Hello and today we've got an IndieGoGo special this is the SENS8 security
camera. Really nice aluminum body, it looks really cool, and this is
multi-sensory device so you've got a 1080p camera on the front, you've got
temperature and humidity sensor around the back, there's also a motion sensor,
audio recorder, and a 95 decibel alarm on the top. This has local storage on this
so there's no SD card slot, neither is there a cloud service subscription plan.
You plug the USB power cable into the bottom and it comes with the cable and a
small getting started guide. I was really impressed to find a little thank-you note
that was handwritten top and bottom 'all the best...' and 'Dear..' me which was very nice.
Getting set up was very easy, there's a really nice app which takes you
through it, explains what you need to push and when, you've got this really
unusual method of updating the SENS8 via pulsing from your mobile phone speaker.
[WHOOSHING SOUNDS]
Done and set up your light will turn solid blue and you can then name
your device, so if you've got multiple ones of these you call it kitchen or
living room, and you're ready to go. The app is very intuitive very easy to use
you've got lots of information stored in here because of those sensors so you've
got temperature humidity and light and you can set alarms based on that, for example if
there's a sudden change in the temperature. There's also a health index
onboard which gives you a readout based on all these sensors on the SENS8.
You've got different options for how this arms and disarms. If I just arm this
now what you'll see happen is because I'm stood opposite it it will pick me up
and you'll see two notifications. Now I've reported this, hopefully this will
get fixed, it keeps showing me two notification you should just be one but
then you can go in take a look at the events it creates a secure channel to
the device and there we go there's me recording the SENS8. If i just turn this
around, there I am, and there's me turning it around and if
you don't like what you see you can trigger the alarm via the app
[ALARM NOISE]
So as well as arming this on your phone you can also set up a schedule, so that
will be it arms itself automatically at certain times and disarms at certain
times, or you can use the automation feature and that will use your mobile
GPS signal and track where you are and will also arm and disarm accordingly. It
does mean that everyone in your household will need the app on their
phone otherwise when they return it won't know that they're part of your
household and it will start sending you alerts. Of course that might be a good
thing I suppose if you want to track your family!
The big advantage of SENS8 is that there is no monthly subscription, that
has a disadvantage that there's no cloud backup either so if the device is taken
all the footage is on the device. Now they're looking to overcome that with a
link to Dropbox and you can get some Dropbox storage for free so that's a
great option, however at the time of review, in December 2017,
the link to Dropbox wasn't working, at least it wasn't working for me, I've
clicked on it, I've authorized it, I've got the folder set up on my Dropbox
account but whatever an event and footage is recorded it's not being put
into my Dropbox folder. Hopefully this is something they can sort out with an
update. It's really great that the life will teach you such good quality and
I've used this out and about and it adapts the quality depending on your
connection. So if you're on Wi-Fi it will show at full quality, if you aren't about
on your mobile network it will drop the quality so it doesn't use as much data,
but you can still see what's going on. The one major problem I've got is
actually getting the footage off the device I can't see a way of doing it at
the moment. I've tried plugging it into my laptop
using the USB cable and it's not recognized, it doesn't show up at all, and
there doesn't seem to be anything in the app either to allow you to download
footage to send it on, share it out, whatever you need to do, and that's a bit
of a drawback, I've tried a number of these cameras and most of them have some
sort of feature that allows you to download the video footage, archive it
send it to friends, family, police, whatever you need to do. Overall then I
think the hardware side of this is really good, I think it looks great, it
looks quite unusual, it doesn't necessarily look and scream out that it's a security
camera but it's quite subtle as well if you just pop it
the corner. The one area that needs a bit more work though is the software and
that's a good thing because at least the software can be remotely updated, the
hardware's fine, the device can only get better from here on out. I hope you found
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