Great concept but unreliable
598916
It's a great idea to have hose that can be expanded and extracted, like the Rumford.  But I have yet found the one that actually maintain its quality.  What's the point of buying an expensive waterhose if the use can't be more than 3-5 times after the purchase?
488699
Has great features, easy to install and use but becomes unreliable very quickly. Camera is often offline and can't be viewed. Needs to constantly turn it off and on. Lags from real-time. After a few days of use connection is lost completely and requires to delete and add camera again. After two weeks wifi connection is lost completely and can't reconnect.

It's a good baby monitor idea with good features but is executed poorly.
3283372
Easy to use, accurate navigational device ... when it works. I bought the first unit and powered it up but got nothing. Tech support suggested I exchange it for a new one. The second one worked quite well and was a pleasure to use ... for three weeks. Then it went dead and no amount of charging or resets made a difference. Returned it and got a replacement that also went dead after three weeks. I'm waiting for the fourth unit to arrive but don't have high hopes of having it work.

I paid almost $800 for this unit but think it was a waste of money. It's a great product but it is too unreliable.
1852171
excellent design and aesthetically pleasing but unreliable. I would give it 5 stars if it also worked as an AP. I lost connections every day at least 3-4 times. Returned product to get a reliable AP.
4866157
The idea of this product is awesome.  When the device decides to work it is great! However, the device does not work over 70 percent of the time.  What I mean by this is that I can not get it to turn on or that it freezes...However, when it does work it is awesome.  However, because I can never really depend on it working I rated it one star.....If it worked all the time when I needed it- I would have rated it 5 stars.....
3663509
The idea is great. Finally a iPad Air keyboard case that allows the iPad to be detached (while still having a protective case) and allows it to be used in both landscape and portrait mode, with two viewing angles.
Where it lets down is the unreliable Bluetooth connection. It keeps dropping out at least once a day and the only way to get it to connect again is to tell the iPad to "forget the device", turn Bluetooth off and then on again and re-pair the device again.
This gets worse if you detach the device often - either on purpose or accidentally (it's easy to do) - or if you let the iPad "time-out" and go into sleep mode.
The Belkin help desk is attentive, but does not offer any solutions (apart from replacing the unit, but I think it's a structural problem).
2707845
I'm very sorry that I cannot recommend this system.  It replaced my old 4-camera DVR when I bought 4 more cameras (total 8 now).  I really do like this DVR and its features, but it's just not reliable.  On a few occasions we found that it did not record footage that we were searching for because at some point it had stopped recording which created a lapse of weeks; we don't know when it stopped, but that's okay since the footage was not crucial.  A surveillance tech friend suggested drive failure, so we replaced the drive at our cost and started over + tested + made sure it was working.  This time we were broken into about 2 weeks ago and there was no footage to access again for police.

I have seen it restart itself when it emits a loud beep usually once every week or two; I suspect this is the point where it turns to Live View only and stops recording.  The problem is that I'm not always there to hear the restart beep to know that I have to put it back onto Record mode again.  It would be okay if it showed an obvious indicator when it's on Live View mode so that I can turn Recording back on, but it doesn't and it's a bit too much work for me to test on a daily basis.  I've owned this system for 14 months and I'm sorry to say I cannot recommend it.
1017293
I guess card readers are not very reliable as I've yet to find one that doesn't have problems. I bought this upon recommendation of many photographer friends and it worked great at first. Lately it seems to be having trouble with uploads. At first I thought it was the memory card but it has problem with multiple cards (both CF and SD) of different brands. When it works, it's great! Just is not a consistent product so far. FYI It reads CF cards way faster.
1975049
I have to say I was excited to get this product as it seems like it would be so convenient being able to monitor the doors from my mobile phone, and save me time having to go back to the house to make sure I remembered to close the garage door. The concept is great and it does work. Unfortunately only about 50 percent of the time. The app is absolutely horrible and unreliable as it constantly is dropping off the network  and every time it does it requires  re entering in all of your information and making all pertinent settings. I have had to go and purchase an additional opener and keypad so that I do not get locked out of my home as the app is a joke.  I am a home automation installer and have made sure that the problems are not network related as the other 40 devices I have on the network work flawlessly. The only good thing is Its not terribly expensive so if you would like to monitor your garage doors sometimes but not when you need to ,then this product may be for you. Very disappointing that its so unreliable as it would be great if it actually worked.
2559459
Love the idea but execution is terrible quite often.  Recording service often not include parts want need to see at beginning or end of a triggered event.  Every car driving down street can trigger this thing no matter how we set it and yet we mystically had a car never seen before in our neighborhood now parked in front of our house with no recording of it or the person leaving it there.  The vehicle has not moved in several days.  Perfect example of the overall reliability whether it be their service or your net goes down there are lots of holes to deal with.  Very much hit or miss.  Love the features but far bullet proof let alone reliable in several cases.
4484802
Very unreliable. I purchased three bulbs and set them up in various scenes using the app, then created a dozen or more IFTTT recipes that triggered default colors as well as custom scenes, and set up a recurring daily schedule as well. It's all great and amazing--until it isn't. Which is approximately once every day. Either a bulb won't turn on with the morning schedule, or 1 of the 3 won't change color when triggered from the app or via the Echo (I've experimented there with IFTTT triggers as well as the Lifx Skill). Whenever a bulb fails, I have to manually turn it off, wait a minute, and turn it back on--and even that won't solve the problem in every case. As I write this review, I've had one bulb left turned off for 48 hours now because I could never get it to reconnect to my network the other day and I just don't want to go through the process of resetting it to stock settings and starting over a *third* time. (Yes, I've already started over from scratch once while troubleshooting these things.) Bulb #2 stopped working a half hour ago and won't reconnect to my network no matter what I try.

