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"absolutely useless what a complete waste of money that was"

"only gripe is video is via a server so have to log in all the time to check the video feed and it can log off randomly when you have it on constantly"

"only issue i had was the short cable as i set up the camera on the ceiling so had to purchase a 3 metre cable to accommodate but other than that no issues whatsoever"

"set up is a bit clunky could be better optimised through the app when setting up the wifi connection but not a major issue"

"it is incredibly easy to set up and i should know as i have had to return another more expensive camera as it was impossibly complicated"

"didnt work"

"constant error message about 2"

"i haven't had a single connection issue unlike another brand i bought for the same price"

"but that is a minor issue and doesn't detract from the camera"

"the only negative is the night vision is very poor which makes it not fit for purpose for me and the motion alarm goes off on the camera which i couldn't stop and couldn't find instructions to stop"

"the camera came in a professional looking box and inside the package was the camera itself the power cable and instructions on how to set it up"

"i use it for monitoring my baby but it’s useless don’t waste your money"

"the memory card slot also feels loose so must be damaged and of poor quality"

"for such a cheap price this camera is outstanding!"

"there is a slight delay sometimes 3 5 seconds but this is down to occasional wifi issues not the product itself"

"it is a good product but is very unreliable"

"but it would lose connection from time to time which is not great if youre using it as a baby monitor"

"for such a cheap camera i have to admit i wasn’t expecting it to be great but for my needs that i didn’t need something that was all singing all dancing"

"as we use this for our baby monitor it is so infuriating when laying her down for a nap bedtime to discover the camera has disconnected itself as it makes a lot of loud noise when reconfiguring and this then wakes up our baby"

"couldn't be easier"

"i’m extremely disappointed it didn’t work as i was hoping to start sleep training my baby this week and need a baby monitor"

"utter waste of money"

"totally garbage"

"really frustrating"

"it takes forever to connect then it disconnects by itself and you cannot log back in for a while"

"really rubbish i know it's cheap but dont waste your money!"

"but i have to go this in case people buy this crap camera it doesn’t connect to wifi support service is not good"

"this is the second camera i've purchased and the 1st brand was really disappointing"

"i’ve seen monitors like this online and then when i’ve looked at the supporting app the reviews on the app store have been terrible which kind of defeats the point"

"absolutely useless what a complete waste of money that was"

"there's no need for a screen like other baby monitors which usually has appalling battery life as you can see what you need on your phone whilst still being mobile"

"the night vision doesnt work well for me as i have it in a window and the reflection gets in the way but i guess that just goes to show how good the picture quality is!"

"i bought this on a lightning deal for a ridiculous price not expecting much"

"bought this to keep an eye on our dogs so we can re assure them especially after the recent bout of fireworks they are normally not bothered but this year the younger dog is a little twitchy anyway after a little issue with the connection i managed to get connected just had to change the settings on my router to 2"

"motion detector is kind of annoying as it will go off randomly without anything triggering it wish it gave me a notification for movements vs setting off an obnoxious alarm wakes baby up other than that i am happy with it brilliant price & amazing picture quality"

"it freezes all the time i mean every 10 minuets it needs refreshing because it's frozen it randomly mutes all the time too which makes monitoring a baby very difficult"

"as well as freezing pictures the app constantly logs out so we have to log back in"

"wasted hours installing and and re installing"

"not been a massive issue for us though as we have it set up looking into the cot but at times it maybe doesn’t covered all corners and would be good to be able to move camera remotely"

"utter rubbish"

"waste of money i cant really rate the camera as i couldn't get the app to work it was always offline and i had to keep reconnecting to my internet i downloaded the pro version of the app and that version was even worse"

"having the picture freeze when you are trying to monitor a small baby is not convenient as my twins are at the stage of rolling over onto their tummies"

"it's not safe"

"i’ve tried turning the lights on while it’s daytime but it still doesn’t work"

"i thought for the price i paid that the night vision would be debatable however proven wrong"

"it took a little bit longer to get it going cos my phone switched itself to 5g & it showed error but it was quickly resolved when i switched it back to 2g"

"having tried multiple times to set this up it appears that it isn’t compatible with good wifi fibre which seems bizarre"

"got this to keep an eye on my cats whilst not at home and the only disappointing thing i have found is that my cats are boring as hell ha ha"

"notifications are sent to your phone to inform you of any movement and recordings have been logged"

"there also other issues but i’d happily ignore them if i could rely on video stating on"

"our baby monitor died and the day after my toddler started having night terrors"

"a significant problem though is the camera freezing or logging out this happens very often like once every 10 minutes"

"there have been occasions where i've woke up to our baby screaming and very distressed because the feed stopped whilst we slept and we weren't woken as she initially woke"

"thirdly the cable port has always been fiddly and fell out a lot which is annoying when the voice speaks every time u plug it back in making ur heart race praying to god it doesnt wake the baby "

"the garden pics are through a window glass and ive covered all the night vision leds to stop reflection bouncing off glass back into camera i learnt this from doing this with my actual cctv i have in porch to record from garden "

"however the software via the app just wouldn't work"

"the app would also just turn off randomly"

"download app from app store and failed to sync with phone despite following manuel instructions and youtube"

"had issues to begin with but after talking to customer support they were able to identify what i was doing wrong and i got it up and running in 5 mins still have yet to fit it to the wall though but all parts included to do this"

"you would be a fool not to buy i almost spent £100 on one so glad i didnt thank you so much i'm so happy!"

