I got these little guys today, and have tested them for a bit.
There's a lot of cameras where the functionality hinges on some mandatory subscription package, and I'm overall quite happy with these as they work fine without.
The exception is if you want the "advanced AI detection" of pets/cars (or, of course, cloud storage), as these will require a subscription.
But if you expect to point these outside where there'd be car traffic, you'd probably rather want to look for a different model camera that is weatherproofed for outside installation anyway.
The (iOS) app has poor translation in places, but it's fairly straightforward to use if you're used to dealing with these kind of gadgets, and it seems to have a quite good amount of features.
One small hiccup was that one of the cameras stopped responding during the update procedure. So eventually I had to power cycle to reset that camera and restart the setup procedure as the update never initialized and the camera just sat there. But it worked fine and updated successfully afterwards.
I had a few occasional issues with the live feed freezing and one of the cameras not connecting, but it seems that when something activated the camera, it'd come back online.
Whenever WiFi is involved, that's usually my first suspicion, and there will be "shadow spots" in any building/room. As long you just make sure they are in a spot with decent reception, they seem to generally work quite well.
In Live View you can zoom and scroll the image, which is great, but one thing that really is missing, is that there's no easy way to switch the camera between day/night modes manually. Automatic mode works fine most the time, but in low light it tends to flick back and forth a lot sometimes and there is a loud click noise each time. I'd have liked a dedicated button on the UI, but you have to dig through menus for this. Minor complaint, though.
The image quality is quite decent for the intended purposes, both in regular/IR mode. The audio from the microphone is, as expected, not the best. It's far better at picking up my cat meowing, than my low voice, and lacks detail. But it's sufficient that you'll be able to speak through the camera as an intercom in a quiet area, and it's very nice to have it + the built-in speakers.
Motion activation works well, and battery runtime is very good.
I've had them running and activating at the smallest movements (to see what my cat does when I'm away), and even while triggering for 80-100 times/day, I'm going to guess that they'll be running for weeks, rather than days. Which is pretty impressive.
There are several default modes, and a custom mode with a good amount of options for fine tuning how the cameras operate and trigger. Also the "humanoid detect" works out of the box, and with it on, the cameras do a good job at ignoring my cat, and will mostly just trigger on people.
Great little cameras with good features overall.
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