My point is, these bulbs are FINICKY, especially considering the price. They are not ready for normal everyday use by normal everyday people. The support threads on the official site (I've been lurking through them the past few days) are filled with talk of router brands and wireless channels and encryption settings and firmware updates, which suggests that you'd better be willing to approach these bulbs like a hobbyist, not a homeowner, if you want to get them working as promised. Meanwhile my Wemo switches--also connected to the same wireless network and hooked into my Echo--work 85-90% of the time (they probably go offline once a month, and seem to reset on their own within a half hour or so).

As much as I love the ability to play with color, I can't keep these. The 30-day return window is closing for me tomorrow and I haven't seen anything to make me feel confident that Lifx will improve the performance of the bulbs any time soon.
3508278
The concept itself is excellent and is a great alternative for solving several needs that some customers may have. I think my product is defective and that's why it's not working but I think this chinese company needs to invest more in quality and making sure the product works fine. Bluetooth disconnects very often from my phone, though when I was able to have a stable connection, calls worked flawlessly and music played well. The device got disconnected because apparently it couldn't sync all of my address book contacts (which are over 400). The FM transmitter didn't work on my unit. I tried with almost every possible station and I could only hear static (barely heard music when playing it). Android works fairly ok and apps are fast to load. The DVR options work really well and video quality is good. My product will self reboot at times and the buttons and screen kind of flickered (I tried with 2 different power inputs and it happened with both). During daylight, driver can't really see because of reflection but copilot has good viewing angle. Despite all of these, if the product was manufactured with better quality, this would be a must purchase for vehicles without an advanced car stereo system.
2319243
Like several other reviewers have written, this clock is a great idea, but completely unreliable.  It doesn't keep accurate time and eventually stops working all together.

Disappointing.
2326400
I've had two of these ChiTronic's Mini 0806.  The first one lasted only 9-months before it refused to record.  It would turn on but not record, even with new freshly formatted memory cards.  The second one died after a single year of use.  I would get the blue light that it's charging but it would not turn on or record or do anything else.  I previously had issues with it freezing, not recording and also refusing to turn on in temperatures below 15'F.  I really loved the discrete-ness of the camera and that it had a small screen.  Too bad that they can't get these things to be reliable.
3769033
This is such a cool idea for a product and when it's working well it's amazing. I love all the motion detection and doorbell video options and the cloud storage for monitoring or looking back at past video. But, unfortunately, there are still too many links for this to be on the market. Customer service is awesome and even replaced my original unit but more problems problems. It drops wifi regularly and you must take it down to reconnect. And most recently it wouldn't power up and when I pulled it off the mount, the connections on back of doorbell and on the mount are corroding (I carefully placed the unit under protection from rain). It's an outside doorbell. It has to be built to withstand normal air humidity and moisture. Great invention Ring - but keep testing and making changes and bring this back out to customers when you advance that technology and the durability of the unit. I would buy again in a few years with changes!
467141
I bought one of these just before an overseas trip. However, when I received it, it wouldn't hold a charge. Even though it showed the charging symbol it never got to the charged symbol even after charging overnight. I called the company up and had to send it in. As a result, I was unable to use this product for that trip.
When I returned, the product was repaired and I tried it a few times at home and it worked. So I stored it away. Now I am preparing for another overseas trip, so I get it out to charge it, and it's doing the exact same thing as the first time, won't take a charge even overnight. I like the idea but it's so unreliable, it's frustrating.
529620
This thing is great...if you're lucky and can get it to work. It boosted our signal to the wifi (located far away) but there are so many problems that we've had and zero customer service that was useful. The throughput will often stop giving us feedback (data) and the entire thing won't work even though we can connect to the wifi for a moment (at one bar without the adapter) before the signal goes away). It will work, but we never know when it's going to stop working for days on end before suddenly it'll start working again.
Very unreliable and hard to fix. I'd rather pay more for something that we could use without wondering when it'll stop working next.