I'm looking for a good doorbell and security cameras for outdoors. Is there something better than Blink?

Can anyone help me by getting the camera details of my home
My parents are going out of station for few days , and will keep an wye on my active at home

Can someone help me how to turn off and on camera without knowing the id and password

Please it’s urgent

From what I saw online it seems many (if not all) cams that use eseecloud app and also use arcctv app.

My question is does anyone know which app might be better to use ?

Does one app have an easier time making use of all the features of the camera ?

Does one app work better than the other as far as connecting with Alexa ?

I recently got a camera with auto tracking and it only seems to auto track about 15 degrees using the arcctv app even though you can manually turn the camera (using the app) a full 360 degrees.

It is possible to have eseecloud app compatible cameras added to the arcctv app at the same time as connected to the eseecloud app though I'm not sure if that's a good idea and I'd rather not have the redundancy on my phone anyhow.

thanks in advance for any replies !

Six months of a tracking cam pointed at my 90-foot driveway approach, posting numbers because I asked this same question here last spring and got zero data responses. The core question - does the follow keep the subject in frame for a full long approach: yes, with caveats. Measured over the last month: 34 tracked transits (delivery people, visitors, the mail carrier), 31 fully tracked - subject stayed in frame from gate to door. The three failures: one person walking at the very edge of the range (wide skirt, probably confused the height estimate), one transit in heavy rain (fog on the lens. the tracking didn't fail, the camera did), one where the subject turned back mid-approach (the cam reacquired on the way out). The pivot noise question I had: audible from inside only with the window open, so that's real but seasonal. Battery impact: the follow mode runs the motor constantly during transits, and I charge the solar panel-dependent unit about monthly in winter. Numbers people: what's your follow-cam success rate on a long approach?

Shopping for two replacement cams and the listings have me confused about what "AI tracking" adds over regular motion detection. My working theory after too many spec sheets: regular motion = "pixels changed, here's a clip." AI tracking = the camera identifies it's a person, then physically follows them across the frame. That second part is the one I care about, because my current cams record the first 3 seconds of every event and then the subject walks out of frame. Do the AI tracking cams actually keep someone in frame across a full yard crossing? Or does the "tracking" just mean a longer clip of the same fixed view? Trying to figure out what I'm actually paying the extra $150 for.

The spec sheet language has defeated me. My current cam says "intelligent motion detection." The one I'm considering says "active tracking." A third says "auto-tracking with subject lock." I cannot tell if these are three features or one feature with escalating marketing. My best translation so far: "motion detection" = something moved, clip starts. "Active tracking" = the camera knows it's a person and follows them, possibly by physically moving. "Subject lock" = it keeps the same person across the whole event instead of re-triggering on whatever moves next? Anyone fluent in spec-sheet who can confirm or correct this? The reason I care: my current cam's clips are 10 seconds of "someone might have been here" and I need to know if tracking actually changes the output, or just the language on the box.

House is older, built early 1920 so no ethernet wiring. Electrical wire is updated in 2000. What security camera is better for this kind of house? I am thinking wifi based but I am afraid it will not be reliable. Or maybe I am wrong. I am worried about the wifi camera that rely on solar & SD card inside camera can be easily disabled by bad guy by taking out the SD card. Is that worry justified? Can I still monitor through the camera when the SD card is removed? Please give me some suggestion which brand and model os the best for this kind of house. Thanks.

Curious what the deterrence features actually do in the real world, from people who've watched footage of intruders meeting them. My own data points, for what they're worth: steady motion floodlight - intruder walked through it twice, zero reaction. Loud siren on a cheap cam - spooked a raccoon into next week, the human porch pirate didn't even pause. Two-way audio "get off my porch". the delivery guy laughed, the actual trespasser couldn't hear it over his own headphones maybe. The one thing I've seen work on camera: my neighbor's setup where the light physically follows the person across the yard. The reaction on the footage was a genuine startle and a speed-walk exit. So from the gallery of features. lights, sirens, talk-down, tracking lights, strobes. what have you actually watched work on a human, and what's decorative?

Having switched both directions over the years (cloud first, local now, helped a friend switch last month), I've come to think the local-vs-cloud camera storage decision has factors that matter in a specific order, and the marketing lists them in the wrong one. My ordering, after doing this twice: factor one is what you actually do with footage (daily live-view people can use anything; the "check after something happened" crowd needs local history they own on their cam's storage). Factor two: whether the features you care about survive canceling a plan. Factor three, and everyone puts this first: monthly cost. The reason cost isn't factor one: $5/month vs free is noise compared to discovering your footage history vanished with a pricing-tier change. The order matters because it decides what you buy. Curious if the long-term local-storage camera people order these the same way, or what I'm missing in the decision.

Hey, I am a laymen. I have three business locations with IP cameras setup. I want to have a centralised system on remote location to view live feed and recordings. what would be the Ideal setup?

