AOSU Security Cameras Outdoor Wireless, 2 Cam-Kit, No Subscription, Solar-Powered, Home Security Cameras System with 360° Pan & Tilt, Auto Tracking, 2K Color Night Vision, Easy Setup, 5G & 2.4G WiFi

Excellent product, outsanding value, and superb customer service!
I have been looking at security cameras for my small business for a while now. Most things I tend to DIY. A low-impact installation was driving factor in my decision to purchase this 4 camera set from Aosu. The integrated solar panels of these cameras meant full wireless capability. The only wires involved were an ethernet cable to connect the receiver for these cameras to our network, and the power cable for the receiver. The cameras being solar powered meant no need to run power to their individual installation sites.Ease of installation – The cameras use a snap-in mounting bracket. The bracket is secured to the mounting surface, and the cameras simplay snap onto the bracket once it’s installed. You don’t have to juggle a drill/bit driver and these cameras at the same time when you’re installing them. Most security cameras are installed off of a ladder, so the easier the work is while you’re on the ladder the safer it is.Video quality – Picture quality is outstanding. Not just at this price point either. Day or night, the resolution is high enough to identify faces and license plates from 30-50 feet. You can zoom in on the video and still have decent resolution for details.Durability – Yet to be determined. Before installing the cameras I set them outside with the solar panels pointed towards the south western sky for a few days. I wanted to be sure the cameras started out with 100% charge before installing them. These cameras were rained on a couple of times during that initial charging period. They are advertised as IP 65 rated, which means (6) pretty much dust proof and (5) sealed to low pressure water spray from any direction (but not full immersion). Rain and general outdoor conditions shouldn’t be an issue. The solar panels did charge the cameras fully in those 3 or so days. The cameras were left off during this time. After installing the cameras they functioned as advertised. I expect durability to be outstanding, but only time will tell.Battery life/solar panel effectiveness – Two of the cameras were installed in shaded areas with zero direct sunlight. Typically, this is not a good idea for solar-powered/charged equipment. After 1 week, starting from 100% charge, These two cameras are at 78% and 82% charged. I expected them to deplete within a few days. The other 2 cameras see several hours of direct sunlight each day and stay fully charged. There are some remote solar panels available on Amazon if your cameras have to be installed in a shaded area. See the next section before you purchase them though.Customer service – When I received my camera set there was a card inside warning not to install the cameras in a shaded area. The card was worded like I could contact Aosu and they would provide a remote solar panel for these locations on request. So I emailed Aosu about it. On a Saturday. Within a few hours I had a reply. They wanted to know my Amazon order number to verify the purchase, and my shipping address. They sent me 2 extra solar panels AT NO CHARGE! They arrived within a few days. I understand them not wanting to include these extra solar panels with the camera set. Many, if not most, people won’t need them. But to offer them at no extra cost or even shipping cost I was not expecting. I received regular emails from Aosu concerning these solar panels as well. They seem to want satisfaction for their customers and are willing to put in the extra effort/expense that somtimes requires. They now have a dedicated customer from me as a result.The app – Too many products are destroyed by a sub-par app for the product interface. The Aosu app was painless to install, hasn’t frozen or suddenly closed once, and is easy to learn and navigate. Setting up alert notifications for each camera, including an option for time windows for these notifications, is done through the app. I purchased these cameras as an after-hours security supplement for outside my business. I have other cameras inside for shoplifting and general security during business hours. What I didn’t want, or need, was to be alerted with a phone notification every time a car drives by during business hours. What I wanted was to be alerted when people were walking in the immediate area of my business outside of normal business hours. I had a window broken in my store front by some fatherless children a few months back. My inside cameras didn’t catch anything since they didn’t enter the building. Still, my window was broken and these little hoodlums were never caught. None of the other businesses had outside cameras either. The app being set up with notifications outside of business hours, plus the camera footage, would have allowed me to call police quickly and to have evidence of the vandalism taking place.Motion detection and Tracking – These cameras being able to rotate 360 degrees and tilt up and down is a feature I didn’t know I needed. Not only these features, but the ability for these cameras to auto-track with movement greatly reduces the “out of frame” issue with static cameras. Through the app you can manually control the camera movement as well. I set the cameras to look in the direction I wanted. They track movement as advertised. When the event is over, they return to the original viewing direction that I set. I wasn’t expecting that either. Otherwise, some random event could move