Amcrest 5MP Turret POE Camera, UltraHD Outdoor IP Camera POE with Mic/Audio, 5-Megapixel Security Surveillance Cameras, 98ft NightVision, 132° FOV, MicroSD (256GB), (IP5M-T1179EW-AI-V3)

I purchased this camera to replace an older Reolink that cover my Deck. The 2.8MM sensor in this camera has a great field of view. I`m able to capture the entire deck and a portion of the back steps. I`m running it connected to Milestone via its ONVIF feed. Picture out of the box is great, I did not have to make any tweaks. Night vision is far superior compared to my old camera as well. The microphone needed a small adjust of the gain so it didn’t pick up the noise from my heat pump. I would imagine not having the heat pump nearby I could have left it as it. I would give this camera a 5 out of 5 rating. Great performance for a great price. Oh yea, the Amcrest app on iOS is also free. I plan on putting an SD card in it as a backup of my recordings as well. Follow Up 12-17-2020: This is a follow up review to my prior purchase. I`ve since bought another one and have converted all my cameras over to Amcrest. For $50 you can go wrong. The 2.8mm lens has a very wide field of view and actually replaced the 2 Reolinks I had for the same area. Night vision is much better than the Reolinks and the microphone can pick up a conversation from over 50 feet away. I now have all 5 of my Amcrest cameras (two 8MP 4K and 3 5MP) recording 24/7 to Milestone via the ONVIF feed. The H265 compression is a must if you are hosting your own recording server. I dropped the frame rates down to 10FPS for recording but have them maxed out for live view. It’s a top-notch product and their customer service is great. I have been eyeing their WiFi doorbell (currently $80 here on amazon). Reviews looks good and that will be my next purchase. its great to have all my cameras the same brand now. I use their iOS app for live view, its flawless and the quality in real time is fantastic. I would not hesitate to purchase more products from them. Also, they routinely do firmware updates and security patches. A huge plus! Bottom line, don’t hesitate, can’t go wrong for the price!!!

Let me start by saying the camera price is awesome!! To be 5mp camera, the quality is great! I use them in conjunction with Home Assistant, and the motion detection is very good to trigger automations. Also would like to mention the night vision is good, not great but good, you can see the faces without any issues but the license plate from a car that park in the driveway is imposible to see it, in the other hand the day light picture it is great, any car that parks in my driveway, I can perfectly see the license plate. The installation was very simple, network cable, 3 screws and that's it!!!! The configuration was pretty straight forward too, it picks up an IP from your network (please reserve the ip so it won't change in the future), login to the camera, put your own username and password, mad you are ready to go! You can view the cameras on the browser or on their app, which it is very good and easy to use! One more thing I'd like to add is the fact that you can store the videos locally in a sd card, or like me, it gives you other options, I use NAS and also Blue Iris. I love that you are not tied up to just the cloud. Over all, positive experience and I will buy more! At this price point you can't go wrong! Bad if you get them on sale, it is even better!!

These are pretty good cameras. I have 5 so far and am pleased with their performance so far. The field of view and picture quality exceeds what I had expected and are better than most of my other brands. Setup is really easy, but you should understand that these devices are extremely chatty on the network - beyond what they should be. I recommend giving them bogus DNS servers once you have them configured unless you actually want them to be connected to the Internet and to constantly phone home with their configs . Additionally I set drop rules in my firewall to ensure they are not able to connect to the Internet. I have to do this with several brands, so be aware that it's not just Amcrest. My setup utilizes Blue Iris software, so I'm not dependent upon the manufacturer's app to view my system remotely.

To start, this is a great camera that has all the features you'll need. I compared it side-by-side with another Amcrest camera that this one replaced (IP4M-1028EW-36MM). Both day and night, the picture quality is excellent. I was most impressed by how well the LEDs for the night vision worked. I'm used to my other cameras with 18 IR LEDs that create more of a spotlight effect, rather than a flood where it's very bright in the center, but then the light dims quickly the further you go out, they aren't the greatest at night. When this one only came with 2 LEDs, I thought it would be worse, quite the opposite though. This camera does an incredible job of night vision. The 2 LEDs provide more of a flood effect with no visible hotspots that uniformly light up the entire area (see pictures, there is a second light in the image, to light up the yard's furthest part). With a 2.8mm focal length, it does a great job of displaying the entire area. You can see a lot more at the top and bottom versus the 3.6mm but less on the sides. It's closer to a "fish-eye" kind of view. The audio is good if there is no wind, it will pick up the slightest breeze, but it does an excellent job of picking up the sound around it. The picture is excellent quality, but I did notice the video was a bit laggier than the 4mp cameras that I had. This camera would typically lag about 4-5 seconds, whereas the others were about 2 seconds (The settings can probably be adjusted to make that better though. I just used the default settings). I had this set up using an Amcrest NVR with PoE. The setup was simple, plugged it in, clicked remote devices, the camera was listed there, selected it and clicked add. That was it, I had it working in a few minutes. There are 2 things I am not a fan of with the housing. First, there is no way to tighten the camera once you have it in the place you want. The camera is stiff to move, but it would be nice to tighten it so it cannot move. The second is the "quick connect" mounting plate. You can take the camera off by pushing on a tab and pulling the camera out. No tools are needed to take the camera down. To install the camera, you screw a plate to the wall/ceiling and then slide the camera onto that plate. It makes installation quick and simple but makes removing the camera all that much easier. You can choose not to use the plate and attach the camera directly; however, the holes from the screws do not sit flush on the surface, so I was worried the plastic would crack because of the gap. I wish there were a way to screw/lock the tab so you would at least need some tool to remove it if desired. Besides those 2 minor things, this camera is excellent, and I would highly recommend getting it. Pros: Incredible night vision with only 2 leds (lights up the whole area evenly) Large up/down FOV (more of a fish eye view) Great quality video Cons: Any amount of wind will cause noise with the microphone Not a fan of the housing

