LaView 4MP Bulb Security Camera 2.4GHz,360° 2K Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor Indoor Full Color Day and Night, Motion Detection, Audible Alarm, Easy Installation, Compatible with Alexa

We have been wanting to get a camera for our back alley for months ever since our neighbor's camera caught some dudes checking their truck and our vehicle to see if they were unlocked late at night. No bueno. We do have some vehicle theft in our area - especially with the alley ways being so private. AND - we have 3 teenage boys - one of which I could see trying to sneak out and be naughty... haha! (Just like his momma used to, let's be real.)I love that this camera was so easy to install - just screw it in and you're good! The only problem for me was that the bottom of the camera by where it screws into the light bulb thing was preventing it from getting it to insert in order to screw it in. I had to remove the light assembly to basically loosen the inner assembly so that it would come out a little to let the camera screw in. That was a bit annoying. Maybe it was just my light fixture...it IS from 1999.The picture is great - as you can see from my picture - and the night vision is really cool too. I ended up purchasing the cloud feature to save my videos. For some reason I thought there may be a way to insert an SD card or maybe send files via bluetooth to my computer. I wasn't super excited about paying extra for the cloud service. And honestly I'm not sure if it saves a certain amount of captured videos via the app that you could download if you wanted?The app is incredibly easy to use and like I said, the whole setup is fantastic. I'm still trying to figure out the motion detection - it goes off every time the trees blow around or if my dogs happen to walk along the fence. I saw something about human detection on the app, but I'm not sure how that works. There is a "do not disturb" function, so I can set it to not send me notifications during the day. Also, there's this "Starlight" function - I think it turns the light on when it detects motion?I promise I've had this for probably a month but just haven't played around with the functions enough. So I'm sure this review is super not as much helpful as it could be. Maybe there's a YouTube video out there about the specifics? There IS a YouTube video for EVERYTHING...I would recommend it - the price is RIGHT for the features and quality! And it connects to Alexa and Google Home. I connected to both (we also have a Google Nest at our front door), but also haven't tried that out either and not sure how it would be helpful. AND, it has a siren! I guess if it alerts you there's motion and you see some very bad people trying to do bad things, you can activate the siren and freak them out. THAT would be FUN!

These cameras are great quality for the price. It shows my whole backyard and I’m able to move the camera around to what I want to see. It will send you notifications if something comes in the yard. Easy to use and makes me feel safe!

My review of this product is long overdue - I kept hoping LAView's software "team" would come out with an app update. ANY update at all. But, alas, nothing since roughly when I bought this nearly 9 months ago. The bulb-cam system has been a deep disappointment for me. I purchased it to use as a "kitty-cam" to keep track of the feral cats I feed at my patio daily. The supposedly hi-res 4K photos are...adequate. The camera does function well at night under orange LEDs (cats aren't very sensitive to that colour range), which is good. But, like every bulb camera I researched, this one, too, can only rotate ~350 of 360 degrees, and it has limited PTZ motion, so don't expect much positioning flexibility without preplanning your installation carefully. My outdoor setup is 15 feet from an indoor wifi router, but the 2.4GHz requirement was a known sacrifice going in when purchasing this item.My biggest criticisms and complaints about this bulb-cam "system" is the woefully inadequate, undertested, flawed, and functionally weak app software the camera requires for operation and control. There is (as usual) no web browser app/extension support, only smartphone app. But the app (as I stated above) has seen only one (1) update since I purchased the item nearly 9 months ago. The app continues to crash roughly 90% of the time on a recent tech Android 14 phone that's flush with internal RAM and is configured with few other installed apps. And yet... memory leaks with the LAView app! I've installed a high-end "Pro" 256 GByte SDXC thumbcard flash drive that works reliably elsewhere to capture images and video of the feral kitties, but the only way to view them is to get up on a ladder to extract the drive and plug it into my PC. Sorry...that's not what I had in mind when I wasted my money on this piece- of-junk bulb-cam! There should be no excuses for this kind of useless product outcome. I cannot even snap a realtime photo of what I'm watching when I'm attempting to access the camera from my phone - the app crashes at least a half-dozen times while trying to access the camera. By the time it stabilizes (the 10% of the times it actually does, and that only after about 90 - 180 seconds after starting the app), the animals I'm trying to watch are gone.The camera is useless without its app. If LAView wants anyone's business after their first (buyer's regret) purchase, they'd better consider hiring some experienced app writers who plan to stick around and support their code long term, frankly.My advice to anyone considering purchasing an LAView bulb-cam product is Turn around, run the other way as fast your feet can carry you, and do not look back!