"dont waste your money absolutley shocking camera after about 5 mins starts buffering constantly and is absolute rubbish with alexa"

"while it worked we were impressed with picture quality audio less so but it was acceptable if you turned the volume to max it produced some unpleasant noise "

"motion detector is kind of annoying as it will go off randomly without anything triggering it wish it gave me a notification for movements vs setting off an obnoxious alarm wakes baby up other than that i am happy with it brilliant price & amazing picture quality"

"i also accidentally turned on the intruder alarm several times and ruined some of my baby's naps this one is mainly a tired mother's silly mistakes but i didn't find the app very intuitive"

"be careful 'cause there's more people mentioning the same problem"

"purchase of another brand had constant drop out of signal no issues with this camera so i know it was not my wi fi"

"i think the creepy sounds some users have reported in their reviews is actually delayed audio played back at such bad quality to be unintelligible making it sound like some creepy weird spooky creature intercepting your connection"

"i will warn that if you have the app open to watch it the battery of your ipad iphone dies quickly obviously just means we plug it in at the wall when we are using it as a baby monitor"

"a significant problem though is the camera freezing or logging out this happens very often like once every 10 minutes"

"thirdly the cable port has always been fiddly and fell out a lot which is annoying when the voice speaks every time u plug it back in making ur heart race praying to god it doesnt wake the baby "

"the only downside i've found is that you apparently need special software to use the video files on your pc and this isn't bundled with the camera you have to email instead but it's not a major hassle at all"

"it just became unusable and i have had to return it"

"******edit****** this product came with a card which states if you leave a review you get a free product which is a choice between another camera the same as the one purchased or one that mounts to a wall ceiling"

"two way audio does not work can only talk can’t hear what is happening on the other end"

"we both like to check in on our little bundle whilst at work"

"the only thing i would add to it would be the ability to move the camera remotely which this model does not offer"

"still does its job just a shame about that fault"

"only bothersome thing is the app you have to use could be a bit better polished and optimised as randomly will cut the feed and return you to main menu of app"

"very slow does not alert if something passes the camera as stated"

"and last but not least my biggest gripe is that the cable charge point into the camera has become loose and will hardly grip the cable in anymore so when i’m moving camera or moving it between rooms etc it is constantly coming loose and falls out"

"also has made the kids behave themselves today and love it so much that i’m going to buy some more : really worth the money and gutted i didn’t purchase these sooner as would of saved time and money trying other types of monitors"

"don't waste time looking anywhere else"

"i also didn't read about the limited security of these cameras until after i had purchased it"

"i can’t understand why this is happening as i have checked both the charger cable end and the entry hole on the camera and can’t see anything different or wrong that would be causing the slackness"

"it takes forever to connect then it disconnects by itself and you cannot log back in for a while"

"i read some reviews before buying and was hesitant but can honestly say i am really happy with this product everything works perfectly clear sound back and forth and image quality"

"waste of money i cant really rate the camera as i couldn't get the app to work it was always offline and i had to keep reconnecting to my internet i downloaded the pro version of the app and that version was even worse"

"this means that i basically had to be looking at my phone the majority of the time to make sure that i didn't miss my baby waking up to me this defeats the purpose of having a monitor"

"every time you turn it back on at the wall it shouts "camera ready" not ideal with a sleeping baby!"

"the unit also does not have an internal battery so is reliant on mains power which in itself is not a problem however the camera did get extremely hot so i would definitely not be happy leaving this in a baby's room"

"theres a start of voice of 'camera on' or sonething like that which isnt ideal if you've just put baby down and arranged the camera if its not in a fixed place"

"2nd updated review we have had these cameras for a good few months now and it took aboyt two weeks for the errors and fault to really appear"

"i did buy it with the intention of it being used as a baby monitor however the stand has limited mobility and it wouldn’t work without being screwed the the wall"

"the camera makes loud alerts which makes this useless for night time"

"i did buy it with the intention of it being used as a baby monitor however the stand has limited mobility and it wouldn’t work without being screwed the the wall"

"it frequently disconnects from the app and you constantly have to log in the picture freezes and the sound is atrocious"

"product worked fine for 4 weeks then following a power cut the i was unable to set this up again"

"i suffer anxiety and co sleep with my 18 month old"

"but that is a minor issue and doesn't detract from the camera"

"i would reccomend this product"

"this is not a baby monitor"

"the only thing i can say is negative about it is the fact that you have to by storage once the 1 month trial is up"

"i was looking for a camera to monitor my grandchildren whilst settling down for the night"

"dont waste your money absolutley shocking camera after about 5 mins starts buffering constantly and is absolute rubbish with alexa"

"couldn't be easier to set up and the image clarity even in a pitch black nursery is incredible"

"the slightest vibration will set it off but to be fair the benefits outweigh the cons"

"another downside if it had of worked the cable far too short so would have been difficult to place on window ledges when plug is at skirting board level"

"we seem to not get sound on some devices but that’s maybe more our issue"

"so far it has failed us every night and we were woken by our baby crying really loud until we can hear her through the walls"

"shouldn’t be advertised as suitable for baby monitor suitable for monitoring indoors in your home but not for a baby instructions are badly worded in english doesn’t work on 5ghz on your wifi it only works on 2"

"waist of money will not set up wireless internet off my phone it tells u to press next then enter password for intenett but it won't stay on the sight to out your password in it goes off load of rubbish waist of my time and money i won't be buying of you ever again and i won't be sending it bk as i cba"

"below is my original review when it was 5 stars beyond is my updates 1 star review"

"still does its job just a shame about that fault"

"keeps asking you to let the app have access to all your pictures which is annoying as you cant select no dont ask me again"

"then i explained to hubby"

"there's no help online anywhere so it's basically useless"

"terrible product"

"also it says “camera ready” a few seconds after plugging it in so needs to be plugged in before baby falls asleep!"

"sure you could pay more and get rid of some of the annoying little snags but really wouldn't be worth it"

"and last but not least my biggest gripe is that the cable charge point into the camera has become loose and will hardly grip the cable in anymore so when i’m moving camera or moving it between rooms etc it is constantly coming loose and falls out"

"the cable was pretty short so couldn’t position it where needed and it as not consistent at all with the notifications on motion detection"

"everything is ok but i just don’t like hi it drains your phone battery and it’s just a little inconvenient but for your pets it would be amazing"

"and what instructions actually tell you to "switch it off and on again" via a reset button if nothing happens"

"works ok quite annoying to set up"

"considering the amount of reviews on app store complaining about the same i don’t think this issue will be addressed any time sooner so i wouldn’t recommend"

"only used it as a baby monitor so far but was delighted to discover it doubles as a 2 way communication device so my wife doesn't have to scream across the house when she needs something"

"app extremely slow"

"it takes your worry away and you can check on your baby all the time"

"it does require the internet and if you want footage then icloud storage or sd card but if you just want to watch in real time then doesn’t require either"

"poor camera!"

