Best Home Security Products

I bought the lock a little over 2 years ago was brand new in box when installed and was dead from the start couldn’t get it to power up when I… Read more

connected Samsung I was basically told bad luck it’s out of warranty and I asked if there was any trouble shooting they could run me through and 4 days later still no response in short I would never buy this product and after the response from Samsung I will go out of my way to never buy another Samsung product, I tried to do this privately but all you get from Samsung is an external company that just responds with a bot and doesn’t assist with the problem poor poor company

Need help. Which are the override terminal? I am still junior in wirings. Thank you

Absolute dude with limited support the camera comes with no instructions and is not functional the way they advertise it. Apparently according to the… Read more

“Tech” guy !!!!!!! They are waiting for more software changes to even get the device to meet what they already say it dose. Obviously a reason why they had to change the name from Emporium to now Keldco All positive review have to be fake as the thing wont work

For the price these little cameras are hard to beat. The picture is clear, it has alot of features within the app in line with the more expensive… Read more

brands. It tracks people and animals without an issue. I now have multiple of these around my house. I only ever had an issue with one not connecting to bluetooth, but I bought it back to JB Hifi and it was replaced without question. Hard to beat for the price.

I am yet to experience what their customer service is like so unsure there, and unsure how long they will last, but at this price point I would be happy if I get 2 years out of it.

Great that we have this – Lucky Lock Fingerprint Smart IoT Lock Touch D1 is a reliable and sophisticated choice for those seeking a blend of convenience, security, and smart… Read more

home integration. Its ease of use and robust security features make it a worthwhile investment despite the higher price and the need for regular battery maintenance. It is good.

Excellent service. Professional, customer focused, fair pricing – Excellent service all around. From the first call to fixing my broken garage door I was impressed. Great prices, excellent customer support, experienced professionals. Would absolutely recommend

Don’t waste your time! After a couple of months you can’t connect to the Homebase unless you are connected to the home WiFi. I mistakingly spent days… Read more

and days trying to rectify the problem, changing settings on my phone, even resetting the home internet connection, resulting in hours in resetting/programming TVs, computers, vacuums, phones, etc. All these cameras do is waste your time. They are useless as you can not connect to the cameras when you are not at home, which defeats the point of them. Eufy customer support is non existent. I wish I could go back to the beginning before I purchased them to avoid all the time and effort I have lost with trying to rectify this common problem.

Not as useful as expected - until modified – I have been trying to love the system for a couple of years, but I mostly just recorded tree movements all day long. The trees are essential but… Read more

unfortunately sit beside both driveways and visible from the porch too. I tried turning the sensitivity right down, but then it wouldn't even show the cars coming or going - but still recorded every tree sway. Finally, I added short (~25mm) pieces of plastic pipe (electrical conduit) to the heat sensors and was then able to turn the sensitivity up to 100%. Now - very few tree recordings and cameras do get triggered by movements in the areas of interest to me - directly in front of the cameras. Worth doing - just a short length of conduit (I painted mine flat-black to avoid glare up into the lens nearby) and a tiny smidge of clear sealant to hold them on).

Wouldn’t recommend RING. Unless someone rings the bell and waits for your reply, you will always miss them as notifications are Always too late. Of… Read more

course none of this matters because it drops out of internet regularly. I’m getting the ladder out almost daily now to get monitors down and off the front door to reconnect. I also don’t bother with customer service as this company doesn’t believe in it. Spend your set up and monthly subscription money elsewhere.

Had the camera run well enough for 2 years, just went off line and cannot be turned back on no matter what I try. Guess the redundancy clock timed… Read more

out and killed it now the warranty is gone. Was protected sitting under the eaves with IP65. Rubbish as usual steer clear of them.

An IP66 camera which isn't IP66 out of the box – Surprised the cameras do not come with waterproof caps for RJ45 and Reset pigtails. It's like a house without the roof included. RJ45 caps cost extra. Nothing available for Reset. Show details

No false alarms – I have never had a false alarm. simple to install. good features like battery back up, three ways of getting notifications, APP or remote activation,… Read more

Door not closed Waring, Works every time i test PIR sensors and door alarms. great price. two years of use no issues

Absolute garbage cameras. More trouble than they're worth. They'll record small tufts of grass blowing about in the background with Japanese public… Read more

transport precision, but when you need them to record a local chav peering in through your bedroom window? Nothing.

They also burn out SD cards like you wouldn't believe.

The Uniden cloud also randomly decided to unlist 2/3 of the cameras, and there's apparently no way to fix it. It's as if they don't exist. Contacted Uniden support who was incredibly unhelpful about it, right up until they decided that they couldn't be bothered responding anymore.

