PC World – December 2015

Roundup: Security Cameras
minutes because one of my cats moved in proximity of the camera.
It was annoying enough that I eventually turned the motion
detection off.
I tested the mic while I was in the house and the audio was plenty
loud but buzzy, with no improvement even when I held the phone
farther away from my mouth. The
sound from the live feed was
MyFox Security
Camera
AT A GLANCE
The camera is solid but it’s
handcuffed by a lack of
customization controls and a
confusing app that limits it as
a home-security solution.
PROS
• Privacy shutter can cover
lens when you’re at home
• Backup battery
• Local and cloud storage
options
CONS
• Confusing app
• Limited customization
options
• No way to manage
notifications
$199
actually much clearer, and I could
easily make out conversations the
camera picked up when I was in
another room.
You access your live feed by
selecting your camera from the
MyFox app’s home screen. The
feed screen looks much like the
one for Simplicam’s app—the feed
appears at the top. Beneath that,
you’ll find controls for the privacy
shutter, microphone, and speaker,
and a button to take screenshots
of your video feed that are saved
to your phone’s camera roll. Under
these is a scrolling timeline where
security events are recorded as
purple bars; you just scroll the
timeline back to one of them to
view that event’s video footage.
Despite this labyrinthine menu,
the app doesn’t offer much in the
way of camera customization
options. Every function—motion
detection, night vision, HD video—
comes with basically two options:
on or off. Several comparably
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