Netvue Security Camera Outdoor Wireless, CCTV Camera with 65ft Night Vision, WiFi Outdoor Camera 1080P HD, Motion Detection, IP66 Waterproof, Compatible with Alexa, SD Card/Cloud Storage Option, White

I bought this camera in November 2019 the same time as purchasing the Echo Show 8.
After reading many reviews on different home security cameras I chose this one. The reasons being easy set up/ installation, picture quality and price. I was also impressed with the fact you do not have to subscribe to the cloud if you insert a micro SD card. After reading up on more reviews i decided to purchase the 128gb SD card (the maximum you can use in it). It will overwrite itself once full.

The Netvue app is easy to use and the initial camera set up was fairly simple. The camera connected with ease to my phone. I got it up and running in no time.

I am very impressed with how clear the picture was is both daytime and night vision.

The motion alert is triggered pretty easily even with some of the zones switched off and the sensitivity reduced but you can switch this feature off. The two-way audio is good and easy to use from the app.

I found it a bit tricky connecting it to my Echo Show but that was because both the camera and the echo show were new to me an I’m not the most tech savvy person. Nothing that a short you tube video couldnt fix. I have also learned my phrases for accessing the live stream through Alexa. It has been having trouble loading the live feed but i sure it is a blip and am going to contact customer support if the problem persists. It works perfectly through the app on my phone.

Overall i am very happy with my purchase.

I bought this as part of the Black Friday deal. It took around 30 mins to install and set up. I Downloaded the Netvue app to my android phone and my iPad. I found the set up pretty easy. There are video tutorials if your unsure as you setup. The motion detection is quite good. There are grids that you tap on to ensure areas you don’t want motion to be exempted saving you the time to view unwanted footage. I’ve installed a 128gb micro card to record the footage. The microphone is very sensitive and picks up voices well.

I’ve also connected it to my Echo Show 5 with no issues. It shows a clear image with sound. I’m very happy with this camera.

This is a great little security camera at a really good price. Before I bought it I checked through the other reviews for this camera
and for some other highly rated security cameras at a similar price. It’s pretty obvious that some of those other cameras have “fake reviews” (see the recent Which? article), but the
reviews for the NetVue camera seem to be accurate. This is the first outdoor security camera I’ve bought. I’ve been put off before by reports of complicated setup (e.g. needing a DVR), difficult configuration, and low quality images. So far I am very pleased with this one.

As others have noted, the camera is metal bodied, and everything seems to be well made (even the box is decent quality). It comes with a drill bit, wall plugs and screws, but
I will just use ones I already have, which are better quality. The power cable is 12V DC. It comes with an indoor power supply that has a fixed cable (about 3m). The cable plugs into the one from the camera using a standard small connector. This will need to pass through the wall, eaves, window frame or similar, but unless you are using Ethernet or want to bring the wifi reset button inside, you will only need to make one fairly small diameter hole.

The camera can use either Ethernet or Wifi. I’ve set mine up to use wifi. It only works on the 2.4GHz band, but that’s reasonable since this will tend to give better performance at longer range (my 5GHz signal doesn’t extend far outside). The camera comes with an optional antenna (remove the weather cover to expose the connector and simply screw it on). The image quality is good (1080p) in both daytime and “night vision” mode. The microphone also seems to be good – it picks up a good level of sound, including background noise, and everything is clear. The speaker seems quite quiet even when the volume is set to maximum on the app. It’s loud enough for my use (where we are is quiet and secluded) but might not be enough in a noisy town setting for example. The motion detection seems to work well and the notifications are useful, but I’ll need to see whether the local birds, cats and other wildlife set it off too frequently. The quality of the night vision is good. The image is shown in black and white, and the camera uses three IR illuminators to light up the scene, which show as fairly obvious red lights (so this is not a covert night camera!). The camera is fixed focus and there is no pan, tilt or zoom. For my purposes, this is fine.

