Unfortunately, it has become necessary to monitor an elderly parent that lives alone, a few miles away. We already had some indoor cameras with power cords that worked well for us to view remotely with the Wansview app, but needed some cameras for both indoor and outdoor use where a power plug was not available. This 4-pack of Galayou cameras fit our needs perfectly. The R2 cameras are easy to pair with the Wansview app, and include nice features like night vision (both black & white and color, depending on how the lighting options are set up) and alerts that recognize movement as a person, pet, package, etc. as well as specifying an area or distance for the alert to trigger. This minimizes false alarms, when we only wish to be notified (by real-time alert notices to our phones, specifying the name we gave to the camera), like when our parent goes outside on the patio, not when the birds raid the feeder. To extend the battery charge, features can be reduced easily with the phone app, or if a regular power cord source is available, the features can be maximized (like extended usage of lighting options). With the Wansview phone app, the lighting features can be turned on and off whenever you need them, or set to come on during specific times. The microphone sound is very good, and if needed, there is the option of two-way sound, or even to sound a siren (i.e., to deter a dog from shredding paper from the trash basket). These cameras do not pan back and forth, but it has a wide range of view, so panning is not a necessary feature for us. With 2K quality, the quality remains quite clear by simply zooming closer, as you do with a photo, on the phone screen. The camera view easily covers the entire patio outside, and inside use high on a bookshelf (without an easy plug-in option) covers the whole living area. There are no fees for using the Wansview app for real time viewing, or for a full day of recorded motion alert photos, which are date and time-stamped, if you choose to have alerts set up on any of the cameras. It is not restricted to alerting/viewing just one person’s phone, either, as each camera can be accessed for one primary user and up to three additional phones, by invitation. The battery life remaining for each camera is shown on the phone app, also, so we keep one camera fully charged and switch them out when needed, which is rarely necessary. The cameras do require Wi-Fi to remotely monitor with our phones, but also have a memory card slot that can record movement without Wi-Fi, if a camera is needed to catch raccoons in action somewhere outside the Wi-fi range, etc. (The memory card is not included.) We are very pleased with these cameras, paired with the Wansview app, and have come to depend on them to help our aging parent continue living independently.
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