Good for file backups but not for security camera
343893
Have this for several months now and use it to store pictures and documents and upgrade the memory from 2GB to 8GB; pretty easy to do.  Recently try to use it for my home security cameras run into the following problems:

Bought the camera that is listed as "compatible" in Qnap website.  Setup the camera using Surveillance Station.  I can only install the camera in Qnap as ONVIF.  If I select the camera's manufacture and model which are also listed in the Qnap Surveillance Station, I'll keep getting rtsp error.  PTZ Mode should also work in Surveillance Station because the SW detects the function but doesn't matter what I do, PTZ just won't work (and is listed in Qnap website as a compatible function).  I contacted Qnap support and the support send me a beta version of Surveillance Station which fixes the rtsp error but still need a few retries (remove/re detect) to get rid of the error.  In the beta version, PTZ mode still does not work.  I asked Qnap support if they can reproduce the problem at their end and the Qnap support told me they don't have the camera in support department.  Only their R&D department have the camera.  Shouldn't support team work with with RD team on figuring this out?????  QNAP support then ask if I can open a port for their engineers to remote into my system to debug the problem.  I refuse.  I'm not comfortable having a stranger remote into my network and if their R&D have the camera, why can't they just try to duplicate it at their end instead of remote into my network to debug?????  It is not like I have an enterprise setup where switches and firewalls might prevent some features to work.  It is simply setting up a security camera in Surveillance Station under home network!!

I pretty much gave up on getting the PTZ to work in Qnap Surveillance Station and since the security camera I bought came with the software that allows me to use PTZ, I figure I can live with that until they fix the problem in future release.  I then decided to buy 2 more camera license so I can consolidate all my cameras to one system.  QNAP 451+ only comes with 2 camera license.  Guess what, Qnap is charging $120 for 2 camera license!!!!!  I don't mind paying for the license but $120 for a half baked software that barely works with the cameras they claimed compatible really deters me from paying.

So, here is my rating:
2 star for easy to use to store pictures, documents and setup in home network
1 star for easy upgrading memory
-1 star for support.
-1 star for half baked software that supposes to work with the camera they claimed compatible in Qnap website but in fact only certain function works and trying to charge $100+ for 2 additional camera licenses on half baked software
4519089
We purchased both the Trivision 4mm and the 6mm security cameras so we could have a visual of the front drive, the garage and back gate access areas when at home or when we are away. Getting this all set up on my Mac, iPhone and iPad was not as fast and easy as many reviewers indicated (at least it wasn't for me). It was not really hard, but it was definitely a time consuming and frustrating process, mainly due to the security software/ App program.

For the price, these are quality cameras with very nice clear pictures, both during day and night, and both cameras are very sturdy feeling. The camera does not come with a micro sd card. This card goes under the top cover so if you plan on using the sd card, you will want to be sure to install this prior to getting your camera all hung up because once you camera is installed getting to the sd card could be an issue. The night vision works well and aside from a very tiny, tiny, single green light, the camera puts off no light at night to indicate it is even there.

With the cameras up and running, so far they work great and as advertised (I am referring only to the camera), all features work, the picture and sound is good. I guess the true test of time will show how well the cameras will hold up to our fluctuating weather patterns.

Now on to the software... it is slow and freezes up on my iPhone and iPad all the time. If I have a browser open on my computer it will runs straight with not too many issues until I have to look at other windows and then when I go back to the camera window I have to dink around with it to get my view back up. Additionally the software does not have many options for functionality as others I have come across. I wish Trivision could find better software to use with their equipment, if the security software and App wasn't such a pain I would have given these cameras 5 star. I could also say if I hadn't been so impressed with the picture quality of the cameras for the value, I would have only given a 2 or a 3 just because of the dang software pain point. I will be on the hunt for a compatible alternative software in the meantime and will post to my comments should I find one. From what I gather in the question area the UCam247Live and P2PCam264 apps on the iPhone evidently are compatible with the TriVision cameras, both programs are supposed to be similar to AnyScene. However, the UCam247Live had no ratings in the app store and P2PCam264 had a 3 star rating out of 5 raters and the app is like AnyScene and has instructions in Chinese and per review has some slowness issues. Well I gave both a try and P2PCam264 did not work for me and UCam247Live works as well as AnyScene and actually looks like it was created by the same people.

