Ooma, all-time known for its VoIP telephony devices, is trying its mitt at the smart abode infinite with the Butterflye. For $199.99, the Butterfly is an indoor dwelling house security photographic camera that offers sharp daylight 1080p video, local and cloud storage options, and a handful of bully features including face up recognition, geofencing, and an internal battery that allows it to practise its chore even when your power goes downwardly. That said, you lot'll have to pay a monthly subscription fee to employ some of those features, and the camera's lack of IR LEDs ways it can't meet in the dark very well. For the aforementioned price (and often available for far less), the iSmartAlarm iCamera Keep Pro offers better overall performance, mechanical pan, tilt motion tracking, and interoperability with other smart devices.
Design and Features
The Butterflye is available in ii colors: a white camera costs $199 and comes with 16GB of internal storage, while a blackness model costs $249 and comes with 32GB of internal storage. Iii-packs become for $399.99 (white) and $599.99 (black). No affair the color, the Butterflye measures three.3 by three.viii by i.6 inches (HWD) and has a 3.five-megapixel CMOS sensor that captures video at 1080p. Information technology has a 120-degree field of view and an 8X digital zoom. In that location's a button on summit used for setup and to power upward the photographic camera, and effectually back are a mini USB power port and a reset button.
Under the hood is 802.11n (2.4GHz) and Bluetooth wireless circuitry, and an internal battery that will provide power for upwards to 4 weeks depending on usage, which means the Butterflye will proceed to tape triggered video and shop information technology locally even when there's no ability or cyberspace connection. There are sensors for sound, motion, and ambient light, and there's an accelerometer that volition trigger an warning if the camera has been moved. The camera uses pre-buffering to deliver the 5 seconds of video captured earlier a triggered recording so you lot can run across what happened simply earlier an consequence.
The Butterflye uses a microphone and speaker to capture audio and provide ii-way communication, but you have to subscribe to a monthly plan for the latter and to take advantage of the camera's face recognition and geofencing capabilities. With face recognition, the camera can tell the departure betwixt familiar and unfamiliar faces to aid cut downwards on unnecessary alerts, and geofencing will automatically enable and disable Privacy Mode, which puts the camera to sleep when you arrive home and artillery it while you lot're abroad.
The free program gets you 7 days of deject storage, instant alerts (movement, audio, and tamper), live streaming, and unlimited video downloads. For $nine.99 per month, the Abode Secure program gives you 30 days of cloud storage, the use of the 2-mode audio, geofencing and face recognition, and everything from the free plan. You also get scheduled notifications and support for up to half-dozen cameras. The $29.99 per month Business Secure program gives you everything from the Dwelling house Secure plan equally well as 90 days of cloud storage, multi-site geofencing, and a Concern Analytics feature that has nevertheless to exist announced.
The camera can be integrated into Ooma'southward Domicile Security system, merely information technology doesn't work with third-party devices such every bit lights and smart switches. Nor does it support IFTTT applets that can exist used to trigger other IFTTT-enabled devices.
The Butterflye app (available for Android and iOS) opens to a Feeds and Events screen with a video panel on top and a timeline of triggered events with video thumbnails and a description of the event. Tap the play arrow in the video panel to view a live stream that goes full-screen when you plow your phone sideways. In that location's a microphone push for initiating two-way talk (if you subscribe to a plan), but no buttons for manually recording video or taking snapshots. To view a recorded event, tap a thumbnail in the timeline. To save, share, or delete a prune, tap the three dots next to each thumbnail.
The iii-bar icon in the upper left corner opens a carte du jour with tabs for Feeds and Events, Faces, Profile, and Add a Photographic camera. Tap Faces to view your database of faces, where all new faces are registered every bit unfamiliar until you tag them, at which point they are listed as familiar faces. Use the Contour tab to change account information, passwords, and membership plan condition, and the Add a Photographic camera tab to add additional Butterflye cameras to your account.
Back at the Feed and Events screen is a gear icon that takes y'all to a settings screen where you can configure Wi-Fi settings, enable push button notifications, turn on Privacy fashion, enable Auto Privacy Mode using geofencing, and enable audio. Here you can also view camera data such as the remaining battery level, the firmware version, and the MAC accost.
Installation and Performance
The Butterflye camera installs in minutes. Showtime past downloading the app and creating an account. Plug in the photographic camera, bring your phone shut, and press and hold the top push until information technology blinks green, and so press Start Pairing in the app. When the app tells y'all it has found the photographic camera, touch the camera with your phone. You'll hear a chime and be prompted to select your domicile Wi-Fi SSID and enter your countersign. Choose your program (Free, Home Secure, or Business Secure) and proper noun your camera to consummate the installation.
The Butterflye delivered abrupt daytime video with fantabulous color representation and no noticeable distortion. Yet, video was quite dark in low-low-cal conditions, and nearly unviewable when the room was completely unlit. The sound and tamper sensors worked well, immediately generating push notifications and initiating a twenty-2d recorded prune when triggered, but the motion and face recognition features were inconsistent. Simply some motion alerts were recorded and saved in the timeline while others never appeared at all. The camera saved an image of my face and information technology appeared in the unfamiliar faces database, merely once I tagged it and named information technology, the camera failed to recognize it again, either as an unfamiliar face or a familiar face up, despite looking directly into the lens. It also failed to capture other family unit fellow member's faces, only correctly identified my dog every bit a pet.
Moreover, the camera had meaning connectivity issues in testing. It constantly lost its connection to the cloud, which made it incommunicable to initiate a live stream or view my timeline. At one point, when the Butterflye was not capturing facial images, I logged out of the app, and when I logged back in I was unable to connect to my Wi-Fi network until I deleted the app and reinstalled it. Even so I experienced sporadic connectivity issues and lost motion recordings. Two-way sound, on the other hand, was clean and adequately loud.
Conclusions
With the Butterflye camera, you get sharp 1080p video with rich colors and a nice list of features, including face up recognition, two-way audio, and geofencing support, but you take to pay a monthly fee to access them. It also has a battery backup and up to 32GB of internal storage, and you get 7 days of complimentary deject storage. That said, it lacks useful night vision, an essential feature for whatever home security camera, and information technology doesn't work with tertiary-political party smart dwelling house devices or support IFTTT applets. More chiefly, the camera's motion and face recognition features didn't always work, and it had problem staying connected in our testing.
If y'all can live without face recognition, the iSmartAlarm iCamera Keep Pro not but works with other IFTTT-enabled devices, it delivered amend solar day and night vision video in our tests. It as well offers free deject and local storage, has mechanical pan and tilt with motion tracking, and records time-lapse video clips. Equally such, it remains our Editors' Choice for home security cameras.
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