I love the image quality from these Galayou cameras. We first bought 2 that can be mounted to wall/ceiling for indoor use. They have great quality and it is reasonably simple to set up with the app. The one in the window did not get a clear view of the area surrounding our porch and front door so we purchased this lightbulb version. My only complaint is it doesn’t look far enough down to see below and so it can’t see the entire doorway of the apartment.
We were offered an incentive from the seller for a review before, but I ignored that in favor of using the camera for a while to see how it went before advising others on the quality.
Downward angle – It does not look directly below the camera and so there will be blind spots if your light fixture is close to the door or high up.
Lighting – The actual light from the camera is decently bright but illuminates a small area instead of filling the surrounding with light. This is only an issue when you actually go outside as the camera can see in very low light with no issues.
Low Light Conditions – This camera makes it look like the sun forgot to go down! After sunset with no porch lights on from neighboring apartments you can still see very clearly. If the light gets so low that the normal sensor no longer sees clearly though, you can swap to IR mode and see even those tiny lizards running around on the sidewalk, or the cat in the bushes, or that possum that keeps eating all the cat’s food.
Size – The light fixture outside of my apartment is from the 70’s and is quite small, so I was unable to place the globe around it again. This gives me some anxiety as it is not the best neighborhood and someone could simply unscrew it and walk away, which brings me to my next point, the motion sensor.
Motion Sensing – The app has a few settings for sensitivity levels but I noticed no change in what it would pick up no matter the setting. Between my wife’s plants, the constant breeze in the area, and the way the light/IR sensors attract bugs, the motion sensing and notifications are unusable for me. It picks up every single little bug and every twitch of a plant leaf even only low sensitivity settings.
Cloud / AI – I did not sign up for this as I was not happy with the motion sensing capabilities of the camera to start with. Perhaps it would make it where I only get alerts for people approaching, but the built in setting that is free to use does not work. It still picked up each little bug and half of them were labeled as people, while the delivery guy walked right through the motion zone, dropped packages, and walked away without setting it off.
Would I buy another? Absolutely.
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