Security Camera Wireless Outdoor, HOSAFE WiFi Camera Surveillance for Home Security Camera System, 2-Way Audio, Floodlight, PTZ, Motion Detection…

This is one of several Hosafe cameras I have in use at my home and business. Hosafe customer service has always been excellent and quick to respond. That said, this latest and newest camera they are offering is a good value for the price.

The many features are very appealing, but their execution needs some development. More on that later. First, when taken out of the well packed box I was surprised that the camera is very light and made of mostly plastic (assume the UV rays of South Florida don’t deteriorate the material as some plastics in the sun) and lighter weight to install. While the large dongle of wires (mostly the RJ 45 LAN connector) that usually are protruding out the bottom of the mounting base, this wire bundle exits out of the side of the base making wire management a bit more tricky if you want to hide them and protect their connection points. With the quicker set up on these newer cameras not requiring a hard wire to the router initially, I think the RJ 45 connector could be eliminated assuming you are only going to use the wifi connection which in reality is why you buy a “wifi” camera! That would eliminate the need to drill a ½ or larger hole to run those wires. As I have with the past 3 installations, I choose to mount my cameras on an outdoor plastic electrical box to terminate the wires and ease of attachment to the building. But this time instead of a large hole in the box cover under the base of the camera, I had to route the wire into the side of the box as shown in the photo. A bit tricky to keep it weather tight with a grommet.
Now the features: The LED light source that comes on with motion is pretty bright and a welcome addition to illuminating the subject area and obtaining full color pictures at night. There is also an audible alarm but I am not using that for a good reason… the sensitivity of motion adjustment is adjustable but even at the lowest setting in the app, it is triggered with least bit of wind movement and even insects at night. So, the light is triggered often (that is ok with me) and that alarm would be a nuisance. The same problem comes into play with the other cool feature; motion tracking of the pan and tilt mechanism. Great feature and as stated, not real quick for fast moving objects but with the ultra-sensitive motion detection, it moves much too frequently. Also the range is pretty limited so as the subject moves out of the range (about 10 meters) the camera returns “home” and the subject is now out of the picture. Again, a great feature, but a bit of a delay upon motion ending and much broader sensitivity setting would be big improvement on these new features.

Overall, the image is very clear and adequate resolution. Night vision (without the LED light on) is very good as expected. Wifi with the dual antenna is about average for me. I am only getting 60% on an outside, side wall about 15 meters line of site (through the house). My other cameras on the front side which are about half the distance are 100% signal strength with only 1 antenna. Your results may be better as there are many variables controlling wifi strength from inside to outside.

The other great feature and the main selling point for me is you not only can use an SD card for image and video capture, but it is also ONVIF compatible to use the many camera security monitoring programs like Blue Iris and others. I am still experimenting with camera control on Blue Iris as it is registering with “generic” camera and all the features do not seem to be accessible so far.

Lastly, the two-way audio works well and is another great feature for an inexpensive camera like this. I would buy it again.

I had my doubts when I selected this camera (the price does not match with what is offered). The configuration was pretty straight a lot of pictures in the instructions. The quality of the video and audio is good.

“MAKE SURE YOU READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE CONNECT IT”.

I already ordered another camera.
Last head up, I had problems with the audio coming from the camera to my iPhone… I checked everything in the configuration of the app and my iPhone, restart the camera couple of times until I realized I have the mute switch active, as soon as I unmute it works pretty good. Sound silly but I was thinking that the camera was defective. I strongly recommend this product.

 Camera has a great feature to upload alarms, video and pictures to ftp site. That eliminates need to have NVR. I already have three other cameras having the same feature, but this one is the only one PZT. RTSP works as well. So the only thing I may wish is the higher resolution. But with the price one can not wish more.
Time will tell durability in Canadian weather.

Piece of crap! It is not completely wireless. It has to be plugged in to have power and not charge a battery like I was told. Therefore you can’t put it just anywhere it has to be put near a plug so that it can have power. The directions are hard to understand and follow and trying to connect it to the internet is a pain in the butt. You have to be right on top of the router to get anywhere with it. Haven’t had any luck connecting it to see if it actually works or is any good. Will probably just send it back as it’s not what I was told it would be and it far to complicated to get it going. My ring doorbell was up and GOI g in 5 minutes. This thing I’m still going on 30 minutes to try to get it working. Do not buy, it’s not worth the hassle!
Update: 11/28/20
I had my brother come over and see if he could get the camera working. He did but he said the directions are hard to understand and some of what it’s telling you to do is not correct. After about an hour of reading directions and trying a few things not in the instructions , he finally got it to work. The camera works well as well as the flood light and intercom. I can not give this camera 5 stars though. It should have been easier to set up out of the box. Instead it took a about a week and a half and another person with some knowledge of security cameras to get it working for me. All in all its a good camera for security. The directions need to be clearer and easy to get this camera going. Also it needs to be completely wireless if you are promoting a wireless camera.

I found the camera linked with my IPhone 8 plus with no issues. So far the App has worked as expected and so far not buggy. The colour and quality seems to be working very nicely. It’s a nice looking unit and the sound and picture when talking to people over the camera is good. There is a bit of a delay with the person you are talking to, but it could also be the internet that’s slowing it down and not the unit itself as when I’m connected directly to the unit, it’s very quick.

No issues to report at this time, as it’s fresh out of the box. I will report again after 1 month of use and 1 year of use to ensure it’s going to last for the long haul. Other camera’s if had, either have WiFi problems after a bit of a time period or the tracking camera motor will stop working. Time will tell.

This is not my first Hosafe cam, for a reason. These guys make great cams, and they have great customer support. I needed a cam for my back deck but I also needed a new porch light. This jewel solved both problems.
The cam was easy to set up, just make sure you are on the 2.4 wifi. Simple to follow the instructions and you will be up and running in about 5 minutes. I use Ispy connect to monitor my cameras at home but I have the app on my phone when away.
The camera is very customizable see photo 4 Using the HiCam app on your phone you can find the ip address of the camera ; go to settings>Device Info and the IP will be displayed. Type that IP into IE and you have access to lots of settings see photos. They have great customer support. I have NO, and I do mean ZERO complaints about any Hosafe cam I own. They have proven to be very reliable, I have had the outdoor cam for about 4 yrs + , the indoor ptz cam for about 3yrs and even though it has taken some abuse because of being in a chicken coop it works great. I highly recommend any Hosafe produce you may be interested in. Did I mention, they have great customer support.