure encryption (like most cheaper webcams). This will make the camera easier to hack.5. There is a customer service email address, but I got no response when my camera failed.ConclusionInstalling and connecting up an IP camera can be quite a time consuming business, so my advice is don't waste your time - avoid this camera and spend a bit more on something more reliable. I’ve had my Foscam camera out in all weathers for several years without problem...Follow Up - 4 February 2021=====================I got round to taking down my failed iegeek security camera today. Opened the SD slot and orange coloured water dribbled out. It looked like my Sandisk Extreme Pro 128Gb SD card was trashed - stained with the orange gunge - but it dried out and cleaned up and is working fine in my new camera (an Ezviz).Recordings on the card showed that the camera worked OK for a total of 10 days until it got too wet. So the moral of the story is don't assume that an IP camera is OK just because it works fine out the box. Put it up outside in the rain. Then at least you can get your money back if it fails straight away as a result of water damage. Interestingly I could not find an IP67 rating anywhere on the packaging or camera despite this waterproof rating being advertised.Update 12 March 2021=================Customer support reached out to me following this review. Looks like the email address I wrote to was the wrong one which explains why they didn’t reply to my previous emails. They advise that they have resolved the security problems that were around a couple of years back and this model is no longer at risk of hacking. It is still a good idea however to change the default user name/password from admin/admin to something unique.Failure caused by water penetration does not appear to be a common problem with this camera judging by the reviews on Amazon, so maybe I was just unlucky. As a gesture of goodwill, Iegeek have offered to refund me or replace the camera despite it being out of warranty. So given all that, I have changed my review rating to positive.