I will recommend the jayol spy camera: www.amazon.com/dp/B07FJMNHQ9

The problem with most of these camera-clocks is that the IR night vision does not turn on/off by itself according to the current lighting conditions. I have such a camera and the best I can do is schedule the night vision between 7:00pm and 7:00am. This works most of the time, but on a rainy day the image is too dark for the day vision schedule. Moreover the time range needs to be adjusted as the days of the seasons get shorter/longer. It is not clear whether the camera-clock you recommend, Lin, can automatically adjust the day/night vision based on the current lighting conditions. If the spec does not mention it, I doubt it can. I have only found one camera-clock that claims to adjust for day/night vision automatically, but I do not have one to confirm this.

Maybe you need to change another one.

How you cope with automatically triggered the IR capability . I once can get the wireless signal but once I delete it and never can detect it anymore?

It's only 60. Cheap in price. What do u expect . Stop being so picky

All of the camera's functionality is accessible from an iphone, ipad or Android phone. The PC app (IPCam) is not as comprehensive. It is best suited to watch live video. It cannot access the camera's SD card whereas the the smart phone app can. There are several apps that can be run from your smart phone. They are virtually identical because they are all written by the same programmer (Gang Zhang). Some of these include, iminicam, HDminicam, P2PLiveCam, BvCam and MuCam. I use MuCam because I find that it works for different model cameras that are documented to run from the other apps I listed. Micro SD cards can be purchased ($5-$50) anywhere computer peripherals are sold Some camera models can take a 32gb micro SD card while others can take 64gb. The length of continuous recording depends on the capacity of the SD card, the chosen resolution, and whether the recording is in color or in IR mode. If I remember correctly, you can get a few days of continuous recording on a 8gb SD. But you probably will not chose continuous recording since the camera can be configured to record whenever it detects motion. Don't forget, it is very cumbersome and boring to search for relevant information when you choose continuous recording. Motion detection is often the best option, but the camera may sometimes be a couple of seconds too slow to start recording after it detects motion. The recording time after motion is detected can be set between 1 and 60 minutes. The default is 3 minutes.

@@dkyrtata6688 Thanks most appreciate it hun

No, but you need wifi to configure the camera and access it with your phone. If you set up the camera to record and bring down wifi, the recording will continue and store the video on the SD card. However, you must set up recording through the scheduler not from the "record" button on the app on your phone because the record button records the video to your phone. The scheduler records to the SD card.

@@dkyrtata6688 wait so if I buy the camera can I connect it to a internet pass and also do it have to be in my house I wanted to take it to another property and watch over it without being there.

@@solojay_1634 Not anymore since Aug/2019. Don't buy this camera. It is no longer supported

@@dkyrtata6688 are you clearly saying that we can't get online with it anymore? Is this obsolete?

​@@bensalah1, The existing cameras bought before 2019 are obsolete. I do not know if the cameras have been changed since then. I've stopped paying attention other than my cameras are useless beyond my wifi area

There are apps you can install on your phone that will detect the infrared lights that the camera emits for night vision. I am not sure what you can do to find such cameras during normal lighting conditions. These cameras can be disguised as just about anything: a light bulb; a pen; a smoke detector; an electrical outlet to name a few. The weakness of these is that they cannot run very long on battery power. So they would have to be conspicuously plugged into an electrical outlet.

Judging from your testimony, your camera may be defective. However do hear me out. (I will assume you are using the Android version of the app which is slightly different than the Apple version.) The quality of live video, depends on the strength of your wifi signal. However, the quality of the wifi signal should not affect the quality of what is actually recorded on the SD card. So you need to view the video from the SD card. There are two types of recorded video: a) "Live Video" that is recorded when you manually start recording. b) "Alarm Video" that is automatically recorded upon motion detection. Only "Alarm Video" is stored on the SD card. "Live Video" is stored on your smart phone where you initiated the recording from. Since there are two types of recorded video, there are two places within the app where the resolution can be set for each type. So set the resolution to 1080p for "Alarm Video" by going into "Advance Config > SDCard Record Config". This will not affect the resolution of "Live Video". Set "LIve Video" resolution, from the top of the "Live Video" screen. Again, this will not affect the resolution of the "Alarm Video" recordings. Although it is far from obvious, the "Alarm Video" recordings (i.e those triggered from motion detection) are accessed from the third icon (i.e. the movie camera icon labeled as "Record") on the bottom of the main screen. From the next screen, you must choose from the pull-down menu "RemoteSDCard" (the default is "Local" which contains only "Live Video" recordings that you initiated manually from your smart phone). Finally, as I mentioned in a previous post, the app does allow you to display a 12 hour clock rather than 24 hour military time. From "Advance Config", go to "TIme Settings." Then under "Time Mode", select one of the other two date formats (Day/Month/Year or Month/Day/Year). These formats display a 12 hour clock. The default format of Year/Month/Day displays a 24 hour clock.

