I bought 2 x G100 cameras. I’m pretty impressed to be honest. Finding a HomeKit camera that records continuously 24/7 locally to an SD card has been impossible to find until now. And for a price much less that half of alternative HomeKit cameras, I honestly thought they were miss priced.
The reason I want it recording continuously, is because HomeKit frequently misses things that would be important. Also if someone is planning to steal from the doorstep or break-in, they use WiFi jammers that block any HomeKit/cloud recordings, making local SD storage a valuable backup.
I thought WiFi would frequency cut out, as our previous camera had a much bigger arial and frequently lost signal. However surprising the signal has been pretty solid.
Unfortunately after about 5 days of use, both cameras, about 16 hours apart, just locked up.
Not only did they go offline, they also stopped recording to the SD card. I’m hoping they’ll be a firmware fix for this. I anticipated WiFi failing now and again, but I would not expect the cameras failing entirely including local recordings so soon. They were fine after a reboot, but that isn’t always easy to do remotely.
FYI, I tested the local SD still recorded when it loses its wireless signal, by blocking the camera at the router end for 30 minutes to see what happened. It still recorded to the SD for the entire time. So it wasn’t just a case of loosing WiFi, it conked out completely.
Other than this, I pretty much love them, so it’s a shame.
Anyone else experience this?