1080p Full HD Wireless WiFi IP Security Camera. All-in-one home CCTV camera with built-in Cloud DVR. Quick setup, view Live and playback clips using our Free iPhone/iPad/Android apps. IR Night Vision, Motion Sensor with in-app alerts, 95 Degrees Wide Angle Image and more. UCam247i-1080HD.

I purchased my UCam247 back in July 2017 in order to keep an eye on our rear garden at night. We had a large spate of burglaries in the area and I wanted to try out a non-wired solution - probably my first mistake right there really. I wanted to wait a good year or so before writing this 'review' to give a low down on how the hardware performed since installation.*Installation & Setup:*Installation was mostly a breeze fitting it to the outside of my conservatory. I had to drill a hole to thread the 12v power cable through...only to discover that I needed a 12v extension lead as the supplied power cabling was just too short to reach the mains socket on the other side of the wall. The extension cable from uCam247 was £8. Once that arrived I was good to go...only for me to realise I needed a IP65 junction box in order to hide and protect the cabling at the back of the camera from the elements. This was also available from uCam247 for £12. Once that arrived I was good to go and had the camera mounted and wirelessly talking to my router not too far away.One word of warning. In order for the camera to first 'see' your wireless network you need to temporarily hardwire the thing to your router with an ethernet cable (not provided). Everytime you reset the camera or change your routers wireless SSID you need to repeat the process of hooking it up to the router so ensure you have a long ethernet cable handy for this purpose.*Usage:*My intention was to record outside garden footage to a 64GB Sandisk SD Card via motion detection.Upon installing the uCam software on my Android tablet and 3x phones I realised I was dealing with a VERY basic UI that was extremely dated. Navigation around the various camera settings was extremely slow and would often fail with a generic error message that leaves you with a "What? What do I do now" expression on your face. The remedy - simply close the app, reload and retry again really and this is pretty much my experience even now as I write this review in early 2019.The Android software is just dreadful - and I am being quite generous. On my S8+ the software just tends to hang a lot upon trying to access the camera live feed (I really should contact their support, I keep forgetting to do so). It displays a feed for a few seconds and then just pauses and locks up so I end up having to close the process. On my fathers Moto G4, and my mothers Nexus 6P the software runs reliably enough with the odd crash here and there if I try to tweak the camera settings within the app.Now they do have a Windows based program called Camera Viewer, which will detect your camera and allow you to setup a live feed. This piece of software is extremely basic and not a reliable long term solution.The Camera Viewer software does however link you to the extended settings page for your camera, which can also be accessed through your browser by typing in the camera's IP address in the browser address bar. Straight off the bat, you will be presented with a "Error loading player: No playable sources found" so I guess the settings page requires Adobe Flash or something primative in order to show you a live feed - either way it doesn't work on Firefox, Chrome or even MS Edge browsers on Windows 10. You can however access the camera settings from this same section and it is here where you will encounter the 'meat' of the settings to toy with.You can toy with the video stream resolution and bitrates, as well as download footage from your storage medium (SD Card in my case) and quite a few other things. By adjusting the bit rates for video you only then realise that the SoC (System on a Chip) or the main processor on board this camera hasn't got much horsepower in order to record 1080p30 (1080p footage at 30 frames per second). It barely manages 25 frames per second without dropping frames - the end footage looks messy. In order to get more stable footage I set my camera up at a lower 720p25 using a bitrate of 2048kbps and found that useable for recorded footage. So whilst the camera can do the advertised 1080p recording, it cannot do it well.For this price bracket I was not expecting a miracle, however I was expecting at least 1080p recording that had a consistent frame rate. It is clear that the SoC onboard just cannot handle recording/playback tasks well enough. Logging into the camera in order to view the live stream whilst it is recording to the SD Card shows this very clearly as app response times become dire.In short, the camera hasn't the bandwidth or CPU power to deal with 1080p video, and this is with a fast SD Card and a non-congested 200mb fibre wireless network with 14mbps upstream. With regards to setting up the camera I would hugely recommend against using their app and instead using the web interface on a PC as you get a lot more options to configure. Obviously for viewing the livestream yes use the app.Overall - you need a lot of patience with the software.*Camera Build Quality:*Excellent. As stated I purchased mine back in July 2017 and it is still chugging along with the very same SD card that I inserted back during the fitting of the camera. The camera is very robust, enclosed in a steel chassis whilst the rear antenna is your typical plastic coated affair. The camera has survived the elements and remained rock solid since going up. Only spiders seem to be a problem - they like to hang in front of the lens smiling and rapidly become an almost daily annoyance!