yep, tried it all. The camera is a dud! No response to my inquiries either from them. Looked like they sent me one that had already been returned to them as faulty because it was dirty, battery dies after an hour, does not work without very bright light, and has about a five foot width of view. Total dud.

@@DeeCee1878 See my response from another thread of yours.

Dkyrtata agreed because I have the same issues. There’s a couple of things I’m still fighting out. But I have options for 24h and 12h in the clock.

Batteries are like the ones used in most power banks

@@user-eg8os4rk2f what the name or type

Duracell 123 lithium.

Hi don't buy this product, as you stated the camera report your router ip to a server god knows where it is, which worked for a while, lately this server is down for the past 2 months so basically your stuck with a camera in your local area network, what i did is a ddns server in my router with port forwading enabled i can access the footage over the web but i lost the camera functionalities as audio and remote SD card access to it, cheers

did you ever have any luck figuring this out. I don't have audio at all.

no

I am surprised you managed to get any connectivity since you left home. No, I doubt the device is broken. You just need to get somebody to reboot it; turn it off and on. It is very common for it to go down especially after you reboot your modem/router.

Yes, but at the same time many people would use it for legitimate reasons. You can also drive a car into a crowd of people, but most drivers don't.

Yea it takes a micro and comes with a usb to plug in but you can use your own of choice im sure

You should always be plugged into a power source. The battery is intended to keep the camera running for a few hours during a power failure -- most of which are shorter than the battery life.

Nice. But, ok so no overcharging for this device? So it works like an emergency light function right?

​@@xianjison It should not overcharge if you keep it plugged in. But like any rechargeable device, I assume the battery will gradually not hold a charge as well as when it is new.

Is there another app for it??

@@paigegarrett4100 There are several that will work from the link I provided. Try MUCam

Try any of the apps that are written by Zhang Gang. There are several; virtually identical. First try iMiniCam, P2pLiveCam, MUcam, and pro_iCam. There are others

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Here is a link to an online store that shows the camera specs: goo.gl/NYYD3S So as you can see the largest SD card it accepts is 32gb. I do not have this particular camera but I have a similar one that uses the same app. So, the app allows you to change the date format which also sets the time display to 12 or 24 hours. Only the Apple version of the app has this detail labeled; the Android version does not, but both work exactly the same to set the time format to 12 or 24 hours. So assuming the camera is designed to display either time format, go to "TIme Settings." Then under "Time Mode", select either "Day/Month/Year" or "Month/Day/Year" to display a 12 hour clock. The default format of "Year/Month/Day" displays a 24 hour clock.

I can't find a way to change it from 24 hour military format.

@@dkyrtata6688 link no longer works

@@evansusmc The specifications have changed in the past 3 years since I posted my comment. I would hope they replaced the app so that the camera can work as designed. Otherwise, the camera is not very useful.

I am not sure. I have not done it myself, but I think the user manual contains a unique code that can be scanned by your smart phone through its camera. Instead of scanning, I always connect to the camera's wifi signal. (if it does not appear, it does if the camera is reset). If I am not on the same wifi network as the camera, I just type in the 27 character identifier. Fortunately, this only has to be done once, unless the camera is reset or deleted from the smart phone.

great to hear back from you. I have been sending requests for user manuals to a couple of companies. The video above is / seems quite long ....but the video instructions seem clear.

