Netvue Outdoor Security Camera 1080P Waterproof Wireless WiFi Bullet Camera IR Night Vision Survinence System Compatible with Alexa, Two Way Audio, AI. Human Detection, Support up to 128G SD Card

I've now owned my Netvue camera for a couple of weeks. I'm very pleased with it. It was easy to set up, it seems very reliable, it works well with Alexa and the daylight picture quality is excellent. Night vision is surprisingly good too. A few tips: The camera works with 2.4g WiFi, not 5g. It helps to switch your phone to 2.4g when setting it up. My WiFi signal is not strong where the camera is located, but even with a weak signal the camera seems very reliable. Play back either from the cloud or the sd card works well. The leads attached to it are quite bulky. You only need the small power lead unless you want to hard wire the ethernet connection. I decided to drill just a 10mm hole for the power lead and put the rest of the fittings in a waterproof external junction box, located next to the camera. I pulled the power lead from inside and connected it up inside the junction box. I took care to position the junction box so that it did not interfere with the adjustment of the camera angle. In any case the leads are not very long coming out of the camera. To get all three through a cavity wall would be very tricky, and they might not be long enough anyway. When drilling the hole in the wall , attach a bit of strong thread to the end of the drill bit before retracting it. You can then use the thread to pull though the lead from the power adapter. (very important if you have a cavity wall) The WiFi antenna is slightly awkwardly positioned especially if you want to angle the camera to the left. I did quite a bit of experimentation with the camera angle before screwing it to the wall. Then I just made final fine adjustments. It was a bit fiddly but the end result was OK. I feel the positioning of the antenna on the camera could be improved. Think about how high to position the camera. Too low and intruders could reach it and obscure or damage it. Too high and it will not capture faces. Again I experimented before settling on my final fitting location. It is well worth putting a 128gb sd card in the camera to supplement any cloud recording. If you do this you will only need the cloud service as a backup. Fit the card in the camera BEFORE screwing the camera to the wall. The screws holding the access plate to the inside are a bit stiff and you will lose them if you try to unscrew them in situ. Be aware that there are privacy laws affecting the use of cctv cameras. Check that you comply with these. At the very least you will need to display some warning signs that cctv is in use, and its purpose. I think netvue ought to include info about this and maybe a couple of yellow stickers. I found it very easy to link the camera to Alexa and it is easy then to view the camera on an Alexa device including a fire TV stick by the command "Alexa, show Driveway". (or whatever name you have given the camera) I experimented a lot with the motion zones and sensitivity. In the end I left it on all zones and maximum sensitivity. This means every tiny movement including insects and rain triggers event recording. I then disabled notifications to my phone so that I did not get incessant notifications. I decided that I would not particularly want to deal with intruders in real time. I hope the camera will mostly act as a deterrent, but if someone is persistent I will at least have a record of their activity that hopefully will he useful to the police. ........... Overall I am very pleased with the camera. The only problem I had was that my WiFi failed and the camera lost connection. This was not a fault of the camera. It was resolved by switching off and restoring the power to the camera. It then reconnected to my (weak) WiFi signal without my intervention. Netvue have given me a complimentary basic one year cloud subscription. This is nice to have, but only as a backup. Using an sd card provides a more instant access to full recording, rather than short bursts via the cloud. I will decide when this expires whether to pay for ongoing cloud access. I probably would not bother with any of the offered supplementary cloud services each of which comes at incremental cost.

I bought this camera in November 2019 the same time as purchasing the Echo Show 8. After reading many reviews on different home security cameras I chose this one. The reasons being easy set up/ installation, picture quality and price. I was also impressed with the fact you do not have to subscribe to the cloud if you insert a micro SD card. After reading up on more reviews i decided to purchase the 128gb SD card (the maximum you can use in it). It will overwrite itself once full. The Netvue app is easy to use and the initial camera set up was fairly simple. The camera connected with ease to my phone. I got it up and running in no time. I am very impressed with how clear the picture was is both daytime and night vision. The motion alert is triggered pretty easily even with some of the zones switched off and the sensitivity reduced but you can switch this feature off. The two-way audio is good and easy to use from the app. I found it a bit tricky connecting it to my Echo Show but that was because both the camera and the echo show were new to me an I'm not the most tech savvy person. Nothing that a short you tube video couldnt fix. I have also learned my phrases for accessing the live stream through Alexa. 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. It works perfectly through the app on my phone. Overall i am very happy with my purchase.