"if using as a baby monitor be aware that there is a ring of red lights on when dark which may be true of all such cameras but could distract some children"

"this device really is not secure"

"not been a massive issue for us though as we have it set up looking into the cot but at times it maybe doesn’t covered all corners and would be good to be able to move camera remotely"

"absolutely disgraceful"

"so we do not use that mode as the beep confuses her"

"i bought this so that i could keep an eye on my dog when not home"

"truly a bit of junk"

"this has not just been hastily cobbled together"

"there's no help online anywhere so it's basically useless"

"this has happened a few times without us noticing and when i unmute it our baby is screaming crying!"

"they ask for your wifi password which is unnecessary for apps"

"set up is a bit clunky could be better optimised through the app when setting up the wifi connection but not a major issue"

"however it is my fault that i didn't check this"

"but it would lose connection from time to time which is not great if youre using it as a baby monitor"

"it was either the video stopped or the sound or the app itself automatically switched off"

"however there are a few things that make it unfit for use as a baby monitor in my opinion"

"have ordered an sd card as the cloud storage does not seem to be storing videos but again not really a problem"

"i dicsovered this when i went to connect"

"for the price and some of the reviews i was expecting i would need to return it but i was very surprised how good it is i would highly recommend this product"

"too complicated to setup"

"my only warning would be that it is incredibly addictive to watch and you potentially could waste hours of your time watching a sleeping baby dog empty room!"

"it's just been a annoying to use"

"it just became unusable and i have had to return it"

"when this product worked it was great but after a month of use the camera would no longer connect with the wifi"

"so it is either tec issue or someone is spying i really don’t know but because of the time this thing happened i broke the camera and throw it away"

"i cannot fault the service nor their response"

"wouldn't let me register an email for the account the app wouldn't work and what's more it was just poor quality all round"

"i bought this for monitoring my elderly dad when he's left alone as he is not allowed to try and get up on his own following an operation in case of a fall"

"the motion detection notifies you straight away as soon as something walks near"

"i do not use for a baby monitor because i have no children but what i have done with my device is to make it into a front door monitor"

"on the photo the little yellow lines indicate the movement it comes with screws raw plugs and a template if you want to wall mount it"

"really rubbish i know it's cheap but dont waste your money!"

"only bothersome thing is the app you have to use could be a bit better polished and optimised as randomly will cut the feed and return you to main menu of app"

"you also have a warning if not on wifi and switching to mobile data"

"my only negatives so far is that the app on my android phone keeps freezing or needs signing in again or says that i am not connected to the internet when i am"

"my traditional one had limited zoom and with a little one who breaths very lightly when he’s asleep it’s not great"

"if you switch between the cameras you get the annoying tips every time you switch too"

"it would be great if it stayed connected but it doesn't i have high speed internet so it's not that"

"i can’t understand why this is happening as i have checked both the charger cable end and the entry hole on the camera and can’t see anything different or wrong that would be causing the slackness"

"i use it for monitoring my baby but it’s useless don’t waste your money"

"the microphone is a good quality as well so i can sooth them if there is a problem"

"the only thing i found a bit tricky was adding a new wifi connection when i stayed at my mum's over the holidays"

"i also accidentally turned on the intruder alarm several times and ruined some of my baby's naps this one is mainly a tired mother's silly mistakes but i didn't find the app very intuitive"

"the alexa integration doesn't work for me"

"really don't know why we didn't buy this sooner"

"do not buy this product"

"won't reach the server"

"dont waste your money absolutley shocking camera after about 5 mins starts buffering constantly and is absolute rubbish with alexa"

"the only negative is the night vision is very poor which makes it not fit for purpose for me and the motion alarm goes off on the camera which i couldn't stop and couldn't find instructions to stop"

"so far i have caught his lounging about doing nothing and eating a load of rubbish"

"this makes me distrust the reviews"

"it worked pretty well until we switched wifi now it doesn't work at all"

"i tried using a different app that does the same thing but it doesn't find the camera"

"doesn't work with alexa either and the app is not english language based so it is very hard to get up and running and not very user friendly for anyone who isn't tech literate"

"easily set up even for me and i’m no good with technology 🙈 would buy again !"

"took me a minute to realise you have to keep your phone on loud to pick up sound"

"we just logged onto our app to view our one year old who's using a toddler bed for the first time to discover other sounds and voices playing through the camera audible over the app in what was otherwise a completely silent children's nursery room"

"granted we’ve only had it for a couple of days so it’s durability over the long term is yet to be seen but judging by other reviews this shouldn’t be an issue"

"so it is either tec issue or someone is spying i really don’t know but because of the time this thing happened i broke the camera and throw it away"

"however as this one is linked to ones phone one can zoom in so close i can see where we have missed at face wash time!"

"my only issue is it keeps logging me out so when i want to check on my daughter sometimes it’s a bit of a faff as i have to log in again"

"very annoying"

"it is very compact and discreet which i like as it is in my living room don't want to spook guests lol"

"it has an sd card slot so you don't need the cloud "

"they went away during the building works became of the disruption and needed a camera so her son could see the progress and get used to the changes"

"it frequently disconnects from the app and you constantly have to log in the picture freezes and the sound is atrocious"

"the only negative is the night vision is very poor which makes it not fit for purpose for me and the motion alarm goes off on the camera which i couldn't stop and couldn't find instructions to stop"

"didnt realise it had motion detection so cant comment on that but that's my not being good with technology"

"i tried it with 4 different devices and none of them could connect"

"a few people who have had negative responses to the product have stated they offer a gift for completing a review"

"finally when i came back to look at the reviews again having decided that this camera would not work for us i was quite creeped out by the mentions of potential hacking"

"really can’t sing this cameras praises any higher"

"camera got hacked whilst my baby was sleeping hacker was talking to me through the app please do not buy i am well and truly terrified"

"i've just purchased this and very fast delivery but can not connect to android theres no app for it!"