I think all the user manuals are identical for all brands of the same camera; written in Chinese in the beginning followed by English. Totally useless and incomprehensible. I wrote my own manual in a Word document that covers everything I learned about the camera. If you want a copy send me an email at dkyrtata at hotmail dot com. I do not know if Alibaba sells the camera. You need to check it on Ali Express which is geared for regular consumers, not wholesale buyers. Go there ( aliexpress.com ) and search for "Camera clock". I provided some links to several cameras (including the one I bought) in one of my responses below, so I won't repeat them here. The camera is not difficult to set up, but I did struggle with it. It must have been my frustration trying to understand the manual? Useless!

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Neem Meem I do not own this particular camera, but all similar camera-clocks that I have read about state that they only support 2.4g not 5g. I quote this from one seller on Ali Express: "Only supports 2.4GHz wireless band. If router is 5GHz, please switch to 2.4GHz, and make sure DHCP is on."

It is black and white because you have the camera's night vision turned on. You may have turned it on from the Live Video screen or you may have scheduled it to be turned on. Both cases seem unlikely, but that is all I can think of.

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The camera's wifi appears when the camera is reset or when first taken out of the box. Once you connect the camera to your wifi network, its wifi signal disappears from the list.

It should last a couple of hours; maybe up to 5 depending on how old the battery is. The battery is not intended for normal use. It serves as a backup for prolonged power failures.

All 5 of my cameras can now be connected to remotely, but it takes 5-10 minutes to do so. Hopefully the connection time will improve over time.

@@dkyrtata6688 dang, all 4 cams of mine still are still appear to be 'logging in' forever failing to establish connection outside my internal network, hence i couldnt view my cams from anywhere else using my cellular data, any lead? server failure still proly eh? sighs

​@@kaharabdullah8010, yes it's true. The P2P servers have been down again since around Dec18/2019. So remote connections are no longer possible. I hope we don't have to wait another 3 months for them!

The night vision is good but don't buy this camera. It is no longer supported

@@dkyrtata6688 no longer supported? What's that mean that I can't get the pictures off of it? I had found one of these a while ago and had no idea it was a video camera until I brought it to my new apartment and apparently the front cover fell off somewhere so I finally saw that it was a camera I've never really looked at it before.

​@@brandons7272 you can still retrieve your photos/videos since they are stored on the Micro SD card. But you cannot connect to the camera from outside the wifi network it is connected to. You can only connect when you and the camera are at the same location.

Not anymore unless that server the camera relies on is brought back online. After three weeks... nothing

I have same problem. Camera not working from one month. This is answer "from the developers of this APP, their servers are currently being hacked and are currently being repaired. After the repair, they will return to normal."

@@ufo131, thank you for the update, but I am still skeptical. If it were me, I would have published a status report somewhere rather than letting us all hang the way we have been. Can you provide us with the email address that you used to contact the developers? Maybe the more of us who write them, the more responses we will get. Also, could you please cut and paste the response you received?

Dkyrtata so your camera working shitty now?

Dkyrtata Or is it just wen your away from your house

​@@JROKRIZZY, all my cameras seem to work the same as they used to. The only difference of course is that I cannot connect to them when I am away from the wifi network that the cameras are connected to.

Just plug it in. The battery is just for backup in case of a power failure

No, don't buy it!. The camera is no longer supported and the app has been removed from the Apple/Google stores. Even if you obtain the app, you will be unable to make a remote connection to the camera.

@@dkyrtata6688 thank you

The camera records onto its micro SD card. However, when you manually start recording from the "Live Video" screen of your phone, the recording will be stored on the phone, not the SD card.

The camera has two recording modes. Apparently, you are using the mode that is turned on from the "Live Video" screen and stores the video on your phone. Once you exit the screen, the recording stops. This mode is intended to capture things spontaneously at your discretion. The other mode of recording stores the video on the SD card in the camera -- not on the storage of your phone. It allows you to record upon motion detection or on a given schedule such as all-day or during certain hours. This is the feature you are looking for. To access it, select "Advance Config" (or "Device Settings" on Apple). From there select "SDCard Config" to configure the recording schedule. Then later, select "Alarm Config" for additional options.

The default password is 8888. If that does not work, reset the camera by gently pressing the reset button with a pin for about 7 seconds. Then try the 8888 password again. Do not push the reset button to hard or you may dislodge it from the circuit board. You should feel or hear a click when you press it correctly.

