Kami Indoor Smart Home Camera 2020 Latest Updated Review

Kami Indoor Smart Home Camera 2020 Latest Updated Review

The Kami Indoor Camera is excellent value for money, combining good video quality, and versatile security features for the price. and provides good video quality as well as useful features such as a rotating camera that provides 360-degree coverage

The Kami Indoor security camera offers a handful of useful features including mechanical pan and tilt, motion tracking, and dual-band Wi-Fi.

Getting started

Setting up the Kami Indoor Camera is quick and easy, thanks to the well-designed app that guides you through the process, and even offers a video tutorial to help you get started as well.

As soon as you plug in the USB cable, the camera swivels on its motorized stand and announces in a perky voice that it is “waiting to connect”.

The camera supports dual-band Wi-Fi, so you simply need to enter the password for your Wi-Fi network

Design and Features

Shaped like a cylinder with a slice taken out of the front, the matte white Kami Indoor Camera offers a pleasing design that will look at home in any room.

The enclosure stands 5 inches tall, 2.8 inches in diameter, and sits atop a base with a mechanical swivel that gives it 340 degrees of horizontal panning motion.

The App

The Kami Home mobile app opens to the home screen, which displays the name of your installed cameras with a recent still image.

Below the image panel are Alerts, Watch, and Settings buttons.

Tap Alerts to see a list of the day’s activity alerts with time stamps, video thumbnails, and type of alert .

Tap any thumbnail to play the video, delete it, or save it.

The Watch button opens a screen where you can view all of your cloud based video with thumbnails and a sliding timeline.

Installation and Performance

The Kami camera is easy to install. I started by downloading the mobile app and creating an account.

I tapped the plus button on the app’s home page to add the camera and followed the instructions to plug it in

To complete the setup I tapped Next and gave the camera a name.

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The camera delivered sharp 1080p video in testing, with crisp colors during the day and well-lit black-and-white video at night.

There was no noticeable barrel or pincushion distortion, and two-way audio was adequately loud and distortion-free.

The mechanical pan and tilt actions were smooth and very quiet.

Motion Detection

Thanks to motion detection and tracking, the Kami Indoor Camera can detect people or pets

Receive an alert to your smartphone with a short video clip of the detected motion and stay up-to-date with who’s coming and going.

360 Degree rotation

With 340° rotation and 95° tilt capabilities, you’re able to see every corner of the room within seconds.

If you want some privacy, simply hide the lens away in ‘Privacy Mode’.

Reliable Baby-Sitter

Place it near your baby’s crib and the Kami Indoor Camera acts as a baby monitor, sending a notification to your smartphone at the first cry.

It also alerts you when any other abnormal sounds are detected nearby, such as your smoke detector beeping

AI-Driven Features

What makes the Kami Indoor Smart Home Camera special its smart use of so many strong AI features. Perhaps most importantly, you can take advantage of those features out of the gate.

The few features which do require some initial setup are still simple to get going. And nearly all settings are highly customizable.

For example, the Kami Indoor Smart Home Camera has a pretty formidable system regulating activity zones.

Suppose you’ve set up the camera to look over a large living room

For

• Very competitive price
• Versatile design
• Good 1080p video quality
• Night-vision
• Built-in microphone

Against

• Free storage is limited
• Confusing array of subscriptions
• Only suitable for indoor use

Remote viewing

Controlling the camera is equally easy.

You simply swipe right or left on the camera icon on the app’s main screen to switch between ‘Home’ and ‘Away’ modes.

Each mode provides a series of settings that control how the camera behaves

when you’re at home, while leaving the camera on eagle-eyed alert for ‘Away’ mode when everybody has gone out.