Amazon.com : YI Dome Camera, 1080p HD Indoor Pan/Tilt/Zoom Wireless IP Security Surveillance System with Night Vision, Motion Tracking - Cloud Service Available (White) : Camera & Photo

This is probably the second review I've ever written on Amazon and I usually get 5-10 things a month, but this by far is one of the best purchases I've made on here, I have absolutely no complaints.I originally bought w cameras, one dome and of the regular ones, as you can see from the pics I ended up ordering 3 more in a matter of days so now I have a total of 5 (3 dome and 2 regular ones). These things are amazing. I love getting the notifications on my phone when it detects movements. I love being able to remotely control the camera movements with my phone. I installed 64 Gb micro cards for all the domes and I can playback my recordings, which I find useful. Overall, I have no complaints!!

Motion tracking is terrible. Even with the 1080p, it is still hard to make out faces. Lots of lagging, even on a 100mbps connection speed. Not 360 degree monitoring AT ALL....Very, very disappointed. Waste of money.This was recommended to me by a friend, who only need one spot monitored (about 3ftx3ft).. does not work as an actual security camera that should detect motion. and stay locked on person. Didn't even pick up me leaving my house this morning!!!

Just got the Yi Dome 1080 camera today - Dec 8 2017 and I cannot download the app anywhere. Tried to search on App Store for "Yi Home", scanned the QR code at the bottom of the camera, nothing. Very disappointed to say the least. Upon searching for a solution, I found lots of complaints on the Android App side for datamining / invasion of privacy. I'm wondering if Apple has shut down the app for the same reason.

This is an honest non paid for non free item given review.At first we liked the Yi Cameras and the Yi Home App. But not anymore!Slowly, basic features went away and were no longer available, unless you paid for the cloud storage. And Ads started to show up, annoyingly on your home screen! You can go into your settings and click to "Opt out of ads". But that did nothing. Contacted Yi. They said to close and re-open the App. Or restart my tablet the App was on, for the Ads to disappear. Well, the Ads never went away! Ever.Then all over the home screen and even on every single video you watch. There are buttons and messages to "Subscribe to the cloud!"The App is VERY glitch-y! And a total pain in the butt. We go through the videos. Will click "delete" to delete them. Then when we go to another day, and auto scroll to a different day. And land on the day of videos we just deleted. The videos re-appear! Thus having to re-delete them! Sometimes it takes deleting 3 times for the videos to finally delete!The most annoying and infuriating. Without paying for a cloud subscription, we used to be able to save videos to our tablet. After about a month ago. We can no longer save videos! What's also annoying and "why?" about these cameras and this Yi system. Yi says that we MUST install Micro SD Cards into ALL cameras, or the cameras will somehow not work or save videos. What’s the point of having security cameras if you cannot save videos locally? It’s not like we wanted to send and save videos to several devices. We wanted to save videos, to our tablet, that the App was running on. (We did not want yet another App on our phones so we bought a tablet specifically for this Yi Home App. Yet we cannot save tiny 6 second videos to it?)But oddly, you cannot go into the settings anywhere and click to "save to Micro SD storage". Nope! For some stupid reason. You have to buy Micro SD cards, and install them into the cameras. Or somehow the cameras will not work properly.Total waste of money! Do not get these cameras, or use this App. Unless you are ready to pay $7 a month for the stupid cloud storage. Or just so they will work properly. Or you will be throwing your money down the toilet! The only positive about these cameras is the picture quality. Buy guess what. It's 2021. All cameras are great quality now a days.Every time the App itself has problems. And when we contact Yi. They basically always say they are working on it and "will be fixed soon". But it never gets fixed. I don't know how this company is still making money. Well, from idiots like me. We're moving onto Blink. At least they tell you up front what you need to do and what to expect. And we'd rather pay $3 a month for a cloud subscription than $7 a month, plus taxes. From a company that obviously doesn't care about it's customers.1 Star. Since you have to pay for the cloud for the App to work properly. And even then, will it still work? We think not!

I bought this camera nearly a year and a half ago when we were looking for a solution for keeping an eye on my daughter when she first started sleeping in her crib alone. Out of the various models I tried this was honestly the best, the mounting was decent, the features are all great, we can even use the built in speaker to tell her to leave the blinds alone. Our son will soon be sleeping in the kids room too so this camera ( along with another black version I ordered ) have saved me and my wife tons of sleep and restless nights just being able to tap into the app and sneak a peek at how our daughter looks.Now for the spooky part. We haven't had any app or hardware issues, but security appears to be what may be this camera or software's fault. This month May of 2018, my son woke up early in the morning around 4am for a late night bottle so I sat in the dark in our living room near my daughters door feeding him with the lights off. About a half hour into sitting in the dark with my son I heard a voice coming from my daughters room indistinguishable to the very end where they said the word "baby". It was a short 3 or 4 word sentence, but it happened. The voice was that of a young boy or woman. I was clearly rattled and logged into the camera to find her rolling around as if she had been nearly awakened. I then started to remember all of the various times I'd log into my cameras and find them pointing in completely random positions, facing a dresser or facing a doorway that leads to our living room. This issue also called into question my router which I will be upgrading also due to not having any logging capabilities for devices connected to it, but I searched the Yi Home app for any logs or IP statistics which it does not have, it only graphs how much you've used Cellular vs wifi to access the cameras. I had been using the cameras with the same password since day one with only myself and my wife having access to the app, so I changed the password and added a 4 digit pin to each camera.After getting over my own anger/spooked out feeling I brought it up to my wife and she also said she has heard voices coming from the room, similar sound, and she's heard the phrase "wake up baby" or a quick yell. That only confirmed what I had heard and after reading some of the posts around the internet regarding hackers or losers with nothing else to do other than to hack into accounts and tell children to kill themselves I think it's only appropriate that Yi starts adding some kind of backend IP logging feature to show what IP, what login, and timestamps of all usage for at least a weeks period in case anyone were to have these kinds of issue. Since changing our password we haven't heard anything new, but I'm not sure exactly how easily defeated these security measures are for a seasoned ip camera hacker.The next incident we have these are coming off the wall. It's been at least two years of private moments in and out of that room that could have possibly been heard/viewed and its creepy that someone might have been watching as my wife changed our babies diaper or tried to wake my daughter up to ruin our night. Aside from this very disturbing event, these cameras have been a great purchase, just be aware when purchasing...set as many passwords and security measures as you can. And also keep an eye on what position you leave these in, if you leave them pointed in a specific direction such as the baby crib and repeatedly find them pointed in other directions you may have someone else accessing them.--- Update 6/9/18These cameras are indeed very hackable. After changing passwords and adding a pin number to the cameras we had another incident tonight with someone watching our daughter as she was going to sleep. My daughter was calling for Mommy or daddy and my wifes curiosity was sparked, she logged into the cameras and was able to clearly hear talking and munching/crunching of potato chips of whoever was viewing our cams. It's disgustingly creepy and be warned I am removing these cameras from our walls. The manufacturer of these cameras has failed to safeguard your privacy.We have the intrustion recorded on video.