Reviews: Nooie 1080P 360 degree Wireless Security Tracking Detection

This a word from Zichao Fu Talk Useful to take care of my pet dog.

I bought the 360 because I need to check whether my dog behaves well while I’m away. So exciting to watch and talk with her, seems like I’m still with her. The image quality is superb and I can even zoom in closer on the image. My dog walks around in the house and jumps to the sofa sometimes. It did follow her movement automatically thanks to its motion tracking feature. I can see her all day long. Absolutely love this camera!

My friend JDS said Great tool to help us keep grandma safe and secure in our home..

Especially like night vision quality! Using it as grannycam for dementia mother who can roam house at night.

Another customer Amazon Customer experience Such a good pet camera.

This pet camera is amazing. My dog has a bad habit that is he will swallow everything, so I worried him a lot when I am away. I need to watch him all the time. This camera helps me. The vision is very clear and it has a 360 degrees view. And the night view is also excellent. You can listen and can speak to your dog. It’s camera is beautiful, it fit most modern home furnitures. I will recommend it to my friends.

While Carrie said Great camera at a great price-point and simple to setup!.

I have the Nooie 1080P indoor camera and I've been quite happy with it so I had to give this 360-degree model a try. It takes the features of the static camera and adds the ability to pan and tilt the camera either manually or you can enable motion tracking easily through the app. I wrote a review for the static camera and many of the features carry over including its great video quality so if you've read that review, some of this will seem familiar.

Setup -
Setup was very simple using your phone or tablet, running the free Nooie Cam app. You first need to verify that your phone is connected to the 2.4Ghz access point in your home where you will be using the camera. You then simply start the Nooie Cam app and select the +Camera button. You select the Nooie Cam 360 option and it will walk you through the remaining, simple steps. Basically, you assure the camera is on, enter the password for the wireless access point/router your phone is currently connected to (this is the same one you will be connecting the camera to), click Next, and a QR code appears on the screen of your phone. You now hold the screen of your phone in front of the Nooie camera's lens and it provides an audible tone and LED light indicator when it is finished reading the QR code. The app will now inform you that it is pairing and will begin a countdown. When complete, the app will inform you that pairing has completed. It's that simple.

Use -
Now that the camera has been added, you simply select it to view the camera. To hear audio from the camera, you select the speaker icon within the app and now you are able to see and hear what's going on around the camera. The camera also has a built-in speaker that allows you to press the microphone button within the app and then speak through it. This is very useful and/or just fun depending on where you locate the camera. For example, I have the camera in my living room where my cat typically spends a good part of her day. If you have cats, I'm guessing yours is similar where she doesn't have one place that she always lays within a room. She instead has multiple locations that she'll randomly select. With this 360 degree camera, either from home, from work, a restaurant, wherever I have WiFi or cellular access I can pan the camera from left to right and up or down. It's range is great where you can literally place the camera in the center of the room and, from the app, turn it from it's left side behind it all the way around front, through to the right side behind it just by swiping across the screen with the camera's image live the whole time. You can pan it around to see the entire room. Beyond this, you have the ability to tilt the camera up and down from the app as well by swiping up and down on the camera's image live. I can scan the room for my cat, locate her, and then touch the microphone to talk to her. Being a cat, she chooses whether she wants to respond or not. Sometimes her ears just perk up and she whines (which you can hear through the camera's built-in microphone), but other times she'll choose to walk over to the camera and give it some love. :)

If you choose to use the Motion Tracking feature, if your cat, or anything really, moves in front of the camera's lens, the camera will follow it. As the moving option moves close to the edge of the camera's current visibility, the camera will move to center the moving object within it's vew and continue doing this until the moving object either stops moving or moves behind something where the camera can no longer see it. One thing to note with automatic Motion Tracking is the camera can pan 360 degrees. If something moves and the camera ends up pointing in a different direction than the next moving object. The next moving option must move in front of the lens at some point for the camera to see it and start tracking it. Depending on where you mount the camera and your use, this may be fine or it may not. So, definitely think about this before placing the camera if you plan to enable Motion Tracking.

Video and audio can be recorded to either a microSD card or to the cloud. Cloud storage is a paid service. Given my usage, microSD recording is fine for me so I haven't tried the cloud storage option. MicroSD recordings are easily accessed through the app via a scrollable tape across the bottom of the screen. You select the day and then scroll through to the time you would like to view. If at any time you are viewing live video or recorded video from the app and you would like to save the video to your device, you simply press the camera icon on screen to set the start point, continue watching the video as it plays, and press the icon again when you'd like to stop and the video will be saved to your device. It's VERY easy!

Like other security cameras, you can also setup notifications based on sound and/or motion. This too is easy to configure by selecting None, Low, Medium, or High for each option and then selecting the timeframe that you would like to receive notifications. Note that you can enable disable notifications by day, but each day only has one start time and one end time that can be selected. Meaning, you cannot setup notifications from 8am-5pm and then again 10pm to midnight for the same day. You could do one or the other, but not both. I don't see this as a problem for me, but it's worth noting depending on your use case.

