Best Surveillance Systems

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.

These cameras started out really well, however after a short period of use they developed a major issue with fogging and condensation inside the lens… Read more

whenever it rains. The moisture can take days to clear, leaving the cameras almost useless during that time due to poor visibility and image quality.

For a product designed to operate outdoors, this is extremely disappointing and raises concerns about the weather sealing and overall durability. Unfortunately, what initially seemed like a great product has become unreliable in wet conditions.

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).

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

"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.

I upgraded from older Ring Floodlight Cams to the latest 4K models (Ring Floodlight Camera Pro 2nd Gen) and had them installed by an electrician ~6… Read more

months ago. This is a living review and will be updated as my experience with the product changes.

The good stuff:

The Ring 4K Floodlight Cams are excellent overall, with a major jump in image quality and clarity compared to the older models. Detail and fidelity are fantastic - I can see things clearly from right across the yard. The floodlights are also noticeably brighter than the older units.

Microphone quality is strong and sound comes through very clearly in the app. This is a very clear upgrade from my previous models, which often had crackly audio, even when it wasn't windy.

Wi-Fi connectivity speed has improved somewhat compared to my previous setup (same local network), since the new cameras support the 5Ghz Wi-Fi band, while my previous Ring units only supported 2.4Ghz.

The Ring app is great, and continues to be one of the best things about being in the Ring ecosystem. It's easy to use, enables many different security configurations and notifications are quick.

Important to know:

Ring products demand an ongoing subscription cost to unlock all their features. Make sure you do your research before purchasing. Personally, I'm more than happy to pay the cost for the peace of mind, and my experience with Ring products has been positive throughout the years.

Some people are complaining about bad connectivity here, but I'd posit that more often than not, that's caused by a weak local Wi-Fi network rather than a fault of the cameras. Since these are outdoor cameras, you’ll need sufficiently strong Wi-Fi to penetrate exterior walls, particularly when the cameras are positioned far from the router or access point.

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.

I initially thought this set up was ok but have come to realise it consistently misses key events that were the whole point of getting it to begin… Read more

with! missed who left the gate open where the dogs got out, misses the postie, missed the neighbour leaving a threatening letter! yet will get the rear lights of cars at night. all these cameras are set up in the recommended/close proximity with high settings too! terrible clunky product. can't download videos easily either such as a whole day or week's content (have to enter & download individual recordings). so disappointing. who knows what else it's missed!

Best value for money camera. I purchased one of these in late 2024 for the sole reason of placing it in the newborn's nursery. I liked it so much I… Read more

purchased another identical camera one year later for the main bedroom to keep an eye on baby who co-sleeps with me but goes to bed many hours before I do. Included in the box is the power supply and a bracket attachment. I use the bracket in the nursery mounting the camera upside down. In the main bed, it just sits in normal upright position on the bed post of the solid timber bed. Built quality is solid. Firstly, setting up the camera through its Android app is super easy. It connected to my home wi-fi very easily. Once putting the camera in position, it is easy to fine tune its position by tilting and panning via the app. The camera can be mirrored for upside down mounting. I do not use a memory card in the card slot. I set the cameras up in my home security camera system NVR to record on the main hard drive along with all the other cameras mounted around the house. ONVIF protocol in these Tapo cameras allow you to connect to any compatible systems - most open source systems these days are up to date with all these protocols. I can view the cameras on the Tapo app or use my whole house camera monitoring app to view all the cameras. The Tapo app offers more settings adjustment and personalisation. There are no ads in the app like cheaper similar cameras that I have set up for other people. The camera quality is very good. Whether bright light or in infra-red low light mode, the picture is detailed and well balanced with the HDR processing. The QHD resolution is plenty enough for these room cameras but I use 4k fixed cameras outside. There are alerts that pop up on my phone if the camera detects sound or movement so when baby cries or stands up in her cot, I get notified. Updating firmware when required goes very smoothly. I really like these cameras and would think the whole Tapo range would be great also, although I haven't tried any of the other cameras from the range.

Reliable, feature rich product – Our DCS-5222L has been serving us more than 2.5 years now. When we first bought it, we had problems with firmware updates and that rendered the… Read more

camera inoperable and we had it replaced. We don't jump to the first chance of upgrading firmware anymore. This copy has been reliable and my dogs haven't destroyed it. That says something.