"if your using it for a baby make you turn it on before the baby is sleeping as the camera says ‘camera ready’ & you can’t adjust the volume"

"they offer prizes to customers to leave good feedback which i can only assume is why there’s anything remotely positive in other reviews"

"sound quality is good but video not so much"

"its used all day every day and not once has it let me down"

"ref light will not flash read and have followed all the instruction camera is now off line and doesn’t do the job it was intended for"

"on the first night we got the monitor for our son my husband checked the camera and it sounded like there was a man grunting in our son's bedroom"

"sometimes it takes ages to load and my toddler only needs a few seconds to get into something he's not suppose to"

"talk back isn't always clear but it's mostly fine for short commands to a toddler such as "go back to bed" or "lay down""

"the only downside is it is not supplied with a micro sd card to store the video"

"a card does come in the box asking the purchaser to leave a positive review and send a link of this to the seller and provided they do so they will receive a free gift this kind of bribery leads me to believe this is why it has good reviews on amazon and not because the product itself is any good"

"in addition there seems to be a delay of about 20sec after you have started speaking before that unintelligible audio comes out"

"it's positionable and can be screwed to a wall but sits well on its stand"

"dead easy to set up too just make sure you switch the sound on your phone on i didn’t to start with but once i realised i hadn’t it connected easily"

"set this camera up to observe him thinking he couldn’t be seen"

"for the price i can't fault this piece of kit"

"when you click on the notification the app opens up but then where it is meant to indicate what triggered the notification there is nothing so it looks as if nothing has happened"

"shame as i would have originally scored 4 however the manipulation is poor customer service"

"* nice size camera that doesn't stand out"

"i would still recommend this camera for those needing something cheap to do the job but overall it hasn’t lasted us as long as we’d thought but what can you expect for so cheap"

"5 bad due to the issue described in 4 above this is totally unusable and not really worth spending any more time criticising"

"got this to keep an eye on my cats whilst not at home and the only disappointing thing i have found is that my cats are boring as hell ha ha"

"performance and quality is way above what you might expect in a £20 camera and i've installed it both on a tablet and on an additional device after downloading the free ip360 software"

"it doesn't need any fancy configuration it starts to work straight away"

"needs connecting every time disconnected and it takes ages to even try and reset spend long time on connecting and it fails every time"

"i'd avoid this camera if i were you and buy one from a reputable manufacturer"

"here's my problem"

"this is my 2nd purchase of the victure baby monitor pet cam"

"not yet figured out how to listen through it as the instructions are sparse"

"i have only given night vision and picture quality 4 out of 5 because it can be a little jumpy at times but this may be down to the quality of her internet"

"had there been a category for ease of installation this would have warranted a zero"

"we have turned them off and wont be using the cameras"

"i installed the puwell cloud skill and i can see the camera listed as a device on alexa but if i use my echo show and ask "alexa show my baby room camera" the video does appear to play but it's a scrambled image which makes me think there is some sort of bug there to be ironed out to allow the camera to be displayed on echo show devices"

"stay clear of the camera guys it's cheap for a reason!"

"i would not recommend"

"was a little tricky to get the app to connect but once it did i haven't had a problem"

"4ghz but then nothing else in the house picks up that strength so pointless"

"it’s quite loud"

"the slightest vibration will set it off but to be fair the benefits outweigh the cons"

"4 bad i have never heard such bad quality sound its totally unintelligible"

"this was exactly what i needed"

"i had an issue getting it to connect to the router but that was because of my virgin 3"

"there also other issues but i’d happily ignore them if i could rely on video stating on"

"so far it has failed us every night and we were woken by our baby crying really loud until we can hear her through the walls"

"i use the monitor for my new puppy and this could cause a serious risk if one is reliant on it for a baby"

"i like how i can tell my dogs to behave if they are being naughty"

"the motion detection on the camera is a complete waste of time and will just alert you every couple of minutes even when there is absolutely nothing there so i had this disabled the whole time i owned the camera which is a really big disadvantage!"

"the only gripe i can think of is the thickness off the camera connections especially the internet one"

"initial setup is a little complicated but if you follow the instructions carefully then it works the only issue being that the cameras need a 2"

"honestly can't fault this especially as we got it when it was on offer"

"using ethernet wired connection was not a major issue"

"once up the camera is easy to set up with the downloadable app qr code supplied and the images are as good as i have seen on some more expensive cameras"

"had this arrive today after looking around alot i found this on offer with an added amazon discount code it didnt work out to be cheapest but looked to be best value anyway when it arrived i opened it up and theres everything you need besides a drill and screwdriver to fit it actually included the corrected masonry drill bit for the plugs anyway about 10mins later it was installed setting up was very simple"

"i put an sd card into it which it quickly used the memory on you should be able to clear the card from the app but that doesn’t seem to work it gives an error message every time"

"only minor issue found so far is that one sd card of two wouldn't 'mount' meaning it required manually reformatting on my pc but was soon sorted and have had no further issues with it"

"my only negative is that it is quite big and obvious on the front of the house"

"i took another reviewers suggestion of putting all of the wires in a junction box outside as the cables are too bulky as a group to easily put through the wall so i just put the power cable through"

"feel free to waste your money you really would be better getting a wired unit with a centrally controlled hard drive all at home as that will run for years with no issues"

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"

"two way communication does work but has slight delay inevitable i guess "

"i’ve recently bought several of these netvue 1080p outdoor security cameras as my existing ones from another maker were very unreliable and constantly dropped their wi fi connections"

"by comparison the cheap camera that i replaced kept buffering and losing connection constantly"

"set up on these cameras couldn't be easier"

"i don't know how it would work in total darkness but for me it's fine"

"the people with wifi issues either don't know what they are doing or have crap routers"

"it’s just incredibly frustrating"

"there is a time delay when watching on my phone but that is to be expected with all devices of this type"

"as soon as they do this i will be buying!"

