Speaker 1: A home security camera with everything you need for just
Speaker 1: thirty dollars. Yep, what's going on. I'm Rich Damiro. This
Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. And you might remember last
Speaker 1: year I told you about a twenty dollars home security camera.
Speaker 1: It was called the wisecam. Well, this new camera is
Speaker 1: from the same company. It's called the Wise Campan, and
Speaker 1: it adds the ability to pan, till and zoom.
Speaker 2: And yes, it is just thirty dollars.
Speaker 1: And before you get to the whole monthly fee thing,
Speaker 1: no there are no monthly fees whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Let me explain.
Speaker 1: So the Wisecampan is definitely not the best looking security
Speaker 1: camera in the world. I find it to be kind
Speaker 1: of boxy and the design is not going to win
Speaker 1: any awards. But at this price you really can't complain.
Speaker 1: I think buyers are going to be most interested in
Speaker 1: the combination of features.
Speaker 2: For the price, you pretty much get it all.
Speaker 1: You get the pan, tilt and zoom control, zoom up
Speaker 1: to eight times, you get night vision, You get a
Speaker 1: motion to techction zone, continuous recording. If you add a
Speaker 1: micro SD card, it can go three hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: degrees horizontal, ninety three degrees vertical motion tagging, two way audio,
Speaker 1: smart sound recognition. That means if your smoke detector goes
Speaker 1: off in your house, the wisecam is smart enough to
Speaker 1: notice that and it will send you an alert to
Speaker 1: your phone based on that sound recognition. You also get
Speaker 1: time laps, motion tracking, full HD in ten EDP, motion
Speaker 1: and sound detection and alerts, and free rolling fourteen day
Speaker 1: cloud storage.
Speaker 2: Let me explain how that works.
Speaker 1: When the wisecampan detects motion, it's going to capture a
Speaker 1: twelve second video clip. It uploads that instantly to the cloud.
Speaker 1: Then once that storage is filled up, it automatically deletes
Speaker 1: the earliest clip to make room for the new one.
Speaker 1: So basically, clips are held for a maximum of fourteen days.
Speaker 1: You can also add an SD card up to thirty
Speaker 1: two gigabytes to capture that continuous recording. Like I explained before,
Speaker 1: that is stored on board. Setup of the wise campan
Speaker 1: is really easy.
Speaker 2: I love the way they do it.
Speaker 1: The app generates a QR code, you hold it in
Speaker 1: front of the camera, The camera recognizes the code and
Speaker 1: it uses that code to pair up with your Wi
Speaker 1: Fi network and the app, and from there you basically
Speaker 1: get a live stream of the camera at anytime on
Speaker 1: your smartphone. You can just tune in on your phone
Speaker 1: and watch the camera live, and the quality there is excellent. Then,
Speaker 1: once you're inside the app, you can manually move around
Speaker 1: the lens and the unit itself by using remote controls.
Speaker 1: You can also put the device in automatic mode, so
Speaker 1: it tracks any motion that it sees. I found that
Speaker 1: this aspect of the camera wasn't always perfect, especially if
Speaker 1: there were multiple things moving in front of the camera.
Speaker 1: It doesn't know which one to track necessarily. But remember
Speaker 1: these are all software things that can easily be improved
Speaker 1: with software over time, so I wouldn't get too caught
Speaker 1: up on that.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Another mode allows you to automatically have the camera scan
Speaker 1: an area of a room by moving back and forth.
Speaker 1: I think of this as those eighties security cameras that
Speaker 1: would slowly move left to right to sweep an area.
Speaker 1: But again, it's a handy feature to have. All right,
Speaker 1: pretty much everything on the wise Campan works as advertised,
Speaker 1: and yes it's a great value for thirty dollars. But
Speaker 1: here's the issue that I found. The movement and the
Speaker 1: sound of the movement is kind of distracting. So if
Speaker 1: you have this thing set up in a room where
Speaker 1: you're hanging out regularly, like I had it set up
Speaker 1: in my living room. Literally, my wife unplugged it by
Speaker 1: the end of the night every single time I plugged
Speaker 1: it in because it was tracking her, and it's tracking
Speaker 1: your movements. And it also is kind of loud, so
Speaker 1: you notice that this thing is tracking you, you will
Speaker 1: be very aware of the camera's movements, especially when it
Speaker 1: tracks you.
Speaker 2: So that's my only real downside.
Speaker 1: So my advice, unless you have a specific use case
Speaker 1: scenario for the movement ability of the wise Campan, I
Speaker 1: think you'd be better served with the original wisecam, which
Speaker 1: shares nearly all of the same features minus the movement
Speaker 1: and the zoom. But that camera is only twenty dollars,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't move other things. To keep in mind,
Speaker 1: the wise Campan is only for indoor use, and there's
Speaker 1: still no smart home integration with Alexa, Google Home, or
Speaker 1: Apple Home Kit. I don't think that's a huge deal breaker,
Speaker 1: but it is kind of cool that you can see
Speaker 1: your Nest and Amazon cameras on the Fire TV and
Speaker 1: also on the Apple TV if you have the nestcams. Overall,
Speaker 1: if you're not worried about the potential sound and movement
Speaker 1: of the Wisecampan distracting you. I think that this thirty
Speaker 1: dollars camera is an amazing value and a great way
Speaker 1: to keep an eye on what's important to you, all
Speaker 1: again with no monthly fees.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening.
Speaker 1: If you want to see my video review of the Wisecampan,
Speaker 1: go to my website.
Speaker 2: It is rich on tech dot tv.
Speaker 1: And if you like what I'm doing here with the podcast,
Speaker 1: I'd really appreciate a review in the Apple Podcasts app.
Speaker 2: That way more people discover the podcast. Thanks so much
Speaker 2: for listening. I'm Rich Damiro. I'll talk to you real soon.