It did take a little while for me to set the camera up: the “smart link” setup didn’t work for me (timed out), but I was able to use the QR code method successfully on my second attempt. Overall, I’m not unhappy with that – compared with most devices I’ve set up recently, this wasn’t hard – I only had to enter my wifi password and didn’t have to muck around with strange network settings or read an incomprehensible user manual – everything just worked through the App with a few simple steps. I did have to set my phone to the 2.4GHz band. This wasn’t too hard for me since I give the bands different network names anyway, but you might want to turn off the 5GHz band temporarily if you don’t do this.
I updated the firmware, and I’m pleased to say this it updated perfectly.

You will probably want to use a (micro) SD card for recording. This lives under a hatch on the bottom of the camera. Make sure you don’t drop the card inside the case – it would be easy to miss the card slot. I originally formatted the card on my Mac (HFS+), but that wasn’t a problem since the App allows you to reformat the card while it’s in the camera.
It seems to use about 350MB per hour, so I estimate that a 64GB card should give about a week’s recording.

The App is pretty good. It shows the live camera picture clearly and allows you to interact through the microphone. You can also take recordings and snapshots
as well as look at historic footage. The full screen image is clear, and you can zoom in to see more detail. There is a bit of lag on the live image, but not enough to be a
problem. You can schedule the camera to sleep for a particular time and on specific days, but I think you can only set one schedule. This is not something I’m
likely to use, but it could be useful if you needed to monitor a location only during the day or at weekends, for example.

You can also control the sleep mode directly from the App, as well as setting a schedule for motion detection, the sensitivity level, and which
parts of the image to respond to motion in (useful if part of the image was a road or you only wanted to be notified if people approached a side gate, for example). The image is divided into twelve rectangular zones for motion detection and any of these can be on/off. You can view the motion events in the App, filtered by date.
You can also share the camera with another account. I intend to set this up so my wife can also view the security images, which should give her more
peace of mind (we live in a very low crime area, but the reassurance is nice, and we have caught some people entering our property without permission).

I probably won’t bother with the cloud storage option, but this would be nice if you were worried that the camera could be targeted in some way. As others
have noted, a charge of $50-$70 per camera per year would be a disincentive to have too many of these cameras on a single account, unless you had real security concerns. There are 3 options: simple motion capture is only $20/year; with automated human detection, it is $50/year; and 24/7 monitoring is $70/year. There are also pay monthly options ($1.99 etc). Two weeks standard motion capture is included.

I have enabled the Alexa skill, but unless you have an Echo Show/Spot this probably won’t be much use with this camera. You can just ask the status of the camera, the time of the last event etc.

Overall, a really nice security camera at a good price.

This is my first camera, however I’ve only had this for couple of days and I’ve been nothing but impressed. Good instructions, easy to link with Alexa – it even comes with a drill bit! Now I have piece of mind, getting phone and subtle Alexa alerts on motion to the garage — there is a little lag (like 5 sec) but I don’t see this as a problem at all.

Motion alerts are worth fiddling with a bit to get right, but now I’ve reduced the sensitivity it can ignore all my bushes and trees and pick up people perfectly — ready to me to run downstairs and ‘gently persuade’ people to vacate my property 🙂 Great buy.

Firstly I want to be clear I’m not being paid or given any freebie for this review!

I love these little cameras from Netvue! The price is great and the quality is superb! Netvues support is also the best I’ve come across for any product – the live chat team are always ok hand to help provide advice and resolve any issues.

Images are clear both day and night, sound is good and setting these up is so easy! I recently purchased the Vigil outdoor camera to replace my old Foscam which after 4 years packed in. This at half the cost is as good (image and sound wise) and feels just as sturdy. I hope it lasts as long, or longer – time will tell.

I have 2 other Indoor Netvue cams and I’m really impressed. They offer cloud storage which is well priced but I prefer storing locally with the SD card slot built in to the cameras.

I have been looking around for a good quality CCTV outdoor camera for security for our driveway which also needed to be simple to install and with flexible feature options. The Netvue Bullet ticks all the boxes. The ability to adjust motion detection sensitivity eliminates false readings you don’t want (moths, birds, cats etc). The app is really useful with links to videos on how to install and set up. Quality of picture is excellent and picks up well in Night Vision mode and playbacks easy to find. I decided on the 14 day 24 hour constant recording package as it at $69.99 for one year its like 1 per week here in UK for peace of mind. I also used the chat support line within the app and the support desk was very helpful and liked my suggestion for a new feature.