Just installed my last camera, down by the main gate a good 60m from the front, system pick up no problem and works really well Show details

Backing up data from storage card to computer – The SD card is very tricky to remove - the button does not actually eject it enough to grasp. Once attached to Windows PC you have the options to… Read more

delete or make a copy to PC but you will not be able to view anything on computer because the files are a .data format and are not recognized. Even VLC media player can't read them. There may be software to convert them but the effort and cost is not worth it unless some footage is really important. You need to replace the card and use the app on your phone to view the footage before it it overwritten.

I can't thank Adam and his team enough!!! Their workmanship and service were outstanding from start to finish. Truly professional, reliable and a pleasure to deal with!!!!

Credit where credit is due, the cameras work perfectly, super easy to connect and install but thats about where the positives end. The app is… Read more

terrible, very rarely opens straight away. After a few attempts it might work or just stop working altogether. Events recorded hardly open straight away, sometimes never, with the intention of security cameras thats pretty poor. The door bell takes so long to open whoever rang it is normally gone by the time it decides to work. Motion settings are useless, I've changed to the lowest setting and they have been on human only the entire time and still just constantly go off with Motion detected, almost never anything there. Turning off notifications for individual cameras is impossible. I use homebase2 but might get homebase3 if that will fix these problems but I doubt it. I have a door bell aswell.

I spent $2536 Eufy does not work if there are structures between the base and the camera Eufy doesn't work if the unit is in the house, so I have it… Read more

sitting outside & cameras in view Even on a subscription you only get 18 SECONDS max of footage. useless!! Try call someone for a chat? what a joke. every time a camera goes flat, you have to unload it and reload it and atm, i have a camera that I can't even re-add, and can't get any sense out of the online chat room, PAINFUL I DON'T recommend this to anyone who actually wants it for security reasons Its only good to monitor your pets at home

Right from the start this locks internals looked cheap a plastic cog operating the whole mechanism which failed after a month or so this lock had… Read more

been nothing short of a headache with continual connectivity issues not sure how it won awards would not recommend this to anyone.

Worst product ever – Worst product ever. Goes on and on saying tampered. Difficult to set up. Don’t buy this crap Show details

Have had my Tapo C410 for half year or so now. Had it replaced once due to battery indicator always shows 100% full even when it's unplugged from the… Read more

solar panel.

Funny enough, the sensor on v1 is much better than v2 as the current one seems a bit fiddlier. Also I've lost two additional sensor function such as pet and car with v2.

Overall, I think the product does what it's intended and for the price compared to well known brand such as Eufy, it is pretty decent.

There are others who have had bad experience with it, much like myself at the start but in the end it is working well.

I tried the 30days cloud storage which was good but decided to just use an internal storage. You can also get a Wifi Hub for more storage.

I also have a C100 (indoor camera) which also does the job for $29AUD on special from Amazon.

Pretty good camera for the price. The pan, tilt and zoom cones in handy. With 2 way audio it is perfect for what I need. Show details

Never had a problem. Picks up motion quite well, we can set the area and sensitivity. Battery life is good, just need to remember to recharge every… Read more

few weeks. No subscription fee. It's simple to use and change settings. Initially not the easiest to set up but considering what's its for and what it does...

Better than expected – Better than expected. Got this as a gift and don't think from Jaycar but was told it cost less than $100. Works very well. Decent capture… Read more

range/width. Easy to use. Handles the weather and dried out ok (few days) after I didn't close it properly and condensation got in. Haven't used video but takes good pics day and night and I'm not even using highest settings. Not perfect but for around $100 highly recommend.

Outstanding customer support – Excellent system with very good and clear videos. Very good features and does a fantastic job. Very clear night vision options. What really sets them… Read more

above the competition is their customer support. I'm always happy when a company calls you back when they say that they would. When the technician is also knowledgeable and has good people skills, that's a huge bonus.

Great little camera for the money – Great little camera especially if purchased on sale. No pan or tilt but I have it aimed at my driveway 100% of the time which is what I want. It… Read more

sits inside my front lounge room window. Not great night vision unless you also have an outside light, which I do.

Reliable & works great! – I have been using Chuango alarm systems for the last 5 years. I never had any issue with them. Reliable & works great. Easy set up. There are heaps of videos available online on the set up & usage. Show details

"Easy to set up and use" Three months after setting these up (original review follows), and having other people ask me about setting some up, I have… Read more

a few more thoughts.

My "starter" recommendation for anyone that asks is 1 battery doorbell with chime and a 4-pack of Outdoor Cameras (formerly Stickup Cam) with solar panels. Right now (Black Friday) that totals up to $524 shipped. Get the black cameras, they are less obvious than the white ones, even on a white house (because the "white" camera has a black rectangle on the face that visually sticks out like a sore thumb).

You can add more, but my experience is that it takes a while to optimize camera placement. It's easy to add too many in fact. So my "starter" suggestion is to get the doorbell and 4-pack, maybe a second doorbell, and figure out where best to put them. You can add more or different types later.