*Typical Usage Scenario:*Ok so I've had a sleepless night. Foxes have been causing a right ruckus in the garden and since it is morning I can now check the camera feed. In order to do so the most convenient way is to fire up the mobile app on my fathers Moto G4 (Android 7.1.2), since the app is very unstable on my Galaxy S8+ (Android 8.0). Alternatively I could switch on my PC and wait for windows to load and then connect to the camera and view the recordings but overall an app is quicker and convenient for my given situation.The app fires up and displays the uCam247 splash screen before showing the main window and attempting to connect to the camera (takes a few seconds). Once connected you can view the live feed or head over to the Photos/Videos tab. Tapping on Video presents you with a huge list of videos in date-time order. Once you scroll down and find the rough time in which you wish to view you can tap on the video and wait a few seconds before it loads..."Oh wait this is not the video", so I click back and wait for the list to refresh before choosing another one taken moments before annnd the software has stalled...Time to quit the app process, reload and rinse and repeat.Navigating through the hundreds of videos takes a lot of time and patience. You WILL end up crashing more than once as you attempt to find that one video recorded at night that was triggered by foxes/vikings/wizards etc. When you do find your footage it is quite good and the night vision is passable.I have not been in the situation where I need to provide footage to the police for any incident but if I was, I would rely on the web interface on my PC to reliably find the footage, copy it to a usb stick or email it from there. The app is just too fiddly when it comes to managing recorded footage whilst the Web interface and Windows itself being a stable platform means that you can download footage with ease - and speed.*Conclusion:*Web IP cameras like this are all over the place nowadays. It is very difficult to make a robust decision on them and I would encourage potential buyers to look at exactly what you require in a security camera solution. If you dislike wires, that's fine but then realise that you will have to utilise a mobile device (rather than a monitor) to view your feed. Do research on the software end of things afterall that is what you will be interacting with the most. Is the software frequently updated and robust? Does it work on all your mobile devices? Android or Apple's iOS?Unlike Wired solutions that are more of a headache to install and setup, but MUCH better on the quality/accessibility end of things Wireless solutions have their own variables too that determine use ability, Software being the key one so ensure that whatever you are purchasing has a solid app that works well. For this alone I can't really recommend the uCam247.For 2019 I am personally looking at going a wired route with Hikvision dome/turret cameras for my house. I shall keep the uCam247 running though as it is doing an adequate job.

I have a total of five cameras, three of which are H264 (720p) cameras and then I have two UCam 247 1080p camera. All the cameras were bought from Amazon and are as follows:2x UCam 247 1080p2x BW Wireless HD IP Security Camera - PTZ, IR Cut, H264 [this is an indoor camera]1x Koolertron Waterproof Wireless WiFi 720P HD Outdoor IP Camera 40m Infrared IR Cut Pan/Tilt PTZ 3x Zoom Night VisibilityI can't add a lot to the other reviews here in terms of the quality of the product - it is exceptional and by far has the best image quality of the 4 cameras that I own. While the H264 products claim to be HD, the UCam picture quality is significantly better. Also when the UCam streams the live video, you can choose the quality and so you can stream in full 1080p, whereas the other products mostly stream a 640x480 image unless you use their recommended P2P software. You can also configure two streams - say one at full HD for when you are connected to your home network and another at a lower quality so that you can access it on your mobile quicker over 3G/4G. Also the image on this camera has the widest angle of any camera I own and so you get a fantastic image quality and the picture width is wide enough to easily monitor a large area (say 50 to 60 ft wide).The night vision on the UCam stands-out - the image quality is really clear and the range is easily that advertised (and I live in an area where the council turn off the street lights between 0000 and 0530). The Koolertron has night vision too, but the effect is more of a "searchlight" (i.e. the centre part of the image is brighter) whereas the light distribution on the UCam is even. I guess this reflects the fact that the Koolertron is a Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ) camera.One thing to note is that even with a 64Gb MicroSD card, the high quality of the image means that you will only be able to save about 2 days of continuous recording footage on the card (on a rolling basis). I have now settled on using the "record on alarm" features of the camera. The images are easily accessible via the web interface and the video files play directly in the browser.The only really minor downside on the UCam compared to the other cameras is that they come out of the box with a free pre-configured Dynamic DNS address - so this allows you to remotely view the images when not at home. The UCam supports DDNS, but you may have to subscribe to a service - the camera suggests some services and has a "Register" link in the relevant configuration page.The other challenge is balancing the trade off between relying on the signal between your wireless router and any wireless enabled camera (to ensure that fluctuations in signal or general technology "wobblies" mean that recording is interrupted or that you can't access the camera via the web interface). Also it is really important to remember that 1080p HD generates image files and video that are large in size and so if you want to use the web interface over wifi to access images or videos stored on the camera then if your wifi signal is flaky then you could get frustrated. A 30 second video captured by the camera is at such a high quality that the file can be over 50Mb.I decided to take the plunge and hard wire the camera to my network. This involved buying a large drill bit (which was 40 cm long) and drill through the outside wall of my house. My advice to anyone would be to buy an IP rated waterproof box and install that adjacent to the camera on the outside wall as the camera has a short ethernet cable with a HUGE ethernet "socket" (about 2cm square). You would have to find an enormous drill bit to drill a hole big enough to get that through! So all you do is run the cameras cable into the waterproof box (note the socket is so big the standard holes in the box are too small so you are forced to carefully split the side of the box so that you can push the cables down) and then drill the hole big