Wireless Cameras for Home/Outdoor Security, Solar Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor 355°PTZ, 3MP 2K FHD WiFi Camera with Spotlight, Motion Detection, Siren, Color Night Vision, SD/Cloud

I have to say I was impressed with this solar/battery camera!
You have 360 movement of the camera, but you have to manually reset it back to 1 of 3 stored positions. I wish the camera went to a default stored position after you disconnected from it in the app. If you forget to put it back it will remain looking at where ever you left it at. It has IR night vision or it turns on 2 bright lights to have color night vision. Picture quality is 2K or standard. You can talk through the camera, but the speaker is pathetic and often times whoever you might be talking to can’t understand what you are saying, but you can hear what they are saying to you on your phone with the app just fine. I I didn’t buy it to talk to people through the camera so that wasn’t a biggie for me. It also has an alarm feature with a pathetic alarm sound and you can optionally flash 2 LED’s when the alarm is going off for a few seconds. You can manually turn on and off the motion detect. Even set a sleep schedule if you want the camera to turn off and turn back on at set times. I only wish that rather than having a sleep feature that completely turns the camera off and on according to a schedule, one could rather keep the camera on and just schedule the motion detection to turn on and off on a scheduled basis. I use this to watch for predators in my chicken runs at night. So the only way I can do that is have the camera motion detect turned on and schedule the camera to wake up at 7pm and then schedule the camera to go to sleep at 5:30 am in the morning so I am not woken up when my chickens start running around and the camera app starts notifying me of movement. Alternatively, it would be nice to be able to schedule the motion detection to come on at 7pm after they are tucked away in their coops and then turn off the motion detect at 5:30am when they wake up; that way the camera stays on and I can quickly check on my chickens throughout the day. When it goes to sleep it is in accessible during the time it is asleep unless I manually wake it back up. Then if I want to wake the camera up to see them during the day, I have to make sure I manually turn off the motion detection before I wake the camera; otherwise, the camera will start notifying me again non-stop of the chickens running around in their pen. Oh, and there is a feature to share your camera access with others…and when the camera is asleep only the administrator has the option to take it out of sleep, so the people you shared the camera access with can’t take it out of sleep themselves and just see a message that the camera is asleep. You can access a rolling 3 days of up to 20 second long videos with the free plan.

Cloud is both a blessing and a curse, hotspot users beware
First, it’s very hard to beat the price of a Pan and Tilt camera, wireless with solar, that has a pretty good picture, as these do. I purchased two of these for a renovation property I’m working on as I’m expecting deliveries soon and want to oversee them. If you are looking for a solar camera to record to a card so you can play back and see things, great. If you have unlimited data on your Wi-Fi, great. But if you’re like me and bought solar cameras because you don’t have Wi-Fi or power available, and want to use a mobile hotspot, look elsewhere.First, the good.The picture quality is pretty clear especially given the price point. While I lose the clarity to read a license plate about 30-40 feet out, it is still a very recognizable image for everything on screen. The cameras are generally responsive in the controls, though sometimes it feels like the pan and tilt could use a touch more finer tuning to really dial in a location but it’s still ok.The solar option to charge is great and seems to work just fine in regards to keeping them up, even in less than direct sunlight. I almost wish the cords were maybe 2′ longer, but still should work for more people, and they are just a micro USB connection so I’m sure an extension cable would work easy enough.MicroSD recording, yay! It’s always great to have the option to record directly to a MicroSD card for redundancy or even as a primary recording method if Wi-Fi isn’t available. More on that in a bit…The app control is basically the same as most of the “no name” brand cameras that you can find on here. I have three different cameras that all use their own “app” but they’re all the same thing. Great that you know how to navigate them all since they all look the same, but really annoying that each company has to use their own version of the same thing and you have to load a new app for each different camera. It’s not the most intuitive app, but enough fumbling around will get you where you want to go.The cons:First and foremost, the cloud storage. Plus side, you get three days of free cloud storage. The down side, you cannot disable cloud storage AT ALL. Here’s the issue with this: I don’t have Wi-Fi at the location, so I bought a mobile hotspot so that I could remotely view the cameras. A pair of these cameras blew through 2GB of data in less than 24 hours, all due to uploading to cloud storage. Yes, I have a 128 GB card in each camera, but now I have no data left on my hotspot, so that means no notifications, no live viewing, and no way to know until the next time I get there if I had any issues, and THEN having to go back through and search through all the card footage.The zones are ONLY for notifications, not for recording. This means that if you have your alert zone set to say, your front door, and a fly is doing laps in the other corner of the camera screen, it’s still going to be recording the motion trigger. You will have a file recorded for ANY motion caught in the camera’s entire field of view. And every recording gets uploaded to the cloud. I have hundreds of saved files (until the data ran out so I can’t access more from home), that had zero interest in the zones I actually would care about just because a tree was blowing in the other corner that I had specifically wanted to ignore with a zone. Nope, that just means I don’t get an alert every time a leaf quakes, but we’re still going to record it and waste space.When it comes to the subscription, yes it’s inexpensive, and yes you lose a bunch of features if you don’t pay your $32 a year or whatever the basic comes out to. That’s the same standard as many of these more inexpensive cameras. However, even the “free” subscription includes 3 days of cloud storage. You know, that’s great, for most people. 3 free days of cloud storage without a fee. Except again, you can’t disable that, no matter what. If these videos are using gigabytes of data per day in upload bandwidth, it completely eliminates the option to use these under any mobile hotspot options. It would cost me $50 in hotspot data in just a weekend away. Absolutely useless for me.So while I was hoping for a camera that I could use to record locally onto it’s SD card, maybe alert me to motion, and then live-view in when I need – what I got was a pair of cameras that absolutely blew through data by constantly uploading to the cloud for every little motion of anything, even on Low sensitivity, and is now only good as a review camera after the fact.I’ll keep the cameras and use them somewhere else, like as a trail camera or something. I do like the picture they give. But functionality, they’re pointless for me to use with a mobile hotspot. The option to toggle or even disable the cloud storage altogether would make these an easy 5-star camera.