"you would either have to get a memory card to record continuous but then in the event of it being stolen you have list all the footage or pay £8 a month for 24 7 recording to the cloud"

"the camera itself isn't bad by any means and especially for £40 however the biggest fault i have with it is the connection and even though i have a wifi extender literally less than 4 metres away from the camera really the connection is still garbage half the time it says the camera isn't on which is rubbish because i know it's on it's just the connection is so terrible"

"i still need to play with the settings much more to get it all right as i am getting alerts for every drop of rain that falls at the moment and that’s on the lowest sensitivity setting"

"i like that you can add a micro sd card in and it will record everything for you but setting these up can be tideious and frustrating"

"after lengthy and unsuccessful attempts to contact the company direct located in china with no apparent uk agent i was informed robotically via e mail chat that it only worked at 2"

"the only reason i give this 4 stars is because of the storage issue with multiple devices not being available"

"but it is not designed to be a high end 8 mega pixel camera with all the transmission and storage issues that you would come up against"

"the camera body is ok mostly plastic so will either fall apart or last until the next millennium"

"so we have power it's a standard dc connector and massive extension cables are cheaply available through amazon lan with an indicator led built in again a 25m run is easily purchased but even longer can be made cheaply and thirdly a weatherproof wifi reset button: i default away from wifi but recognise the brilliant innovation this option is just try getting up a ladder and removing the access plate to locate a tiny black button inside the body of the unit "

"i got so fed up with various things going wrong such as the picture freezing that i thought i’ll sort it out tomorrow"

"i had issues setting up wifi connection but it turned out to be user error my end"

"setting up the wifi so as to use without the rj45 cable was my main gripe"

"months on still regular problems when it should just work it's unreliable bottom line in a product where reliability is critical we had an issue with car break inns and low and behold despite paying for the 24 7 service"

"seems good value for money but the costs to subscribe to cloud services are not clear at the outset so i guess the low product price is balanced with the annual fees to subscribe"

"not everybody realises you can make 3 or 4 adjacent holes to create a larger one it leaves me thankful that we share a world with folk like that because it means i still have a job"

"i thought the picture quality would be rubbish but it's really not"

"get the awful feeling that its spying on us"

"even though i set it up with just one square area of motion detection it still picks up loud noises when cars go past"

"and some cameras do lose connection sometimes"

"i am just very disappointed i cannot return the other camera or even request a refund as i have no power adapter to set up the second camera which is now left redundant"

"the camera is ultimately a wi fi camera but there are three annoying wires which you can't easily hide"

"there are video tutorials if your unsure as you setup"

"slight issue with the large network cable as i had to drill a very large hole to get this mounted to the wall so that no cables were showing"

"this made installation harder than need be as the screw heads are so soft they stripped immediately"

"the only problem i had was that i had to position the camera very close to the router as the camera kept dropping out even though the wifi signal showed 57% and that this was a good signal"

"i have had several problems since and sadly they were all caused by me!"

"cloud storage lasts for a 14 day trial then it is a very expensive subscription per camera"

"it becomes expensive at $70 per year per camera"

"obviously the only way you know the camera isnt connected to tour router is when you open the netvue app"

"the instructions which come with it are easy to follow but unfortunately only tell you about installing it & nothing about using it but i found this information on the web"

"we have a particularly awkward outdoor view and cannot see the gate or visitors without going outdoors and round the corner so i decided to be brave and try an outdoor camera although it did seem a bit sci fi and hi tech for our rather basic household"

"only let down is the motion detection it doesn't pick my 6ft frame up but does trigger with flies"

"it takes a lot to impress me and get a security device put into my smart home and this camera has ended a long painful search"

"i’ve only just found a busy electrician to fit my camera"

"i had some trouble connecting these cameras to my wi fi at 1st"

"so we had a spate of tyre damages to cars outside the house so decided to get a good quality night vision camera to use as a deterrent to further problems"

"i have positioned my camera to cover my front garden so i don't want false triggers from the road outside it was very simple to disable the image zones where i don't want a notification then the sensitivity was adjusted with a simple slider"

"so unless you mount the camera under an overhang which shelters the camera from rain or snow then you are going to get a lot of false alerts"

"when it's sunny and cloud cover comes across again it false alarms"

"i've got a major problem trying to figure out how to house these cables"

"easy enough to install but i’ve had constant problems with the cameras stopping functioning when the cards fills up you get no alert this has happened even though it’s supposed to reformat automatically"

"having a built in speaker on the camera is just a bit of fun so far"

"we also pay around £1 a month so we continue to receive video recorded notifications after the free trial ends a tiny amount for piece of mind "

"this is the first issue"

"the device is up to date and never gets unplugged"

"one slight negative is that the mounting screws provided were of a very poor quality"

"disgusting support!"

"only minor issue found so far is that one sd card of two wouldn't 'mount' meaning it required manually reformatting on my pc but was soon sorted and have had no further issues with it"

"downsides motion detection sensitivity in app is not great app could have better features but not the worst either no option to view on laptop pc the drill bit that came with it was really poor quality that broke in less then 10 seconds of using"

"you tighten up some grub screws after adjustment which holds the camera rock solid so there are no false motion detections due to camera wobble "

"i do understand that expecting the wifi to go through two outdoor brick walls is a big ask"

"looks like i was given a returned damaged item"

"i have been a long time user of another brand of wifi camera but kept having connection issues so i though i would give netvue a go prompted by other reviews and there very competitive price"

"this is my second netvue product after purchasing an indoor camera for our babies nursery and this product is just as if not more impressive"

"there is a delay in the live view on the echo comared to the app on galaxy note"

"as there have been a few dubious people around decided on this vigil camera to keep a check out"

"the motion detection issue is now with their research team and i am confident that they will come up with a solution to the sensitivity issue very quickly"

"our postman had a right scare when we suddenly spoke out from it"

"i wish the motion detection had daily settings for when its active and a greater number of squares to get a more defined area"

"after a while i worked out that the wireless mesh network in my house was a little adva ced for the wifi card in the camera"

"the second and more bothersome is that when i tried to access the sd files in my computer i figured that the video files are in a proprietary format!"

"installation outdoors was pretty easy and took a few small adjustments to get the perfect picture"

"firstly the power wire is woefully short limiting placement unless you add in extension cables"

"everything needed seems to be in the box even down to a masonary drill if you were mounting against brick"

"i bought 2 of these cameras for my mum as she has had some unwelcome visitors looking around her property recently needless to say she hasn't received any problems since!"