the camera in a direction that doesn’t concern me, and then another later event goes unnoticed by the camera where it does concern me. The motion detection of any camera is never unlimited. Having the camera return to a “home base” position that I set through the app is exactly what is needed. The motion detection works very well, even out to 50 feet or so.Audio – The microphone on the camera picks up normal conversation level noise out to around 20-25 feet. If louder, it will detect noise further away. The audio clarity is very good. I do like the fact that I can also speak through the camera. I’m not sure in what scenario I need that capability, but it is a neat feature. And you can understand what someone is saying through the camera speaker better than a drive-through speaker.Value – The price point for this package provides an outstanding overall value. These aren’t the absolute best security cameras you can buy. I do believe though that you can spend several multiples of the cost of this system and get less. Like I said, I have been researching solar powered wireless camera systems for a few months. A friend of mine purhcased a set of these Aosu cameras for his home. He showed me on his phone how well they worked. I was able to see for myself that they were a quality setup. The price of roughly $100/camera is not a huge investment. A plate glass window for a store front costs A LOT more than this camera system did. My decision was made, so I purchased this set. I couldn’t be more pleased with the value, performance, and customer service.No Monthly Fees – I am allergic to monthly fees and subcriptions. They are death by a thousand cuts. This system having roughly 30-day storage (32gb) on the receiver with no monthly fees is another reason I even considered this purchase. Aosu does offer a relatively low cost cloud storage option if you want to keep videos longer than 30 days. I have no need for that for this system’s intended use. I can download videos of captured events as needed. The mundane, non-event captured events get auto-deleted.Security – Being wireless I suppose these cameras are vulnerable to hacking, just like anything else that is wireless. There isn’t any information about encryption of the wireless wifi signal between these cameras and the receiver. All that was shown to be encrypted was the data on the receiver. If I were concerned about a sophisticated thief/burglar that could hack a wifi signal, I would go with a closed circuit, wired system. It’s a lot harder to physically hack a closed, wired network than it is a wireless signal. But, any system is only as strong as its weakest link. There are 2 independent camera systems now for my business. This system was purchased just for outside security, more or less for property damage and vandalism. The inside of the business has a separate camera system that is tied into my security alarm. That camera system is for break-ins and theft. No security system is perfect, without weaknesses and vulnerabilities. This system is a great starting point. It is infinitely better than NO camera system. Even if you decide to upgrade later to a closed circuit system or something more sophisticated/secure, this system will do much better than just get you by until then.

Prodotto eccezionale, a prezzo conveniente, facile da installare e sicurezza accertata, da consigliare vivamente.

PrésentationCe pack de surveillance dont les 2 caméras sont alimentées par panneaux solaires est très astucieux car les caméras sont associées en WiFi à une base d’enregistrement qui élimine la nécessité d’insérer une carte mémoire dans chaque caméra. Les données enregistrées dans la base sont en sécurité et restent intactes même en cas de destruction des caméras lors d’un cambriolage.Mise en serviceIl faut d’abord télécharger l’application aosu disponible pour Apple et Androïd, créer un compte, et brancher la base sur le secteur grâce à une alimentation fournie, et sur le routeur ou la box WiFi via un câble ethernet RJ45. La base est identifiée par un QR Code qu’il suffit de flasher avec le smartphone, et les caméras, sitôt allumées, sont reconnues par la base : difficile de faire plus simple et plus intuitif.Ensuite, l’application offre une interface très riche et très complète pour le paramétrage des deux caméras, avec détection de présence humaine, possibilité de suivi automatique des personnes en mouvement, et de déclencement d’une alarme sonore avec envoi d’une alerte instanannée sur smartphone. On peut partager le dispositif avec une autre personne, qui sera prévenue égalemenet en cas d’alerte.Installation des camérasLes 2 caméras sont totalement autonomes : aucun fil ni raccordement n’est nécessaire,à condition de les installer à un endroit ensoleillé au moins quelques heures par jour. Elles sont parfaitement étanches et semblent bien résister à la chaleur, à la pluie et aux rayons UV. Un gabarit est fourni pour le perçage avant fixation de la platine support de chaque caméra ainsi que les vis et chevilles nécessaires. Il est conseillé de les charger complètement avec le câble USB fourni avant la première mise en service.Qualité image et sonLa qualité des images en résolution 2K est nettement meilleure que tout ce que j’ai vu jusqu’à présent. Il est notamment possible de zoomer fortement dans l’image tout en conservant une définition très correcte. Enfin, le pilotage horizontal et vertical de la caméra permet de couvrir un très vaste champ de vision, surtout si on la positionne à l’angle de deux murs. La sensibilité du détecteur de présence atteint une bonne dizaine de mètres.