A well made camera for the money. Easy to install on WiFi and the App works well. Fitted 128gb card with no problems. Did not take advantage of cloud storage offers. Motion detection sensitivity adjustments not great but screen divided in to small areas so you can select the most important areas. Night vision pretty good too. Very easy to see stored video. Remote viewing via 4g or WiFi is generally fast.

I was gifted the Netvue indoor camera which sparked this purchase and I am glad that I did!

Firstly, inside the package Netvue have provided everything that you need to fit this camera and all you need is contribute is a Drill and a Philips head screwdriver.

The power cable is long enough to suit most use cases and the camera can be used with Ethernet along with wifi (I chose WiFi) my router and camera has 2 walls and 5 metres of distance and I can still get a strong signal and smooth picture so that does speak volumes for the antenna on this product!

Adding the camera to my account via the app was easy enough but did take me two times because I think I walked too far away to get my WiFi key so make sure to have this handy! Regardless the whole setup process is easy for even the novice user!

The detection is good and the picture appears to be great also, we tested out two way audio which was nice but when there are cars driving past it really picks up the sound a lot so there is no noise cancellation technology here. Still a neat addition to a camera and it does fundamentally work!

A tip for you is that when I received the product it would not tilt the right way for my use case so I loosened the screws using the alien key at the base of the camera which allowed me to adjust this by turning the entire base and this then allowed me to get this into the correct position for my use case.

Overall a great camera at a nice price point, I will be using more of these in the future.

First time installing a security device of any kind so a real novice; although I would consider myself tech savvy.

The camer feels sturdy and well built to me.

The installation process was straight forward and mainly intuitive – connect to WIFI then scan the device barcode (in app video very helpful and professionally done) and it’s done!

The video quality is excellent – selection of motion detection area very handy to prevent a million notifications – and app very responsive so far.

The fact that you can talk through the camera will be very handy if you have no intention of answering door or if your out during parcel delivery.

In summary I selected this device mainly on price and on basis of prior amazon reviews and I’m very glad I selected it over the Ring doorbell that I had initially intended to buy!

Absolutely superb camera especially for the price! Excellent picture quality both night & day vision. Motion detection with switchable zones, 2 way speaker & microphone, even alerts me on my Apple Watch when there’s motion. There are many cameras out there that do the same thing for 2 or 3 times the price, very very pleased.
One little negative & I hope the manufacturers take note……I’ve mounted the camera on a brick wall at the front of the house….the 3 plugs on the flying lead coming out of the camera are massive! I had to drill a 25mm hole to get the plugs through the wall, the lead itself is only 5 or 6mm, can you PLEASE make it so the flying lead can be unplugged from the camera with a little plug rather than drilling an inch hole!

I have a large Koi pond in my garden and I wanted to keep an eye on it while I was away on holiday. Bought these cameras as they were on offer. In summary, amazing bits of kit!

The picture quality is great. Using the phone app I can even zoom in on certain areas for a closer look.

You can lock out certain areas from motion detection with a tap of a finger. I locked out a roof top area where many birds like to land so as to stop the camera being triggered by them.

The night vision works a treat. Clear picture and very easy to make out features or things you want to look at.

The motion detection sensitivity takes a little bit of fiddling to get it just right but once it’s set you’re good to go.

I have my two cameras connected to my Echo Show so can easily check outside at any point by just asking Alexa!

Definitely worth the money and I will be buying one more soon to cover the other part of my garden.

Bought this a few days ago after we had some dodgy characters hanging around the streets. I didn’t expect much for live feedback quality, especially since we have terrible internet at our house (topping out at 1Mbps Upload speed). I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the video, even despite the poor speeds. There’s a slight delay between the video and “real life”, which may be annoying to try and talk to delivery drivers, but otherwise is fine.
The microphone picks up the wind far too easily, even despite the fact it is in a fairly sheltered location. Additionally, it will pick up your voice if you’re talking – so you’ll hear yourself on the playback.