Dkyrtata so I read somewhere u can store recordings onto the app itself does that mean u do not need the Sd Card because if not I can just buy the cam and save recordings to my phone or do u think it is better to get the as card as well ?

@@dkyrtata6688 thanks

​@@JROKRIZZY, I did not notice your message until now. Get an SD card. They are not expensive. You do not want to fill up your phone's storage capacity with useless videos. The app is designed to prevent that because there are two modes of recording. When you press the record button from the "Live Video" screen, the footage gets stored directly on your phone. But the moment, you exit the screen the recording stops. That is NOT the intended use of the camera. That feature is only useful if you quickly want to start recording something on the fly. The typical use for the camera is to start recording upon motion detection or all day by setting up these conditions from the "Advance Config" menu (or "Device Settings" menu on Apple) of the app. When the recording conditions are configured from this menu, the camera will record the video on the SD card and send up to 3 sample snapshots of the video to your phone. Upon viewing these snapshots from your phone, you can find the corresponding video that is stored on the SD card and play it on your phone. There is also an option from the app to download a copy of the video from the SD card to your phone. Or you can physically remove the SD card from the camera and plug it into a PC. Without an SD card, you cannot do any of that, but I think you would still get the 3 sample snapshot photos even though there would be no corresponding video.

Dkyrtata it’s cool thx for response still haven’t bought one but I’m gettin it soon Good look

You control recording through the app which has various settings such as continuous recording or motion detection. This type of recording is stored on the camera's SD card which you can access from your smart phone through wifi or internet. You can also manually turn on recording by pressing the record button on the live video screen of the app. This type of recording sends the video directly to your smart phone. It is not saved on the camera's SD card. There is no record button on the camera itself.

Only Wifi save your money it sucks

Dkyrtata so you don’t necessarily have to buy the SD card if u want to save all recordings to the app itself? What do u recommend because it costs more if u get the SD card with it wats the SD card good for if I can save all my vids to the app

@@112cprincess it’ll still record everything to the SD card though, right?

@@evansusmc that's what i wanted to know

Maybe these instructions will be of help: When the camera is reset (or is new out of the box), it will emit a WiFi signal which will be listed with the camera’s 27 character UID, starting with something like this: “CH14741-C”. The corresponding default password is 8888. Now, connect to this network from your phone in order to directly access the camera from the app. Run the smart phone app. From the “Video/Photo” toolbar at the bottom of the main screen, tap on “Live Video”. Then tap on the “+” at the top right corner. Connect your camera to the app by choosing one of the three methods listed on the screen: 1) Add new online camera by selecting one of the cameras from the list. 2) Manually add a camera by typing the camera’s 27 character UID (eg. “CH14741-C…”) and password (8888). 3) Set up a WiFi connection by connecting your smart phone to the camera’s WiFi signal and following the given instructions. Once the camera has been connected to the app, tap on the back button on your phone (or the back label on your Apple screen) to return to the main screen. Tap on the gear-wheel at the top right of the main screen, and select “Advance Config” (or “Device Settings” on Apple) from the menu. Tap on “WiFi Config” and select your home WiFi in order to connect your camera to your home WiFi. Connect by typing in your home WiFi password. Reconnect your phone back to it’s normal WiFi network too. (At this point, the camera will no longer emit the wifi signal which you used earlier to connect your phone to the camera.) Set the time zone on the camera (see “Time Setting” under “Camera Configuration”), so that the internal time and date of the camera are set correctly from the internet.

I do not have this particular camera, but I have two similar ones -- one with a button on the top and one without. If your camera has the button on the top, the time can only be set with the button. The app cannot alter the time displayed on the device. However, what you are probably not aware of is that the camera maintains two times -- the external time that you see on the face of the camera, and an internal time. The app sets the internal time which is embedded on the top left corner of the video. If this timestamp is not present in the video, you can turn it on by flipping on the "On Screen Display" switch from "Alarm Config" under "Advance Config" (or "Device Settings"). For cameras without the button on the top, the app will set both the internal and external time.

Yes, but not anymore since the app is unavailable on the Apple/Google stores. For Android you can still get the app elsewhere but you cannot establish a connection outside your wifi area. Don't buy!

