VAVA Home 4+

- Inability to set own smtp server for emails. I’m assuming it uses VAVAs email servers as you have to log into their service.
- cannot add additional emails for notifications.
- cannot email a photo of motion detection event (would be handy rather than having to open the app every time).

Other than the above it works decently enough. Battery life is below par even with the solar panel (maybe the panel is too small). I still have to charge the camera every couple of weeks. My Reolink has no issues with its solar panel.

I called the company that’s behind this app today, because I haven’t been able to look at a live view of my cameras for several weeks now. There’s been no word or anything from the developer about servers being down or that they were discontinuing support for their app either! I called today and one of the service reps told me that it’s been about a month since they got an update from the main office that said they weren’t gonna fix the app because of server issues and etc. The rep was nice and apologized but now I’m stuck with cameras that are useless because the app doesn’t work anymore and what’s worse is the company didn’t send out anything letting consumers know. So, VAVA Home is dead it seems with no foreseeable function on it in the future.

I am beyond frustrated with this product. Notifications on my iPhone stopped working with no explanation why, no settings changed. Everything appears to be set correctly. I am now assuming that app-to-iPhone notifications require some sort of working service or server in between the two and hosted at VAVA. That would be a terrible design and would mean that my notifications would stop working if VAVA were to have a server down or even if they go out of business. I probably have $800 invested in this system with multiple cameras. Did I just throw all that money away? The last time I sent an email to their support email address, I never received a reply. Stay away from this product.