GALAYOU 2K Security Camera Outdoor, 360° CCTV Camera, Home Security WiFi Camera with Color Night Vision, Pan-Tilt View, App Notification, 2-Way Audio Y4

I have had security cameras before some good some not. These are excellent especially the pan n tilt you can spin it and get a 360 view of all around rather than just fixed in one spot. You can have it that if detects motion it will turn and revord and then once finished it will go back to the original postion but you have to save original postion first. I have read ppl moan that it only records 10 second clips which is true as it just an alert but I have found if when you go onto page that shows you the cameras you have there is a triangle ( play button) if you view the recording that way it gives around 30-40 seconds. Don't subscribe to cloud you do not need to I have sd card in both my cameras. Yes the alert is only 10 seconds long but by viewing the alert the way I mentioned earlier you get much longer recording. I paid £20 per camera and £10 for 2 sd cards so for £50 I have my home protected by cameras 24/7. The app itself is very good and easy to use. Very easy to set up took 2mins to connect both cameras to WiFi and up and running. The picture quality is excellent crystal clear. You can choose to have the light come on when triggered at night so then the recording is in colour and they are bright so makes it easy to view! Easy to share to family members so they can also see cameras which pleased the wife as we have a fox that comes every night as it gets fed ( by the wife). I would definitely recommend this camera and the price just made it even better.

bought the cameras after reading a few of the reviews around and the WANSVIEW looked to be the most effect cost and quality wise for the PTZ camera. want to use for home cctv. installed was easy and set mine so was easy for the cable connections, can extend the usb lead with any length but was enough and also sited so gave me 270 degree from each point. wifi worked well with no lag based on virginmedia 1gb 5hz about 15m from the house to the garage .used the app for android and easily set up, i also used the window 11 software so gave me access from my pcs and can also access with remote access and also makes a cracking nice picture on my 32 screen... both apps use to easily. if any bugs i would say the pc software has tweaks that could do upgraded which would make lots more useable. the motion set up could be set up grid points so can be shaped better rather than a large 1 off block if it adjusts. for the price ive seen crap cctv far lest price which is great for the money. 2k ? wouldnt say fully but does give you a clean crisp video and image for the money. if they can define the software would be a winner . shame the tracking software wont work if 2 camera so didnt try it. might get a couple for the rest of the house and maybe try some at the office as well, at that price cant fail.

It's a decent camera, the fact that you can turn it around and look where you want to look just by pressing some buttons on your phone is awesome. You can record 24/7 and view videos if you have inserted a memory card. Easy to set up, picture quality is quite good (when viewing directly from camera, not so from recorded videos when replay), and has a lot of additional options like sending a voice message through camera or switching on the LED light. I am giving it 4-stars because I ran into some problems, however the support was quite good and pro-active. One thing that bothers me is that when you replay recorded videos from your memory card as mentioned before the quality of picture is not that good, everyhing that moves (cars, people etc) is very blurry, which is not good in case of incident. Also there is a optional subscription available if you want your videos backed up in the cloud. All in all good camera for the price.

This has been a fantastic investment and has offered a great deal of security and reassurance for our home. Set up is very easy - mounted to the external wall and powered by the mains supply. It connected to the home WIFI easily, and has maintained a stable connection throughout the 12 months plus we have had it installed. The smartphone app is also very user-friendly and intuitive. There is a very good value upgrade for online cloud storage, so we are able to access archived footage. It is possible to download recorded clips, which has been useful when the neighbours needed to view what happened to their vehicle. Footage is very clear at the 2k resolution, being easily able to make out facial details of people visiting the property. It is also very clear when recording sound, and the night vision is remarkable too. There is a neat feature usable through the app where you can talk to people you can see on camera. This is very clear. The camera is a good size, being visible enough but not too obtrusive. We also like that you can angle the view through a full 360 degrees, giving you a massive potential field of view. It has proved to be extremely durable, working flawlessly through rain, snow, wind and high heat. For the price, this is an absolutely fantastic security camera, with a great supporting app. It is also worth noting that customer support is brilliant - emails were replied to very quickly, and with useable and productive advice. Superb product.

