Ratings & Reviews for Night Owl FWIP2 Indoor 1 -Camera 1080p Plug-in Stick up cam Micro SD (not included) Security Camera System

Glitchy

This camera works yes but is a let down since it has glitches and could use a spotlight as well as battery backup for power outages.

Download the app.

I liked the simplicity of setup/operation. Basically plug in and follow the directions using the app.

Top Feats: Easy Set-up, No Subsciptions or Cloud

Ease of set-up: 5 stars, the app makes it easy, haven't tried the monitor and keyboard configuration Storage: 5 stars, no subscription, no cloud. 1TB seems to be plenty of room; two months in and I still have over 900GB of space. Quality: 1080p, looks good on the phone. Haven't verified on a dedicated monitor. Motion detection: 2 stars, needs work. Cameras/system unable to truly differentiate between a person or cars. Cameras will record regardless what it detects. Recording: 3 star...

Mediocre Image recognition

I've had 2 of these systems for over 2 years. The image recognition algorithms send notifications on: tree branch shadows, squirrels, cats, dogs, and other animals as Human" notifications. "Activity" zone settings are useless , as I continue to get notifications from images anywhere in the camera FOV. NO tweaking to sensitivity or other settings help eliminate erroneous image notifications. Engineering needs to make lots of improvements to the image recognition algorithms. PS: I’M a Cy...

Night Owl has build a Great Product

Last Year, I used to complain a lot about this wireless system. I understood it was a new product. I knew that as with any new product, it may bring many bugs and issues. I still own the product, and I have witnessed all the improvements Night Owl has made to it. Today, I am glad to share how well my cameras perform after the great firmware updates Night Owl is constantly releasing, and the quality, clarity, and excellent performance this product offers. I recommend this system, and I look f...

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was a little difficult hook up to wifi

simple

Im not great with electronics. This is simple simple simple. I plugged it in, hung them up and was done inside of 20mins. Going to take some fine tuning, but, not much.

dropping uot

cameras do fine except four out of six drop out at night. would not recommend until problem solved.

Poor Quality

Purchased in November 2022 and have had nothing but connectivity and poor performance for 13 months. Cameras rarely stay connected even 1 room away let alone the other side of the house. The app is super unreliable and often unusuable.

I would like to return this system. I am disappointed that it will not let me make the adjustments that it said I can. Even thought it took my security password. This is the 4th or 3rdrd system I have had and would like to go back to a hard wired system. I have always like my night owl system in the past, but this one I am disappointed in. I have just received it a week ago and would like to return it for a hard wired one.

8 camara system what a joy.

Product easy to install. Set up was simple. Clarity is top notch. Over all very very happy with system. One minor issue, they go off non stop at first. This took a fair amount of time getting the settings right. Only other thing I would ask for is a way to shut them down for the work day easy. Meaning unlock, open app, disarm. at night the reverse

Camera review

I bought this roughly a month ago and so afar I have been very happy with the system. It has been easy to set up and get the cameras working. I do not have them all up yet but am working through them as I get the power run for each one.

Had trouble with the NVR.Cameras work well.

The first NVR that I received with my WNIP2 system would not get to the startup page and had to return it. The warranty replacement NVR made it to the Startup Wizard and was now able to complete the NVR and camera setup. At first the mouse was working but the menu on the monitor didn't seem to be working. I did a factory reset to see if the menu would start working but the mouse stopped working. I then used a different mouse and it worked and the menu worked. After I plugged the Night Owl mouse ...

Not what it seems

Purchased 2 extra wireless cameras to make a total of 5. Should be great, says 10 channel, right? It will only work 4 cameras. I'm sure it probably says that somewhere in the fine print, but why call it 10 channel if it will only do 4? Then, had a camera eating through battery life, even with 4 batteries in it (I had 2 extra from the extra camera that I ordered that it can't use, remember?). Ok, no big deal, swapped to the camera that I wasn't using, hopefully it is better. I like the system and...

Still not user friendly

I was so excited when I read that I could pair my cameras up via bluetooth, without having to connect the system to a monitor! Then I had a problem with one camera showing my green plants as pink. #1 The instructions and website are not helpful and I finally had to use Chat. (My chat tech was great!) #2 It seems that the PC based system for my user dashboard is NOT functioning. #3 So, Unfortunately, I now have to drag a monitor to the room with the Wifi base, delete this camera from the ...

Junk!

The camera construction is seems cheaper & more fragile than my old cameras that I purchased from another company. One of the cameras drained the batteries from 100% down to 52% in less than 3 hours (BEFORE I mounted the camera). The mobile app won't let me add the cameras. The NVR won't let me adjust the recording settings.

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Back NVR featurs

I have old 2016 and 2019 wired Night Owl systems. The settings in the DVR are amazing when looking via a monitor. I can play, fast forward (16X), fast back (16x) , skip forward, and skip back. These new systems, there is only play and fast forward (8x). NO skip ahead. On my old system, when I have it on 16x, I can also manually jump head with a mouse to any point in the timeline and it stays on 16x. This one, the no skip ahead is annoying but when I have it on 8x and manually try to j...

Look greT

I have not set it up due to weather. We have had a endless winter with over 80" of snow. Will Install when the weather warms up.

Great product

After looking at different brands, they all needed electricity to operate. The price to do that was astronomically high. Out of my price range. After looking online and finding your product I ordered 4 of your wireless cameras. I plan on ordering additional cameras in the future.