Good value for the price, awful software makes this a hard sell
The Amcrest 1080p camera was very easy to set up. The hardware is well designed and executed. The pictures and video it produces are of very good quality in varying light conditions. With daylight the picture is sharp and the image resolution allows zooming into parts of the frame without blur even when streaming is set at 720p, which is configurable. The IR night vision works great. From the camera position in a corner, I can clearly see my entire large living room and kitchen, and another 15ft of hallway through my front door. The camera supports remote pan and tilt, plus two-way audio which can be turned on and off each way. My only wish about the device is that it was smaller and looked less like a camera.
Unfortunately the solid hardware is let down but a truly terrible software. It must have been created by the engineers who designed the camera because it is crammed with practically every feature you'd need in an intuitive menu with confusing options, complete lack of context help, similar features controlled in unrelated parts of the menus, prompts to save when you've made no changes, and frequent failures to connect to the camera from outside networks.
The cloud offering, which is a separate app, is practically useless in the free form. The only advantage is that it always manages to connect, which is helpful when the p2p app cannot.
Overall I don't regret my purchase but I think most people would be so confused and turned off by the software they wouldn't be able to use the camera.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New