COOAU 5MP 360° Solar Security Camera Outdoor Color Night
COOAU 5MP 360° Solar Security Camera Outdoor Color Night Vision, Rechargeable Battery Wireless CCTV Camera Systems,PTZ Camera,Motion Detection,4 Spotlight,Cloud storage,2.4GHz
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| Weight: | 8 g |
| Dimensions: | 16 x 15 x 10 cm; 8 g |
| Model: | Q01 |
| Part: | Q02 SP |
| Colour: | 5mp Solar Camera |
| Batteries Required: | Yes |
| Batteries Included: | Lithium Ion |
| Manufacture: | COOAU |
| Dimensions: | 16 x 15 x 10 cm; 8 g |
Q01 security camera .
I am very impressed with the Q01 ptz camera and solar panel.
Worth every penny
I have contacted Cooau on a couple of occasions for advice on using the app properly.
Cooau customer service is from my experience very good.
Clear pictures
I bought this to go in am outside shed to watch my mare who is due to foal. Impressed myself with setting it up. Clear pictures. Only downside is I have to charge it every other day as she obviously sets it off a lot spending time in the shed. My wi fi signal not great but it copes fine. Will be going on the house after. Impressed
Clear picture and easy to use
I bought this security camera initially as cover for the front of my house, but was so impressed that I bought another to cover the rear of my property.
The range of the cameras is excellent and each covers at least half of the front and rear of my property.
Set up was really easy with the Wi-Fi and linking to the mobile and adjustment of the cameras via the phone is smooth.
The motion sensors pick up any movement, including animals that may wander into your gardens and it’s a simple operation to take the cameras down for recharging. They also have lights that are activated at night.
You may find that you need to recharge a camera that is located at a busy area (front of house) more often than a quieter area (rear of the house), but again, it’s a simple operation.
I would highly recommend these cameras for good coverage, very clear pictures and ease of use; they were also very good value for money.
Brillia
Was about to part with 120 pounds for two ring doorbells. This cost me a lot less and pretty adamant it’s better than ring.
Installation was really really really easy. The instructions in the box are actually excellent but if stuck ( can’t see how you would get stuck) then the app walks you through it .
Battery I reckon will last about a month with average use. I am rural though so don’t get that amount of traffic or humans passing.
The notifications to phone are pretty much instant to say activity at the door, drive or road.
The camera moves when I command it on my device no problems.
The camera has excellent night vision and when it does pick something up it puts on the light and converts to excellent colour.
Can’t recommend this enough.
Due to recent groups in our area deciding to try cars and house doors, we very much were in the need of a camera to monitor the area around our house. Install was easy, the instructions were clear to understand. The video quality is amazing, it’s very clear with no lag or glitching and night time you can see perfectly well around (does help I have a lamp post outside)
We have had the camera up for a month now, and unfortunately we do need to recharge already which is a bit of a negative for us. Though we may change the sensitivity to see if that helps.
All in all, it does the job and suits us perfectly.
After considering many branded surveillance camera systems I decided to go with COOAU.
The description sounded like it was exactly what I needed with App alerts, detection zones, recording footage with ultra HD quality, pan and tilt, two way voice, compact and easy to install.
I have been using the camera for a week now and I can confirm that the description is genuine.
The App is easy to download. I use the CloudEdge app. You just set your own account and password.
The App takes you through the installation process stage by stage from connecting the camera to your home wifi to locating the best position for the camera.
The camera is easy to fix up. The bracket requires just three screws which are supplied with a fixing template.
I purchased the version with a solar panel and the battery has shown 100% charge from day 1.
I can access the camera away from home via the app and use the pan and tilt facility wherever I am as long as I have an internet connection
I have set up a detection zone and get an alert on my phone when anyone enters the zone. The alert includes 6 seconds of video footage
I have not set the alarm on the camera yet but will when I go on holiday
I am so pleased with my purchase I have ordered a second camera for the back of my property
Have been thinking about a cctv camera to cover our drivefor ages,but put off as it was awkward to get to a power supply. But,after a bit of research we settled on this battery powered one.
Firstly,it arrived well packed,looked like a quality item right from the start. On unpacking,I was surprised by its weight and size. It’s not small,it’s not flimsy,it’s quite substantial.