This is my sixth GALAYOU camera in the house (four outside and two indoors) and they’ve all been great. The image quality is sharp, the 360° view is really useful, and the app is easy to use. They’ve been reliable in all weather and pick up motion quickly with good colour night vision. Solid security cameras for the price. I wish the cable could be detachable from the camera itself for easier routing through walls as the USB end is quite thick. I end up having to snip the wire and then solder it together again. very durable and waterproof and connectivity when being 40m away from the router with 3 brick walls in between and bushes

Have 1 of these in the back garden for 2 years and very pleased. So decided to get 1 for front of house. Easily set up and fully adjustable. You do need to drill through your house walls to an electric supply and size must allow for a USB plug to fit through. You also need either a cloud subscription or buy and insert a micro SD card. Good product and value

It only records if find you've got nothing else better to do than to sit watching the live feed. I have two other cameras from two other manufacturers and they provide functionality to be able to record from replay along the cameras timeline. This camera only allows you to download selected footage from along that same timeline. But it gets worse. You are only allowed to download a certain amount of footage. And it seems to be a very small amount of footage. So you then have to break down the footage you want to download because you can't record it in the first place into pieces small enough to be able to download them instead of the block the footage you want. If there was a recording facility this wouldn't be a problem in the first place. I've contacted their technical support and what a waste of time that was. They sent messages with pleasantries about how wonderful they hope your day is and flowers but then they criticize you for the length of your email when it's got lots of details in relation to the problems you've got so that they can help you with those problems. So rather than looking at the details of the problems to try and help resolve them to provide answers to the problems instead they just look at the length of the email and criticize it and then blame the author of the email for not being able to sort the problem because apparently it's not clear what the problem is. That's just an excuse for not being able to do what is required. Which in this case is to provide a recording function for when you are reviewing footage the feature they call replay. The recording facility is available within the app but only when you are looking at live feed. How many people are going to be sat looking at live feed to then know to record live feed as it's needed? By the time somebody realizes they need to record something that's live it's already happened or they've missed the start of what it is that they want or need to record. Considering this is a security camera and there is a good possibility that the footage needed will be required to prosecute somebody for breaking the Law it's astonishing and I am bewildered at the fact that this company doesn't provide this recording facility within the app and rather than dealing with this by either sorting the appal so that it does provide this facility in replay they have instead evaded the issue within the email I sent and instead focused on the length of the email effectively blaming me for them not being able to sort the problem out to even identify what the problem is because my email was so long. I'm an engineer and I've been one for over 40 years I deal with details. The more details the better. Because that's information that helps me identify a problem and hopefully then I gather more information more details to then be able to find solutions to those problems. I'm dealing with a technical support department who doesn't want me to provide details of problems they have criticized me for doing so and blamed me for them not being able to sort problems out because apparently I haven't highlighted what the problems actually are. Correction the problem because according to the person I've been dealing with there can be only one problem or one problem at a time to be dealt with. I would rather provide too much information when I am dealing with people in written former than to provide two little information and then for them to not understand what the problem is and then to waste more time going backwards and forwards adding more information as time is wasted rather than providing it all at the start when it's all available at that point so why would I waste time providing bits and pieces of information when I have it all with me in the first instance to be provided all at once to provide as full a picture as possible of several not just one problem and these problems being linked to each other. I had to ask for an instruction manual and that manual was very basic it didn't deal with the problems I was asking to be solved and then to add insult to injury at the back of the manual it asks me to tell the company what I think and I talked that to mean what I think of the manual and the way the item works or doesn't work as it should. As well as being my way of providing information to help the support people to find solutions to the problems I had to inform them of which I shouldn't have had to inform them of because this stuff is basic when you're dealing with a security camera or a CCTV camera. So it's my view that they are already aware of these issues and either don't want to or count deal with them to solve them. Buy focusing on criticising me for the the length of my email to them rather than focusing on the information I provided within the email they have chosen to distract attention away from the problems I highlighted and presented to them so that it's then about me and how I am the reason why they don't understand what the problems are to be able to help me with them. That's known as gas lighting. It's a very cynical way to run a company and a business. Having been a manager and being in business myself and having advised businesses over the years I know that this is a very short-term way of looking at things but then if we are dealing with companies in China they have a very different way of doing things so this to them may be the right way for them to do business. Sell cheap sell as many as you can and then go out of business and people are left with devices that don't work properly and where there's no support for them. Because the company no longer exists or it's changed its name in which case it's changed its name so doesn't exist for the people who've bought these devices. So I'm going to contact Amazon now to try and get my money back for this device because it certainly doesn't do what it's supposed to do. It's supposed to be a security camera and as it's a security camera I should be able to not just view live feed I should be able to review previous recorded footage as I have set it to record to my SD card 24/7 and then when I replay the footage I should then be able to select which bit I want to record so then use for things like preserving evidence of a crime. I can't do that with this device. It doesn't allow me to record from playback from replay and it's downloaded facility doesn't work unless you download less than a certain amount of footage at once and the instructions do not tell you what that limit is and the message given to me I couldn't read it because part of it was missing the part that would tell me how much over the limit I was and why I needed to do in order to preserve this footage as evidence going forward. It looks good it looks the part but you can buy dummy cameras that do the same thing for far less. My advice do not buy this unless you are accepting of these failings. I'll give it zero stars because all of the experience I've had after purchasing this device and trying to use it as meant a complete and utter waste of much of my valuable time to end up finding out that this device is not as described and is not in my view fit for purpose. As other reviewers have pointed out it doesn't record where you need it to record. Other manufacturers devices (which I have in use) do this so there is no excuse for not providing that function in replay. And whilst I initially through trial and error thought I had discovered that there was just a terminology issue that I could use their download facility for replay of footage to save it and preserve evidence as the screenshot shows you're limited to how much you can download. And the message doesn't even show you how much footage you are limited to downloading. This is not acceptable. It's wasted lots of my time. Trying to give this company the benefit of the doubt and the perhaps it wasmy fault not understanding how the device works. In the instructions provided online to me from their support department it does mention other apps you can use so if you are one of these people who are aware of these other apps and are happy to use them with this device then you might be happy with what you get when you get this device. I've never come across these apps before and I don't want to waste any more time downloading them trying to set them up with this camera to then find out if they provide the facility to record in replay or if I would have the same problem with them as I've got with this manufacturers supplied app. I hope people will find this useful. And not unnecessarily long.

