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Pros

Overall i'm pleased, and it only took me a few hours to get them up and working the way i wanted. Video quality is fantastic. Just has to work and be understandable.

Works great clear snapshot s and video come with mounting bracket to. My favorite is tinycam. It's an indoor cam but i use it outdoors in a covered area.

You'll be prompted to enter a new username/password. I also use dynamic dns on my router that provides the name for me to connect to outside my home.



Cons

Foscam support is absolutely unimpressive. Buyer and users beware! Customer service for technical support is less than satisfactory.

I have a few 'dashboard' cameras that do 720p, and all of them have better quality than this foscam. This is not clearly explained but there is a cryptic error. The iphone app works for viewing, but your out of luck if want to use the recording functi...  Read More

Connection fails even with compatibility mode enabled in ie11.

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Quality


The wife and i are so excited that we can leave or little one home with the baby sitter and not have to worry about them treati...  Read More


Picture quality is great and ir mode at night is very good


The iphone apps works great as long as you know how to config your router so you can access it remotely

Packaging/appearance


The camera itself has been fine as weve not really had to tweak any of the settings after getting it installed and running thou...  Read More

Competitiveness


I have one other foscam which works well and very good tech help from foscam


Very happy with foscam thanks for the great service from rose


Because of this i do not recommend this product and i recommend steering clear of other foscam products for fear that the same ...  Read More


Actually it is more dependable than the foscam r2 cam i got recently

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  • This product had a total of 613 reviews as of our last analysis date on May 13 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Basic networking knowledge is required setting static ips port forwarding wifi set up if you dont have wps


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The foscam android app as if this writing is utterly useless would not connect no matter what i did


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Night vision is pretty amazing


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I havent gotten into recording motion detection or any of the other functions


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The mounting kit that comes with it should be sufficient but i did have to buy an electrical extension for it as the provided cord is short


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I have had the camera for over 2 years and after upgrading my computer and my internet account could not get the cameras to work remotely


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But to use it on smartphones or outside the network is a complete pain


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I suggest watching the awkwardhamster video on youtube to setup port forwarding on your router to make this work

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