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***UPDATE*** For Mac users I did want to add I did find a software program called EvoCam (...) that worked better
2068790
For what this camera is it works great. It is easy to setup, camera quality is good, night vision is good, motion detection and notifications worked as expected, and it is all easy to access from your phone...from anywhere. As an easy to setup and access internet-based camera, the only major functionality it seems to be missing is the ability to view the camera or recordings from a web browser, or a regular computer.

For anyone remotely concerned about privacy however, this camera is bad news. I bought it intending to use as a baby monitor similar to how many people use the Nest camera as a baby monitor. However without the ability to lock access to the camera down to just your local Wifi, or ideally use it on a dedicated network not connected to the internet, this camera is unsuitable for something like a baby monitor. You have to assume that anything connected to the internet has the potential of a security vulnerability allowing anyone access to it, this camera included. I'm not comfortable having an always on baby monitor that is just asking to be hacked. I'm not sure there's all that many use-cases where you would be comfortable with random strangers (or the authorities) having access to your indoor security footage without your knowledge.

Another reason you might want to reconsider this monitor for a baby monitor, it isn't portable. Even if you had a dedicated router and tablet for it, it still would need an internet connection wherever you took it.
3097163
Synology is a great partner in my Video security world.  I like their solution for our system.  Best in the market. Only wish that it wasn't so darn expensive to add a camera.  You should at least come out with support for 4 cameras.  Just my opinion.
1961446
Well made camera, but useless...

You cannot save the video in remote location.. only can save in the camera SD.. so if a robbery stole the camera, you don't know who the robbery is..

This is not an IP camera, this is an mobile camera.. this is not accessible from any computers.. only mobile phones can access the camera..

There is no credential to access camera.. this means you don't know that Xiaomi is maybe watching you, or the camera can be exposed to the public easily...

Use this camera for baby sitting and inside your home.. this cannot be a security surveillance purpose...
2728139
I was happy with the price, size and convenience this drive provided, however I purchased it as a network back up drive. I wanted a large external drive so I  could use it to Back up my four tower computers 2 laptops and 2 android tablets, I thought it would be better than installing spare hard drives in them all. It has enough capacity to back them all up without using a fraction of the space available, and my tower computers host dual 800 GB hard drives times four. The cons were, soon after getting all my pictures and music files plus all the personal files copied to it for a permanent back up copy I then did a system back up of each device with a system state snap shot and was feeling pretty secure and safe. Then in less than 3 months after receiving it and only days after completing the back ups, I turned on my Computer and it didn't recognize the drive, I tried a system restore, add new hardware, etc. Everything I did made no difference, even though the power light was on  but it just wouldn't recognize it. After contacting the Customer service at Seagate, they sent me a label to return it and fortunately I bought the extended  data recovery warranty. After first emailing them and explaining what the problem was the sent me a return label explaining that in certain cases data retrieval is not successful, which really worried me because like the pictures and personal files I put the masters on it and had not had a chance to create any back up copies before it stopped working. It would have been a disaster, but after a week or so they informed me they were able to retrieve all my files and copy them to an identical new drive and returned it to me. When I got it back, I tried to format it into separate partitions for each computer backed up instead of one large drive hoping that if it failed again I may only lose one partition instead of everything. I found that to be a challenge as Windows format said that it was unable to partition the drive because of a difference in bytes and sectors. I downloaded the hard Drive applications from Seagate, but those programs wouldn't recognize it as their hard drive and told me I will need a Seagate drive to use the software. So it seemed like a really had a problem. I would recommend it it for backups and system back ups but I won't use it as the only copy anymore. Its a great tool for the price but only for use as a storage device for files that are copied somewhere else, not for Masters!
4803766
I was using them for video. They fail miserably for computer data! Could not backup my PC. Failed on verification.
2544067
We purchased this drive with four 3TB Western Digital Red drives for a group in our office to store and share large VMs and other data.  I've been a Synology fan since we bought a DS1815+ to store network backups using Veeam on eight 4TB drives (same type as above).
I kept one star back because I was really disappointed that this unit doesn't include the Snapshot Replication software.  I contacted Synology and they suggested using Hyper Backup, which I am using, but that's not the same thing.  They suggested another model, which isn't really an option on the budget for this project.  Again, certainly not a deal breaker, and the Hyper Backup works really well, but it's not Snapshot Replication.
The drive is super quiet and the Synology software makes their systems really easy to setup and work on a domain.
2430379
It worked ok for FTP upload of pictures.  Video seems to require a NFS drive dedicated to this camera.  The camera must format it and control all aspects of the drive.  It did not work with a QNAP NFS drive or SMB drive.  I would have been content using it for pictures only.

