VSTARCAM 3MP Cat Camera, 2.4G WiFi Interactive Cat Toys, Pet Camera with Phone App, IR Night Vision, Motion Detection, 2-Way Audio, Pet & Dog Monitor

Easy..
Easy set up, easy to use, excellent picture quality. The Eye 4 app is decent, but could have more updates. Eye 4 could also do some maintenance and housekeeping on their app.Some cameras have excellent controls, while more sophisticated/complicated cameras from this manufacturer are difficult to understand the controls and do not have full control. Full control meaning the operation of two cameras at once on the double camera models. I’ve been using this brand for over 10 years. I like them, first the battery supply will go in a few years, which is replaceable on Amazon. Then the camera itself will die and may have sound, Video, or no PTZ. I like these cameras. I’ve access them from everywhere in the world that I’ve had Internet access. Vstar and Eye 4 don’t work well with other Chinese manufacturers such as zben.

Love the 360 view, but laser turns on automatically – dangerous
This camera has good night vision and good range of motion – it can turn to see pretty much everywhere except right below itself.My previous pet cam basically just has intercom, screenshot/record, and motion detection. There are a LOT more fancy features in this app:- Motion detection- Play with a laser pointer: you can control this manually or set it to one of several automatic patterns: rotate, up and down, or left to right- Human framing: people are automatically framed (it moves to keep them in view)- Human tracking: “the camera will track people’s movements in real time” (honestly not sure how this is different from human framing?)- Activity zone: not sure what this is- PTZ: not sure what this stands for but it lets you set the camera on cruise control to have it rotate constantly.- Pre Set: I *thought* this was for setting a fixed position for it to look at, so you can click a button instead of manually pressing the direction buttons to get to a specific spot. But when you try to use this, it asks for photo permission. Maybe it’s supposed to be for setting up facial recognition of familiar people that it won’t alert you about…? I didn’t know why it would need access to all my photos so I didn’t allow that.A few small annoyances: The laser pointer often turns itself on when you open the app. My partner thinks this is dangerous because if it shone in our cats’ eyes (which is very plausible since we leave the camera pointing at the spots where they like to hang out) it could damage their vision. Also, the app is very slow to start up – there’s a screen that shows the company’s logo for four seconds (though you can skip) and then a screen that’s sort of a false start – looks like a tutorial video but if you wait like two seconds then your actual video feed shows up instead. So it takes like 6 seconds to open the app. Lastly, during setup, there was a horrible robot voice that kept repeating “please connect to wifi” or something like that, and it repeated like every five seconds for several minutes while I was trying to get the wifi to work. This was an offputting initial experience that made me think “is this just going to be a piece of junk from China?” I’ve now had it for several months and it’s held up just fine, so I don’t think it’s junk. And maybe these three issues won’t be very bothersome to other people. But for the price point, I expect a really good user experience with the kinks worked out already, you know?

Catcam with laser pointer
Easy enough to set up, instructions were short, sweet, to the point. Requires a 3rd party app that is in the Play store. Storage is extra with a few options including a 30-day save per video for a year at 50 (the option I chose as it gives me enough time to download the videos to DVD storage). It has the ability to tune in live, which I like because I can tune in and talk to the cats. This also gives control of the camera and laser pointer, so you can play with the cat by turning left/right and up/down. The audio is pretty good. It can also be set to record motion activation which is great for overnight.