La prise de son m’a aussi étonné : on parvient à capter l’essentiel d’une conversation à l’extérieur à une distance de plusieurs mètres. Et surtout, on est prévenu instantanément par une alerte sur son smartphone ou sa montre connectée en cas de détection d’une présence. Bien évidemment, les prises de vues de nuit en mode infra-rouge n’ont pas du tout la même qualité que les prises de vues faites en pleine journée.L’applicationL’application mérite une mention spéciale, car elle peut gérer non seulement ces deux caméras, mais aussi toutes les autres caméras de la même marques, avec la possibilité d’activer ou de désactiver toutes les caméras WiFi ou filaires d’un seul clic et simultanément : vraiment pratique lorsqu’on s’absente ou qu’on revient à son domicile. Jusqu’à 4 caméras peuvent être visualisées simultanément sur un seul écran. Il est également possible d’activier ou de désactiver les sirènes d’alarme dont sont pourvues ces caméras selon qu’on est absent ou présent au domicile donc indépendamment de la mise en veille. Bref cette application va plus loin que la plupart de ses concurrentes, avec une interface très complète.Mes deux seuls regrets concernent le panneau solaire fixe des caméras : s’il était orientable, on aurait plus de latitude pour choisir leur emplacement ; et aussi la capacité limitée à 32 Go pour les enregistrements sur la base, qu’il aurait été facile de pouvoir augmenter en prévoyant un slot pour une carte MicroSD supplémentaire. Mais il reste possible de souscrire un abonnement pour enregister avec un double cryptage sur le cloud du fabricant, même si cela occasionne évidemment des frais supplémentaires (plusieurs forfaits sont proposés, qu’on peut souscrire en ligne). Il faut aussi éviter de visualiser pendant une longue période de temps les images d’une caméra, surtout en l’absence de soleil, car l’autonomie de la batterie est limitée, mais le système vous prévient bien avant que ça pose un problème.En brefCet ensemble de 2 caméras solaires avec base d’enregistrement est parfaitement adapté pour l’extérieur d’une maison à condition de disposer d’un réseau Wifi de bonne qualité en 2.5 GHz et d’un bon ensoleillement. C’est efficace, les alertes sont immédiates, la qualité des enregistrement est très correcte, et le pilotage vraiment pratique grâce aux commandes groupées. Je suis très satisfait de cet achat.

Als wir eine Kamera kauften, um Eindringlinge zu überwachen (die in unserer Nachbarschaft leider Häuser durchsuchen und Einbrüche begehen), bekamen wir zusätzlich ein Kommunikationsmittel und Sicherheit für unser Haustier.Das erste, was mich an der Kamera überrascht hat, war die Rückmeldung. Wenn man weiß, dass der erwachsene Sohn einmal in der Woche nach Hause kommt und laut sagt, dass Suppe im Kühlschrank ist, während er am anderen Ende der Stadt arbeitet, ist das sehr praktisch. Außerdem erinnern wir unsere Maine-Coon-Katze regelmäßig daran, nicht über den Zaun des Nachbarn zu klettern. Darüber hinaus ist diese Rückmeldung automatisiert: Bei ungebetenen Gästen kann die Kamera im Abwesenheitsmodus sehr laut die Sirene einschalten, Fremde auffordern, das Haus zu verlassen, oder eine aufgezeichnete Sprachnachricht abspielen.Die zweite Sache, die mir auffiel, war die Qualität des Nachtbildes. In der Dunkelheit wird das Bild schwarz-weiß, bleibt aber trotzdem sehr klar. Ich habe noch nie ein so hochauflösendes Bild bei einer Außenkamera gesehen!Die Einfachheit der Montage und Wartung der Kamera ist mehr als lobenswert. Außerdem müssen wir dank des Solarpanels nicht in die Wand bohren, um den Strom anzuschließen oder den Batteriewechsel zu überwachen. Die Kamera verfügt auch über eine praktische und einfache App, so dass wir immer wissen, was in unserem Haus vor sich geht und in welchem Moment. Ereignisaufzeichnungen können lokal oder in der Cloud gespeichert werden und sind durch Eingabe des gewünschten Datums des Ereignisses im Kalender der App leicht abrufbar.Dies ist definitiv eine lohnende Anschaffung, die ich jedem Haushalt empfehle!