Yes, lightly press the reset button with a pin. Do not push too hard or you may dislodge the button from its circuit board. Once you reset the camera, the password will revert to 8888. The app may also display a reset option from the menu when your smart phone and camera are both connected to the same wifi network. However, I have seen the option missing on the iphone version of the app.

The smart phone app can display live video of up to 4 cameras on the screen, by simply providing the UID for each camera. Although, 4 can be displayed simultaneously, I vaguely remember reading somewhere that you can connect up to 9. The PC app seems to allow any number of cameras. I have not tested more than 2 however.

Do you have to pay for services don't like cameras to for pain for services

Zero, with the P2P servers down (as is the case). Otherwise, anywhere around the world. Don't buy.

The camera is unsupported since August/2019. So the app has been removed from the Google/Apple stores. There is nowhere else to get it for Apple, but you can still get it from here for Android. Try using MUCam: apkfab.com/developer/gang.zhang

Most of these types of cameras can record sound (though the video say it does not). However, for legal reasons, the sound is often disabled if the camera is purchased in the US. I do not know if the sound can be re-enabled.

Mine has sound enabled but the quality is so poor that you can not hear anything clearly, even with a person talking 5 feet from the unit. There is also a lot of feedback in it-white noise that can not be eliminated no matter where I place it. I have another one, and there is no interference, so it is just this camera.

Voiceov Reason this camera model or you have two of the exact same and only one has bad audio?

Yes, unmute the microphone and speaker from the bottom ribbon of the "Live Video" Screen. Then hold down the microphone icon to speak. The feature is supported if you hear yourself through the camera.

All apps written by Gang Zhang that are compatible with the camera have been removed from the Apple/Google stores. This suggests that the camera is no longer supported by anyone, though still being sold. You can still download the app from here: apkfab.com/developer/gang.zhang If you recently bought your camera, you should get yourself a refund while you can.

no

Just using the app. The camera connects to the internet (using Wi-Fi). So wherever you are (you don't need to be connected to the camera or same network) you can see the live feed. I think it's the same principle as any home security camera

I assume you just bought the camera. Are you aware that the camera is no longer supported? As such, the app has been removed from the Apple/Google stores. There is a lookalike app which you probably downloaded, but it is not designed for your camera. I can provide you a link for where you can get the proper app, but I recommend you get a refund for your camera while you can. I am guessing within a year the cameras will completely disappear from the stores after they sell off what's left of them to unsuspecting buyers.

Once you connect your phone to the camera's wifi signal, you are supposed to configure the camera to connect to your home wifi. Otherwise the camera cannot reach the outside world beyond your home. So go into "Advance Config" (or "Device Settings" on Apple), and select "Wifi Config" from the menu. Then choose your home wifi network and type in your home wifi password. This will connect the camera to your home wifi. Don't forget to disconnect your phone from the camera's wifi signal and reconnect it to your home wifi (or whatever network your phone connects to when you are at home). Since both your phone and your camera can connect to the internet, your phone should be able to connect to the camera from anywhere in the world. One final note: Once your camera is connected to your home wifi, it will no longer emit its wifi signal (I.e. it will no longer appear on the list of networks on your phone or PC.) If you want its wifi signal to reappear, you will have to reset the camera by gently pressing the reset button for about 7 seconds. This will undo all the settings and revert the password to its default of 8888.

The camera should be able to find the 2.4 ghz signal coming from your router. Make sure that your router is sending a 2.4 ghz signal

Reboot the camera and maybe even your router. I find that establishing a connection is more difficult from a public wifi network. Also, I find that when it struggles for too long to connect (i.e. more than 30 seconds), the app forgets the id of the camera and ends up naming it "IP Camera." Sometimes the camera will be knocked "off line" by a prolonged attempt to connect, which means you must reboot it from the camera itself, (since the app cannot connect to the camera to do the reboot). When off line, the camera is still doing its job (i.e it is still recording onto the SD card).

Same here, the camera developer has stopped its server so basically your stuck with it just at your home network no more viewing over the web, unless they do something about it i emailed them alot but got no response what so ever...

Same here I got a wall clock that worked really well for about 3 months l, light don’t blink anymore not giving a WiFi signal to connect to , reboot doesn’t do anything What a waste I paid 200 for the clock ..

You cannot connect to your camera unless your camera is connected to a wifi network.