SwitchBot Video Doorbell Camera Wireless with Monitor, No Subscription, 4.3 Inch Screen, Head-to-Toe View, 2K FHD, 2-Way Audio, Motion Detection, Works with Alexa/Goole/Home Assistant, White

I kind of bought this on a lark as I love the SwitchBot button toggle. That one is actually my favorite smart device as it can start my record player remotely! So cool. The pan tilt camera is growing on me though. Originally bought it to establish proof of life for the cats when we are traveling. I wasn’t expecting much, given the price, but despite being cheap, it works pretty well. Good v1 design. It is super quiet and I love that I can save the video to a micro SD card. The remote access is pretty good, if a little slow to connect at times. Best of all, the tracking works! Easily follows me and my wife around when we leave it on and usually catches the cats too. I think it is a little spotty at night with the cats but we still get hits. I do wish you had more control over the sensitivity. All in, it is prob the best bang for your buck in the space. I mean it is a v1 design, so don’t expect perfection. It is an affordable and easy to use device that does everything I was looking for. Also the SwitchBot customer service is super cute. Nice job guys!

Loved this camera!! My Rottweiler is not alone anymore. I can talk to him and see him clearly while Im at work or running errands. We keep each other company.

Have had this running for 2 weeks now, along with a Switchbot Mini, while I am away from my home. 5 days in, this unit went offline but the mini has been working fine. The only good thing I can say about this is that the video quality if excellent when it is working. Had someone to check on the house and restarted this camera so it's back online. Will see how long it stays online this time. I have checked firmware of the camera and it is the latest. While someone was at the house, I got to watch video real time and got recorded video. I have to say I have very mixed feelings about motion tracking. When I am watching real time video, the view kept shifting because the camera detected movements. This became very annoying as it became very hard to see what I am actually trying to see. The the motion tracking video is disappointing as well. I included the one as example. When motion is detected, somehow camera first moves a bit in opposite direction, then a pause, then it moved the other way to catch up with the movement. As you can see in video, by the time it swings back, the person is already gone and camera wasn't able to reacquire. Basically I got a flash of a person passing by and that was it. It would have been better if motion tracking was disabled. Annoying part is that this doesn't happen all the time. 50% of the time it does catch the person again and was able to track the movement. It seems to me that these are all software issues that can be addressed easily. Perhaps motion tracking can be turned off when viewing real time and while it is being controlled by the app. The app is also disappointing in that I can only connect to one camera at a time. On the home screen, you get tiles of cameras available but you can not view the videos in the tiled format. So if you have multiple of these and watch to watch all corners of your house at the same time, this would not work for you. If these cameras work with another app that could allow you the tiled view, I don't know about those yet. Edit: Have not gone offline again so that could be a one time incident.

I am re-reviewing this item (08/01/2022) ---------- After contact with the manufacturer, my camera is working fine. When I input my WiFi password, it still puts up a warning. BUT, after a moment or two, that warning goes away and a QR code appears. I never got that QR code before. After letting the camera scan the code, which takes 1-5 seconds, the camera responded and began working on my network. Now my camera is working as it should. My phone, tablet (both Android) and Alexa Show can all work with it just fine. I am not sure what "fixed" the issue, but everything is working. I left the original 1 star review below, but NONE of it applies now. I would recommend this camera for it's small size, good picture quality, low price and features. --- Original review below. See above. NONE OF THIS IS TRUE, NOW! --- I received my unit and within 20 minutes of trying to set it up, I am returning it. When it asked for my WiFi password, I was informed by the app that my password was "too long" and that I needed to make MY WiFi password shorter. It is ~35 characters long The standard for WiFi passwords is over 60 characters. Needless to say, telling your customers to change their security to meet the product's needs is just plain WRONG! If you have a short (and therefore a little more easily hacked) password, then go ahead. It may be a great product. But when a product demands I lower my security to meet THEIR needs, they can stuff it.

The quality of the camera was great! The picture that came through was wonderful, exactly as described, lived it! But the UI (app you get off Google Play store) for the camera was one of the worst I ever saw. You can not access any of the recordings. Even when using a 1TB Micro SD card. The UI is hard to navigate to find where the recordings are to start with. Then once you do locate them, it's empty. I accidentally left the UI open on there and after 5+ minutes, it started to load "something". It had one recording from the previous day that it would loop. If I let it sit there at that screen for another few minutes, it showed on the time line wheel that there were more recordings I could scroll to now. But if you try, it won't let you. It just repeats that single recording from midnight over and over and over, regardless how long you let it sit. The info for the SD card says there's things being saved but I only get that one recording from midnight of the previous day and I have no control of it. I can't find it elsewhere and I can't even delete it. And then the next day when I try to find it, it's gone. Only to be replaced with a new looping, hiding, undeletable midnight clip. Please make things simple. Don't hide the recordings away. Speed the UI up. Let us be able to see and control the recording time lines with EASE. And if we're using a SD card, let us be able to easily access the recordings on it and delete what we want from it without having to format the entire card each time

I use the SwitchBot Baby Monitor Indoor Camera to keep an eye on my two cockatiels, and it works perfectly! The 360-degree view lets me see everything, and I can even talk to them from anywhere. The privacy mode is another great feature, the lens hides itself, and I have it set to automatically turn off when we’re home. Great image quality and super easy to use.

This is our second camera. I'm not sure if this is the same one as our first because there is one that is more HD than the other. This one is the normal HD one and I'm iffy about because sometimes when I go on the app, the screen goes black? I love how I can change the detection sensitivity. The downfall is that it's kinda stuck on one area no matter how many times I foreclose the app and try to change the detection area. Also there is no in between in high sensitivity and middle sensitivity. If I put it on high it notifies my phone on every little thing to the lighting of our room. When it's in middle sensitivity, it doesn't really catch anything. This setting is super important to me since this camera does not have a cry detection for my newborn.

Good price for a good camera..I have used switch Bob since their curtain opener first appeared on kickstarter. They hit the mark with their camera too. I haven't had any issues with connectivity or the app interface. The video quality is good. Im not sure how this would work with home security but for my purposes it is perfect.

Very cool. Clear video and easy to use. Very little delay and it has useful features like motion detection

Love this camera, Unlike the other switchbot camera we have I can turn this one on when away from home. Also I love the scurity of the privacy cover it has. Very good product. Also I like that I can just use a small SD Card and don't have to pay for icloud storage because I hate anything with monthly fee's attached to it.

This thing works well for the price. I use it to keep an eye on the dog. Every now and again it won't turn on so I have put it on a home automation switch that I can turn on and off. It was easy to setup. Audio and video are good and it can be panned and tilted. I use it on Android on an S23 Ultra and S22 and it works. Small, unobtrusive. Can ceiling mount. Low cost. Negatives: Must use their servers. Cant access it directly.

Crystal-clear video, easy setup, excellent motion tracking!

Does not connect to wifi. Tried multiple times. Complete waste of money Company sent a second one and it still doesn’t connect.