YI Home 4+

Excellent Baby Monitor

We have two Yi Home cameras that we use as a baby monitor.

The reason we chose them was initially for one simple reason - you can turn the status light off - meaning the camera can give you night vision without shining a light in your baby’s eyes.

I have to say I am very impressed with the quality of the camera. The video quality is excellent (we have the 1080p dome camera) as is the quality of the night vision.

We didn’t bother paying for cloud storage as a cheap SS card does the trick for our use case. This means we have not had the problems with playback that some have mentioned with the cloud service.

The mobile app works very well - I find it easy to use. The main issue is a slight lag on the video feed - but unlikely this is an issue with the app.

The only addition I would really like to see is for the mobile app to support simultaneous live streaming of multiple cameras. This is possible on the desktop app but not the mobile app.

As a parent looking after two kids I have two cameras in my house. I want to be able to move around the house whilst the kids sleep (hence the mobile app), however I currently need to carry TWO mobile devices with me, one for each camera feed.

Why not just let me have two live feeds sent to my phone??

Other than that I’m very happy and have recommended this to friends who are also happy.

App update has.. FIXED the issues

Update : 5.0.2 fixes the majority of the concerns raised in the review below.

The new update completely changes the cost model of the cameras and pushes you to their subscription service. For years now Yi cameras offered 6 second clips to be uploaded to the cloud and played back for free; it now seems you have to pay for a (rather expensive for what it is) cloud service to view clips before midnight on the day you’re on. SD card playback kind of works once you’ve learned to navigate around the new interface.. but if you try and change the “date” it again pushes you to their subscription page; you have to scroll back through the timeline. Need to view something from a few days ago from your own SD card? be prepared to scroll back a lot with no indication of what day/date you are on… awful! The old app was great and I bet I’ve sold about 30+ cameras for Yi through friends and family over the years through recommendations. It’s already lead to several people asking me why they can’t look back at their alerts from yesterday without being asked to pay more money… I don’t know what to tell them! Please go back to the old app!

Developer Response ,

The issues you’ve reported have been fixed most recent app release. Please update your app. There is no pay wall and missing features are back in the app! Please see the article to find info for new release. https://news.yitechnology.com/news/app-release-news/ If this is still not the case for you, please contact our support team at www.kamihome.com/contact

It’s ok but it has some issues!

I’ve held off reviewing this app as I believe an app shouldn’t be reviewed until it’s been used for a given amount of time, in my case that’s two weeks.
I recently purchased and installed the Yi 1080p outdoor WiFi camera. As far as the camera is concerned the picture/video quality is amazing both during daylight and and under infrared and is definitely 1080p, the app however is a different issue! To cut a long story short the alerts system works well and notifies me of any activity but the actual clip of the footage isn’t always available to view. The cloud storage service is intermittent even though I’ve set it to constant recording mode, I have many gaps when I watch footage from the cloud. Also I often have problems with the app not communicating with the camera, I’m not sure if this is a network problem on my part but I’ve tried everything possible to solve this, I’ve even gone as far as too install a WiFi extender which is within three foot of the camera installation.
Overall the Camera is an amazing product but not short of technical problems which will hopefully be resolved over time.