Can YESKAMO wireless CCTV reviews help you to make your buying decision? YESKAMO Wireless Security Camera System is leading the market with 12’’ Monitor full HD 2.0 Megapixel 1080P (1920×1080) surveillance. It is an IP66 Weatherproof metal camera housing to survive from harsh weather. It has 3.6 mm fixed lens with 90° wide angle viewing, and 6 pcs infrared advanced LED lights for night vision function. YESKAMO wireless CCTV features also include Motion detection + E-mail alert + APP notifications and Remote view via PC, computer, iPhone, Android, and iPad. Should you buy it? Find details in YESKAMO wireless CCTV reviews.
Specifications – YESKAMO wireless CCTV camera
- 1080P IP Camera:
- Real-time 1080p (1920×1080) high definition
- Night vision: 6pcs advanced infrared LED array
- 3.6mm 2.0MP Wide angle lens
- Outdoor weatherproof IP66 metal housing
- Working temperature from -20℃/-4℉ to60℃/140℉
- Night vision: 30M/100ft
- Mounting bracket: wall & ceiling
- 12’’ 4CH Monitor (NVR)
- Video input: 4*1080P Playback: 4*1080P; 4*960P; 4*720P
- Advanced H.264 video compression technology·
- Support protocol as ONVIF, UPNP, SMTP, PPPOE, DHCP etc.
- Compatible with Monitor Screen via 1080P HDMI port
- 1 SATA port, support up to 4TB hard drive
- Remote view by APP(Android, IOS, PAD) and PC computer software( Windows,Mac)
- Support Motion detection, Manual Record, Playback, Backup (USB, CMS)
- Email Alert and App notification
- 2 x USB interface for mouse control, backup, system upgrade
- 1 x RJ45 internet port
- Package Includes
- 1pc x 12’’ Monitor (combines with 1080P NVR recorder and 2TB hard drive)
- 4pcs x 1080P HD WIFI IP camera (with 4pcs 3dBi antenna)
- 1pc x 12V 3A 10ft Power Supply (for 12″monitor)
- 4pcs x 12V 1A 10ft Power Supply (for cameras)
- 1pc x Wired USB Mouse
- 1pc x 7dBi 3M/10ft Wifi Extension Antenna
- 1pc x 1M/3ft Ethernet Cable
- 1pc x 3M/10ft Power Extension cable
- ·1pc x Manual
YESKAMO wireless CCTV reviews
Design
The cameras are a bullet design, and the only option for mounting them is using three screws. You can’t simply place these on top of a desk or cupboard, they will actually need to be mounted. This is in contrast to the EufyCam E, which came with a couple of mounting options, as well as a rubber foot enabling it to be placed safely on a table top or shelf.
Accessories
On the front of the cameras, you’ll find 8 superbright LEDs. While these aren’t comparable to your average halogen floodlight, they are still quite bright and more than capable of lighting up a small area. They’ll do the job to let any intruder aware they’re being watched, for sure.
The 7″ touchscreen monitor includes a kickstand and two antennas. You’ll find a USB port, DC in, microSD slot, and power switch. The power switch actually does nothing when the unit is plugged into the adaptor.
Instead, you have the option of running the touchscreen off battery power, at which point the switch is functional. You’ll need to use two 18650 batteries if you wish to use this feature, which aren’t supplied. It’s nice to have this option, but I’d be worried about a potential loss of Wi-Fi transmission power when running off batteries.
How to connect and setup YESKAMO CCTV?
The Yeskamo CCTV touchscreen acts as its own Wi-Fi router for the included cameras. They’re already paired out of the box, so all you need to do is mount them and plug in the power. They’ll then appear on your home screen. By default, you’ll get a piercing alarm from the cameras when they detect motion, so you may wish to mute that or set up a schedule immediately.
Thanks to a domed PIR sensor, motion detection is reliable. These only activate when a warm body enters the field of view. Like any alarm system, they can be fooled if you move slowly enough, and the manual provides tips on how to angle them for greatest effect.
There are some limitation with range and connectivity. With the touchscreen sitting on our windowsill, and the camera mounted no more than 20 meters away on the front of the garage, the base station reported a single bar of reception. That was with only a double-glazed window in between. Visuals were delayed a few seconds, sometimes freezing completely, though the talkback features were instant.
We placed another camera around the back of garage—another 4 meters away, and through a brick wall or two. This worked intermittently, with zero bars. Nothing was recorded from it. Moving the base station to my office downstairs resulted in a complete loss of reception to both cameras.
Auto connect with Yeskamo App
Adding your system is simple enough. Everything was autodetected and within minutes we could remotely view the screen and tap through for a fullscreen HD image. But that’s about all you can do. Curiously, the app present pan and tilt controls, despite the cameras not supporting that. You can’t adjust schedules or any other settings.
But more importantly, the interface for view past events is just atrocious. Even when it wasn’t buggy and hanging, trying to scroll through the timeline to find a vague red line that supposedly indicates an event wasn’t easy. And when I did find one, I kept getting random errors. There’s no way to just jump back or forward to the next event, and there’s no generic list view of all recorded events (which you can get on the monitor).
Yeskamo wireless CCTV video quality reviews
As you can see from the screen captures below, the video quality isn’t fantastic, but nor is it terrible. Night mode fared worse, with a grainy image. This may have been the fault of bad reception to the base station, but I couldn’t place it any closer, so this reflects real-world output.
I should note that I had a difficult time trying to get the recorded footage into Final Cut Pro for inclusion in the video review. The microSD is formatted in a non-standard way, and was unreadable by my Mac. Not a problem, the system provides a USB export function precisely for that purpose, so you can just plug in a thumb drive. The drive will need to be formatted as FAT, not FAT32.
Once I got that sorted and successfully exported a few clips, I found Final Cut couldn’t use any of the files anyway. They played fine in VLC, so clearly there was something there. I ended up having to use an online tool to convert them to something readable, and even then, some of the files I exported failed to convert.
Is it worth buying?
Grabbing the footage if something does happen is easy using the monitor’s touchscreen features, and you can copy it straight to a USB stick. I’ve criticized the app, but in reality, it’s much easy to work directly on this touchscreen than the intermediate steps a mobile app would require. So yes, the app is terrible, but really, you don’t need it.
For anyone with a larger property, or internal brick and stone walls, don’t bother. The Wi-Fi signal from the monitor proved to be underpowered in my testing, despite the presence of external antennas. If you were hoping to offload a camera system to its own private Wi-Fi network because your home Wi-Fi is spotty anyway, this won’t fare any better. Fix your own Wi-Fi first, then invest in a camera system that runs directly off that.