Following on from the Guudgo 720p camera post, I found a coupon that reduced the price of the 1080p camera by another £3.98, making it £15.92 free postage.
20% Off GUUDGO GD-SC03 Snowman 1080P Cloud WIFI IP Camera
this one is almost the same i think & this one has good reviews. i ordered mine a couple of days ago..just waiting for it to arrive. also you can use a memory card for the footage so that you won't have to pay for online storage.
YiannisF
18 Aug 17#5
It has just been released, hence there are no reviews. Give it a couple of weeks...
gsusx
18 Aug 17#7
Can anyone recommend a good cam that records continuously to an sd card. I've got a clever dog but find the picture quality a bit average.
AnimalMagic81
18 Aug 17#8
Bought some siricams from banggood and cant for the life of me work out how to set them up so they are useless and there's barely a thing on the web with any advice. I will end up buying some Arlo or Nest ones for 10 times the price but I know they will just work.
speedygonzalez to AnimalMagic81
18 Aug 17#9
I have been using a pair of Sricam SP007 for nearly a year, cracking cameras delivering everything the box says (viewable live or recorded videos on my android phone by wifi anywhere in the world, continuously cycling in micro sd card onboard, etc.). I think they cost me around £27 a piece from ebay uk sellers.
Anyhow for the princely sum of £15.22 (20% of £19.02 currently) I have taken a punt on this. The spiel says it will come from the Netherlands so should have no tax/PO problem. Pan and tilt and tf card compatible and 1080p for £15? Worth a punt I would have thought, but just in case I bought it with paypal, with the paypal buyer protection and free return in mind if not happy.
Cheers!
888eyeball to speedygonzalez
6 Sep 17#12
do you find them a bit sensitive on the movement detection?
888eyeball to AnimalMagic81
6 Sep 17#11
l just got SRICAM and they are very basic to setup. The manual is helpful but no overly so, it's clear enough to help you set up the cam.
pibpob
18 Aug 17#10
DDoS Ahoy!
888eyeball
6 Sep 17#13
at least the SRICAM is 25 fps
mcek to 888eyeball
6 Sep 17#14
Even some of the Xiaomi 1080p pan/tilt cameras are listed as 15fps. Good enough for in the house, it's not a GoPro.
I did some looking around on and found this:
Scene under surveillance A scene involving fast-moving objects will benefit significantly from a higher frame-rate; with, furthermore, an inverse relationship between the fps parameter and the size of the moving object. A scene involving a slow-moving object (say, a pedestrian) will look fine even at 5 fps, while a scene involving a car travelling at a reasonable speed will look jerky at 5 fps. There are certain industry guidelines for deciding on frame-rates for specific settings:
I have received my Guudgo SC03 1080p. Compared to my prior experience with sricam, it has a few (to me) serious problems.
For pros, the 1080p image is good, pan and tilt work, and videos (in 10 minute segments) do store ok in the sd card you provide yourself. 32GB will give you roughly 6 days.
BUT 1) the android app works as if it is broken. If you try to go back and view prior recordings, it always hang, and often lose wifi connection. I have a rock solid, fast, bt fibre wifi in direct line of sight 10m to the router btw. I also tried ethernet. 2) there is no facility to switch off upload to the Cloud I can see. You are limited to using their Cloud service, at $6 a month, which is behind a web address neither Chrome nor Firefox thinks is legit/secure. Some app functionalities (clipping stored videos e.g.) only work with their Cloud storage. In fact I am unsure if the web access will be of any use if and when your Cloud trial expires. 3) Because the app is practically useless for viewing recordings, one has little choice but to resort to pulling and reading the sd card. Unfortunately, videos recorded on the sd card is in ".v264" format. Yes, I searched high and low for a viewer, found only one (ancient) but no compatible dll can be found to make it work on my Windows 10 pc. It appears to be the ONLY viewer in circulation that can view such an obsolete format that nobody use anymore. The only way for me to view the 10 minute recorded segments, is by converting each first to avi, which of course is a complete pain. 4) More minor issues (to me) include: a) audio does not work on mine, b) no uk adaptor supplied with eu usb power plug. 5) My conclusion is one would be better off paying a bit more for something better, life is not long enough to tolerate/suffer the primarily software issues associated with the camera.
Cheers!
