I’ll be honest, when I originally purchased these cameras, I didn’t expect much, however, seeing how they were “Roku”, a known name brand, I figured they couldn’t be thaaat bad, but I was wrong.
1) The sound quality is bad. The constant “wooshing” (sounds like light wind) noise, also confirmed by others with these cameras, is annoying. I made my peace with it, but it looks like in the last update they tried fixing it by lowering the volume of the recorded sound, but that just made things worse considering you can barley hear anything, and the wooshing sound is still there. No this isn’t ambient sound, and it’s rather pathetic (with all due respect) considering those cheap eBay cameras record better sound quality.
2) The update made recordings worse. Previously, if the camera detected movement, it would continue recording until the movement stopped, even if there was 5 minutes of movement, now however, it’ll stop recording mid-motion. For example, people will be moving in front of the camera for about 5 minutes, and there will be only a minute and a half of recorded time. What am I paying a subscription for?
3) Though this is just a lack of feature issue, and not a technical issue, still, this is incredibly worth mentioning. Will there ever be an update where we can watch what’s recorded on the SD card directly from the app? One of our cameras, we use continuous recording to the SD card, it’s incredibly inconvenient to have to remove the SD card each and every time we want to refer back to something.. we actually broke one of the SD card slots for one of the cameras having to do this so much. Is this just a way to push people to pay for the subscription or is it really that hard to implement this feature?
4) Record times are getting out of wack. The cameras now will only record 1 SECOND, yes, that’s not a typo, ONE SECOND, of video if it detects short lived motion at times, whereas before the update, it would continue to record for at least 12 seconds. What’s a 1-3 second video going to do for me? This is terrible, it will literally record separate reals back to back of 3 second, 2 second, etc. video back to back instead of just making one decent sized one to cover the entirety of the motions.
5) When pressing the “record button” to record manually, we no longer get sound. Yes, all my settings are in order. It worked before the update.