Instruction leaflet was ok,fitted the wall bracket over our garage door whilst I’d plugged the unit to give it some charge,and within a half hour it was up on the wall. Downloaded the app on my phone. Final part of the process was linking it in to my home network,just followed the steps on the app,all pretty easy.
Inside the hour it was functioning. Tweaked the settings for motion capture,surveillance timings etc.,again,straightforward,and I was all set.
Camera picture quality is excellent both in daytime and night. Alarm light is very bright,siren is very loud if you need it.
The area covered by the camera is very wide,easily covers the length and breadth of our drive. You can easily swivel it to look at different areas,but not zoom though. Easily take a picture or record an incident from the app,also there’s a talk function. There’s an option for cloud storage for your “events” or just store to a micro card,which is what we’ve opted for initially. We’ve also opted for no solar panel for now,will see how the battery lasts before it needs charging again. After 2 days it seems to be about 80% charged still,but wasn’t fully charged when it went up.
Overall,I’m very impressed with the camera.And for the price,it’s a bit of a steal. You can get others with a few more functions which you’ll probably never use but you’re probably talking twice the price.
Thoroughly recommend this one,a good price and it just works. What more would you want ?
This camera is just what I was looking for. Motion detection, night vision, WiFi, battery powered. The bonus is the PTZ which works really well. Very easy to install with the template for the holding bracket. Had it setup and on the wall in about 25 minutes. The app is super easy to use and notifies you if anything is detected. The other great thing is that you don’t need a monthly cost, just put a micro SD card in and your away.
After issues with a petty theif we decided we had to get security cameras. Read lots of reviews of cameras & decided on these. Bought two. Bought 128gb SD cards as otherwise you only get pictures or live feed.
Charges via USB hopefully once every six months.
Easy to install, comes with a template for wall bracket. Once bracket in place the unit just clicks onto it.
Controlled via phone. Picture quality is excellent. Night vision & clarity is brilliant, the four spotlights ensure excellent vision which is in full colour.
Sound quality is great meaning you can listen into what is being said & with being able to speak to intruders.
So far very impressed. Shown to several neighbours who are now looking at buying these.
Easy To Setup and Install
Very easy to setup provided you can remember your WiFi password!
Particularly like the phone app , it tells you whether or not where you want to install the camera has a good signal ( 2.4ghz only, doesn’t support 5ghz ).
Paper template for the 3 drill holes, insert the provided raw plugs and screw the bracket to your chosen surface.
Clip the camera onto the bracket , turn on the camera power , open the Cloud Edge app and have a play , check picture quality and operate the pan, tilt, zoom function. Gentle taps on the direction arrows and the camera turns fairly smoothly and quickly.
SD or QHD image quality, picture is clear, light function turns the video into colour at night.
The USB connection is the c type, comes with a usb-c lead to charge the batteries.
Only found out after I’d bought this that you can buy a solar panel version. I’ve ordered a solar panel to connect to this which hopefully will mean I don’t have to take the camera down to charge up the batteries.
I bought a 128gb Kingston micro sd card, format the card in the app.
Detected my Mrs and sends messages to your phone when movement detected.
So far so good. For the price I’m very pleased.
**UPDATE** Bought a solar panel and installed near the camera, it now just stays fully charged. One thing I didn’t mention in my original review is that there doesn’t seem to be an app available to use on a windows pc. I contacted the manufacturer and they said, no, there is no pc app, just a mobile app.
Excellent security camera! Great picture quality
Arrived well packaged within 24 hours of ordering.
Really, really easy to install. There’s even a helpful little stick-on template highlighting the screw positions for the bracket.
It took about two minutes to setup on WiFi after downloading the app, and as it arrived fully charged, it was up and running more or less straight away.
Really clear picture both day and night, with the light triggering immediately upon detection, changing the monochrome night picture to full colour.
It’s also really easy to set up the area to be recorded by blocking out the sections which you don’t need to see. In our case there is a small part of a footpath which would cause the motion detector to trigger each time someone walked past, but we’ve blocked that out, so now it only triggers when someone crosses our property boundary.
PTZ is great! With just a small adjustment, as well as monitoring our front door, we can now also see our electric car’s charging point when it’s plugged in and charging, which is a big bonus for us. Especially when it’s charging overnight.
All in all we’re really happy with this camera and will probably buy another for the back garden.
Fantastic piece of kit!