I have the 4-pack positioned like this: two pointing at the front corners of the house, which cover the whole front of the house and gives a view down the sides, one pointing at the back of the house, and one inside in the hallway. This way, you see the whole of the house from the outside. If anyone did manage to cover up the outside cameras and get inside somehow, the hallway camera will catch them. The outside cameras are mounted on an adjacent building, a fence, and in a tree. There's always a way!

I also tried the Outdoor Camera Plus, which has "2k" vision. The main practical difference however is that it has a wider angle of view (140 vs 110 degrees horizontal). I found the narrower angle of the regular Outdoor Camera more useful most of the time. Think about it: if you put the camera in a corner, that's only 90 horizontal degrees that you need. If you want to put the camera on a wall facing outwards from the house, then with the wide lens in the Plus you're only covering 140 of that 180 degrees anyway. And with the cameras pointing at the house, the Plus had stuff on the edges I just don't need to see (fences, foliage, ...).

The solar panels are worth getting in the 4-pack. If any outdoor cameras have foliage in the view, when it's windy the CPU in the cameras will constantly be trying to figure out if the motion is a person or vehicle, and the battery runs down quickly. If the camera is inside, however, the battery lasts forever (months), and so I think these are better at being an indoor camera than the Ring indoor cameras that need a power cord connected to them. The extra cost of 4 solar panels in the 4-pack is less than buying two panels individually.

Of the people who asked me about them, no-one was bothered by the subscription fee. One person has an installation of cameras powered over Ethernet and a recorder. They had to pay a lot for an electrician to install everything. Now the recorder has failed, and replacing just that alone would be a good bit more than the set of cameras I suggested above.

--- Original review follows ---

I bought 4 of these (3rd gen, now renamed the "Outdoor Camera") to use at my parents' house. I don't have experience with other similar products but I am a bit surprised by the negative reviews here. I found it easy to set up with the app and in my opinion it mostly has a "just right" feature set. Specifically, it waits to detect motion and then captures a minute of video and sends you an alert. You can also go to the app or website and view the camera live. You can set it to take a photo every few minutes or hour. You can also turn on a "siren" (which is a bit of a joke, it's not very loud) and talk through the camera.

In our case, this is perfect. I don't want constant video feed, I just need to know if something happens. I want to keep bandwidth usage down because this might end up being on a mobile broadband with somewhat limited data. So the way these work seems perfect to me.

A lot of reviews complain about the subscription. I guess I'm not sure how anyone could not know about that, but yes, it's an ongoing monthly or yearly fee. I'm still on the trial but will just sign up for the $150/year plan. Like anything, factor it in before making a purchasing decision. I decided the convenience was worth the cost, ymmv.

Some reviewers complain about motion detection - the settings are quite adjustable here, you can tell it where in the field of view to check for motion, and whether it looks only for a person, person or vehicle, or any movement. There's also a sensitivity setting. The only one I've had to adjust so far is the doorbell, which is not the item in this review anyway. There's a slight delay before the captured video starts but I think it's still effective.

As others reviewers note, you can't mount it on a ceiling or under an eave with the included hardware. In the one case where I needed to mount on the ceiling, I just made an L-shaped wooden bracket. The more expensive "Outdoor Camera Plus" can be ceiling mounted with the included hardware.

The cameras don't record locally, which is fine with me, I don't want to muck around with SD cards or a local server/recorder. However, it does mean they are useless if the internet connection is down, so the internet modem/router is going to need a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) in case the power is out.

Initially I thought it wasn't possible to just disable and re-enable all cameras easily i.e. single click. It turns out that it is, but you have to specifically turn on "Modes" in the app. I'm not sure why this isn't on by default, but anyway, the feature is there and it works great once you figure it out.

Thing is, right now a 4-pack of these is $249 or $62.50 each, so even after you factor in the subscription, this seems like pretty good value to me, without having to muck about with cables, SD cards or a local server or whatever. If I had more time to fully investigate everything, "maybe" I'd get something else but if you want to buy something that works and is all set up in a day, then I think this is a good option.

If I could give less than one star I would! Disgusting customer service. Ask the same questions time and time after time. You provide info time after… Read more

time after time. REPEAT. You get absolutely nowhere! ALL four cameras now gone in the bin. Will recommend to anyone and everyone never to use these cameras.

1 Star – Avoid This Company EKO’s customer support is appalling. My camera became locked to a previous account. I provided all details and proof of… Read more

purchase, yet EKO refused to manually unbind it and repeatedly told me to “contact the retailer” instead.

Weeks of delays, no returned calls, copy-paste responses, and no resolution.

The product is now unusable due entirely to EKO’s backend system — and they will not take responsibility.

One of the worst service experiences I’ve had. Avoid at all costs.