somfy2401507 Indoor Camera, Full HD Security Camera for Home Security Systems, Smart Device with Integrated App and Simple Installation

Have not tried night vision yet ……great product setting up was more tricky than it should have been .Not fully set up with my Somfy tahoba product. But what I wanted it for is brilliant.Didn’t need the alarm , have not tried the voice either. These will be set up I presume at a later stage when I move this into an out building.my sole purpose was to check on our cat whilst on holiday .

Ok, so I purchased the Somfy alarm system and bought this to compliment the overall performance. It was easy to install, quick to set up and link to my profile.....but, the amount of wiring it comes with would put me off, I should have went with the wireless blink system which is excellent !!

The camera operates on 2.4 GHz WiFi only, it comes in a smart box with a long length, 3 m, of flat USB cable, a USB power adapter and a set of instructions. The camera looks very smart, it’s an unusual design; it has a magnetic base which allows it to be angled up or down together with a privacy shutter which covers the lens and is controlled by options in the app.The USB cable powers the camera and fits neatly into a recess at the back of the camera. The camera uses an infrared sensor to detect movement, similar to the blink cameras, porch lights and the like, the advantage of this, in my opinion, is more reliable detection. I have other cameras which use a change in the image for detection but I find these are affected by changing light conditions (with alerts at sunrise and sunset, for example). I downloaded the Somfy app to my android phone and connected the camera without problem. The app has a lot of controls and options over the camera. The camera can be used without the motion detection function, the app allows it to be switched off. The sensitivity of the motion detection can be adjusted as well as the part of the image it responds to. The image in daylight is very good, night vision is good too. The detection, I found, is very good and the camera sends alerts to the phone and can also make a chime sound. The camera has two-way speech so could be used as a baby alarm. The camera sends video clips to the Somfy cloud, the basic service allows unlimited video clips 10 seconds long, available for 24 hours and free alerts, or for £3.99 a month you can get continuous video recording and some extra features if you have a Somfy alarm system. This is a good camera, however I think it probably integrates best as part of the Somfy alarm system.

All good

Worth every penny

The camera itself works fine. You can see from your mobile what happens in your room. However, the important part of a surveillance camera (ability to rewind and watch what has happened) is dismal.It is slow. It drops from the network. The history sometimes entirely disappears. You have watched what happened during the day and after sleep, check what happened during the night and it stubbornly tells you that the camera has been unavailable for the last few days (even though you had that history 8h before). And I have a second one, with the siren. On a different wifi network. I have turned the siren off. Despite that, every time an alert is spotted on the first camera (without the siren, on a different network, in a different room), the siren of the second one is triggered. I have had to turn monitoring / alerts off to stop that from happening and have to check regularly to see if there has been motion detected.Overall, a waste of money. I will buy another one from a different brand and bin the ones I have.

Update: One of the issues I highlighted during the review of this camera has been resolved - see the comments at the foot of the review. Accordingly I have updated the text and increased by current rating of the camera to three stars.This is a fairly innovative internal security camera from Somfy - innovative because it has a privacy shutter which physically covers the camera lens when you decide to turn it off or based on the geolocation of your mobile phone, and to an extent innovative because there is a reasonable cloud-based video notification and back up system, something other manufacturers make you pay for monthly or annually.In the rather smart product box you get the camera unit itself, a magnetically-attached stand, a fairly long USB to micro-USB cable, a plug with a UK and European adapter and some instructions. You need to download the Somfy Protect app available for iOS or Android phones.The instructions suggest that the camera takes only 10 minutes to set up. You (simply) follow the instructions from the app to link the camera, when its blue LED flashes, to your wifi network. Unfortunately for me that didn't work. On each occasion, whether setting the camera up using Apple's HomeKit or through the app, installation failed. That's not disastrous as with a paperclip you can reset the camera and start again. After a few attempts this becomes rather tedious though. On each occasion, via the app, my phone managed to detect the camera, with the blue LED flashing and then turning to a white flashing light (wow), but then encountered an 'unknown error' stopping the installation. I was at various points during this process asked to key in my wifi network password or display a barcode on the phone for the camera to detect, or display the HomerKit bar code.Getting no where I went through the help guidance - which equally did not help. I suspected that the camera might be trying to comment to a 5Ghz network (which it won't work with) as opposed to my 2.4Ghz network. In doing so I saw that the camera was actually connected to the network, but the app didn't realise that. I tried other work arounds including moving the camera to just beside the router, and even connecting to a completely different wifi network. None of this worked in a logical way.Finally I did manage to connect the camera via the app, although the app first said that installation had failed. On restarting the app I was pleased to see that suddenly the camera was available. That said the camera then required a firmware update which, on three attempts so far to install, has failed. Bizarrely, as the attached images show, on my phone the app shows my camera as functioning, on my iPad the app says that no devices are linked to my account, yet this is the same account with the same username and password. This makes little sense.At the moment I've taken a break from the camera. It is just about working but only with a black and white video stream, and only on my phone as the app on my iPad insists my account is not linked to any cameras.. It might be that the illusive firmware update resolves some issues but since I haven't managed to install it I don't know. I'll try again in due course.For the moment one or two other observations. The free cloud video storage keeps 10 seconds of video footage - when movement is detected for example - for 24 hours. If you want videos for longer durations to be stored, or kept for more than a day, there's a £3.99 a month cost - there's a month's free trial. The camera is relatively large - it's not discrete which may or may not suit you. The magnetically attached stand while clever is limited in that the angle the camera can point up or down is restricted. Finally the Somfy app only appears to be designed for iOS phones and not tablets - the app will run on a tablet but only as configured in terms of screen size as a phone.I'll update the review when I've managed to get the app working correctly and the firmware update installed. I am very familiar with installing cameras and this is has been the most difficult camera to set up to date. As things stand, for now, two stars to reflect this.

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