Dave_dave69 to speedygonzalez
9 Sep 17#16
I haven't set mine up yet - how did you try ethernet and it has no ethernet port?
speedygonzalez to Dave_dave69
10 Sep 17#17
It has, unless you are talking about a different camera. See instructions at the bottom of page 4 of the manual.
Dave_dave69 to speedygonzalez
10 Sep 17#18
Thanks - I think mine must be different version - it is not "snowman"
pjlhot
29 Sep 17#19
For info. I've been able to get mine to work with other apps. (using the ONVIF firmware) See here I had to set the camera up with the Android GUUDGO app. The iOS version wouldn't connect. Once I'd set things up with Android the iOS app worked. I've been able to connect to it with VLC and get VLC to save the stream in a usable format.
I found a player for the files on the MicroSD card here It works on my Windows 10 machine.
Now waiting to see if it still works when the amazon trial expires. Picture quality seems okay but so much of a faff I couldn't recommend it.
veedubjai
29 Sep 17#20
@pjlhot Do let us know how you get on after the trial period.
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Opening post
20% Off GUUDGO GD-SC03 Snowman 1080P Cloud WIFI IP Camera
voucher code: cb41a3
Starts: 2017-08-15
Expires: 2017-09-15
20 comments
Should get video like an old episode of Crimewatch from the 1980's :raised_hand:
Also, according to manual, only supports 2.4GHz wifi (no 5GHz).
And seems to be tied to amazon cloud subscription, probably why it's cheap.
+ 538 units sold and 0 reviews.
Anyway, I'm sure the banggood shills will have made this hot before 11pm...
this one is almost the same i think & this one has good reviews. i ordered mine a couple of days ago..just waiting for it to arrive. also you can use a memory card for the footage so that you won't have to pay for online storage.
Anyhow for the princely sum of £15.22 (20% of £19.02 currently) I have taken a punt on this. The spiel says it will come from the Netherlands so should have no tax/PO problem. Pan and tilt and tf card compatible and 1080p for £15? Worth a punt I would have thought, but just in case I bought it with paypal, with the paypal buyer protection and free return in mind if not happy.
Cheers!
I did some looking around on and found this:
Scene under surveillance
A scene involving fast-moving objects will benefit significantly from a higher frame-rate; with, furthermore, an inverse relationship between the fps parameter and the size of the moving object. A scene involving a slow-moving object (say, a pedestrian) will look fine even at 5 fps, while a scene involving a car travelling at a reasonable speed will look jerky at 5 fps. There are certain industry guidelines for deciding on frame-rates for specific settings:
For pros, the 1080p image is good, pan and tilt work, and videos (in 10 minute segments) do store ok in the sd card you provide yourself. 32GB will give you roughly 6 days.
BUT
1) the android app works as if it is broken. If you try to go back and view prior recordings, it always hang, and often lose wifi connection. I have a rock solid, fast, bt fibre wifi in direct line of sight 10m to the router btw. I also tried ethernet.
2) there is no facility to switch off upload to the Cloud I can see. You are limited to using their Cloud service, at $6 a month, which is behind a web address neither Chrome nor Firefox thinks is legit/secure. Some app functionalities (clipping stored videos e.g.) only work with their Cloud storage. In fact I am unsure if the web access will be of any use if and when your Cloud trial expires.
3) Because the app is practically useless for viewing recordings, one has little choice but to resort to pulling and reading the sd card. Unfortunately, videos recorded on the sd card is in ".v264" format. Yes, I searched high and low for a viewer, found only one (ancient) but no compatible dll can be found to make it work on my Windows 10 pc. It appears to be the ONLY viewer in circulation that can view such an obsolete format that nobody use anymore. The only way for me to view the 10 minute recorded segments, is by converting each first to avi, which of course is a complete pain.
4) More minor issues (to me) include: a) audio does not work on mine, b) no uk adaptor supplied with eu usb power plug.
5) My conclusion is one would be better off paying a bit more for something better, life is not long enough to tolerate/suffer the primarily software issues associated with the camera.
Cheers!
I've been able to get mine to work with other apps. (using the ONVIF firmware)
See here
I had to set the camera up with the Android GUUDGO app.
The iOS version wouldn't connect. Once I'd set things up with Android the iOS app worked.
I've been able to connect to it with VLC and get VLC to save the stream in a usable format.
I found a player for the files on the MicroSD card here
It works on my Windows 10 machine.
Now waiting to see if it still works when the amazon trial expires.
Picture quality seems okay but so much of a faff I couldn't recommend it.