Giving up on Amcrest

[Mcgyver]

I've had my IP2M-852W for about 1.5 years and have continued to have technical problems with it. This is more of a rant. After initially spending hours trying to install and have wifi link up, eventually had to go to the ethernet hard wire route. Difficult because the camera is mounted up in the peak outdoors up about 18'. Had trouble with false alarms, spent another hour with tech support changing dithers etc, never really worked that well, couldn't use at night with ir because fog could set it off. Fast forward 1.5 years and cable co had to install a new router.....and here we go again. This time refusing to do the ethernet route because of difficultness and hazard being up on ladder. Went up and removed screws to reset camera, no help. On with tech this time and honestly ((not her fault) but the dialect difference made it near impossible to understand) she went on remotely to my PC and after 20+ min said we need to do the ethernet route. This seems to be a constant issue I read about in forums, very very inconvenient in this day and age to have to hard wire. I'm done with Amcrest and moving onto another manufacturer. Anyone want to buy this off me? LOL thanks for listening/reading the rant

[t84a]

They are really pretty easy to set up and manage. What's the issue with wifi? The initial setup has to be done via hardwire as does the email setup. Once you configure everything except the wifi, you save everything and then set up wifi and make it the default. Then you just unplug the Ethernet cable. Motion alerts is just a matter of trkal and error. I have set up probably 100 Amcrest (and Foscams and others) cameras around the US and they are pretty reliable.

[amcrest168]

i have multiple amcrest wireless ip cameras (ip2m-841, ip3m-hx2, and ipm-hx1) at my home and i've always made it a habit to set up the dhcp reservations for all my amcrest wireless cameras on the router to make my life a little easier. i upgraded my main router this past summer from an older netgear wndr3700sw to a linksys wrt1900acs_v1 and all i had to do was to set up the dhcp reservations on the new router and all my amcrest wireless camera connected to the new router effortlessly without having the need for me to touch the wireless cameras.

i recently inherited a hand me down netgear r6400 which i had been testing and all my amcrest wireless cameras connected because i had set up the dhcp reservations only to find out netgear's original firmware readyshare does not play with with amcrest ftp hence i swapped out the router back to the linksys wrt1900acs_v1 and all my amcrest wireless cameras were back online without a glitch.

i recall two years ago i had to RMA two amcrest cameras (both ip3m-hx2) : one had a blurry video and image that can't be refocused, and one that frequently got disconnected unable to maintain a wireless connection. other than that, i find amcrest wireless ip cameras to be solid and quite reliable.

jury is still out on the ad110 doorbell camera as i patiently wait for a call back from either the product team or the support team, given the current holiday schedule.