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Originally Posted by Rain Man
How do the cameras work? I presume they hook into wifi, but how are they powered? And do you get notifications if there's movement? How many false positives? And can you watch through the app, either on demand or when movement triggers a signal?
I'm new to this.
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I have 5 Yi 1080p cameras and love them. They are Wi-Fi and you have to have them running to a power source, which isn't a big deal. I have one covering the front of the house, two covering both directions of the back alley off the garage, one in the garage and one off the side of a gazebo where I can view both dog houses and the opening to the back alley.
You can set them up how you like with several options, but I have mine set to sensitive which will give me a 6 second video of any movement. It will at the same time, save a lot longer video of any movement to the cloud. They have different plans, but I choose a 5 camera plan that saves all videos to the cloud for 14 days. The total cost for that is only $129 a year. You can download any of the videos at any point in time within that 14 day timeframe. It was great being able to review video, or check in live when I was kicking back in Belize.
These cameras have sound on the video and you can watch, or listen in live at any time, or talk through them as well. In theory, they are good down to zero, but they have worked flawlessly without failure down to -25 without any issues.
You have the option of loading them up with a mini HD card as well, which I do, don't skimp on the cards.
As far as false positives, the outside ones are a bitch in a snow storm. They will record a lot during a snow event. Not a big deal, if anything were to happen, I could still go back and review the footage and pull off any relevant event.
My neighbor to the west has a bunch of cameras as well, and caught the license plate and faces of some punks breaking into his truck. He turned the video over to the cops and the punks got arrested and charged.