Had this security camera for over a week now and so far quite pleased with the results especially for what I paid.
First thing I had to do was charge up the camera indoors and install the app on your phone. I should point out that I was forced to use the CloudEdge app as the default COOAU app you were directed to in the instructions no longer exists on GooglePlay (if using an Android phone) The CloudEdge app appears to work though and does everything I would expect it to
Using the app you could then measure the wi-fi signal to your camera and you were advised to do this when selecting where you were going to install the camera outdoors. A strong wi-fi signal is required although where I have it installed I’m getting about 70% signal which is fine.
After initial set up on my phone by installing the app, I can connect to the camera live feed from my phone and even rotate the camera from the phone (PTZ) albeit quite slowly. Note this can be done from anywhere your phone has access to internet so doesn’t even have to be at home. As well as live footage you can view any footage recorded when the motion detector has been triggered.
The motion detector can be configured from the app and so far there has been a few cases (out of probably 50 or so) where it hasn’t picked up people in its range. By default, it is set up in the app to detect human sized objects only so I’ve tried switching this off to see if this improves the hit rate. In addition, you can change the sensitivity of the detector so I guess it may just be trial and error to find the sweet spot.
Battery life has been OK. I’ve lost about 15% in a week although I was probably looking at the footage more in the last week than I would do normally (footage is watched on the app using micro SD card in the camera). I would say 4 to 6 weeks it to be expected rather than the 4 to 6 months stated although the figure they’ve stated may be based on over 90% wifi signal at all times. The 4-6 weeks recharge is fine for me though and you can always buy the solar panel for it if you don’t want to have to recharge it ever
I currently have the footage being recorded to the micro SD card only although there is the (paid for) option to have it uploaded to the cloud if you want extra security from having additional copies and in case the camera itself gets stolen. I have put the camera out of most people’s reach, as advised.
At night the pictures are in black and white but the image is still good. Once motion is detected the in-built light will switch on and the image changes to colour. There is an option to have the light on all the time at night although I suspect this would drain the battery much quicke
This is the fourth COOAU camera I’ve bought. The main reason is that the others have all worked exactly as I wanted; and I’ve had no issues with them, so there was no reason to look elsewhere. A key advantage of brand loyalty is that they can then all run on the same COOAU camera app. This camera has high-end features and looks super-smart — a great deterrent to any would-be burglar.
The camera arrived quickly and was packaged very neatly. Setup instructions are clear and fixings are included in the box. We decided the best location to site the camera, so then it was down to configuration.
I have installed a number of smart devices on my WiFi recently, most of which used 2.4 ghz rather than the 5 ghz standard. All the others required me to disable the 5 ghz on my router for installation, although I could re-enable it once things were working. The COOAU camera worked first time without this fiddling; and as I had already installed the COOAU software, the installation was completed literally in a couple of minutes.
There are a lot of software settings to play with, simply by selecting the camera in the COOAU software, then setting the options as required. We are wall-mounting ours, so we tested the camera (hand-held) and software options before final installation. We were very impressed by the daylight picture quality and the range of the pan / tilt / zoom. We tested the night vision, too, which was great. I’ve included a video of this to demonstrate. (We downgraded the picture quality to reduce the file size).
All in all we’re very happy with our purchase.
I have been looking to replace my front of house camera for a while but wanted a camera with better picture quality and a “nice to have” was a camera with PZT functions Note this is only Pan and Tilt and not Zoom.. Having used the Cooau doorbell for a few months which I have been happy with I went for the Cooau 2K 360deg camera. I have been using this camera for about a week now.
The camera is smaller than expected and while plastic feels well made. The image quality is great, much better than my previous one.
In the box, you get a USB cable, screws and wall plugs, a sticky guide for drilling holes, a bracket and the camera plus the instructions. Setup is about as simple as it gets. Make sure your phone is connected to your 2.4GHz wifi, download the app and follow the instructions. Setup takes about a minute, and you are ready.
I have a 16GB SD card in my camera but there is also cloud connectivity to store photos and video if you want that extra security. One of the great features is that you can set up an alarm area. What this does is places a grid on the area the camera is looking at and you then mark off what part of the area you want to have monitored for monition. My previous camera just had motion detection on everything in view so people walking past could trigger it off so took some playing about with settings. Now I can exclude the footpath.