Upgrading the firmware to 5.3 bricked my camera, it doesn't show up on my network at all now.  People on forums are saying this happens a lot, that the manufacturer is purposefully going after cameras meant for one region and sold in another.  A US downloaded firmware bricked my camera, which I bought on Amazon US, but it may have originally been intended to be sold in Europe or Asia depending on the distributor.  Of course this could all be a paranoid conspiracy theory, and the firmware will actually brick any camera regardless of region.

Long story short, it doesn't work that well as-is, and it becomes a $100 paperweight after a firmware upgrade.  Buy another brand.
1793009
I have a DVR from my security company and was going to add two cameras to the system. Mounted and installed but couldn't get a picture, when I called Tech Support was told they were not compatible with my current DVR and I would have to by another DVR
2282204
I HAVE TWO OF THESE CAMERAS ALWAYS NEED EXTRA BACKUPS
4441255
The idea to have a stand-alone box camera that can record to SD card / USB is great.  The support to get things working correctly is BAD.  The operation manual states the camera can record to USB Hard Drive - it worked for awhile then stopped working.  Tech support said it does not record to Hard Drive and "they will update the manual soon."

I planned to have this camera record high quality video almost constantly and that may have been out of the scope of it's ability.  You may have better luck than I did, but I'd try something else first.

Pro's:
Good lens, video and jpg quality.
Several options
Alarm input and output
low cost
115692
The surveillance version is designed for security DVR's & NVR's. The performance has been great, I am very pleased the WD hard drive.
3928228
First, I love the portability and concept. The video is clear and night vision is adequate. Even the battery life is quite good. (I purchased some li-ion nitecore rechargeable batteries which fair pretty good) even the distance connecting to the base station is excellent.

However!

The bad: these are sold as security cameras. I have two in very different locations (one at a gate and one at the front door looking over the driveway) I've tried various positions/angles etc. Played with the motion detection sensitivities. On both cameras it stinks. And this is why the two star. You can really walk right up to these in a straight line and wave right at them and they won't detect you. They will however set off by a large truck about 150ft away on the street! The arlo web site notes detection up to 25ft. Well. It doesn't detect there. It detects much further out with large objects and rarely picks up humans walking on the property. This is a shame. I'll really hope a firmware update will address this. Its silly to have security cameras that maybe 10% of the time pick up what you want.

If an update addresses this, ill come back and update the review. Until then, do look elsewhere if you need a truly robust camera system.
1831623
I bought this to back up files and photos across my three household computers. I have a PC for work, a Macbook for pleasure, and an old desktop with Linux Ubuntu for storage and fooling around. I plugged in the Tuoro to the Linux desktop right out of the box and transferred about 50GB of family photos onto it. It worked great. Then, I took it over to my Mac and tried to transfer all the files onto my Mac's hard drive. Some of the folders transferred over with no problems what-so-ever. Other folders just stalled and slowed to a stop, failing to transfer some of my files, and failing to identify which files were correctly transferred. Another downside to this drive is that in order to ADD files to it from a Mac, you need to reformat the whole drive beforehand.

Summary: If you're looking for backup for one system, this drive will probably be ok. If you're looking to back up multiple systems in a plug-and-play format across systems, I'd look elsewhere.
580047
I've installed two of these camera's as a simple surveillance system in my shop. Without installing any software I can use the built in firmware to set up a large variety of options. I have images being captured based on motion detection and sent to an ftp server automatically, but you can also choose detection based on heat or time interval. After signing up for free at viewnetcam.com you can view your cameras anywhere you have Internet access, so I can monitor the shop from my iPhone.

The main drawback is image quality - even set to the maximum settings, 640 x 480 Favor Clarity, the image has too many jpg artifacts. The 640 x 480 would be fine but Panasonic's compression is too aggressive and lowers to quality too much. It's still a very useful product, but be aware of the image quality limitations.

Also, after the initial setup, I haven't had any problems with the system freezing. It does work reliably for me and I might even add more cameras on to my system.
2070200
There's a lot of potential with this unit but don't mistake it for the higher end cameras. It doesn't have any of the fit and finish of real software (quirky UI, several bugs, etc.). However, it's capable and for the price I'd likely buy again.

One thing that really bothers me is that I didn't notice anywhere that it's limited to 24 hours of storage (as other reviewers pointed out it's to drive cloud purchases). I'm not sure if this is legal but will follow up on that later. It's lame because you can tell that the clips are still stored locally because I had only one short clip and storage space kept shrinking from the last format.