The first thing I noticed when opening my package from Amazon was how economically packaged the camera was. Amcrest doesn't pass the cost of fancy packaging onto its customers. With that said, the packaging was more than sufficient to protect the camera and the other contents for shipping. The camera itself appears to be contained in an aluminum or some other lightweight metal. The base itself (the part with the Amcrest logo) itself is a hardy plastic. All mounting hardware you need is included. Only the Quick Start guide is included in the box, but the actual manual details all of the UI settings. I wish tooltips or a digital manual were included in the UI as opposed to having to look up the information in a PDF. I initially ran my setup via IP on the web browser but found that remote performance with the Amcrest View Pro app was troublesome. I didn't want to go through the trouble of manual port forwarding in my router just to get remote viewing on the app, so I reran the setup in the app using the P2P mode. This made the camera available from both home and remote with ease. If you already have access to the web interface, you can access the QR code from the browser to set up your app. I mounted mine up high (10 feet maybe) on one side of the garage door. The video quality is fantastic as is the large viewing angle. There is a slight fisheye effect which is to be expected with wide-angle lenses, but it is not so extreme as to be distracting. Low light performance is amazing, especially in BLC mode. I found that this mode provided the best low light results of all the options. I have basic motion detection set up in the app to send push notifications for motion. You can specify motion zones so that passing cars or blowing flags don't trigger notifications. The only problem I have with this camera is that System -> Upgrade -> Check Version doesn't appear to function. I have not investigated this much, but it has been this way since installation. I checked Amcrest's website for firmware, but this model wasn't listed at the time of this review. I can't speak to recording or playback just yet as I have not NVR or SD card for this camera but will be investigating one or both in the future. In conclusion, a great camera. I will most definitely be looking into some additional cameras as well as a PoE switch to supply them.

I really wanted to like this camera. It was the only one I found that allowed me to view the feed in a web browser without a custom app which was necessary for my desired use. The initial setup was relatively straight-forward. The only installation challenge was that the weather seal cover for the ethernet cable is unusable unless you are planning to terminate the ethernet cable yourself. The weather seal cover needs to be put on the cable before it is terminated because it won't fit over the jack once it is on the cable. The reason I gave this device 1 star is because it continually loses its network connection. Unplugging the power (from the PoE) doesn't appear to reset it. The only way I've found to get the device to reset is to climb up a ladder, remove the device from its mount, unscrew the cover over the microSD card slot and reset button, and push the reset button. Sometimes the device loses connection again even before I get the cover back on and the camera back into its mount. I just went through that above sequence 6 times in 10 minutes before I was finally able to get the camera mounted again with its network connection working. I've had the camera for a bit over a month now and the longest it has maintained a connection is about 4 days. That makes it virtually useless. I plan to contact the manufacturer to see if I can get a remedy but, from what I've found on the internet, there are many other people that have had the same issue and the manufacturer has simply told them to reset the device. That is not a solution. I may have to eat the cost and try to find a camera from another manufacturer that meets my needs.

