FOSCAM 3K 5MP Security Cameras Wireless Outdoor, 5GHz&2.4GHz WiFi Camera for Home Security, 120° FoV Outside Surveillance Cam, AI Human/Vehicle Detection, 66FT Color Night Vision, 120dB Siren, IP66

This camera works great for me. I use it with Foscam VMS to record to a hard drive on Windows 11. I like the light and sound it can produce. I use it to scare away the deer that get too close and eat our plants. Picture quality is great. Not real expensive. Was easy to set up. Motion detection records to a hard drive and you can adjust the sensitivity and block out areas that always move like trees and bushes.

The V5EP is an excellent POE security camera. If you don’t have an electrical outlet near the camera, it can be powered from a POE switch, or POE Ethernet power injector. It also has a port to connect a 12-volt DC power supply at the camera if you want to power it locally. Video resolution is excellent both day and night. The nighttime color video is very good with just the neighborhood ambient light, or you can use the onboard led white light for color images under any night light conditions.The camera has all the standard features you find on any Foscam camera as well as onboard “Smart AI”. The onboard “Smart AI” works with or without the Foscam cloud service and can accurately detect and identify humans and vehicles up to 60’ away from the camera. False alarms are almost non-existent. You can add the cloud service and also get additional detection alerts for pets and parcels. If you need to detect movement more than sixty feet from the camera you can turn off the human and vehicle detection and use the standard motion detection to detect vehicle motion up to 150’ feet or more away from the camera, but you will get more false alarms from windblown trees, as well as any animals or people walking closer to the camera. If this is a problem, you can use the “detection area” filter to mask out any movement in areas you are not concerned about.Overall, I am very happy with the camera. The video quality is great. It was easy to install and configure. And technical support has been great also.

Another great Foscam product. I already have 3 other Foscam cameras and wanted to get a higher resolution one, so I purchased the Foscam 3K 5MP for my driveway. The product has a high 3K resolution and the quality is great. The product was very easy to setup, taking less than 5 minutes. The camera video is super clear and the app loads up very fast. It connects to your 5 ghz or 2.4 ghz WIFI network and also has an ethernet connection. It picks up motion and detects if it is a vehicle or human.

If your network is too secure or if your blood pressure is too low, this camera is for you. It does work with Blue Iris after much cussing and frustration. What you need to know is: set the onvif discovery port to 888 before clicking "find".Oh, there is no http web interface. That would be too convenient. You must sign up for the foscam app, connect it to the cloud, update it, scan the QR code generated on your phone with the camera's screen, let it listen to and transmit the secret "modem" sound coming from your phone, etc while it exfiltrates all of your phone and network settings, wifi password, inventories all of the other devices on your lan, and transmits gps coordinates.I'm sure it is fully secure! (sarcasm).Once you get done with that process, you can set the username and password (to anything but admin, that's not allowed) and then you are a few steps away from being able to throw it in the trash can (I mean add it to Blue Iris) after you enable the NVR and ONVIF options.For some reason if you go to the trouble to put it on an isolated VLAN (which oh my, you should) then you will be unable to make any changes to other settings, like the date/time, WDR, spotlight, audio settings (did I mention the camera talks whenever it does pretty much anything? Yeah, you will want to silence that, unless you want it shouting things randomly when it reboots, at all hours, outdoors, or wherever you have installed it). So it is a good idea to disable the date/time display if using it with Blue Iris, and use the Blue Iris one instead.. One less reason to have to manually reconnect it later.Be sure to save your foscam username/password so you don't lose access to your camera should the need arise at a later time, or you'll be stuck taking it down and undoing the screws to access the reset button. Again, no web interface.After you're all done, be sure to uninstall the foscam app so that your communications and whereabouts are not transmitted to .. wherever this thing goes, probably well out of the reach of US jurisdiction and law. If the whole preceding process doesn't make you wary of this "security device" and its advertisements/cloud dependencies, then the typos and clunky dysfunctional app should put that issue to rest, as it is probably a much better persistent rootkit than camera management software to begin with. In fact, at this point, you should probably snap the phone in half and throw it over a bridge into deep swift moving water just for good measure.Enjoy the video quality though, subsidized by "we need a clear image of invading your privacy" quality electronics. No it's not full color night vision, there's no such thing, but with a porch light on, you'll probably like it. The big boys pull this trick off but that's more than $45Pros: it is relatively cheap and supports 5ghz wifi; raises your blood pressure if it is medically too lowCons: no POE (not that you need it), no web interface, and a train wreck to configure or secure