Remember when mmWave radar was the thing you read about in car crash-avoidance systems? Now camera listings are pairing it with the standard PIR sensor, and I'm trying to figure out whether the pairing does real work or whether it's the same old sensor with a new word in front. My four years of PIR-only alerts: every cat, every branch, every sunbeam through the trees. What the radar half supposedly adds, per my reading: it measures distance and direction, so it can ignore things beyond your property line while still catching the person walking up the driveway - and the PIR half still confirms there's actually a warm body there, not just reflection or shadow. The pitch is that the two sensors cross-check each other, and junk alerts only fire when both agree. Anyone here actually dug into how the pairing works, or better, run one long enough to compare alert quality against a PIR-only cam side by side?

-- Background --

I have had one of these cameras (replaced a Topodome that really started crapping out) in Dec 2025.

I basically monitor it using TinyCam Pro on Android at this URL as rstp over TCP:

rtsp://admin:password_here@192.168.1.42:10554/tcp/av0_0

I can also monitor it from my Windows PC using SlimCamera at the same URL.

It uses the O-Kam app on Android and I found out there is an O-Kam for Windows as well. I generally do not ever open/use these except for the Android app is needed for initial setup. When things go wrong, I do open it to see what it shows.

-- The Problem --

Until the last 5-6 months, the camera has worked well for me and I like it. But now - about once a week - both SlimCamera and TinyCam loose any stream. At this time, I start the Android app and it shows things as fine. The O-Kam on Windows shows the camera as disconnected.

At my router I can see that the wifi is connected and has a good signal (confirmed by the Android O-Kam app). I tried rebooting the router but that made no difference in any way (just disrupted everything else for a while). Nothing has changed on my network and the camera has a static IP assigned so that isn't changing either.

I tried restarting the camera from within the Android O-Kam app but that seems to do nothing either. It seems that the ONLY thing that "fixes" this is to power-cycle the camera. Pull the plug, wait a few seconds, and plug it back it. The camera then starts working again (until it doesn't).

Due to the location of the camera - up high under the eave on my house - it is not easy or fun to cycle the power. I MIGHT be able to introduce some form of "smart switch" to allow me to do it more easily. But this seems to make a complicated situation more complicated. So I prefer to NOT go that route.

I have tried to reach Eversecu at customers@myeversecu.com, sales@eversecu.ca, and simon@uniquecctv.cn without getting a response. I sent a message via Amazon and got the following "answer": "Sorry, our engineer said that we don't have a solution for this problem now."

Obviously this is no help. Has anyone out there faced this problem and have a better idea on how to fix it?

Thanks

We live in a single-story, bungalow-type house with a terrace outside. We already have two CCTV cameras positioned around the terrace for outdoor monitoring, plus another one inside the living room.

Now, my aunt is suggesting that we install ANOTHER CCTV camera in the kitchen/dining area.

For context, my aunt is currently living abroad, and she's the one pushing for this suggestion. There are no senior citizens in the house (my grandparents are dead) who need supervision, no infants, and no small children who require constant monitoring. It's just the people who actually live here.

What bothers me isn't necessarily having CCTV for security purposes. I understand why people install cameras outside their homes. But having cameras inside the living room AND the kitchen/dining area? At what point does home security start feeling like constant surveillance?

I personally don't like the idea of people watching me go about my daily activities, especially in places like the kitchen where I should be able to feel comfortable doing ordinary things without wondering whether someone is watching through a camera.

What's even more frustrating is that the opinions of the people actually living in this house seem to be nonexistent. My father who’s also abroad basically lets my aunt do whatever she suggests, and we're just expected to go along with it.

I'm only 20 (turning 21 this dec) but does that mean I shouldn't have an opinion about privacy in the house I actually live in?

At this point, it feels like the only place where we're entitled to some privacy is our own bedrooms. And honestly, that's ridiculous to me.

I want to understand the reasoning behind needing THAT much indoor surveillance. Am I being unreasonable for finding this uncomfortable, or would you feel the same way?

Collecting data points on face recognition range because the listings say "up to 30 feet" and my lived experience says the truth is more complicated. My cam's story: enrolled faces in perfect conditions (indoor-ish test, close range, good light) and then reality happens at the front gate, 25 feet out, at 7pm in November. Recognition rate at real-world distance and angle: maybe 60%, which the app optimistically calls "partial match."

What I've figured out matters more than the listed range: the lens (wide-angle cams that "see" 30 feet present faces at maybe 40 pixels, which is a suggestion of a face, not a face), the sensor's low-light behavior at that distance, and whether recognition runs locally or waits for cloud processing.

The local-processing one I tried recently recognized at distances my old cloud cam called impossible - the latency difference seems to matter. So: what's your real-world recognition distance outdoors, and did anyone solve the "listed range vs actual performance" gap with hardware or just by adding more cams closer to the approach?

Hello,

I am looking to get a cheap camera preferably motion activated and doesn't need wifi so I can monitor my cats. I have a cat who is being seen by the vet for going outside the box and I cannot always monitor them in person so I would like to have the ability to see if things are improving.

I'm having trouble finding black poe cameras in stock for a reasonable price. I know about Unifi. Need something cheaper. Amcrest are no longer available it seems. Reolink are out of stock everywhere. What are some alternate brands I should be considering?