PZT is a great feature as I can look directly down at the door if needed or can tilt up if I want to see more. Something I missed when reading the spec and other reviews is that at night 2 lights come on when motion is detected to illuminate the area so if anyone thinks it’s a dummy camera are going to be mistaken.
Night time quality is pretty good too and an improvement over the last camera.
The charging port on the camera is at the back and has a cut out in the centre of the rubber cover to allow just the end of a USB cable to be plugged in while keeping it watertight. I am planning on getting a solar wall mounted charger so I don’t have to get the ladders out every once in a while to charge.
Overall the quality is good, setup and installation was easy. Picture quality is excellent.
I have had quite a few different security cameras over the years and I am really impressed with this camera.
Set up of the camera was very simple and straightforward. Unlike other cameras, there wasn’t even a requirement to connect the camera directly to the wi-fi router itself with an ethernet cable, which was a bonus.
To get started you need to download the Cooau Cam App on Android or ISO which took a few seconds. Once installed it was just a matter of following the on-screen instructions, which were simple and clear. I chose the option of connecting the camera to wi-fi by showing the camera lens itself a QR code that was generated on my smartphone within the Cooau app, i simple lifted my phone to the camera lens and after a couple of seconds the camera read the QR code and played a tune to acknowledge it had registered. It was all complete within a minute or two.
Once connected to the app and wi-fi all that is left is installing the camera to your wall or ceiling. Supplied in the box is a packet of screws and wall plugs and a drill screw guide (see attached images) to make installation a breeze. Don’t forget at this point to also install your micro SD card if required (maximum 128GB) before securing to a wall. It is best to ensure your sd card is a high quality, class 10, for maximum performance.
Once thing to note in terms of installation, a USB cable is only supplied inside the box and no wall plug. The USB cable is quite short, but can be easily extended using your own USB cable. A simple USB wall plug is required to complete power to the security camera, should you wish to have a constant direct power supply.
Once installed, the app itself is responsive and displays a clear HD image from the camera (see attached images). I love the fact this camera has ‘PTZ’ functionality – enabling you to rotate the camera left and right, up and down from the app itself.
One key feature about this security camera in particular is it has a built in battery, allowing you to monitor your property without a constant power cable. According to the manufacturer, upon a full charge, the battery can last 4 to 6 months, depending on usage and the amount of security alerts, although I am yet to confirm this. The app will alert you when the power has reduced to 20% automatically. This option is fantastic for those who do not have access to a constant power supply nearby and who can simply charge the device once and then leave it for a few months. The camera will still need to be connected to a wi-fi signal, regardless whether a constant power supply is provided or not.
Overall I am very happy with this camera and love the fact it includes two key features, PTZ functionality and an included battery for easier installation.
I saw this new COOAU camera pop up on Amazon a few weeks ago, but it had no reviews. The listed specification seemed to fit what I needed it for perfectly, and since I have used their camera’s before with good results, I took a chance and bought one. I also ordered a separate 32gb micro SD card for it (the spec says it can handle up to 128gb if required). They both arrived the next day, as I have Amazon Prime, and the packaging was all in good order.
I opened the box up and found the camera inside along with a charging cable, mounting bracket with screws and a manual. I read the manual all the way through before starting.
Firstly, I installed the SD card. I fixed the bracket to the Garden wall which is where I want it to go. I then downloaded the COOAU App onto my phone using the supplied scan code, which installed with no problems, you just have to follow the onscreen instructions. I then turned the camera on.
The setup instructions are very easy to follow, and I was able to get as far as scanning the QR code the the phone offered up very easily, but after that It would not actually connect to the camera. I tried for quite a few times, before looking at the instructions again and reading that the camera + router + phone need to stay close together until after they have made the first connection. I was trying to connect from all the way out in the garden lol. Once I realised this, they connected instantly, and I was then able to move the camera out into the garden location where I needed it to go.
It has been working brilliantly so far for over a week now, and I can log into my phone at any time to see what going on in the Garden, even when I am not at home. The camera records any human movement it picks up onto the SD card, so you can scroll back to see older videos. The battery level has not moved yet, so it looks like the battery will last 4 to 6 months as they say it will. The picture quality is great even if turned down to SD quality, and the SD card has hardly been touched yet.
All in all, I am very please with the camera and would definitely recommend it if you are looking for a new one. 10 out of 10…