NetatmoSmart Indoor Surveillance Camera with Wall Mount, WiFi 2.4 GHz, Motion Detection, Night Vision, 1920p, No Subscription, NSC01-UK

Concerned about home safety, we looked at various home security products. This looked really good. For me personally, I was a little concerned that there are so many processes going on with video sharing, wifi, placement etc that it wouldnt work. HOW WRONG I WAS.This is a fantastic unit. EVERY aspect works. I can be sat at work and check in at home by streaming live video, sound, the lot on my mobile phone. It stores each video on the supplied memory card. In addition, videos are automatically stored to my drop box so if anybody did get in and smash everything up, the recorded video will be automatically sent to drop box, a crime audit trail!It does require you to keep updating peoples faces for the first few days as even though it picks up the same person a number of times, the unit has to learn your face for a few days so do expect a few unknown face messages. Just simply tell the app who it is and after a day or so it remembers you in various poses, facial expressions and light levels. We have named our unit Brian and he now recognises all of us. I get a welcome home message on arrival. I also love how with one account, both my wife and I have access to the same data, you just add a user. If it were possible to score 10 stars, I would. It is a bit on the pricey side but honestly and openly, for me, it works brilliantly and have no problems recommendeding this addition to home security. Plus, you can have a lot of fun with recording stuff for family members. AWESOME.

Reviewed June 2024:Have 4 of these across 2 properties (plus one outdoor and one doorbell cam).They are quality and integrate well with Apple Homekit.The best point about them is that they do not require any paid for subscription for the history, and come with a SD Card installed that saves the details.Another point to consider is that the app, both the functional capability and that its not from a Chinese state company who might be doing all kind of things with your data.They are not perfect.- found the setup to be clunky (every time) and it always took several attempts to get them recognised in Homekit, sometimes having to delete the device and restart. Couldn't find a way through this, but I'm assuming that if they start supporting Thread it may improve.- They seem to prefer a strong wifi signal. We find the 2 cameras in one property are super reliable and its served by a strong mesh wifi. In the other property, one camera is a bit one the edge of the better coverage and tends to drop out quite frequently, sometimes needing to be switched off and on to reconnect. (we manage this with a wifi plug switch, which is reliable enough with the connection).- They don't have an inbuilt speaker, so it you want to talk to the dog or similar, its not possible. (we also use Google cameras connected via HomeBridge) and they have this, although questionable audio quality).- the cables are a tad short, and they cannot be extended. Even 50 cm would have made a difference.But, they are do a good job, and provide peace of mind when away.The Netatmo Security app is very good, and it does make the camera capability of HomeKit look quite amateur, but considering the time spent by Apple to fix up Threads, I'm assuming that improvements will come.Overall, they are good. We don't need more cameras, but if we did, these are a good choice.

The Netatmo Welcome is a fantastic little home security device. I have owned the Canary in the past and tried the Logitech ones.The Netatmo fits where everyone else has failed. Whilst it does suffer from reliability issues as per any other home security connected device, it on average does what it needs to.What sets this device apart is that it doesn't store the data on the company's servers. It stores it on an internal micro SD card along with cloud storage on Dropbox for example. This makes consumers feel at ease given all the scandals about companies storing your video data.The device can get hot when in use during a hot day - as it is continuously monitoring. So don't put it in a place where it can't ventilate.The night vision is great - when it comes on. My first device had an issue with the night vision, so had to get a replacement but the new one works just fine. It comes on when the area is dark and turns off in the light.You can train the device to start recognising if the movement is animal or nothing, which is a great feature as it learns. I have noticed less notification due to our cat coming into the room. It continues to record as long as there is motion and this is uploaded to the MicroSD and the cloud service you are using. There is no issue with running out of space onboard the machine as it'll overwrite when it is full. Furthermore, it is easy for you to delete the files on your dropbox if you are running out of space.The device can recognise faces, though you should not point it where a tv is playing as otherwise it will continuously tell you that there is an unrecognised face.I note that the automatic proximity sensor is not always accurate. It is supposed to use the phone data to geo tag and tell if you are home or not. There are times when you are home with your phone but it needs to see your face before it determines a user is home or not.Overall, as this is a fee-less home security device which does what it sets out to do, i rate it 5/5 and would recommend for anyone getting into the home security game.