4K PTZ Security Camera Outdoor with 50X Optical Zoom, High-Speed 360° Pan & 90° Tilt, 8MP WiFi Camera with 1200FT IR Night Vision, Auto Tracking, Person/Vehicle/Pet Detection, RTSP

Being a retired security systems installer, I can say for the price you will not find a better PTZ. Open the box, insert the 128 microsd card( not included) , connect the antenna and power it up. Thats it. I set it up on my table. You just scan the QR code on the camera into the CamHiPro app that you download for free. All I had to add was my router password. I mounted it on my patio near the ceiling. I have a 110v receptical just below it for power. The power cord has a box about 2"x4" in-between the a/c plug and the banana plug that plugs into the wire harness coming out of the camera. This box in not waterproof so if you will have it exposed you will need to put it in a waterproof box. You can just drill a hole from inside to outside and push the wires inside it will be fine. The Human tracking works very good. It will follow them until they leave the frame. It will then return to the starting position in about 60 seconds. To make this work, just set it up by doing position 92 set from the starting position, then 92 call. Then it will auto follow. I have it for human only. The Alarm is also set for IR only. The night color mode is awesome as long as the light is not shining in your neighbors windows. The cruise mode works great on positions 1 to 10. I do not use it as you may miss something if the camera is facing the wrong direction. The optics are very sharp with 4K. The 128 sd holds 6 hours of 4k video. I also have the $4.99 per month 7 day alarm recording. the $4.99 was purchased thru the app on my iPhone and is good for 30 days. I will renew it monthly, not automatic. This camera has a high speed, 360 full rotation. At far view it slows down so you can move it a small amount at a time, I like that. in conclusion, for the price and ease of use this is the camera to buy. Also the Hip2p software you can download to your mac or pc works like a virtual nvr. It lets you review the video and see live. you can also move the camera. If you have 2 of these you can have multiple screen view.

A spectacular PTZ camera! I have had HXView security cameras for the purpose of watching critters in the yard. I have the 30x version but this 50x version is so much better. So much more detail, features and speed. It rotates very fast, zooms in/out at a good speed. You can have preset positions to make recalling specific positions simple. There are tracking features that I don't use, but I can see how that could come in very handy. The camera is easy to set up and use. The iPhone app walks you right through setup. Within only a few minutes the camera is active and recording. I can record video on schedules and take snap shots with ease. I use a micro-sd card in the camera so no subscription is needed! Typically, cameras with this level of zoom are very expensive or combine lower optical resolution combined with digital interpolation to create the illusion of zoom. No digital zoom here, all optical! I can zoom in on small birds on the feeders and nearby trees to see their details. We have a squirrel that visits every day and now we can see him up close! The pictures included are mostly at 50X at a distance of 45 feet away so you can see the zooming capability. The birds in the pics are only 2 to 3 inches long so you can imagine how zooming in on a human or larger animal would be. There is one that is at maximum width on a 50 foot wide yard. In addition, customer support is fantastic! I had a question and within a day, I got the answer I needed. I would purchase this again without hesitation!

Just got it working today, seems fine so far. Currently inside for testing as I mounted it on an old Dish satellite bracket that in time and better weather will be mounted on still there roof pole. I almost don't want to put it out in the weather thinking about putting a hard hat on it, or designing roof over it.

Zoom clarity is amazing, but... The SD card door opens directly into wiring and a circuit board so don't EVER open it when there's ANY moisture. I had to push wires aside to insert the card, and I had to use tweezers to retrieve the card (see photo). I tried a couple different size SD cards (they call it TF) but never got anything to record except one manual snapshot. Many Android permissions (like precise location and all-files access) are required and you cannot use the camera at all without installing the app. The app uses bluetooth to set up the camera, including sending the cam your WiFi network password (same for every cam). If you want email notices you also have to give it your email password (standard practice). Even if you could record video, there's no setting for frame rate so lowering the resolution is the only way to extend record time. The playback page ALWAYS locked up (no buttons worked) except immediately after formatting the SD card (when it said there were no recordings). Alarm notifications only tell you the location (cam name) and NOT the type of alarm. Notifications do not contain pictures or video clips even when those are enabled in the menu. There is a hardwire Ethernet port on the same cable as the power plug, which has a cable junction but no way to cap it without a cable (so NOT weatherproof unless a cable is connected). It's designed to mount on a weatherproof box and have the cable end safely indoors, so not a totally outdoor cam.AI detect seems pretty functional, recognizing part of a hand as a human, but sometimes highlights the wrong part of the image. You can have pet/human/vehicle detection, BUT NOT ALL AT THE SAME TIME. That's dumb and I didn't test the pet or vehicle detection. (NOTE: I've toned down my review and added a star after Bulwark reached out about some of the things I mentioned. Kudos to them for monitoring and responding!)