I was gifted the Netvue indoor camera which sparked this purchase and I am glad that I did! Firstly, inside the package Netvue have provided everything that you need to fit this camera and all you need is contribute is a Drill and a Philips head screwdriver. The power cable is long enough to suit most use cases and the camera can be used with Ethernet along with wifi (I chose WiFi) my router and camera has 2 walls and 5 metres of distance and I can still get a strong signal and smooth picture so that does speak volumes for the antenna on this product! Adding the camera to my account via the app was easy enough but did take me two times because I think I walked too far away to get my WiFi key so make sure to have this handy! Regardless the whole setup process is easy for even the novice user! The detection is good and the picture appears to be great also, we tested out two way audio which was nice but when there are cars driving past it really picks up the sound a lot so there is no noise cancellation technology here. Still a neat addition to a camera and it does fundamentally work! A tip for you is that when I received the product it would not tilt the right way for my use case so I loosened the screws using the alien key at the base of the camera which allowed me to adjust this by turning the entire base and this then allowed me to get this into the correct position for my use case. Overall a great camera at a nice price point, I will be using more of these in the future.

I ordered this to replace a cheap camera that kept loosing its settings and so far this camera has worked really well. Setup was very simple using the app' after which it updated its firmware and was ready to use within an hour of opening the box, including setting it up with Alexa, which also works really well on this camera. The only downside is that you can't view this on the web, only via the app' and Alexa, so you won't be able to stream it live online, however you can post your recordings if thats what you want it for. I have also noticed that heavy rain can trigger the motion capture even when set to human only but to be fair this setting is a beta test so will likely get better in time. I installed a 128gb SD card which looks like it will give me a several days of HD recording, if you want to save space on the card then you also have the option of it recoding only when motion is detected. I have also setup cloud storage for when motion occurs and that is very cheap compared to some other makers costing less then $20 for the year. The camera is well built and adjustable on two axis when fitting to get the angle correct, I have it coving my drive and front garden, so I needed it angled slightly downwards which is a very easy adjustment using the supplied hex key. From start to finish this has been the easiest camera to install and setup that I have ever tried and the picture quality in daytime and at night is very good, sharp and clear, giving me piece of mind now for our security. I am now thinking of getting another one for my back garden, then both cameras can be viewed from the same app'. Very good quality and great value, Recommended.

I'm loving this! 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.... Ordered yesterday, delivered today, watching everything this evening! The physical installation was a bit trying, but that was as much to do with the awkwardness of our setting as anything else - it took several attempts to work out how to get the all-round rotation of the camera to work (you have to loosen something otherwise it seems just to go up and down, so you can't easily get the view you want straight off), but it was well worth the effort and fiddling around. The software set-up is very simple due to a brilliant interface which walks you through everything in the most basic fashion. Being able to scan the camera label means that you instantly connect with the correct item (instead of having to search a list and still being unsure you've selected the right model, as used to be the norm for installing new bits of kit). The instructions work perfectly, and give you reassuring feedback - but you do need to be patient while waiting for it to connect. With both my indoor and outdoor camera I had to reset both the camera and our router. Knowing how easily I got my first (indoor) camera to work, I just needed to be a bit more patient than I was to start with for the outdoor camera - but that just allowed me the opportunity of testing the easily accessible (via the app) helpdesk which was much quicker than most "instant" chats, and was able to tell me when my camera was on-line simply by dint of me having contacted them through the app which had already identified the camera. The hardware looks to be durable and good quality; the picture is superb; and having discovered I can now watch the gate from my desk via my Echo Spot, I don't need to drain the battery on my iPhone all the time by watching what's going on! I've not tested the night vision yet, but knowing that the indoor camera has excellent night vision I'm assuming this will be as good. Finally, I have also discovered that individual cameras can be linked to more than one Netvue account, which means that my husband and I have both the outdoor camera and the indoor bedroom camera (for checking whether the baby is awake from her nap) whilst a friend can see just the outdoor camera to watch for deliveries or work out why the burglar alarm is going off, but can't see our bedroom. Couldn't be more pleased.

