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REVIEWS<br />
& RATINGS<br />
this image opens a drop-down menu with options to create<br />
RapidRecaps, view recordings, and turn notifications on and off.<br />
The app is fairly intuitive. Tapping the thumbnail image takes you to<br />
the camera’s live feed. Two buttons appear beneath the feed window:<br />
Actions and Recording. Pressing the first opens a radial menu with<br />
options to (again) create RapidRecaps, use the mic, take a snapshot of<br />
the feed and save or share<br />
it, and access settings such<br />
as night vision and sound<br />
and motion sensitivity.<br />
As you’d expect, the<br />
Recording button opens its<br />
own radial menu from which<br />
you can stop and start<br />
recording and activate/<br />
deactivate sound- and<br />
motion-triggered recording.<br />
False alarms are inevitable<br />
with any security camera,<br />
but I was successful in<br />
reducing the Flir’s by<br />
calibrating the camera’s<br />
motion sensitivity. You<br />
adjust this using a slide<br />
control that ranges from low<br />
to high. I found the sweet<br />
spot to be right in the<br />
middle. I cut down alerts<br />
even further by creating a<br />
SmartZone that limited the motion-detection area to the front door.<br />
With the camera trained on that space, I was only getting an alert<br />
once every hour or two with my family in the house, and that was only<br />
when they walked in front of the door on the way to the stairs.<br />
Sound sensitivity proved tougher to master. Even with it turned all<br />
Attempting to<br />
configure the<br />
camera’s<br />
onboard mic<br />
too often<br />
returned this<br />
error message.<br />
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