The whole thing is easy to set up, and the mobile app (on Android, at least) has a good layout and is easy to understand. You cannot mute the live feedback, which can be annoying, but you can mute any motion sensor/playback videos. It has a nice feature for being able to select “zones” for the motion sensor to trigger or not, and overall feels smooth to use.

Using the motion sensor for alerts is a nice system, however it does keep alerting us for no apparent reason. We do have a couple of flowers about 5 metres in front of the camera, but sometimes it doesn’t even look like they move much. It also doesn’t always seem to alert me immediately, and it doesn’t seem to alert until after the video has uploaded to the Cloud – which on our internet can take a couple of minutes. It’s also worth noting that the camera comes with 2 weeks of free Motion Sensor Cloud Service, but after that it’s around $20 a year for the service. Not an awful price, and considering how cheap the camera is it’s not unexpected, really.
It also records 10-13 seconds of motion capture, which it will then upload for you. This will also only occur every few minutes – meaning if you have two or more “activities” in a short period, you’ll only get the start period of the first activity. For example, we can see the Post Man arrive and park up outside our house, but it doesn’t auto-record him walking up to our door, dropping the post off, then driving off again. If we want to view that, we have to go to the SD Playback, or if we’re on time, live view.

Night vision quality is good. Not good enough to read a numberplate, but I think that’s tough to do anyway without spending a lot on a camera.

If you want to upload all footage to the Cloud, it’s expensive. We bought an SD Card to go with it, but won’t pay for the permanent Cloud Service. Whilst I’m sure it’s useful, especially in the case of a destroyed camera or stolen SD Card, our internet wouldn’t be good enough for that. I believe it’s around $60 annually for that service.

If the camera gets knocked offline, or turned off, you cannot connect at all. Not sure if this is still the case for accessing cloud videos, though I’d suspect you probably still can.

The inbuilt SD Card slot is an easy place to store it, however it does mean that if the camera is damaged you could lose all footage, and therefore evidence.

The whole thing was easy to install on to the house, coming with a drill part that is the perfect size. The only reason I’m giving it 4/5 is due to the cost of the Cloud Services. Otherwise, a great camera that I’ve already recommended to a coworker!

This is my 3rd Netvue device having previously bought a doorbell and indoor camera. I bought it to keep an eye on my drive and to do so decided to put it above above my garage door. Having read previous reviews I thought very carefully about where I should position it to avoid a difficult installation. In the end it took longer to think about it then do it because I had an existing power outlet in my garage, my wifi range extender provided a good enough signal to the garage and I could fix it to a plastic fascia using the 3 screws provided and run the cable underneath avoiding the need to drill through the fascia.
Everything seems to work as expected including playback using a 128GB micro sd card. Indeed it seems more reliable than other 2 devices.
So for me it was not difficult to install and works as expected.

I am going to split this into pro’s and cons for ease of reading.

Pro’s: This is ‘so’ easy to install and setup. I was expecting a long complicate process but iI was up and running in less than an hour (including mounting).
The initial setup is easy, simply scan QR code on the device after installing the app on your iPhone/iPad then follow simple steps. Mounting was easy – although required drilling forge holes for connectors. Adjustment is good with almost 360 degree rotation.
In use it is easy to use, the app loads well on the phone and alters well. The display is clear and sound is good.

Cons:
Large holes required for installation. Can be made easier if you drill 2 x 20mm holes in brick work mortar side by side.
Detection can be too sensitive at night with the motion alerts going off. Suggest play with settings.

Overall,
very good value and does exactly what is expected for the price. No complaints.

Excellent camera and very easy to set up… After I worked out why it wasn’t working. Originally it would not link to my 2.4/5ghz dual band WiFi. The app had a great deal of info for troubleshooting and the support chat was excellent. As it wasn’t connecting for me they sent a solution to get an update through but still wasn’t working. After a while I worked out that the wireless mesh network in my house was a little adva ced for the WiFi card in the camera. Once I’d turned off the advanced features on my home WiFi (not needed for me really) it linked really well and was easy to install!