No, it is not for outdoors, it is not vandal proof, it is a bit bulky. But on the plus side, there are plenty of them! It tilts-n-pans. You can preset several camera positions and jump to them quickly. It records to microSD card, it is backed by mobile app and we can watch it anywhere. It can take still snaps or videos clips, it can do two-way audio. Of course the sound volume straight out of the camera is low and sounds like an old telephone. But I have conversed with my wife using it before. It does work. It doesn't auto focus, nor does it do optical zoom. But given its small sensor, depth of view is pretty big and is good enough for indoors. It is HD but not full HD, limited at 720p. It does audio and motion detection and it does email notification.

We are very happy with it. If it wasn't because we had to return the first copy and firmware issues we had at the beginning, I would have given it 5 stars. It is not small like some of the newer products in the market. So it isn't inconspicuous.

Customer service is absolutely non-existent. A piece fell off our camera after less than 6 months and I have been chasing them ever since with no… Read more

response at all. Completely shocking for such an expensive product and worst of all it was a perfect sized piece for a baby to choke on if she had picked it up first, so dangerous.

Connection is slow and unreliable, it’s too heavy to stand without being wrapped around something, the tail is fragile…

Huge waste of money, I really regret buying it.

I wish I knew these crap were going to charge $100 per year to get the recording from the camera before I bought it. NEVER BUY ARLO Show details

Light bulb camera – Had a problem with our security camera and phoned the company. Both Mat & Trisha (especially) tried to help! Unfortunately the camera which was over… Read more

18 months old had become defective. With out delay they sent a replacement not only free of charge but also paid for the postage! Well done outstanding customer service! Thank you Robert P

Price is so low it didn't matter if it worked or not, but was suprisingly happy with it. I use mine as a remote puppy monitor. Only to sight my dog… Read more

for peace of mind. I don't use all the other fancy features. Works really well as a remote web cam. Setup was easy. My family is less anxious seeing our puppy sleeping on the deck.

Useless unless you pay for cloud storage – I received one of these free with a router but it's useless unless you pay $$ per month for cloud storage. It's going into the bin. If you are inclined to pay for cloud storage it might be ok but this device is just to get you paying for it.

Picture quality is OK. If you want a wide FOV this is good. But the vertical view is shallower than compatible cameras such as the duo 2 PoE. … Read more

There is negligible difference in picture quality despite te 16mp v 4k. . If you want alerts and surveillance attributes, be aware that there is quite a noticeable delay between movement and the camera reacting. I.E. alarm and lights take too long before they activate. The Duo2 PoE is a better solution overall especially for security needs.

Was Fantastic now ordinary – I purchased this camera a few years ago and I loved it !! It hd good picture quality and was fairly easy to set up . The reason I was drawn to… Read more

this camera it was able to send push notifications through the APP AND also could send an image when motion /sound detected to my email address.

This was the reason I chose the camera - I used it to check on my cat when I was away for the day, I could check my emails and see an email with images attached showing my cat had accessed her food bowl. This was also handy as I was concerned that perhaps a stray cat had been accessing my property . I didnt want to be bothered in the middle of the night but was very happy to access the next morning for peace of mind .

Things changed this year - I no longer received email messages with pics attached ;[

I tried through the dlink website to trouble shoot to no avail

Then I sent D Link a message they were quick with response - my updated MAC coputer could not now access the dlink portal - I tried every thing they suggested - installing outdated firefox apps and trying to install the plug ins they sent me nothing worked !!!

I rang their help centre today the contact was very very helpful. He tried really hard but he said the problem was that flash player had been deactivated and because that was how the camera settings was accessed I could not change the camera settings ,??? double dutch to me but basically how the camera used to work due to upgrade functionality was now down graded

I am at a loss to see how something I purchased because of its functionality can then have its functionality downgraded and made obsolete. All is not lost my help centre contact really tried to help to reconfigure the settings on my camera but this required me disclosing email password something I was uncomfortable to provide ,

Summary something that works when you buy it nay be rendered obsolete for no reason!!

This rechargeable WIFI camera worked fine at the start but after about 15 months stopped intermittently recognising the Micro SD Card. Then it just… Read more

failed to recognise the card all together. The camera itself is still working but I'm unable to record or play back anything. It's not been good at recognising movement or switching back on after going to sleep. It also doesn't warn you when the battery is low and has just stopped due to this several times. The night vision is not good even with a night light near the camera.