Canary View (Black)

What I wanted was a budget friendly device that would be easy to install, with clear images that would notify me if someone entered my home. This is exactly what I got. For the money it's amazing. The device looks like a speaker and can be set on a shelf or furniture. The camera is wide angled, picks up the whole room. When the Canary is in Nighttime mode the camera picked me up as I entered the room.and outlined my body as I sat in a chair in the dark.. I also received a notification on my phone. I can watch live when I and home if I am in another room. The sound is sensitive enough that it picks up any noise that a person would make when entering the room. A bonus that my family finds useful is the timeline. The timeline lists when I leave and when I arrive back home, and shows when I am away and when I am home. It can easily be moved to a different position or a different room .I chose not to purchase the membership and about the only negative is the repeated messages to become a member. not a big deal, just annoying.This product is perfect for people that are renters where there may be restrictions on mounting things to the property, I would recommend this for all age groups, but especially seniors. I feel safer with this product and it gives me piece of mind knowing that it works as describe.

I bought 1 at target for $99, then seen that amazon had them for $49. They’re a great fit with our furniture, and are hardly noticeable. Although I would like to be able to control the infrared lights in night vision, I know that would affect the picture quality, but I would at least like the option, that would help keep the canary more discrete. Also controls to the White recording light, and the canary chirp when talking through the app into the canary would be nice (2 way). Maybe being a little picky, but I’d at least like the option. Overall, really satisfied, get to see my kids when they get home and make sure they're home on time.Update 02/02/2019: I've since bought another 5 canary views, 4 a my place of business. I was debating on buying a surveillance camera system, but, and still am for the outside. But we’re happy with the look, the 30 day unlimited video playback you get with the subscription service.Pros:Live stream.Reasonable subscription fee. $9-9.99 a month up to 5 devices.30 day playbacks with unlimited storing.Decent picture quality through mobile device.Easy set up.Cons:Unable to control the infrared lights for night vision.Unable to control the canary chirp when talking through mobile device into the canary.

After doing much research I decided to go with Canary view indoor camera based on reviews and specs. To replace Amazon cloud cam, because it no longer work with my upgraded network of 5G.I love the sleekness of the camera blends in nicely with decor and could pass for a really nice speaker. The camera was a breeze to setup, picture quality was fairly good.However I was a bit disappointed during set up that there wasn’t any subscription trial period. In order to get notifications of motions, person or recording of activities. You’ll have to pay for that service monthly or yearly, if not you’ll only be able to do live view. (Seriously! Who has time for that while at work?) I opted to do a one month paid service to see how well it work before committing to a yearly subscription. Good thing I did, it was an EPIC FAIL! I encountered a few flaws while testing out the different “Modes” to see how well the camera works. I needed a bit of assistance to figure out what I did wrong, if I’d set up the camera incorrectly or missed a few things within the app. To my surprise there wasn’t any live customer service to contact via phone in order to receive technical support you’ll have to email, tweet or live chat. After receiving a little help turns out I didn’t have a few things set correctly within the app.PROS.I love the fact that this camera has different options to choose from and to set accordingly to your schedule, for these reasons I chose this camera:• AWAY MODE- can be set to automatically detect when you leave, so you don’t have to worry “did I turn my camera on?” It will do that for you.• HOME MODE- detects when you’ve arrived home and turn camera off.• NIGHT MODE- set to your specific needs of when you go to sleep and wake up. It automatically turns on and off so you can feel safe at night in the event should anything go “bump” while asleep. This camera would capture it all. All the different modes works superbly. It does detects whenever I come and go and automatically turns on/off. Night Mode turns on/off at my desired set times.•EMERGENCY- I haven’t had the opportunity to use this option but I love that it’s available through the app and you can store you local authority.•PANIC BUTTON- haven’t used it but I’m sure it will come in handy.CONS.I quickly learn that this camera has major flaws. I decided to try out the camera in the different “Modes” to see how well they works, While in•“AWAY MODE” I turn off the “auto detect” upon entering my home the light underneath turns on which means it detects motions and is recording. However I didn’t receive a notification immediately, when I did receive a notification it was almost two minutes after. I went to check the recording and I was horrified! There was no recording of me entering my home or doing anything within view of the camera. But it did capture my movements a full minute after entering my home. I did this for several days and each day was the same.•NIGHT MODE- (I deliberately set this mode 30 minuets prior to my normal bedtime, to ensure that I was still up and about.) This mode needs major work. In this mode it captures me far less than it should. Most nights it didn’t even detect my movements or me. And it’s the same with notifications not until after it finished recording before I receive any notifications.After I contacted amazon I was told the camera was defected so then sent me a replacement. The replacement works a little better but more less of the same it records me only once entering my home. And I’ve yet to get a notification upon entering and not after a full recording. Night mode is working, still being notified after full recording.I have already purchased a different and more expensive camera and is now testing them both side by side, so far the other camera is working phenomenally the motion sensor is superb instant notification. While Canary is still lagging. The only difference with the two is that there’s no “night mode” option with the other camera but I can live with manually turning it on/off at night knowing that it’s going to work. And it also comes with a one month trial subscription. If within the next few days It’s still under performing i’m definitely returning and also fracturing that there’s no live customer service should I encounter an issue in the future. I’d prefer not to “tweet” my issues/concerns, wait however long to text back and forth “live chat” or wait hours/days for email responses.OVERALLI would have love this camera if It had performed as it should. With instant notifications, proper recordings and detections. The developer has a nice concept which still needs lots of work. Definitely better customer service options especially knowing that this is a tech device. I had high hopes for this device and was excited... now I’m just disappointed.

I've had two Canary cameras. One of them has turned in to 'all red' in daylight. So I bought another one. THey both work well detecting motion, (infra red at night works great in the dark!) and notifying me of motion detected with video when I am not at home.Yes, the phone APP lets the camera know when you are home so it doesn't bother you with all the motion going on then, and lets it know when you are away to alert you if there is motion in the house. Of course you can select 'view now' at any time, home or away.But the phone APP keeps popping up advertisements and trying to get you to try this or that or buy this or that. Its not an easy app to navigate. Tiny 'x' in the upper left corner is the only way to go back to what you wanted to see on their app.You'll have to go thru a very complicated set-up, establish an account with Canary on your phone. When I tried to link the camera to my wife's phone, it refused to 'pair'. No reason given, other than 'try again'.Canary has no phone you can call for tech assistance -- you have to send them an email which they reply in a day or so. Finally they told me only ONE person / phone is allowed per 'account'. But there is a work around to add my wife to my account. And that is NOT easy!

Second camera purchased. Great, never a problem with it.