PTZ Camera Outdoor, 30X Optical Zoom Security Camera, 5MP Wireless WiFi RTSP IP Camera, 1000FT Night Vision, Auto Tracking, Emergency Strobe Light Alarm, Human Detection, 2-Way Audio

I have had this camera for over a year. Overall it has been better than expected for its price. The picture quality is excellent with great resolution, contrast, dymamic range and saturation. The mechanical features are also very reliable. Full 360 degree pan, strong vertical support for ground to sky views, and a wide optical zoom range with an additional digital zoom that really shows detail at a distance. My bird feeder is 30 feet from the camera and I am able to fill the frame with a single bird. The camera has lots of other features that make it outstanding for security. It supports preset points that I can set. Then I can have it rotate from point to point continuously scanning for any movement or just what it perceives as a human. When it finds a target, it stops on that person and zooms in for a closeup, all the time recording. If the person moves, the camera follows him in any direction. Only when the person is no longer in view will the camera continue its preset scanning routine. At night the IR illumination is excellent. It reaches far out, over 50 feet to cover my entire yard. But if I Walk outside, all I see is darkness. The IR illumination is not visable to the human eye. A special feature that may be turned on or off is a warning signal to alert intruders that they are being recorded. If activated, when the camera detects a human it flashes red and blue led lights while pointing toward the person. As they try to move to avoid the camera, it continues flashing to show them that they are being followed. I think that this is a valuable deterrent and may stop intruders from trying to enter your house or office. I have had one problem with my camera. On occation, the camera would drop my house Wifi and go into a default mode where it moves throughout its entire range and sounds a loud tone once every minute. I suspect that this is its notice that it is back in setup mode. To reconnect the camera to my Wifi, I need to go through the setup procedure again. Fortunately I don't lose my preset positions. So, they are again active after the camera reconnects to my home Wifi. This problem has happened a few times. I have sent emails to the manufacturer's suppoort team and have always had quick and helpful answers to my questions. However, due to the fact that the problem has continued, I had to request that they replace my camera with a new one under the warranty. They were most agreeable and sent me a new camera. UPDATE 12/2/22 - I had several email conversations with the manufacturor, who was very eager to insure that I had a good working camera that installed with little difficulity. After receiving the new camera, I followed the well written and illustrated instructions and was able to easily connect it to my home Wifi system. I have tested its various features and have found no problems. I suspect that my earlier issues were with the old camera's firmware and the phone app used to install it and control its function. Since this new installation was very easy, I am guessing that some bugs were removed from the firmware and phone app. In any case, I can now highly recommend the camera for both its ease of installation and robust features. I have used other simular cameras to watch my bird feeder and scan my back yead for intruders. This camera is far above the others in both its ability to automatically zoom in and see distant objects as well as patroling the area and detecting, warning, and recording all intruders. I enjoy checking the recordings each morning to see the various wild life that roam through my yard during the night. It has recorded deer, racoons, skunks, possums, woodchucks, dogs, cats and turkeys. I never imagined how many animals were visiting during the night. Because of the bug fixes to the software and the extra way that the manufacturor worked with me to resolve my problems, I can highly recommend the HXVIEW PTZ Security Camera.

The first out of box impression is that this camera is big. But once it's mounted it doesn't seem so big. It takes beautiful clear video day and night video and the zoom is pretty amazing. I'd say it's closer to a 20x than a 30x zoom but still fantastic. I haven't set it up for live streaming vorr the web, so can't comment on that. But for my usage the the associated app makes it very easy to download video the camera takes to your phone. You definitely want to use the app for that because otherwise you're left with h.265 raw files that you need to convert to mpeg4. One annoyance - this camera defaults to flashing red and blue lights (think police) on detecting motion All of that can be disabled, some through easy checkbox settings (for example motion thresholds) but turning it off completely requires that you find and send preset codes to the camera that aren't documented as well as they could be. Fortunately the support is excellent and they are very responsive. All of this could be baked into future versions of the app - quite easily - and it would be much better. Many video settings look editable through the app but are not. The web interface or pc app are required for that. That's pretty confusing. At the end of the day the camera works well for a good price but some exploration of how to do what is required. It takes some effort. But I found it to be worth it. I've purchased two of these so far.