"camera feels sturdy and solid has a built in mic to capture sound and also a speaker so you could even scare off unwanted visitors by talking into the app!"

"i would suggest that you carry most of step 4 with the included parts to weatherproof the ethernet connector unless i missed something "

"it was equally easy to pair it with alexa but the results are less satisfactory"

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"

"sound from the camera speaker is also good but useless for me as i have mounted the camera too high and cant hear it from the floor"

"installation to its location was easy and i only needed to use a small drill hole to feed the supplied power cable into an outdoor cable box where the power connection together with wifi and ethernet cable not being used in wifi set up and the camera was easily fitted into location a template was provided but i didn't use this"

"finally it’s not value for money and the motion detection when alerting gives a blank error which cannot be seen what it’s picked up"

"i will be buying a second camera 👍🏻 update after a few months: i left my previous review after the first week or so of having the camera after being bribed by netvue with 3 months free subscription to motion detection alerts"

"so this feature got turned off which is one of the reasons i wanted the camera it would notify that there was motion at my door i would ask alexa to show me the front door cam to see who it was then answer the door the whole process was to hit and miss and just takes too long by the time the video comes up the person would have left thinking there is nobody at home"

"the only shortcoming is the software which is limited for retrieving photos and videos from the sd card"

"slight issue with the large network cable as i had to drill a very large hole to get this mounted to the wall so that no cables were showing"

"the night vision is not very good but you still see so for me it’s awesome"

"having read previous reviews i thought very carefully about where i should position it to avoid a difficult installation"

"although a budget buy this camera does everything much more expensive cameras do and netvue appears responsive to customers in developing and improving its software"

"not normaly one who writes reviews however having purchased a number of alleged good external cameras all of which never came up to scratch as reviewed or advertised"

"don't waste your time"

"the camera does drop out of wifi so at times i cant see it on my phone but i've found that this doesn't mean it isn't working as the camera continues to record to the sd card when not connected to wifi so nothing is missed"

"it's younger sibling killed by the same update is going back on an amazon doa return"

"will definitely be buying netvue again if we need more"

"the support from netvue has recently been diabolical"

"i have used indoors netvue and they are great but i did not expect to be amazed by the quality of the outdoors one too"

"there’s also no web interface and support is definitely lacking"

"by comparison the cheap camera that i replaced kept buffering and losing connection constantly"

"a real shame because when they first worked they were brilliant but they’ve clearly done something to the firmware that doesn’t play nice now"

"difficult to setup as it only works with 2"

"when this trial add on was removed from software the camera was completely disabled and had to return"

"best of all the power supply requirements are the same as my analogue system so they literally took minutes to swap over"

"but saying that think it would be the same or worse on any other camera"

"the picture quality with these is much better and i actually see the fact they don't record to a central box as a bonus no more hard drive failures!"

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"

"i have had a few videos which were unable to upload"

"and when it works it randomly goes into buffering every so often"

"have tried adjusting the sensitivity but can't get it to work properly but for a camera of this price i can't complain too much"

"as i had already purchased a netvue wi fi doorbell and been very pleased with it buying the netvue vigil camera s was an obvious next step as they offer sd card recording and playback capability without needing to purchase cloud based storage it’s just a case of mounting the units out of easy reach"

"the following reasons why i could not give it 5 stars: the speaker on the camera is very low level and even though it is installed just above head height you cannot be heard very clearly"

"bought this camera as i have a bad neighbour next to me who keeps damaging my property"

"i still need to play with the settings much more to get it all right as i am getting alerts for every drop of rain that falls at the moment and that’s on the lowest sensitivity setting"

"one subscription should cover more cameras not just one otherwise it gets too expensive"

"at night the problem was the opposite initially there was no motion detection as soon as it was dark although after a couple of weeks of emails back and forth to support they sent through new firmware which resolved this problem"

"which it really shouldn't be to be honest if i could be bothered to take the camera down and send it back i would but i really cant as it was a bit of a task getting it up"

"one thing i would like to say is that it would be nice to have a sealing plug if you are not going to hard wire the broadband side and just use the wifi as it leaves a tiny hole in the cable enterance"

"cover the camera in lens in something i taped a sock around it disconnect the end with the three mounting holes using the hex key provided hold the mount against the wall and drill three smaller holes with a 4mm drill bit take the mount away and open the holes up to fit the rawlplugs"

"you could fit a connection box outside instead of running cable through the wall"

"motion sensor is temperamental wont record our car parking pretty large subject image but will record endless hours of rain"

"the second and more bothersome is that when i tried to access the sd files in my computer i figured that the video files are in a proprietary format!"

"if you need a cost effective way to monitor your home minimal affect on the wifi check from anywhere and has a speaker for interactions with home for example asking someone to leave a parcel somewhere safe "

"installation is not straightforward because you will need a very large hole in wall to pass cable assembly through"

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"

"two minor issues though"

"one slight negative is that the mounting screws provided were of a very poor quality"

"as soon as is possible this useless ornament will be taken down and replaced with something that actually works!"

"i got the outdoor camera because a number of dogs have gone missing out of peoples gardens and as my house has a dirt road at the side i’m always nervous that one of my fur babies might get stolen"

"already used footage for an incident i did have a problem where just after the time the firmware updates the camera failed i opened a chat at 8am and gave the problem to customer services who passed to technical services who by 9"

"i tried live chat and didn't get anywhere"

"have attached photo in this review"

"night vision is as about as good as ir can get and at this price point it's extremely hard to beat"

"you have to download a small player they made i found in netvue forum and it's awful!"

