okay costco has this fit floor flood security camera it's pretty cool because it says floodlight
integrated with a wireless camera the other thing that um is a little
tough on it is it needs 110 to run so you have to run electric to it
but it's wireless and it um stores the um videos on an sd card but the sd card is
accessible for your phone it records in 1080p has an extra bright light
records a smartphone and shares the video via text or email
um 3000 lumens so the lights not bad at all uses 39 watts
and wi-fi enabled it costs 99 for this on sale right now at costco
no subscription so that's good you don't want a camera that requires subscription
subscriptions can be pretty expensive um it does record to a 128 sd card included
and stores up to 10 days worth of video okay i put the um camera slash floodlight
on a stick and i try to mount it um don't do that just get the thing plugged into the wall um and
try to connect it to your device be unplug it and then when you plug it back in the light comes on
as you can see
just wait until the light goes off right now that little blue light is solid
now it's red
i don't know when this light turns off it takes a few seconds i guess
there it goes all right so we got a red light and it's beeping
i'm going to hit floodlight on the app
now it's asking the firm that the light is blinking blue which it is confirm that
it wants the wi-fi password
and then it comes to this screen see i'll go there goes something all right i heard a beat
so the camera has to see the qc code
the camera is now blinking red and it's trying to add the device wait wait wait
wait wait we got something here all right we got the camera all right and we hit done on the top
so it is doing something on the um tablet right now
upgrade to the latest firmware
there's a newer firmware available i'm going to update it start update
okay the fit camera says the update for the firmware is complete
so far i got it to work with motion and i got it to work with um a screenshot
you could actually do a light too let's try the light so you push this button and the light just
came on it's really bright right now there's um brightness right here you can adjust it
which is pretty cool i didn't you know most things don't have a brightness adjustment
um without losing everything all right
um you could do a schedule this will
allow you to set up a schedule when you want the light to come on and come off you could have the
light on from like dust to dawn or something like that or you could just have it come on with motion
um you could record video
so right now i'm recording i'm gonna put a piece sign up and see if i could see it in
the video there it is right there there is a delay between the recording and what you see
on the screen it's not real time like there's about a second delay so it looks kind of weird
all right see and to stop the recording there's a little arrow on the left up there
and that stops the recording so then you go back into the floodlight and you should be able to go
to the albums you should be able to see that one here's the one i just made i think nope
i don't know how you get to those maybe it's this one here then
yeah there it is that's the recording i just made it's pretty good recording quality 1080 i mean but
um so it recorded that
it's a two-way communication so somehow you could communicate between the your device and the um
the um camera if you scroll up there's more features there's the cyrene here i'll do this
that irene pretty cool 9-1-1 it can call 9-1-1 for some reason i don't know whatever um motion
so you get to tell it which sector of the motion detection you wanted to pick up on
right now all three sections are enabled but if you want to disable it you just click that
and it turns that section off it only detects motion in those sections there
the app is really slow to respond so you have to get used to it
and then you could adjust how long the lights and the record happens like if
motion is detected it can record for a set amount of time in this case it says one minute
but you can set it to like one five or ten minutes so as soon as you get motion it starts recording
and you can adjust it i don't think there's a way to turn that off movement detected um you're
supposed to be able to get emails on motion and text messages too all right here's a cold thing
if you set it up on your tablet and you create the account
you don't have to set it up on your phone you just put the app on your phone and log into the
account and all the settings that you did on your tablet are also on the phone which makes sense
i would rather do it on the tablet i have a bigger screen to push and see the buttons and stuff and
then you would use your account to connect with your phone now there is one thing share devices i
think you can add different uses to this so that they get alerts as well oh i did
find out that under albums you can click on one of the pictures select it and then you
can delete it on the bottom here so i'm going to delete all these um past images let's see
just hit them all this should clear out the sd card so all those images and videos are gone now
i'm going to do one screenshot and then well two sheets screenshots and then i'm going to record
if it starts there it goes it's recording now
so all this screenshot and recording is actually going on the sd card
and then to shut it off i it's just to be able to hit record again and it shuts off but
i haven't had much luck with that i just hit this arrow and then it
saves it so now if i go back to my home i go to the camera
and you go into albums there should be three two static images oh well that's the movie actually
and then two static images
okay so i found out how to get to the um continuous recording mode uh when you open up
your um floodlight you go to this pencil on the top right and there's an sd card and recording
settings and you click that um sometimes it takes a few seconds to get there but it gets there
sd card and recording you want to make sure that you know your record switch is turned
on your recording mode can either be continuous or event driven if you want continuous recording
you're going to have to select that because you can't do both at the same time on schedule i set
up a schedule i added one that it repeats and that repeats every day of the week so it records 24 7.
switch is turned on and you save that make sure it's saved um if you ever want to format your sd
card there's a format here it tells you the size of the sd what's the use space and how much is
free but um you save all those settings and then your camera will start recording live from then on
um the way to do it is you go back to the floodlight
you select playback and then i usually just extend make it a larger picture like a large
and it came out really well that's like maybe an hour and a half ago down here on the bottom
you could pinch and you could expand so you get really tight um time choices as far as you want
to go at like 501 at 15 seconds or whatever you could pinch that and get really precise
and then um this is an hour and a half later it's starting to get darker out
and it's still recording so it's really good that you can do continuous recording supposedly
it holds 10 days i'm thinking that it erases as it goes along i'm not sure how that works
but you still can look at live video like right now you you just select your camera
and the first screen that comes up you can um get your live video right there that's live right now
and you can zoom in it's set to a focus point i don't think you could change that focus point
the other cool thing is on this live video you can turn on the mic
and you can turn on the speaker so if anybody speak wants to speak out there they could speak
to the mic or i could talk to them right now and um see that it's getting some feedback because
my mic's on and this is it's playing back so that's pretty cool actually
two-way um communication with that
okay for now i have it hooked up to um a pole we'll see how it works
okay after setting up this fiat electric floodlight security
camera i would i reviewed it and set it up and i think it's something that
people may be interested in it looks like it's quality made it is only 99 on sale at costco
the only um contras i have against it are one you're going to need 110 outlet
to power this thing um not many people have that outside and the other thing is your wi-fi the 2.4
gigahertz frequency you're going to need that and it's going to need to be pretty strong i mean
occasionally it would disconnect but then it would go back on um when you're reviewing your videos
i think this is something that people should be looking into if they're interested in a flood
light and a camera system at the same time if i didn't have my lorex already i may think about
using this my biggest problem is the 110 it's i have a few areas i have 110 outside
but this has to be wired in the outside wall to work for the most part
but if you're looking for a system this could be it
FEIT Flood light Security Camera Review Costco $79