enough so that you can get standard ethernet plug through the hole and a low voltage wire for power. This sounds harder than it actually is. Another option of you don't want to drill a hole is to buy a flat ethernet cable from Amazon and run this out of your window with the low voltage cable to the waterproof box - I did this on my second UCam and it worked a treat. One obvious pint to note that you will need to plug the cable into your home network and so if your camera is not near your router, you can use any product that allows you to run a network across the mains circuit of your house (search for power line and you will find these on Amazon).UCam have their own application called "UCam247Live" on both the iOS (Apple) and Android platforms. I have tried it and it is ok, but I tend to revert back to one of the pieces of software below purely because on iOS the application is optimised for iPhone screens and so on an iPad you have to use the zoom function which makes the application and video appear grainy (when of course the video is HD). On the plus side the application is easy to set up - as long as the camera and the device are on the same network then it's search function will find the camera and also the app lets you directly search and play videos stored on the camera.I have noticed since I posted my original review that UCam market a "free cloud recording solution." This is not their own product but an excellent product called "Cammy" which I use on a daily basis to monitor the alerts generated by my camera. The plus side is that although I record to MicroSD on my UCam, I now have an online copy of images that I could use if an intruder were to smash the camera. The software is easy to set up and basically transfers photos to a cloud service that are aggregated together. When they are aggregated the Cammy service has a feature called "Smart motion" that creates a thumbnail image showing what it thinks are the key motion triggers in the file - which appears as a mini video. It also has a smart search feature that allows you to search for events on a specific date between a specific time across a single camera or across all of the cameras being monitored. After getting into the habit of scanning what has happened on my cameras most days the smart search feature has altered me to the fact that we have an almost daily visit by a fox in the middle of the night. I would never have found this unless I used Cammy as activating motion detection on cameras can generate hundreds of images per day.One final point to note is that UCam have stopped posting their firmware updates online recently (Jan 2015), and so you have to contact them with a screenshot of your camera configuration and they will send you a file. They told me that this is because they have had problems with people trying to install the wrong firmware on their cameras. Most of the other camera manufacturers seem to do this too, but as an advanced user it is a little frustrating that I can't do this as easily as before.I have read reviews where people have problems setting up cameras and viewing the image on various devices, especially on Apple Mac's and on tablet devices. So here are some tips and tricks for each camera, but note that I use paid-for versions of the software (as you only really get what you pay for):Mac softwareThe UCam's web software works fine on Safari, with the key advantage being that it does not use any ActiveX plugin for any of its features. The IPCam software supplied with the Koolertron is extremely challenging to use, as it was developed with Internet Explorer in mind and requires an ActiveX control to be downloaded. Therefore I tend to only view it using my iPad (see section below) or Android phone.I use "IPCamera Viewer 2" which allows me to view images from all the cameras simultaneously. The key challenge was to find a camera profile for each of the cameras because none of the manufacturers name appear in the software. I use these profiles:Ucam247 - select Generic -> MJPEG Stream and put in the camera address of [...], where X.X.X.X is the IP address of the camera.BW Wireless PTZ - select Generic -> RTSP Stream and put in the camera address of rtsp://X.X.X.X:81, where X.X.X.X is the IP address of the camera and 81 is the port number that the camera uses by default. Also select "TCP" as the stream protocol.Koolertron PTZ - select Wanscam and enter the IP address of the camera. Note that the software does not seem to fully support the camera - it only comes up with a grainy image.Note the BW and Koolertron Cameras are Pan, Tilt, Zoom (PTZ) cameras but the software does not support these features.___________________________________________________________________________________________________iPad /iPhone softwareI use "LiveCamsPro" to simultaneously view the images from all the cameras.UCam247 - Select the camera profile MJPEG and put in the camera address of [...]. The fantastic thing is that the software picks up the full 1920x1080 image from the camera and so it is crystal clear.BW Wireless PTZ - Use the camera profile Edimax H264. The PTZ features of the camera are not supported.Koolertron PTZ - Use the Camera profile Wanscam HW series. The software supports all of the features of the camera including PTZ, Infrared off/on, preset views etc.___________________________________________________________________________________________________Android softwareI use "IP Cam Viewer" (available on the Google Play Store) to simultaneously view the images from all the cameras, with the exception of the Koolertron camera, where I can connect but the profile in the software generates a very poor quality image.Ucam247 - Select the make "Generic URL" and then the model "Generic URL (e.g. [...]". The URL is [...], where X.X.X.X is the IP address of the camera.BW Wireless PTZ - Select Make "Edimax" and then the model "Edimax IC-7010Ptn", which appears under the "Edimax" make.Koolertron - this is a Wanscam HW0025 by another name. Therefore, I use the "Wanscam E-View7" software than can be found in the Google Play Store. This is very easy to configure (you need the unique CamID which can be found on a sticker on the camera) and supports all of the features of the camera including PTZ, Infrared off/on, preset views etc.Apologies for the long review - but I'm sure it will save you some time!