"killed by the update "

"i'm using a 128gb micro sd card playback is of a high quality and unbroken"

"i’m not using cloud but i am using the sd card the card formats while installed and for a couple of days i’m able to use the camera fine and watch back recordings but then i’m not able to view recordings unless i join cloud for a fee of course"

"for the price paid the camera is excellent i did look around and all the other camera's where more expensive so far i am very pleased the camera picture day or night is excellent and the piece of mind i get from seeing what is going on around my property is great i do live in a very remote area and therefore no traffic passes my house just the occasional rambler"

"cover the camera in lens in something i taped a sock around it disconnect the end with the three mounting holes using the hex key provided hold the mount against the wall and drill three smaller holes with a 4mm drill bit take the mount away and open the holes up to fit the rawlplugs"

"only issue advice is so mount it too high as the spiders are always making webs on the camera and this also can trigger off motion alerts if u have this set up"

"only issue advice is so mount it too high as the spiders are always making webs on the camera and this also can trigger off motion alerts if u have this set up"

"it does work without the cloud subscription but motion detection is rubbish all the time"

"the camera itself isn't bad by any means and especially for £40 however the biggest fault i have with it is the connection and even though i have a wifi extender literally less than 4 metres away from the camera really the connection is still garbage half the time it says the camera isn't on which is rubbish because i know it's on it's just the connection is so terrible"

"my only quibble is that the aerial joint is not sufficiently stiff and the aerial flops around rather than standing upright"

"the unit showed a solid green light so apparently all connected but the app said the camera is offline"

"but it is not designed to be a high end 8 mega pixel camera with all the transmission and storage issues that you would come up against"

"but the delay is so long"

"cannot fault this bullet cam"

"after a stream of emails to support i am now returning my dead original unit"

"for the price of this camera i would not hesitate to recommend it"

"i guess most of the time the video comes up but sometimes it times out trying to connect"

"i have had cctv systems before that were far more expensive and was a little dubious about a camera at such a cheap price and thought that the quality would not be that good"

"this really is just a case of trial and error and the app offers sensitivity adjustments so you can have it exactly as you want it"

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"

"my only quibble it that the camera is not poe"

"are equally good in many ways but don't record continously"

"also to subscribe to the motion data as the camera doesn't always get a photo of the trigger but will record it!"

"unfortunately even after 2 months i didn't receive the free 64gb sd card as mentioned in the package i received after claiming even no reply to my 2 emails"

"compact camera but as this model has an ethernet plug on it you have to drill at least a 12mm hole to get the cable through the wall lots of teething problems but the online chat is instant and they always seem to fix the issues but i'd rather it just ran seamlessly than have any pro lems like dropped signal etc or a tf card that has worked perfectly well in the camera for 2 weeks suddenly is no longer recognised"

"well i've now set it up outside and had tried it on wi fi and on internet cable also as i have a fire stick and alex's i did link it to there account on a good note it works well with the app on a good but bad point as i did not adjust my settings but turned on motion detection it was cool for the first"

"i have unfortunately ended up with a lan connection to my router but as i said earlier this may be my internet supplier issues"

"a real shame because when they first worked they were brilliant but they’ve clearly done something to the firmware that doesn’t play nice now"

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"

"months on still regular problems when it should just work it's unreliable bottom line in a product where reliability is critical we had an issue with car break inns and low and behold despite paying for the 24 7 service"

"one criticism would be the leads should be detachable to get through smaller holes"

"4ghz not 5ghz"

"well i've now set it up outside and had tried it on wi fi and on internet cable also as i have a fire stick and alex's i did link it to there account on a good note it works well with the app on a good but bad point as i did not adjust my settings but turned on motion detection it was cool for the first"

"i am just very disappointed i cannot return the other camera or even request a refund as i have no power adapter to set up the second camera which is now left redundant"

"every day i contact nevue to be told that their “engineers are working on a fix” but that’s been four days now with no progress so i’m sending these back for a refund"

"an sd card not included is required to store images video including motion detection although a paid cloud service is available"

"the motion detection issue is now with their research team and i am confident that they will come up with a solution to the sensitivity issue very quickly"

"but i went to my hubs user login on internet explorer and turned the 5g off so it could connect to the 2"

"had to go through the process twice but it didn’t take long"

"to get footage you need to get a ladder and climb the ladder to the camera unscrew it all to get to the memory card take the memory out put it into your pc get the footage you need then go back up the ladder put the memory card back in screw all the camera back together and as your doing all this your"

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"

"can't really go wrong for the price"

"i recently brought the homecam indoor secuirty cam from the same seller last month and had a few problems with it and these got resolved really well and rapidly because of this i decided to buy a new camera for the outside secuirty of my house"

"my only real criticism is that i would like more control over scheduling the motion detection and they do not work with iftt"

"i was looking for a easy install camera for a while now that would not brake the bank and then my friend showed me the netvue he has i was shocked when he told me how much he payed and all the features the camera qualty is amzing with the movement notafication sent to your phone so you know where ever"

"compact camera but as this model has an ethernet plug on it you have to drill at least a 12mm hole to get the cable through the wall lots of teething problems but the online chat is instant and they always seem to fix the issues but i'd rather it just ran seamlessly than have any pro lems like dropped signal etc or a tf card that has worked perfectly well in the camera for 2 weeks suddenly is no longer recognised"

"you can view the cameras live without signing up to any storage or buying an sd card from the app but you wont be able to record the footage so bare this in mind"

"i wanted this to monitor our back garden as we've had some items "removed" recently and i am delighted with how easy it was to setup and use"

"if the 12v power cord is cut then that's the end of your camera security as there is no battery back up"

"when linking accounts to amazon it would return a load of code and would not link"

"having being a victim of crime and searching the internet for a good but reasonably priced outdoor camera i can honesty say i am pleased with this product"

"bought this camera as i have a bad neighbour next to me who keeps damaging my property"

"so we had a spate of tyre damages to cars outside the house so decided to get a good quality night vision camera to use as a deterrent to further problems"

"what i did not like about it was the setup"

"but now the camera is pointless constantly showing off line constantly needing to format the sd card do not buy this camera!"

"so long as your cameras will be close to your router then it should be fine"

"i had some doing work in my garage while i was away in another country and i was able to view and speak clearly with the"

"the camera whilst working was a fairly good product for the price paid the problem & the reason of the low rating is due to the customer support while the support for set up alone was good the issue with support for returning a faulty unit is a complete nightmare"

"no instructions with the camera at all but good website and it appears they have good customer service but i haven't needed it yet!"