I have now bought two (2) 1080p Outdoor Security Cameras by Netvue through Amazon, and plan to buy a further one (1) to complete my exterior security system. I bought this product after careful consideration and research on the net. I have had these a number of weeks and can now share my experience. So far the product has been excellent, basically it does what is says on the tin. The picture quality is excellent, features and app are easy to use, and to date no problems. The installation was no problem took ten (10) minutes once I bound it using the correct WiFi frequency, 2.4GHz. The units cover my exterior doors and blend in to the background. I had a couple of questions after I set them up, these were dealt with swiftly by the online support. Value for money I would give 10/10 and have been recommending the cameras to my family and friends (they too were impressed with the picture quality), in fact my son has now bought one.

So,we had a spate of tyre damages to cars outside the house,so decided to get a good quality night vision camera to use as a deterrent to further problems.having looked at various reviews,this camera seems to fit the bill between quality and cost.
Out of the package,it is very well put together,the camera is reassuringly solid ,heavy item.ive tried cheapo ones,but this is different league.The setup and app is very simple,plug it in,load the app,scan the code,and away you go.set up and working in about 5 minutes!
So far the picture quality is very good,I’ve got it set for motion detection,and it works surprisingly well.I have connected it to my Amazon echo dot and my fire tv box,when there is an alert,Alexa will calmly tell you there has been an event ,whilst on the fire tv,you can just tell it to show the live stream on your TV,which worked very well.
I haven’t tried the night vision yet,and will update with further findings when I’ve tested .
All in all,for what I paid for it(35 quid on lightning deal) it’s a brilliant bit of kit!!fantastic value for money!!

As I live remotely and animals eating my flowers, regular deliveries and some don’t read the instructions I wanted to have an option to see what is happening and who is at the door. This camera is fulfilling my demands and works perfect. Get in seconds a warning on my iPhone and can see what is happening. Easy to install and to setup with my home network and connected to my Amazon Show’s in my living- and bed room. The first days I was a bit playing with the motion detection fields to find out the best settings because when a cumulus interrupt the sunlight it will trigger a motion detection. Overall a good product which works very well.

This is my second netvue camera, the first on front of the house and this one for rear. The quality of camera is very good and images really clear, family and friends all impressed! Connecting to router (BT hub) was a little frustrating, but i expected that as bt is DUAL banded. ( used another tip by review on this site,and connected wireless at the farthest point of wifi range which they reckon forces 2.4 ghz on bt hub !!?) took several attempts on both cameras but connect eventually no problem. It uses two ways to connect – smart and QR scan which seem good (i used qr scan both times ) really happy with product but think ALL reviews should have a negative point to help other purchasers, mine would be that if camera is placed high up( on fascia board like my front camera) then when you zoom in to recorded video it starts to lose image quality a little making recognition a bit harder. Rear camera is placed lower as instruction book recommends and image is clear. For price the quallity is great.

This is a very easy to install camera. It comes with a wall mount guide, drill bit and Allen key for adjusting the angle.
The app is very intuitive to use and the after sales chat function within the app is most helpful!
The motion alerts are a touch over sensitive hence only 4 starts. Despite the adjustment option, they are sensitive to objects very close to the lens such as rain. Though I believe there is a development in progress to cope with such events.
After a couple of days use I am very happy with it. I have a 32gb card installed which records about 4 days worth, and I have discovered that even if the WiFi connection drops out, the camera is still recording!
Overall very happy with the purchase

This is my third Netvue purchase, the first being a Vuebell. I am really pleased with this product, the body of the camera is solid and mounted on a articulate arm, included in the box along with the camera was an allen key so you can adjust the angle of the arm and a masonry drill bit. One has the option of connecting the camera to the network via WiFi or LAN. Setup was really easy, it only took a couple of minutes. The picture quality is superb and the microphone is amazing, I have my camera mounted at 18 feet just under the eves of the roof and the mic can pick up sound clearly 30 feet away. I have not installed a microSD card at I use netvue’s cloud service which I find great value. I currently have the camera hooked up via WiFi but it is my intention to use LAN. My only quibble it that the camera is not PoE.
All in all a great camera

