I bought the camera and my experiences are quite positive. You don't need a network cable or anything else. Just 5V and then log in via your network. Higher quality demands more from your connections. In short, I do not share your opinion
I'm happy you have better experience. I've done my best to share how I looked mine so you have a clear picture of what to expect. If the product meets your expectations I'm all for it
Great review and honest, wish I watched it before buying. The camera will randomly start talking to me. I put the volume on low, so not sure what it is saying, but how do you mute it completely? It is not very discreet if it is going to talk randomly.
8:30 try setting the DNS server for the camera IP alone (on the router) to a chinese public DNS server. I have Mijia cat eye camera and that helped with connecting faster from outside
@@notenoughtech That's the first thing I thought when I saw the comment. It should not be needed when 99% of other camera providers can do it automatically. SonOff have issues.
This camera seems to be a backward step, in a major way. The app seems to be very backwards and buggy and features being blocked due to needing a subscription. This is almost as bad as RING. I understand subscription for storage, but functions like motion detection that should be local should not be subscription based. A lot of cameras have Smart AI all running local, including human and vehicle detection.
I miss the times when companies were able to make the profit by selling things not subscriptions. Imou has AI post processing behind subscription and that's fair, as the image can get analysed and sent to you as a notification telling you whats on it. (including recognising couriers and parcesl). But here I feel like I'm forced to pay ransom
@@notenoughtech I agree. Basic hardware functions, like motion detection, audio detection and image feeds, as well as local storage, should all be available without subscription. I don't like cloud based AI anyway, but having basic functions linked to a subscription is just really bad. Not to mention all the stuff that just doesn't work anyway
ok so you're telling me there is a 5v rstp wifi camera for less than 30 bucks and your not happy... imagine this with a solar pannel... it is perfect setup!!!
Honestly you'd have a better time with their original camera. They can do better. I just want to make sure that people know what they are buying in for.
@@notenoughtech huh... my post seems to have been removed. there are some amazon cameras for half the price i've seen when i researched reolink and imou per your suggestion. All i want is something that is "standard" that random programs like ip camera (android) or just a browser can view. given the raw data i can then record from a centralized source store locally, etc. Almost makes sense to get old android phones and put alfred camera on them.
If you added links, chances are YT would moderate it out, and I don't have access to these either. RTSP is nice to have but usually present on more pricy cameras. The original Sonoff IP camera was alright. Not a looker but had RTSP
Hi - useful vid thank you - just bought one for a 'smart home' business venture - try as we might we CANT get the RTSP to work (via VLC) used the link from the app (looks similar to yours) but no luck -- all on same LAN (192.168.1.x) - cheers
Thanks, can you smell that? It's like a breath of fresh air. Yeah, it's a thing called honesty.
I bought the camera and my experiences are quite positive.
You don't need a network cable or anything else. Just 5V and then log in via your network.
Higher quality demands more from your connections.
In short, I do not share your opinion
I'm happy you have better experience. I've done my best to share how I looked mine so you have a clear picture of what to expect. If the product meets your expectations I'm all for it
Great review.
What other camera can be used when you have a Sonoff setup?
if you check my ihost video you will see now that you can import RTSP, ONVIF and ESP32-cam cameras into that
Great review and honest, wish I watched it before buying. The camera will randomly start talking to me. I put the volume on low, so not sure what it is saying, but how do you mute it completely? It is not very discreet if it is going to talk randomly.
It doesn't talk to you In English? You should have language options in settings this way you can figure out what's the issue is
Thanks Mat. 👍🏻
Hi, I am at the sckitch of my home what you advise me to choose sonoff or Toya for my home, it's 5 story building.
It's more down to protocol you want to use than brand. ZigBee could be an option to build up mesh
8:30 try setting the DNS server for the camera IP alone (on the router) to a chinese public DNS server. I have Mijia cat eye camera and that helped with connecting faster from outside
It shouldn't be needed. That's the problem. None of other ones I tried so far caused me grief over remote access
@@notenoughtech That's the first thing I thought when I saw the comment. It should not be needed when 99% of other camera providers can do it automatically.
SonOff have issues.
This camera seems to be a backward step, in a major way. The app seems to be very backwards and buggy and features being blocked due to needing a subscription. This is almost as bad as RING. I understand subscription for storage, but functions like motion detection that should be local should not be subscription based. A lot of cameras have Smart AI all running local, including human and vehicle detection.
I miss the times when companies were able to make the profit by selling things not subscriptions. Imou has AI post processing behind subscription and that's fair, as the image can get analysed and sent to you as a notification telling you whats on it. (including recognising couriers and parcesl). But here I feel like I'm forced to pay ransom
@@notenoughtech I agree. Basic hardware functions, like motion detection, audio detection and image feeds, as well as local storage, should all be available without subscription. I don't like cloud based AI anyway, but having basic functions linked to a subscription is just really bad. Not to mention all the stuff that just doesn't work anyway
SCAM should read S CAM. Software definitely let's it down. Handy review
Hi, can you record without internet?
yes it will store things to sd card
ok so you're telling me there is a 5v rstp wifi camera for less than 30 bucks and your not happy...
imagine this with a solar pannel...
it is perfect setup!!!
Honestly you'd have a better time with their original camera.
They can do better. I just want to make sure that people know what they are buying in for.
Thanks for the review! I really need to update my front door camera and have been looking for a good solution, apparently this isn't it.
Reolink and imou have great choices .. switchbot also rocks with cool settings
@@notenoughtech huh... my post seems to have been removed. there are some amazon cameras for half the price i've seen when i researched reolink and imou per your suggestion. All i want is something that is "standard" that random programs like ip camera (android) or just a browser can view. given the raw data i can then record from a centralized source store locally, etc.
Almost makes sense to get old android phones and put alfred camera on them.
If you added links, chances are YT would moderate it out, and I don't have access to these either. RTSP is nice to have but usually present on more pricy cameras. The original Sonoff IP camera was alright. Not a looker but had RTSP
I'm still bummed about no Zigbee in their wall switches... Still waiting :D.
I don't have any insider news on new devices like that for now.
How to add this camera to HA
You can generate the RTSP link in the options and use that to send the stream over
Hi - useful vid thank you - just bought one for a 'smart home' business venture - try as we might we CANT get the RTSP to work (via VLC) used the link from the app (looks similar to yours) but no luck -- all on same LAN (192.168.1.x) - cheers
You could check if you can ping the device from your computer.
@@notenoughtech yep - it pings !