There are a few additional notable settings. First is the ability to enable/disable audio recording. I haven't done much testing with this, but I'd imagine this could save some space on your microSD card, allowing you to possibly record more video if disabled. Second is the ability to enable/disable the small LED light on the camera. If you placed the camera in a visible location in your home, you may want to disable the LED to avoid the distraction of it. Last, there is a Rotate Image option. So, if you need to mount the camera under an overhang, cabinet, etc., you can simple tap this button to flip the image for mounting the camera upside down and now viewing it live or recorded video will display right-side up.

Customer Service -
I reached out to Nooie's customer service prior to purchasing my previous camera as I had a number of questions. I received quick, thorough responses the same day, shortly after I had sent them. I worked with Julia who was great to work with. Very friendly, personable, and understanding. Julia's customer service was great and made the decision to purchase this camera a complete no-brainer. As I'm sure many of you know, when you have questions or something goes wrong you really find out what a company is made of. I'm happy to say Nooie's support is great! Regarding this camera, I had a few questions for Nooie support prior to purchasing it and received the same great, prompt responses. This proved even moreso that their support is great! It wasn't just a one time fluke with the first camera.

Summary -
This camera works great and has clear video. The two-way communication capability is an added bonus and could open up its use to more than just a security camera. It's ability to automatically track motion as well as it's ability to turn 360 degrees while automatically tracking motion and/or by manually swiping the screen coupled with it's low price point of under $40 makes this a great buy in my book! I am definitely glad that I added this camera to my home. It will work well keeping track of not only the cat, but I can see when my teenager comes and goes when I'm not home.

My friend Tiffany S say Worth the price.

Definitely worth the price! The package is simple and clean, design of the camera is mordern which I liked. It’s very clear to see all the room if you open the motion mode, I have to go to work and I want to watch my boy while I’m working (make me comfortable) every time I speak through, he always come to camera to check, sweet! Night version is pretty good however the feeling of being filmed at night is creepy so I always turn off at night. I’d buy another one for the living room .

Another customer Yilin say Great camera, easy to set up, worth the price!!.

This camera is really worth the price compare to the other cameras I bought before! It has great night vision feature, high picture quality and the camera can pan up and down so i can easily look around the room. It's a great indoor camera. The sound through the app is clear and the two-way audio works well, my cat tries to find me every time I talk through the camera LOL. I would highly recommend this camera!!

Another customer Connor Hua say Great size, really easy to use, good for my pets!.

My pets love it! They always walk around it. And I don’t need to worry about them when I’m at home. Great product, the size is good and really light weight. Will definitely recommend to my friends who have pets.

A review Travis J Rudd tell us Don’t get it, spend your money elsewhere..

DO NOT BUY

The only good thing, when it works, the picture is great.

Everything else is horrible. The way you set it up you can’t just type in your password, it generates a QR code and it tries to get the camera to read it to discern your password. The problem is that it reads it wrong half the time. It rookie me nearly 30 tries just to get it set up the first time.

The setup is horrible. Idk who thought his up but it barely works at all. I could get to step 2 or 3 and it would say it had connected but then just timeout.

For reference, I have google fiber, a nighthawk router, and I have multiple devices MUCH farther away from my router that NEVER have issues. This thing had trouble just CONNECTING. It’s terrible. Idk if it’s the network chip in it or what, but it’s
God awful.

If any of your toddlers unplug it ever, when you plug it back in it doesn’t reconnect. You have to manually redo the entire setup process. Anytime you lose power, or it gets disconnected.

It has a lag to viewing. It has to “load” every single time you try to view it.

It’s about as UNINTUITIVE as it gets.

This a word from Karen, SC experience Do not buy..

I bought this in early June to give to my son who has a diabetic cat. As he was moving out of our home into his own apartment where the cat would be home alone all day. This would give him peace of mind to be able to look in on Poe. But it has yet to work. Amazon had nothing but great reviews but my son found the Google reviews were saying something different. According to these reviews this item worked well until an update to the app was done in January. At that time, everyone said the app stopped working and they were hoping a new update would solve the problem. Well here we are in July and still not working. My son said in June he would wait for the update. For me, just a waste of money. Should have spent a little more and got something better. But I trusted the Amazon reviews.

This a word from Chad W. say Amazing, especially for the price!.

Great camera with an easy set-up. You basically create an account and your mobile device presents a QR code you place in front of the camera. Everything else is taken care of.

The image quality is great day and night. The most impressive thing is that it is elegant visually and in operation, it is near silent in motion both pan and tilt. I own several other popular wifi cameras and can't say the same about them and they are twice the price....

Motion tracking works VERY well, go ahead, turn it on.

One minor thing I would change is in the app and that is the recording bar could be a bit clearer as to where the recordings are or zoomable, just use the notifications to hit begin markers.

One BIG thing I would improve on is allowing more than one user to log in. It works fantastic in a single user scenario. However, if another user (spouse) logs into the camera the primary user is logged out and no longer receives notifications. Ideally, there would be an admin user and then users that can merely view and move the camera.

That is the ONLY complaint, other than that it works flawlessly.