I found this camera really easy to install and set up. The image quality is amazing for the camera price and the addition of a micro SD card gives days of recording if you opt for 128GB. I have it pointing at the front door and car and its fast enough to feed live video to see who is at the front door when the bell rings. Motion detection is good and you can set alerts to your phone and choose zones to trigger activation. Two downsides, I wish that the camera was ONVIF compatible or similar as I have a BlueIris video system I would like to connect it to. Also the camera worked fine indoors but refused to connect to my wifi at the chosen location. I do understand that expecting the wifi to go through two outdoor brick walls is a big ask. Problem solved using a powerline adapter and a wired Ethernet cable. All in all I would definitely recommend and would buy again.

Easy to install and setup, make sure you put micro sd card in so you can access past recordings without need to buy cloud storage and make sure (perhaps by wifi range extenders) that your outdoor camera has good wifi signal.

The good: press to talk and over all live streaming and backlog browsing work quite well.

The bad: motion detection is imperfect.

In the mix cloud windy day will detect sun shades as motion a lot!

At night in IR in rainy day is prone to false positives (detects rain drops or snow flakes), practically useless so I switched off infra red and rely on PIR lamp to detect motion outdoor.

The ugly: not having PC web interface and relying on smartphone is annoying for me but perhaps not a deal breaker

I am very demanding about this but actually overall pleased esp for the price.

I love this camera. I have it installed in my garage to keep my cars safe.
This is my second Netvue camera, I already have a Netvue Orb which I love also.
The setup was pretty easy to do (in both cameras) and very intuitive. Wifi range is pretty good also and the camera is always connected. I bought some cheap Chinese cameras in the past that would fail to connect to wifi every couple of hours but these ones are always on and working which is great.
The Android app works well with my Samsung A6, and allows us to enable/disable motion controls (and tune them) and manage all of the recordings. If you add a microSD card to the camera (which both support) you can record and even access older recordings there. If you prefer, Netvue provides cloud storage to keep your recordings safe from any robbers that try to disable the cameras.
Another feature I love is the camera sharing which allowed me to share all the house cameras with my wife and as such, she also can manage them and receive notifications from motion alarms.
Last but not least, the Support. With this camera, you have access to one of the best supports I had access. Every doubt and problem I had were solved in a couple of minutes by the chat feature. Its great to have another person on the other side providing real support instead of bots or emails.
Remember that with the cheap Chinese cameras you have no support (and believe me, I really needed them at some point).
This camera, in particular, is waterproof, with a metal case and has support for one microSD card (protected from water) and even the connectors (rj45 and power) have their own water protection which is a really nice touch on keeping the camera safe from the elements.

I bought this camera soon after my purchase of the indoor IP camera model from the same company, and the quality of the product is just as good. It feels like a premium product. The product arrived well packaged in high quality materials. the camera itself was well protected and has a metal body, with a decent length of cable and grommet for fitting.

It also comes with a UK mains power plug and even a drill bit to help with fixing to the wall! fixings were also included which was a nice touch.

The picture quality is excellent and gives wide coverage. The app is also simple and easy to use (same as for the other camera). The only thing to remember is that it must be on a 2.4g wifi network, which a lot still are (mine is anyway).

Very happy with my purchase and recommend for use.

I’ve been searching a long time for home security camera’s with two way audio to replace my outside IP camera’s that don’t have audio.

My home has wheel chair access and there is a sign outside which clearly states wheel chair access, yet drivers still park in front of it blocking access from time to time.

My neighbours house has a wheel chair access sign also that I got for her so her home access isn’t blocked.

So having two way audio on the Netvue Vigil Camera means I can now ask or tell people not to park their car on the front blocking access now, it saves me and family having to go outside to tell them.

Having the drop curb blocked so my car can’t get out and my neighbour can’t get her car outside her own house is something having two way audio on a security camera helps solve.

This camera has such a wide angle lens that it easily covers the front of my home.

It takes a lot to impress me and get a security device put into my smart home and this camera has ended a long painful search.

Being able to view the camera’s on my Fire TV, Echo Spot, mobile or smart watch is the thing I really like about these camera’s.