if you're considering buying an outdoor home security camera with a built-in
light you'll want to consider than at mo presence that's because it does
something very different to most of its competitors and that big difference is
that it stores video internally on a micro SD card there is no cloud storage
service that Natak most trying to sell you for a monthly subscription charge
and that could make a big difference over time a lot of natak most
competitors will charge a few dollars a month to store video in their cloud
services which if you have this up for a few years can run into the hundreds of
dollars in addition to the price of the camera itself so you could be saving
money within atmo presence now if you do want to put stuff in in the cloud you
can set this up to work with a dropbox account or send video to an ftp server
one of the other big differences that comes with storing video locally though
is that you don't need a fast internet connection if you're living in a house
with a dial-up connection or a very slow ADSL connection this thing will work
fine because it's not constantly streaming video out to the internet you
don't need that fast connection many of Noatak most competitors request at least
a two megabit per second connection this thing is only a few tens of kilobits per
second the only time you need a fast internet connection is if you're going
to be connecting to this remotely from outside the home and viewing video live
or viewing recorded video because then you're accessing the camera and pulling
that video across the internet so you will need a fast connection but inside
your home on your Wi-Fi network there's more than enough bandwidth to look at
the videos that it's recorded the camera has a hundred-degree field-of-view
that's a little bit narrower than a lot of its competitors you can see in this
comparison with a video from a ring camera that the ring does see a lot more
of what's going on I also found that the color was a little bit off on the new
tap mo presence as well the camera has a built-in microphone so you can hear
what's going on in front of the camera and that audio is recorded when it
captures anything but there's no two-way audio function so if someone's in front
of your house you can't talk to them through this camera like you can with
some of the competing devices one of the things that intact
to do is classify what it sees into people animals cars and other motion the
system works pretty well and you can in fact tell it to only send you alerts
when say it sees a person and not an animal however it wasn't perfect I've
got a couple of bird feeders near where I installed the camera and for some
reason it just kept on thinking that one of the bird feeders was a person inside
the unit there's this large LED light above the camera that has some infrared
LEDs to provide illumination for a night vision mode and then if it sees anything
the floodlight comes on the power of the floodlight is a thousand lumens but it
is adjustable so if it's a little bit too bright for you you can turn it down
and you can also set it to either come on automatically when it's dark so it
just provides a general nightlight or you can set it to only come on when it
detects motion in terms of motion detection you get motion detection zones
with this you can draw them on the display and it will look for motion in
those areas and ignore other areas that's useful if you've got something
that continually sets off the camera say if it's pointing in your front garden
and there are cars driving by the range of the motion detection is given as 15
meters or 50 feet and in our tests we found it more or less worked over
roughly that range installation of the device is pretty easy if you're
replacing an existing floodlight you shouldn't have any problems using an
existing junction box on your wall otherwise you're going to need to put
one up there and you're going to have to run power to it now there is no battery
option with an attack mode presence one of the nice surprises that I had was
that it came with British wire coloring if you don't understand that you'll need
to know that Brown is hot blue is neutral and the yellow green color is
your ground tech I've rated the note at my presence four out of five we love
that there's no monthly subscription charge and it has a big bright LED light
but it would be great if it saw a little bit wider and it had two-way audio you
can find a complete review of the Natak no presents on tech I've calm
you