Night Owl Indoor Plug-in Wireless 1080p Deterrence Camera with 2-Way Audio (1 Camera)

Easy to install and great quality

This is the best little camera. It fits just about anywhere. I like it because it has HD capabilities.

The camera works well. The night owl app is buggy and takes too long to load up. I like the camera but the software needs help

I bought a 2-pack of these cameras to add to my existing NightOwl wired + wireless home security system. Before ordering I checked the Night Owl website, and this series is on the compatibility list with my Night Owl DVR, so no problem. On my existing system, I'm currently running 5 wired cameras and a wireless doorbell. Connecting the doorbell wirelessly to my DVR was a snap, almost completely automatic. These cameras, on the other hand, were a very different story. There are several steps to the process, all accomplished within the NightOwl Protect app on your mobile device: 1. From the NO Protect app on your mobile device, connect directly to the camera via WiFi; 2. Once that connection is established, enter your WiFi SSID and password to connect the camera to your home network; 3. Once the camera connects to WiFi, connect the camera to the DVR so that the video can be controlled and recorded like any other camera on the system. After unboxing the cameras, I started with the first camera. First, it had trouble connecting directly. After a couple of tries, I connected to the camera, and it asked me for my WiFi SSID and password, which I provided. It failed a couple of times on this step, and I had to reset the camera (with a paper clip in the tiny "Reset" hole) and start the process over again. After making it through the camera connection again, and then finally through the WiFi connection step, the app asked me if I'd like to add the camera to my DVR. I said "yes," of course, and watched it spin for awhile before the "Something Went Wrong" error occurred. I retried several times, and always eventually got the same error message. So I reset the camera again, started at the beginning. Again, sometimes it would fail at the first or second steps, but several times it made it through to the third--but it NEVER successfully connected to my DVR system, even when I had the cameras within two feet of both the DVR and my Wi-Fi router. I unplugged the first camera and started over again with the second camera--the behavior was exactly the same. Multiple fails at various steps in the process, but it NEVER successfully connected to my DVR system. After spending time with Night Owl support (chat), the only thing they could suggest that I hadn't already tried is that the camera runs only on 2.4GHz Wi-Fi. Since my router runs both 2.4GHz and 5GHz, I logged in to the router and turned off the 5GHz transmitter to make sure the camera was forced to connect on 2.4GHz. This time, the status bar during the "Add Camera to DVR" stage lasted much longer, giving me hope...only to end up with the same "Something went wrong" message. I've now spent a total of around 4 hours trying to make this work, and it's time to stop. I'll be returning these cameras for a refund shortly. The sad thing is that I still don't know if the problem is with the cameras, the DVR or the app but I'll start with trying a different model of camera.

Great products

I didn't like they won't work on my camera system in

Great camera to add to my system, very easy to setup, so I.wanted to get one more and too bad they raised.the price of it. Guessing I'll wait for the price drop.because it's worth it.

This is an honest review no bs. Setup: pain in the ass, honestly hate having to set up to wifi but I need a camera. would not connect the first 3 times so I reset my router and it was able to connect. Then got it to connect but it never showed up as connected on my phone so I had to reset the device and reconnect to have it come up. Picture honestly is very clear but I am a little disappointed that I can't rotate the camera remotely but I can zoom. Lastly the housing seems a little cheap. Noticed hot glue sticking out from one of the seams. Feels honestly like you get a real good camera but not so good housing. You can save recordings to a micro sd card as well but you need an external computer or unit capable of formatting said sd card, so be sure to get a micro sd card kit with a usb reader or an sd card reader. On top of not having its own cord for power, you are given a usb wall plug with a samsung cord basically. I guess if the cord or plug break I have spares. Lost 2 stars for ease of setup and use and the fact the only good thing is the camera inside the housing. I would have spent more for a more durable camera at least. 3 stars since it was a small headache setting up and requires a little extra work to keep it going. Formatting sd card on outside source, setting camera to record on motion otherwise you better press record during event, hope and pray nobody easily destroys the camera.