I am, by no means, a security camera expert. I am still learning, so when I found an offer to review this camera in exchange for a refund of the purchase price, it was a no lose proposition since there was no specific requirement that it be a positive review. This is my first “serious” night vision camera and I am blown away by the difference. As they asked for a review of the camera alone, I mounted it without any junction box, did not update the firmware, did not tweak any of the settings, just plug and play. I used the included mounting hardware, plastic anchors and wood screws, and this might be my biggest complaint: I couldn’t find the size of the plastic anchors or the correct sized drill bit listed anywhere, wouldn’t it just make sense to print it on the plastic bag they come in? For what it’s worth, I used a ¼” drill bit and it was almost perfect, just a little on the small side. After mounting the IP5M T1179EW and adding it to my system, I waited until dark and was rewarded with amazing footage. Finally, I have a camera that gives a full color and HD picture of our driveway at night. With a 2.8mm lens and 103 degree field of view, this camera isn’t going to capture great images 100 feet away, but that isn’t the application it is designed for nor the application I bought it for. A driveway, porch, or patio overview less than 30 feet deep is perfect for what this camera is designed to do. The photos are taken from 10’, 20’, and 30’. The lettering on the box is about the same height as a license plate, with a broader stroke (and really, how can you not love a brand of TP called Who Gives A Crap. At night, the color still looks great with our lights on. With our lights off, the IR from the Amcrest IP5M T1179EW actually makes for a better picture IMO. Keep in mind, this is all straight out of the box, I have not made any adjustments to the camera. The motion detection built in is almost perfect. Raccoon, check; cat, check; vehicles, check, check and check; tree limbs moving in the breeze, no; random leaf, no. It does false alarm when the concrete is drying after a rainstorm but it’s by far the best motion detection I have, and it’s the motion detection I’ve already come to rely on. Overall, this is my favorite camera I currently own and I would not hesitate to recommend it to anyone looking for a sharp image from a short range camera. And to that point, I will absolutely be buying a second one with the refund I receive, making this a BOGO deal rather than a free camera (but I will probably try to get the 3.6mm version so I can reach out a little farther).

Package came in good shape. Had all materials in box with instructions too. Construction of camera is great. Case is made out of metal, but the mounting pieces are plastic, but it does feel well made. Mounting the camera was easy with included template. And adjusting angle of view is also easy. Setup was a little tricky, since I have my home network on a different ip network. (192.168.2.1) I had to log in into my router and change it to 192.168.1.1. And used the web Browser Chrome and initialized the camera and changed ip address to 192.168.2.xxx. then changed my router back to my original ip address range. Web client is easy to use and looks like they use dahua gui since I also have a other dahua camera and gui looks the same. I paired it to my hikvision nvr with onvif protocol. Setting up motion detection was a little tricky. I had to set the motion detection on my nvr and set areas too. Then log in to the camera and set the threshold to 1 so it will work. I can confirm motion detection is working fine with hikvision nvr and onvif protocol. Image quality is better than expected for a 50 dollar camera. And the view is also wider than my 2.8mm hikvision turret camera. I also have 2 older hikvision cameras and more expensive over $100 each (about 6 to 8 years old) and 1 jennov 35 dollar camera, and 2 LCP cameras one is dahua $260 and other is a no name brand one from amazon $165. I can say the image quality bets all cameras except for the dahua lpc camera. Audio work good. Can hear conversations close to 50 feet away. But is sensitive to wind noise. I just wish camera came with 2 way audio. I also like that I can have different image settings for day and night with time schedule. As for night vision camera seems to stay in color at night. Image looks a little dark in color but once you change the setting to change to b and w for night setting the image looks great. As for the ir I have mine set to off since I have driveway lights on at night. And I have a trailer parked close to camera that causes ir light to reflect back and washes out the background. Night vision is as good as my hikvision cameras and better than my jennov camera. Here's some pictures on camera images. And recording of day and night. I would highly recommend this camera to anybody that wants a cheap and quality camera.

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Great sight width and picture

I have a few amcrest cameras now, I wanted another for the side garden where the kids play and we can't see them from inside. The quality is excellent, night vision is good at a decent range, it does H264 as well as H265 so it works perfectly with Frigate, also support RTMP and ONVIF for those that might need those features. It has a load of extra features too for detection etc, FTP upload and the usual privacy masks etc, I don't use any of those features as I have it connected to frigate so I've turned them off. Note, the posting said it was the 28MM model but what I actually received is the AI-V3 model. I think they're the same hardware, or at least appear to be, but the AI-V3 is newer. Powered by PoE or also has a barrel jack, no power supply included. A feature I found in the firmware on this model that some of my older models didn't ship with, but later got on updates is WDR (wide dynamic range), which makes it even better for outdoor areas where there is a lot of sunlight that might cause parts of the image to be blown out and top bright. Paid about £65 for this which is half the price of other models I've bought from amcreat, such as the 8MP bullet camera which is a bargain price for the quality. The sphere part (eyeball) is heavy and made from metal, has a screw closed door with a gasket for water proofing, on it for an microSD which I don't use, the housing (eye socket) is plastic but nice quality with good mounting hardware. Web UI is the typical amcrest one which is perfectly functional but I find very little need to use beyond initial setup since I use a "NVR" (Frigate) to connect to the video atreams.

Product ok, but beware of seller. They cance lorder and said it is customer request for refunf.

Arrived very fast. Great little camera. Works perfect. Easy to install