YI Home Camera 1080 AI+

I've had this for quite some time now , I dont know why I haven't left a review yet 🫣 . This is a good camera with good picture quality. I use it in my autistic sons bedroom so I can keep an eye on him . The fact I can talk to him via the camera is a big hit

Great cameras, good value for money and a very easy setup. I have 8 of these, various models and ages from the last 4 years. I even used a indoor model as an outdoor camera in a sheltered spot and it's still fully functional. Really let down by the software and the advertising. I don't want a game from the play store demo playing before I can view my camera. Unfortunately I wouldn't recommend them on that basis. A once excellent product ruined by advertising. Now with twice the advertising and a 90 second view of live video. User experience terrible unless you pay £130 subscription. It gets worse, now I have to pay to unlock HD live video. Look at the reviews on Play Store.

For the price this camera is amazing! It does exactly what I want, I can view what is going on at the front of the house via my phone or my echo show. Yes it does work through the window - just turn off the infa red lights and you can get a clear picture (this will depend on the lighting available outside, e.g. street lights or put a motion detector light up outside to improve the image). Even the motion detector works through the double glazing! You can adjust the sensitivity of the sensor to your own needs via the app, which is very easy to use. I was that impressed I purchased one for the garden and recommend to my daughter who has purchased one too! All in all a very good camera and very good service from the seller. Update:- People are saying you only get 6 seconds viewing time after an alert, this is correct, but you can get round this by using an sd card and recording 24/7. Once you receive a notification you can instantly click on the alert to view the 6 second clip and then rewind or forward the recording as much as you want. You do not need to use the cloud for storage hence no further payments required. Hope this helps.

I loved this camera at first. Picture quality was good, night vision was good, easy to setup but then it stopped working after about a year. It’s ok for the money. Budget camera

I have a couple of these cameras now and have been hanging on a for a few weeks to see how they run before leaving a review. Overall I am very satisfied with the cameras. Being 720hd, the picture quality is good but not amazing. I have two cameras set up looking out of front and rear windows of my house. I bought my first camera as I needed proof when couriers were not making deliveries after i received a few 'your parcel has been delivered' notices (looking directly at you Amazon). A second camera soon followed to keep an eye on my car in our communal car park. I didn't need crystal clear quality for these purposes. The motion detection is pretty handy. I get notifications when the camera picks up movement and it is pretty accurate. The recordings have been able to prove that I have had a naughty courier who hasn't been doing the job correctly at times! I use SD cards in my cameras rather than subscribing to the cloud services. I can access my recordings easily and managing the data is straight forward. Playback is a doddle! The audio is ok. I don't use my cameras for their audio so couldn't give a fair review of the quality. Night vision..... Pretty useless in practice. Luckily for me, my cameras point out at well lit areas so when it gets dark they are still pretty decent. You get a fairly good quality black and white image in these conditions. I found my first camera a bit of a pain to set up but my second one was fine. The instructions are really straight forward and the hardware and app walks you through setup well. The phone app is great. Lots of options available to personalise your setup and run multiple cameras. The desktop application is simple but very straight forward to use. I have a second computer monitor running to use as a CCTV screen where I can see both cameras running at the same time. For the low price I paid for my cameras, I would say they are excellent. If you need really high quality images, maybe look at alternatives but for a cheap and easy to setup system, I would highly recommend yi.

We bought two similar items, this was the cheapest but has made the other device redundant. Impressed with reliablily and ease of set up. Does everything it advertises and if I can set it up anyone can. Picture is acceptable, not great but enough detail to see everything hapening. Motion detection works well, can be hit and miss in changing light conditions and sometimes it does seem a little slow to kick in. We didn't sign up for the cloud hosting so have to back-up/delete the memory card every couple of weeks. Card removal is a little fiddly but that is about the only issue we've had. Update after using the camera for some time... The good is that the Yi camera is relatively cheap, easy to set up and the picture quality is good for the cost of the camera. Its 'generally' reliable and works well to view live footage on. The bad points are the app, this was not so bad a year or so ago but is now full of slow loading advertising banners for other Yi services such as for their cloud service, free trials and other products that its made it a nuisance to use. The number of times I've gone to check the camera and a banner has loaded, at the last minute, pushing what I tried to click on down just so I have to close and reopen the app. The reliability of the camera is also frustrating. If I use a larger sd card than 32gb then the camera will stop storage and corrupt the card when it gets around two thirds full. Have tried several top spec cards and had the same issue with all of them. So i'm left with using a 32gb which works but then means footage is written over every three days or so. Connection is another issue, when viewing the live camera it is normally fine but then when trying to view older footage the connection will drop to 0kb and a notice will pop up to check network connection. I do this and its always 'Excellent' so this seems to be an issue with the camera or its firmware. So the for me camera is okay and works well but it is let down by too much adverting on the app and several bugs or unreliable factors.

This is for the 1080p Yi Home Camera. I really like this little camera. Image quality is good, it has night vision and is very reasonably priced compared to some other cameras. Set up was very easy and took about 2 minutes. It is powered via a 6ft long micro USB cable. If you want to put it up high or somewhere more than 6ft from a mains socket you can buy USB extension cables or connect it to a rechargeable powerbank and this means you can put your camera more or less wherever you like as long as its indoors. The most Impressive thing about this camera for me is the ease of connecting to it via the 4G network when I am out and about, something which some other cameras seem to struggle with but which seems to me to be essential. I had the builders in recently doing my bathroom and my Yi camera caught them having a nosey in my bedroom while I was out. Needless to say, they withdrew pretty quickly when they noticed the camera! I promptly received a push notification to my phone and had no trouble viewing a 6-second clip of the event which started just before motion was detected so I didn't miss anything, and also the live feed, all over 4G. When I got home I was able to access the SD card in the camera and view the whole event. The camera keeps recording to the SD card for 2 minutes after motion ceases just to make sure it doesn't miss anything. Overall I think this is a very good little camera for the price.

The camera's themselves are generally okay, wifi signal not bad at all either so you get a decent connection with them to your WiFi. You cannot turn off the Nightime mode so they will flip into infrared mode even if you disconnect the internal IR Lights, doesn't matter, can't force the camera's to stay in colour mode. Biggest problem though, and this is something you must be aware of before buying these camera's is that the app itself that you must use with these camera's is absolutely terrible. The company has also taken it upon themselves to infest their app with adverts, and I mean totally infested with adverts. You cannot even view an event as a fullscreen popup advert appears now also so you gotta find the "x" and click out of that before you can even see what the event was. Utterly awful practice by yi/kami as a company, just check the reviews on the app stores, filled with thousands of people complaining about the adverts. Oh and if you want to view more than one of your camera's at the same time, like the multiview feature of viewing 4 camera's? Well you gotta subscribe to their expensive cloud plan for that feature too. Awful. Good camera's that have been severly let down by an extremely poor app and support. Cloud plan is very expensive and it's features like multiview do not carry across to friends/neighbours you might share the camera's out too so they can view, plus it's very hard to cancel the recurring cloud plan if you do get it. Support is woeful also. Oh and one final important thing, if their servers go down, which has happened a few times now, even if you're not subscribed to their cloud plan, all of your camera's also go down and you cannot view anything, cannot even view what might be on the SD card or even view your cameras live. Would not recommend at all due to the extremely poor app experience plus the advert infestation in same. The app is essential to use your yi/kami camera's and this company have completely destroyed the app and thusly the camera's.