"the only slight frustration is that there is large bunch of cables out of the camera body which are redundant if you are using as a wireless device"

"i was sceptical of the signal and thought i'd have issues with the wifi signal dropping out"

"no matter which ever way i tried it would just not stay connected"

"what i did find good that the camera came with all screws wall plugs a masonry drill bit and a hex key to adjust the direction of the camera"

"however there is no way to stop recording except by pulling out the power plug which seems a bit brutal the app should provide for this to prevent file corruption i did try disconnecting power the sd card seemed ok and successfully re mounted on restoring power"

"only hicup is with the alexa app i could not get it to add the skill but when i logged in via netvue on the computer and logged in via a password password reset and not facebook it logged it in and now all working"

"has motion sensor in the app to alert you of movement and captures a screenshot each time in the app no subscripton charge required for this "

"live view works fine which makes it even more disappointing"

"i thought the picture quality would be rubbish but it's really not"

"not sure on cloud and motion upgrade costs as seems a bit excessive but haven’t looked in to this yet"

"you can however scroll back in time and record for whatever period you want as long as you do it before it is overwritten"

"i'm not using motion detection yet because i wanted this primarily to be able to see who is at the front door so i cannot comment on that"

"whatever had blocked the camera reporting in was fixed by the reboot and the camera went live it was also a lot more responsive through the app so my router was the problem here"

"cloud service don’t work as described gives me 100+ notifications that my cat is running around but can’t detect no humans see pictures no marker for humans"

"get in seconds a warning on my iphone and can see what is happening"

"good product and no need for expensive subscriptions either :"

"so this feature got turned off which is one of the reasons i wanted the camera it would notify that there was motion at my door i would ask alexa to show me the front door cam to see who it was then answer the door the whole process was to hit and miss and just takes too long by the time the video comes up the person would have left thinking there is nobody at home"

"only hicup is with the alexa app i could not get it to add the skill but when i logged in via netvue on the computer and logged in via a password password reset and not facebook it logged it in and now all working"

"i don't need the ethernet option but would be useful to those with weak wifi signal great addition!"

"without the costly addons the camera is rubbish in my opinion"

"u still get motion alerts while not subscribing"

"you can zoom into the image on te phone app but the resolution falls off pretty fast as this is only 1080"

"not good not good at all"

"first problem: it seems that each video file is 10 minutes long but there are some space between them some seconds that don't get recorded at all"

"i was delighted after i replaced a defective similar unit from another brand because this device behaved exactly as advertised"

"using the app each stage of the set up is clearly explained and supported by a short demonstration video"

"my only issue is the three cables hanging out of the back of it makes it a little more difficult to install"

"you tighten up some grub screws after adjustment which holds the camera rock solid so there are no false motion detections due to camera wobble "

"i really wanted it to film across my whole driveway but that's more down to me putting the camera in the wrong place"

"connecting to router bt hub was a little frustrating but i expected that as bt is dual banded"

"it has been having trouble loading the live feed but i sure it is a blip and am going to contact customer support if the problem persists"

"pretty easy to set up and worked well for a couple of weeks and then following a firmware update the cameras have been completely useless"

"camera isn't perfect though and a few things could be better might even be the app and not the camera to be honest"

"i made the mistake of cutting the network plug off to help feed the wire through thinking i wouldn't need it as i was using wireless"

"have tried contacting their customer service but received no reply so will try and get a refund somehow"

"actual time attaching camera and cables was minutes only"

"easily hear the birds from back of the house"

"as to the camera once initial issues sorted probably due wifi dropping off without me knowing it is excellent"

"bit of a con showing the camera fitted flush against the wall with no wires showing"

"so therefore i returned it"

"i don't often write reviews but i am quite impressed with this camera"

"i got this one for my back way as there have been some crimes in some other back ways so just like the fact its keeping a eye on my home while i go to work pros easy to set up and helpful app cons just can cut out some times for no reson and picture can be a bit hard to see sometimes but that could be times of the day would get other one for my front way aswell"

"i did have one fail on me recently after 6 months"

"cons: large holes required for installation"

"4ghz wireless not a 5"

"support says that 128gb cards no longer work"

"it is the ethernet socket that determins the size!"

"quite why they didn't do this in the first place i will never know"

"showing 97% signal in the app with no buffering"

"despite what anyone says it will not necessarily be easy to fit"

"4ghz if you don't do this it may be difficult to connect you can switch 5ghz back on after its connected"

"picked up car headlights even though in “blocked” area"

"i've been searching a long time for home security camera's with two way audio to replace my outside ip camera's that don't have audio"

"but cloud storage solves this issue"

"our postman had a right scare when we suddenly spoke out from it"

"at night in ir in rainy day is prone to false positives detects rain drops or snow flakes practically useless so i switched off infra red and rely on pir lamp to detect motion outdoor"

"without the costly addons the camera is rubbish in my opinion"

"you can view anywhere not just when you are on the same local network"

"lots of choices in settings i haven't explored yet"

"this bullet style camera is approx £75 cheaper than my hikvision!"

"please don’t change "

"however using the camera to monitor outside motion is hit and miss and certainly not effective with the infra red camera as the light reflects off the windows at night"

"it is beyond frustrating especially when something has been stolen off your driveway which has happened this morning only to find nothing was recorded!"

"even a drill bit for drilling the holes for mounting the camera"

"another desireable feature of the netvue software is that it allows ‘sharing’ this enables me to share all the camera features with my wife and as such she also can manage the settings and receive notifications from the motion alarm"

"i’d like to connect this to my own nas drive or eyespy software but ip address access is not allowed"

"4ghz was better did have trouble connecting to a wifi extender did away with that so eliminated the problem"

"the camera connection has 3 quite bulky wires which would need a really big hole to bring inside"

"this means you only have to drill a small hole through the wall for the power cable and into the back of the junction box"

"at first these seem great but as time wears on they become more and more unreliable"

"i thought the microphone and speaker were going to be a waste of time but i can clearly hear anyone talking at my front door"

"as it wasn't connecting for me they sent a solution to get an update through but still wasn't working"