Amazon Cloud Cam for Pc

Very difficult to search back through more than a few hours of footage. No timeline. No filter to view “Person Detected” only without “Movement Detected” crowding the clips to the point of almost being unusable. When scrolling down the (infinite!) list of clips the date only appears once at the top of each day and in a tiny font. To see it again you must either scroll back up- NOT TOO FAST or you’ll miss it- or click and open a clip. VERY frustrating trying to find the one moment when a guest stole your wallet. Or anything. Hard watch clips in sequence to discover what happened as each clip must be selected and opened and then played. There’s no way to name the clips in app so they must be exported to phone and then saved to something like Google Drive which is confusing and time consuming. The end result is the cameras are barely useful now that Live View seems to constantly be slow to open or not work at all... I pay for the premium plan. It’s cost was the major factor in my making the decision to purchase these cameras. The sad thing is I’d LOVE to buy three more cameras and thus take full advantage of the plan I’m subscribed to but the lack of a truly useful review process for video clips makes me loathe to add more. This app has wasted SO MUCH of my time when I’ve needed it.

The app has a few great things, such as easily view and download motion-detected video, but the entire audio/microphone feature is completely broken. DO NOT rely on this cameras speaker to speak to people or hear what they say the majority of the time. 70% of the time the cameras microphone doesn’t work and rarely half of the time the speaker will audibly relay what you’re saying in the app. An update is badly needed. But as far as everything else is considered, the app has a great live view function and the app’s organization of controls, settings, and views is top-notch. My favorite ability is to save videos so easily. I would love to see a feature to change the amount of time to start and stop recording before and after motion is detected, just so I can see what’s going on a little earlier in advanced and a little later. But again, the two-way audio feature is completely broken in-app.

I have switched from Nest to Cloud Cam, as it appears many have, due to the competitive pricing. Camera is good. No issues there. My concern is with the app itself. Sure there are some features the Nest app has that the app’s doesn’t, but I’m sure some will follow soon. My biggest concern is that the live feed only lasts for 15-20 minutes and will then disconnect. Then you have to touch the screen and it will reconnect. Normally, it’s probably not an issue. However, we use ours as a baby monitor and would like to have it running all night while we sleep but becomes useless after 15-20 minutes. I hope this is fixed soon because the lack of some features is worth the price difference of Nest.

Love this camera. I use it for dog surveillance while at work. When they are being naughty I can talk to them through the camera. Voice quality is clear because they stop and look right at me. The phone and ipad app are great. Pictures are very clear in the daytime. Night vision is sometimes hazy but it does the job. The app saves videos for the whole day and if you want to save them for longer than the time that the app’s free subscription allows, you can download the videos. The camera and iphone app would get 5/5 stars. I’m giving the app 2 stars because with recent updates it’s not available on my watch. It was nice to get the notification on my watch so I don’t need to constantly check my phone for the updates. Even though I couldn’t watch the live stream it was a great feature. Please bring back the watch app.