Works pretty well. Having to look at the manual for the special code for various operations (e.g. police light on/off, auto tracking,...) lacks usability and is anoying (although most people won't need to change that once the initial setup is done). It took me a while to figure out how to use the app as a number of items are not intuitives (e.g. where to find recorded image/video/... where to find the ones you save,... The iPhone app stetch the pictures to a large rectangle (the camera capture a square) so things appear significantly larger then they should (until you convert the video from proprietary format to a standard format). On that topic, you can't just put the sd card in a pc to view the videos (it work for images, but the video are in a format VLC doesnt know how to read). There should be a way to see the video in the original format without downloading and converting. The web app works good for direct viewing but lacks access to any historical data. I haven't tried the PC app, so can't comment on it, but i am always concerned that it requrie installing a dedicated app to view. Can only save content from the last few hours, haven't found a way to get it to let me download older content (even if i can still see it using the historical view). This is means that even if it has data from a few days ago I don't have a way to download it (I can view it on my phone but not download it). There should be a way to get to download any content on the SD card. Initially the zoom was less then 30x, but after a recent reset it seems to be able to zoom further than before. I am not sure why, or how, but now I can zoom in better than before for some reason. Installation was annoying as the drill would need to be where the dome is in order to screw the screws straight. Clearly the person that designed it didn't try installing 50 of them or they would realize it's a bad design. Overall a decent camera with a very significant zoom. The software needs some work, but can do a decent amount of things if you have the patience to learn.

For those who complained about the camera is trashed due to iOS 16 update, you guys don’t even give this company and developers a chance to troubleshoot the issues. I have several security cam apps and all we’re having issues due to iOS 16 update but within a week or so, most of the apps had an update and fixed the issues. In addition, this security cam was by far exceeded my expectations. The automatic tracking, zoom, night vision, picture quality were so crisp and clear. For those of you who complaint about the red and blue lights blinking whenever someone trigger the vicinity of the camera, you can turn it off. Don’t be a man, read the manual! This security cam has a lot features to offer. This is my opinions and you don’t have to agree with me but I am just sharing my experience and the interactions I had with their excellent customer service. Try it out and if you don’t like it, return it. You have nothing to lose but I assure you, you will be happy with your purchase.

I have another similar camera that is 23X total zoom that zooms way way further than this camera, the app is laggy and glitchy, instructions are in chinenglish, I turned off all the AI tracking, monitoring zones, motion sensing functions that I could find in the settings and the little police lights still flash every time someone moves in front of the camera, the clarity is just ok even after manually adjusting the video focus, brightness, contrast, etc, and overall app functions are just not very user friendly. Will be buying a different camera with better app support and just have to endure the subscription fee that will come with the added app quality. Setup was simple though.

The picture quality on the full Zoom feature is fantastic. I can read a license plate at the end of the block. It follows humans and if wanted vehicles really well. Easy to install and set up. It has stopped working after 9 months. 08/08/2024 follow-up review. After having the camera for 9 months it bit the dust. the focus and zoom were frozen> I contacted customer service and after some back and forth to get information on the unit, customer service notified me that they were sending out a replacement camera. I received the new camera and after installing it the picture functions are working fine. I have a couple of issues that we are working on and I am sure it's just me. I'm old, I have an excuse lol. Will edit my review after we get everything running perfectly. I would however recommend this camera.

This is a phenomenal camera! It is now almost 3 years since I purchased and regret doing a late review. What prompted me to do the review was a series of power outages on the island where I live caused the camera to lose connection to the internet. I contacted customer support and I was back online within minutes. I could not be more thrilled with this product! The camera itself is a bargain at the price. The optical zoom is amazingly clear. I live on St Thomas USVI and I can focus closely on Jeffrey Epstein’s private island that is a mile away. Except for the local utility company issue that was no fault of the camera, the camera has worked flawlessly for almost 3 years in a very harsh environment of saltwater, high winds and constant sunshine. I highly recommend this quality camera!

I am extremely impressed with this camera! I love how it flashes red and blue when a person is detected a fantastic security feature for deterring intruders. The picture quality is crystal clear, even at night, and the audio works perfectly in both directions. The motion detection is very accurate, and the night vision gives a sharp view in low light. It was also very easy to set up, and the specs are truly amazing for the price. I highly recommend this camera for anyone who wants reliable security, great image quality, and smooth two way audio.