SDETER Wireless Camera, Battery Powered 720P WiFi Outdoor Security Cameras, Waterproof PIR Motion Detection, Night Vision, Cloud Service Long Standby

I have a Sdeter bullet camera on my front door and loved it so much that I wanted something for the back patio since I have contracts (lawn, pool, trees, etc) in my backyard. My challenge however is that all the walls on the patio are either stucco or rock, which makes it near impossible to run a hidden power line. So I opted for this option and so far it works great. The battery camera are pretty good and the motion detection works as expected.This camera works great and is very responsive. The angle of recording is large enough to capture almost 180. Will purchase a second camera to cover our pool. It is great at capturing motion before anyone gets even close to the pool. Great when you have little ones or pets who somehow always find ways to go where they're not.The picture is beautiful - much better quality than I anticipated! In daylight the picture is full color but it even shows a clear picture in total darkness!As for the battery life, it has been in for a couple weeks and it has lost about 10% battery. So I’m guessing it will last about 3 months before it needs a charge. The second we will order should double that battery life.The connection is very quick, it seems to connect much faster than my front door, but in fairness it is closer to the wireless router.As for installation, I installed it using the provided screws into the frame of my patio door. It actually works perfect there because you can’t really see it and allows me to perfectly position it for motion detection.Beware, in order to have video playback, you do have to install Micro SD cardOverall, I’m very happy with the device and would recommend it to anyone looking for an easy to install solution without wires.

I haven't put this camera up yet but it appears it will do the job. I will update later. One thing I discovered was that there are different 18650 battery lengths. I have these batteries in many applications and of course the ones I already had would not fit because they are too long by about 1mm. I found some other batteries in a flashlight that were shorter and they work. I could not get the battery cover on with the two batteries I originally tried. So watch out for that when putting batteries in. The Garberiel 5000mAh batteries are too long as they are a hair over 67mm. The batteries that came in my flashlight are a hair over 66mm and do not have a manufacturers name, only the name of the flashlight. That 1mm makes all the difference because there is no spring where the batteries live in the camera and consequently there is no take up room to accomodate a battery that is too long. I hope this helps someone.

Decided to gamble on an item that hadn't had any reviews, figure always has to be a first right?Received the 2 cameras, and they look pretty good at first appearance. Look a lot like an Arlo. The one positive is that the batteries I had to buy for these work in my high end LED flashlights, so I'll be using them and the charger with the lights.The cams are sadly going back. You have to download a doorbell app per the written instructions. So I did. Strangest pairing I've ever encountered, but was kinda cool. You turn cam on, and it starts verbally yapping about ready to be paired. You then hit add device on app, and the phone starts chirping in a high pitched morse code like sound. It literally uses sound to create the link. After 7 failure to link on one camera, and another 5 on the other... I got creative.I let them use the sounds to link up, which of course showed failure. I then however used the QR code on the cam to "share" the account... that asked for a password, of which I just typed admin. That failed, but in doing so triggered the cam onto the app, and asked me to create a longer password. So in theory, if you're willing to do some seriously wonky non intuitive stuff you can get them to link. Get good at it though...Both cameras just randomly reset and start yapping about being ready to connect again. One made it through the day, but never triggered once on the three deliveries I had as well as my walking out the front door upwards of 10 times while working out front.So, if you can fight through the connecting of the camera, and are OK reconnecting it periodically, and are OK with no motion alerts at all, then it's a decent live monitor that you can watch over your phone...

OK...so this camera is not going to be the best choice for everyone.But...if you need a camera that a) cannot be hooked up to power 24/7 and b) will not be triggered often, c) doesn't need to be super high resolution 720 is plenty for my needs), and d) you don't need the app to be super sophisticated or the camera to have a lot of bells and whistles, this cam might be for you!We recently had some less than savory characters move into our apartment building and my carport is wide open. We don't have power 24/7 (it's on a timer and on only at night) so I knew I had to get a battery powered cam. After reading reviews I decided to mount it to where it would rarely be triggered (facing inside my carport). My carport has a low ceiling and the cam can be easily knocked down/stolen but I opted to have my video saved to their cloud (instead of SD card) which works perfectly! I records in 8 second loops and saves them to the cloud. I set mine to trigger at the maximum sensitivity and it triggers almost instantaneously as I wanted it to. The notification I get on my phone is also instantaneous I love. I can see how the "doorbell" sound could get annoying if it's triggered a lot though.The app (Ubell) is basic, no frills but functions well. And set up was possibly the easiest of any electronic device I've owned (I've had earbuds that were harder to pair!) and I was up and running in a few minutes. it took me only a few minutes more to decide where to mount it and then mount it.I liked it so much I told my neighbor about it and they're getting one too!