Been wanting an outdoor camera for a while now, so after plenty of research and having a look at my brothers setup (which happened to be netvue, although an older model) I decided on this camera. When it first arrived I set it up in the kids play room, which took around 10 minutes following the instructions on the app. All I had to do was scan a code and the setup tutorial started. The camera lived on the play room for a few days due to bad weather. I still got plenty of use out of it watching the kids on my phone and loved how it has 2 way audio, as did the kids. Camera picture and audio is excellent, night vision is also very impressive (I got the play room in complete darkness with curtains shut and lights off, still excellent picture.) The camera now lives outside but I miss having one in the home, never thought I'd be interested in an indoor camera but I definately am now. I have located the camera on the soffit under the guttering outside my bedroom window, this worked out very well as I was able to mount it from the window itself and not start messing about with ladders. Wiring has gone through the soffit into the loft, then just dropped down into my bedroom though the ceiling as I have a fitted wardrobe. It is then plugged into an extension lead I have in the wardrobe for my TV that also lives in there. Lead length is decent, and a handy template came with the camera to make fitting that much easier, stuck template on...... Drilled holes...... Fit camera easy. Best part of this setup for me is the app....... Still exploring it but I have set motion alerts up. Whenever motion is detected I get an alert on my phone. Best part is all motion captures are saved for a month for free.......... I can scroll through all the alerts and play them back at my leisure. There is a paid service for full video playback on demand, I've not fully looked into it as I am more than happy with the free service. So all in all I'm a very happy customer, I will be buying another and putting it out the back of the house. Easy to set up, excellent quality, 2 way audio, excellent app and at the price you can't go wrong. Only down side is the amount of time I spend on it "curtain twitching".

Very impressed with the Netvue app, just download it from your 'store' and try it. Once installed it actually works and was very intuitive (despite being a techie I am rather set in my ways and don't enjoy learning new systems) - sharing the feed was easy and took less than 5 minutes to enrol, configure and test a guest mobile. My only niggle is that the second account doesn't get automatic notifications from the motion detector, I will need to create an alerts filter on my phone to forward these as I'm not always best placed to handle notifications. . (I was) delighted after I replaced a defective similar unit from another brand, because this device behaved exactly as advertised. I was so pleased I ordered a second one. Before I could mount that though, a firmware update was rolled out by Netvue. I had no choice in the matter, according to the log it arrived at 0300 one morning and killed my camera. Not good, NOT GOOD AT ALL. After a stream of emails to support I am now returning my dead original unit. It's younger sibling killed by the same update is going back on an Amazon DOA return. - I am gutted because this worked brilliantly and was well made. It had the added bonus that the smartphone app allowed me to share my camera with another account, meaning my partner could also check the video feed and communicate directly with callers too. Adding another account meant I can stream to a handset on my desk all day long - network charges do apply though as it is a data feed like Netflix etc. There have been some issues raised by others concerning the size of the cable hole you'll need to drill - it's completely hidden by the 'foot' and you're even supplied a drill bit ! 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. Anyway, the '3 cables' wasn't an issue for me as I wanted a LAN connection instead of an unsightly wifi aerial. 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 ... you're not keen? Well then you I was about to say you definitely should purchase this item, if only for that convenience after a system failure, most likely to be on your router to be fair - this item seemed to be a fit and forget piece of hardware. KILLED BY THE UPDATE ... avoid avoid avoid

I've bought 3 of these now having bought one first for a trial for wi-fi coverage. I get less than a 50% signal on all 3 and the cameras still work fine giving good images. I'm with BT and found it easier to connect to WiFi using the QR code option rather than the default method. The installation app generates a QR code and you just place it in front of the camera to read. The black waterproof junction 85mm boxes (also on Amazon) are used to protect the camera cables. 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. The power cable is about 3 metres and a good length. Use the black cap protecting the aerial socket to put over the power cable and protect it as you thread it through the wall. The app is good and simple to use and you can view the cameras over Alexa show and on your mobile phone. I found installation fairly easy using the QR generated code and its a good value peace of mind security solution.

The seller sent another brand camera. It was returned, and refunded by Amazon. I already own NETVUE cameras and can highly recommend the cameras, but not the seller.