![]() Kami Indoor Camera review: Price and competition ![]() Just don’t expect it to successfully identify the dog as a dog: Neatly, the app lets you set bookmarks in the room you can immediately jump towards – the window, say, or your dog’s basket. You can schedule times for the camera to be active, too. If you go to the live view of the camera, for example, you can control the camera yourself either with the phone’s gyroscope (unwieldy) or with a virtual analogue stick. It’s a shame because there’s some good functionality here, if you’re patient enough to play trial and error for hours on end. I know this is a poor substitute, but in the absence of competent software it’s all you’re getting. So instead, you’re going to have to imagine what you’re missing with this screen capture straight from my Samsung Galaxy S10e. Still attempting to download clips, I attempted to download the PC software, as the FAQ suggested. One suspiciously glowing review on the site insists a microSD slot exists but Kami itself, however, is clear that there isn’t. Except the Kami Indoor Camera isn’t exactly the same as the Yi equivalent in particular, it doesn’t have a microSD card slot. Kami is a rebrand of Yi, so in theory that’s not a problem – just look up the equivalent Yi camera and you’re golden. Unfortunately, there’s nothing about the camera I’m actually using. You know what also doesn’t work? The FAQ button, which tells you all about Yi Cameras from the same company. Putting them in full screen and looking for extra buttons comes up empty – although that did allow me to grab the screenshots included in this review for your viewing pleasure. Holding a finger down on them doesn’t work. Swiping on clips stored in the cloud doesn’t work. Despite there being a whole section of the app dedicated to downloaded videos there’s simply no obvious way of downloading those clips. In particular, I simply couldn’t figure out how to download any of the clips.Įven after starting a month’s free subscription to try and get some footage to share with you, dear reader, the app stood in my way at every opportunity. However, I’m not keen on the app used to control and access this at all. Setting up is simple enough and it will record and store six-second clips then store them for a week for free. It caught sight of both myself and the cat moving across the room, but it always seems to trail a little behind and, even in this gentle test environment, it was trivial to stroll far enough ahead of it to prevent it getting a look at my face. When it’s activated, the camera can also lock on to movement, tracking whatever it spots as it moves around the room. Technically it can’t see immediately above it, but unless you have burglars rappelling in through a skylight, then that’s unlikely to be an issue. Because the base rotates, and the camera lens can move up and down on an axis, the camera gets a full 360-degree view of the room. ![]() The privacy mode is neat, too – when you don’t want the camera spying, the lens aims upwards inside the body, meaning it captures nothing. It has a two-way microphone, meaning you can both hear what’s going on and send a warning message to any intruder you see and, if you use it as a baby monitor, you’ll be pleased to know it has built-in crying detection. Connecting to your Wi-Fi network via the 2.4GHz or 5GHz spectrum, it captures in 1080p HD, with night vision mode for low-light conditions, and it can detect movement to spring into action when activated. What it does do, however, is everything you’d look for in a security camera before we get on to its party trick. The Kami Indoor Camera is neither and, to be fair, the clue is very much in the name. Outdoor cameras are protected with waterproofing and tested to work in extreme cold. The Kami Indoor camera is marked as being for indoor use only – and that’s not just because it needs to be connected to the mains to function. Kami Indoor Camera review: What you need to know These combine to let it see everything in the room.ĭoes it do the job? Yes, but you’d better be prepared to wrestle with one of the worst apps I’ve ever seen. ![]() Because, while other cameras we’ve looked at from the cheap and cheerful £20 Neos Smartcam all the way up to the £450 Arlo Ultra have a fixed position, the Kami Indoor Camera’s lens sits on a motorised base that can spin a full 360 degrees and tilt up and down, too. It’s a security camera for indoor use what more do you need to know?Īctually, that does sell it a bit short. There can’t be many products that describe their purpose so neatly as the Kami Indoor Camera. ![]()
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