I have already got a TP link Tapo camera which I rate highly for hardware and software, so this camera had a big hill to climb to outperform my Tapo. The price attracted me and I had to try one at £26.99 which is a lot cheaper than my current Tapo and with more features. My Galayou 2K Wireless Outdoor Security Camera Model Y4 arrived next day and I set it up on my workbench next to my router. The software I installed on my android phone had a guide to get me up and running in no time at all. I was panning and tilting all round the room, I set up my preferred options in the software easily and let it run for a few hours. Feeling that all was well I fitted it outside with a good view of the garden. I had to drill a 20mm hole to get the USB plug through, with a little thought they could make a change there so a much smaller hole could be used. I started with the motion detection full on and that was a mistake, I gradually tested lowering the sensitivity and I am now at low, even middle low was too high causing lots of alerts for stuff like moths and raindrops at night. I also selected full colour night vision but soon realised that like the Tapo greyscale at night gives a greater clarity than colour. The camera is as good a picture and video as the more expensive Tapo, plus it has pan & tilt. No more getting the ladder out to move the view of the camera. You can set presets too for the camera view which is nice. The camera needs a good wifi signal and I found moving my wifi6 repeater closer to the camera got rid of most of the lag when using pan and tilt and the App just felt nicer in general. Although the app works I do feel I am comparing with the Tapo one and favouring that one so maybe some work needs to be done with feedback from customers to refine it some. As this is wifi and 5V USB I did think of getting another, yes they are that good value, and set it up on a small tripod with a 5v USB battery power pack and use it as a wildlife camera around the garden. Would be interesting seeing what animals visit overnight and a lot cheaper than a good wildlife camera. So as you can tell by now I am mostly very happy with this camera, its several weeks now since it arrived and as I said already I bench tested it for a while before mounting it outside, but some hours after mounting it the camera became unresponsive and the only way to fix it seemed to be taking it down and pressing the reset button on the camera and going through the motions of setting it up again. I was concerned this was going to be a problem going forward but its been rock solid since then and if I had to blame anyone I guess it could have been my then weak wifi signal crashed the camera somehow. I did contact customer service who were very attentive but as I had fixed the glitch, there was nothing for them to do. They did contact me several times after just to make sure I was 100% happy. Not bad support for a low cost camera! Edit: my camera refused to track left or right after 3 months use and I also had some water in the lens area after some very heavy rain storms. I contacted Wansview support and after running some tests they suggested they would like to replace my camera which I was happy to agree to. It arrived very quickly which again I was very pleased about. Great customer service Wansview!