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Used for: 3–6 months
Alerts are meaningful rather than constant
You need a decent view of the sky for the panel
Four months in on an allotment shed and it has already earned itself. The alert that arrives at three in the morning is a person, not a badger, because the zones ignore the ground and watch the door. Battery has never dropped below half thanks to the panel
Used for: More than a year
Two years on a post with no mains and no broadband
This has watched a smallholding gate for two years and has been the single best purchase for the place. No mains, no broadband, nothing but a post and a bracket. The panel keeps the battery between eighty and full through the year and only in the darkest fortnight of December did it dip enough for me to think about it. Detection is good enough that I get an alert for a person or a vehicle and nothing for the sheep, which took an afternoon of drawing zones and adjusting sensitivity to achieve. Clips are on the card as well as in the app, so nothing depends on the signal being kind. The honest caveat is that everything is slower than a wired camera. Live view takes a moment to connect and moving the head about lags. For a gate in the middle of nowhere, none of that matters.
Used for: More than a year
The sim data is an ongoing expense
Faultless camera, though the data costs add up over a year
Used for: 1–3 months
Tilt does not reach far enough down from a high mount
Does what it promises, so four stars rather than three, but there are two things worth knowing before you buy. The first is that everything runs through the sim, so a bad signal day means a slow app and a delayed clip. The second is the tilt range, which does not go as far down as I wanted for a camera mounted high on a barn, and I ended up packing the bracket out with a wedge to get the angle.
Used for: More than a year
Works where there is no wifi and no mains
Data plan is another running cost
Runs on a sim card at a field gate with no power for miles!
Used for: 1–3 months
Detail is good enough to read a van's lettering
Setup means dealing with a sim and a data plan
Watching a building site over a weekend was the reason for buying it, and it has done that job twice now without anyone needing to visit. The clips are sharp enough to read the lettering on a van door
Used for: 1–3 months
Went up at a remote stables where the nearest router is a field away. Two months in and it has caught a quad bike coming through the gate at half four in the morning, which is precisely why it went up. Night pictures are grainy at distance but the shape and the direction are plain enough.
Used for: Less than a month
Pan and tilt from the phone covers the whole plot
Live view is slow where the signal is weak
Bought for a static caravan that sits empty most of the year with no broadband anywhere near it, and it went up on the side in an afternoon with four screws and a sim. The pan and tilt from the phone is the part that makes it useful rather than just present. I can swing it round the plot and check the door, the gas locker and the neighbour's fence without anybody driving over. Signal at that spot is one bar, which slows the live view to a crawl, though recorded clips still arrive. The solar panel has kept it charged since the day it went up, and the app notification lands within a few seconds of movement.
Used for: Less than a month
Everything about it is designed for somewhere with no services
Set it up on the kitchen table before it ever went outside, which I would recommend to anyone: get the sim working and the app paired somewhere warm rather than up a ladder in the rain. Once mounted it has been completely undemanding. Motion alerts come through with a still image attached, the siren can be triggered from the app if somebody is somewhere they should not be, and the whole thing runs off the sun. For a plot with no power at all it is the only sensible answer!