Review on 📷 Amcrest ProHD 1080P WiFi Wireless IP Security Camera - Advanced 1080P Video Quality and Easy Connectivity - IP2M-841 (Silver) by Jason Bollinger

Update 3/2020: I've been using them for a while and they're doing their job well, but recently I've encountered a strange problem. If you record to a micro SD card when the card is full. They cannot play videos and their app/website does not recognize the card. I had to remove the card and reformat it, then I was back in business. I was told on tech support that the card is bad, apparently this doesn't happen often? Available for internal and external models. Overall I'm still very satisfied. Pretty easy setup, the Apple app sucks. I'm still learning the basics, but I suspect the ongoing connectivity issues are between the app and the camera, not the camera and my network. I have this connected via WiFi and if it works I plan on getting some outdoor cameras. I'm not sure yet if I would recommend this. I will update as soon as it arrives. First update: the app is still pretty bad. Everything started to work better when I turned on internet access, which seems strange and a bit disconcerting. There is a lag on the WiFi, but the audio is decent. The video jumps around a bit and the latency on my LAN is sometimes 1 to 4 seconds. The account you register to connect this camera to the Internet does not allow the use of special characters, so the passwords are weak, which in turn worries the security device. It wants to communicate with AWS but hasn't noticed any other external IPs showing up in my firewall logs. It seems to have a ton of features and is pretty easy to set up. Not ready to move up from 2 stars yet. Second update: Amcrest had an issue with its cloud service today and it has brought this issue to its knees. A connection to the app could not be established. Pretty disappointed in this camera as I haven't used it in over a week. Third update: ok it grows for me. The app is difficult to navigate, not that intuitive, and you have to spend a lot of time browsing forums and watching videos to use the advanced features. Installing a 64G memory card will automatically unlock many Easter eggs, such as Easter eggs. B. motion recording. Viewing recordings seemed impossible until I watched a video on how to do it. Upgraded to 3 stars but I really wish there was a better app for it. Also a little confusing is that there is a separate login for the camera, an amcrest site to set up the camera, and the amcrest cloud, each with different credentials and password rules. And you need IE to use their website because it requires an ActiveX control. If it had connected better and had a UX expert fix the app, I would probably go for 5 stars.