But pairing did work and the app successfully taught the camera how to connect to my home Wi-Fi. After which, the camera and app worked together beautifully. The camera stays connected to Wi-Fi and you can access it from the app, wherever you are. It's worth keeping the ladder up for a short time after installation, until you've got the app working. Seeing footage on-screen helps you figure out the best angle to point the camera (you can adjust it up and down, but not side-to-side).

The integrated camera allows you to view high definition HD 1080p footage so that you can see who's at the property. You can view live footage at anytime via the Yale View app and the camera includes motion detection technology which alerts you when movement is detected. The camera also includes LED night vision video from up to 10 meters away providing crystal clear coloured footage any time of day.At last, a high-tech kettle that makes the most of your efficient induction hob. It automatically shuts off at boiling temperature (a metal plate in it lifts, turning off the hob just like lifting a saucepan). There's no need for a whistle and you can fill the glass kettle from any angle. Early Indiegogo funders are getting theirs now; production models are imminent. The 'legs' of this 28cm-long travel gadget open, doing double duty. Spread them wide into a coat hanger shape to dry clothes or narrow to poke into a pair of wet shoes. Either way, the mains-powered device uses warm air to dry them and UV light to sterilise them, with a timer that powers off after up to eight hours. Please make sure there are not too many objects around your Wi-Fi router or camera, as this can decrease the Wi-Fi signal.

The resolution indicates the size of image that is captured by the camera, the larger the image the clearer the image will appear. Higher resolution cameras are ideal when viewing footage on a large TV screen. Lower resolution cameras are perfect for viewing high definition video on your smartphone or tablet. Finally, installing a floodlight camera is fairly easy, but wired fixtures require you to deal with high-voltage electrical wiring. If you’re not comfortable with that, then consider hiring a professional for the installation. Or you can opt for a battery-powered fixture; they don’t require any wiring whatsoever, but you likely need to charge them frequently depending on their recording resolution and amount of use. You view recent recordings in the app, with a calendar and timeline to scroll through. If you've set the app to record footage constantly, coloured bars in the timeline indicate when motion's detected, so you know which points in the recording could be interesting. The cameras typically house Wi-Fi or Bluetooth radios to connect the fixture to your home network and feature weather-resistant enclosures that protect them from the elements. If you have a lot of smart devices on your network, consider choosing a dual-band camera that can connect to either the 2.4GHz Wi-Fi or 5GHz bands. Scottish Highlands & Islands postcodes: AB, FK, HS, IV, KA, KW, PA, PH, ZE, LL58-LL78, IM, TR, PO30-41Smart together - Control with voice assistant and view your cameras with your favourite screen enabled smart speaker The camera footage is very impressive. The 1080p high-definition picture is detailed and you can zoom in to the footage. You can't pan and tilt the camera though, it's fixed. The positioning of the camera obviously dictates the camera angle – for example, whether you see people's faces or the tops of their heads. Motion detection notification - Receive live notifications through the Yale View App as someone approaches your door When setting up your Cameras, the image masking functionality allows users to simply select the areas that need to be covered by the motion detection feature, whilst ignoring any others that do not require camera coverage.

There are multiple lighting modes to ensure that you don't blind anyone unnecessarily, too, and in a pinch it can deploy a 110dB built-in siren which should be more than enough to deter most intruders or trespassers. Installation went pretty smoothly, though I wish we'd known to pair the camera with the app before mounting it to the wall. Pairing requires you to point your phone camera at a QR code on the Yale (confusingly not the QR code in the instructions) and then it uses the phone microphone to play audio to communicate with the Yale Floodlight Camera's microphone. We mounted it before pairing, so there was some going up and down a ladder with a phone. At least I remembered to put the MicroSD memory card into the slot in the weatherproof camera before it was mounted. Yale lets you set motion alerts in marked regions, as you'd hope, so you can ensure that you're only notified at certain times of the day or night, and in certain areas. That means no notifications if the camera catches a whiff of someone walking past your home, for instance.

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If your house is very big, and the place where you want to locate the camera is out of the Wi-Fi range, you can consider adding a range extender to extend the Wi-Fi coverage. This is not intended to be a full statement of your rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Full details of your rights are available from your Local Authority’s Trading Standards Office. How To Return A Product If your Router or camera has external antennas, please try to change the antennas’ direction to see if this improves the signal. The camera boasts a 2,000-lumen floodlighting system in two prongs that you can arrange to point exactly as you need, making them great for slightly funky spaces.