Dropcam - Wireless High-Definition Video Monitoring Camera - Gray

I love these little cameras. I got one a few weeks ago so I could look in on my new baby bearded dragon, and I was sold from the start! In the course of 3 weeks now I have purchased an additional FIVE cameras for a total of SIX! I have two that look outdoors to keep an eye on things in our apartment parking lot and one to keep an eye out for delivery trucks and such on the other side. The rest are, one on the lizard tank, one overlooking the office, on the kitchen, and one the livingroom. This is great for peace of mind and looking in on my cats, fish tanks,lizard and my home in general. You can even share a camera with a specific person if you choose, I've shared the lizard cam with my mother :) The rest of them are private viewing from my DROPCAM account only. The only thing I've noticed with them is that right after the initial setup they go through a few hours of dropping wifi connection and picking it back up through cycles. Not sure why, but once you put them in place and they've had time to settle into the home network they work like a dream!

I bought this as a puppy cam because my Dashchund, Wexter, had a lot of crate anxiety. I wanted to try letting him out of his crate while I was at work, but I was concerned he might destroy my apartment. Being able to monitor him on my cell phone while I'm away helps so much in keeping my mind at ease. Also being able to see what he's up to while I'm away satisfies a bit of curiosity as well (spoiler alert: he mostly sleeps on furniture). The camera was amazingly easy to set up - it literally took less than 5 minutes. You don't need any networking or video experience. If you can plug in a cable and know the password for your wireless network, you can set up this camera. I love the ability to set up alerts based on noise or motion, so I know if he's barking or getting into something he shouldn't. The infrared is also very handy to make sure he isnt getting into trouble when he should be sleeping. The only downside is the digital zoom - its a little terrible. You can still easily see everything that's going on, but if you want to zoom at all, the picture is going to get very grainy very fast. The streaming video is free, but if you want to record data, set up alert zones, etc, there's a fee. In my opinion, the fee is incredibly reasonable. My 14 day free trial for the recording expires tomorrow and I will definitely be subscribing to it. It's the bees knees

Finally an easy to set up camera that is wireless and connects to wireless! Video quality great. Night video good too. But, it often disconnects from my wireless Internet. Nothing else connected has that problem. Sometimes wireless drops in strength, but Dropcam shouldn't totally disconnect. To serve its purpose, should be reliable! Also, paid for cloud service because after initial free period, couldn't access ANY video but live video. Not clear when you buy that you'll have NO access to the video you get "motion detected" notices for unless you pay another $99/year. The cloud service is just okay...spotty sometimes when trying to watch even recent video moments. Idea is good, needs tweaking. Overall, a good product--best for its price and ease of use I've seen, but not 5 star yet.

This was installed at a business with a spare room, in the spare room, which was rented out to someone who wanted to be able to stream a dance class for children to the parents of the children via a shared account. It was simple enough to set up initially, but required a stronger WiFi signal than was available. Even though laptops, phones, and other devices could connect fine, this camera was choppy at best, and unable to connect at worst. It required buying a signal extender to function. While everything else ran fine on two bars of WiFi, this thing needed all four to connect without issue. I'd recommend it only if you are putting it somewhere with a very strong signal, or, if you don't have one, I'd suggest picking up a signal extender.

I bought 3 of these at Christmas Black Friday sale. Hooked them up in no time and positioned them around my house. They work great, video is clear. I signed up for the 10 day recording feature for the cameras and I love it. The new Nest software is a bit wonky at the moment now that everything is switching over to Nest services. I'm sure it'll work itself out in the next months coming up. I did get the 720p versions. I plan on getting the Pro versions next to get higher resolution and a wider angle. I do wish there was an option to record them locally on a computer or NAS server along with the online recording. But it's not a deal breaker. Works great with my iPhone and iPad. The alerts for motion zones is a great feature. I do wish you could have block out zones wear it didn't even register movement. But the online filters work great when sorting thought the 10 day recording log to see what events happened. Love it! Buy it! It is an awesome product!

the camera is easy to set up and install, and the video goes to the cloud and is available to you from any location where internet is available. the video is of decent video quality. the camera supports both-way audio. a perfect solution for indoor monitoring. you may want to place it closer to your outlet to avoid long wires. my intention was to use the camera at my porch (to serve as a peephole), which i am not fully satisfied with yet. the problem is that it is not recommended for outdoor use due to possible severe temperatures or/and humidity. so i set it up on the window conveniently located by the entrance door. the problem is that the window glass reflects light that ruins the picture. the light may come from the camera itself during the night-vision mode or, if you turned this mode off and have a light source outside, it may reflect from the blinds and glare on the window glass ruining the video again. it works just fine in the day light though.

The Dropcam is a very good, very easy to use and set up device.The firmware has been updated since many of the negative reviews were posted, so there have been some improvements with motion detection but i don't think that is enough,the motion sensor is too sensitive which causes it to send you notification all the time (if you have sent it up).This are fixable problem with new software update so the drop cam is a pretty good web cam and probably the best amount all web cam i have used despite the fact that it is quite expensive comparing to similar webcam. Since the drop cam does not support a DVR or SD card to save your footage so if you want it to be saved you will have to subscribe to the cloud recoding program which will have your footage save to the cloud base server and it cost $100 a year or $10 a month.

I received this camera as a gift to be able to monitor my dogs. The set up was super easy, within minutes. You can move the camera around with ease once it's set up. I recommend making sure having a strong wifi signal wherever you place the camera, I had to add a wifi repeater to get mine to stay connected, however my camera is completely on the opposite side of the house from my router. The camera has night vision mode which is super clear, the daytime mode is excellent. It also has motion and sound detection. The ability to monitor from my mobile phone is perfect. I've had several friends at work purchase one once they've seen mine. I most definitely recommend this camera.