COOAU Wireless Video Doorbell Camera with Two-Way Audio and Motion Detection

Jen Dare: Looks good and easy to install. Also easy for my elderly parents to work out how to use it. They feel much nore secure in their home now. Great!

Australia on Dec 09, 2022

MarkMark: Cooau Bell J6 Plus

Pros:
–Identical specs, quality, performance to two different XTU Bell J6 doorbells I own
–This doorbell does in fact work with the Cooau Cam or CloudEdge apps–have and tested both on 3 doorbells
–For those wanting an adjustable wall mount bracket (horizontal and vertical positions), look at Amazon ASIN B096Z8GDHQ. Third party seller, I own this combo kit, it fits all the Bell J6 series doorbells. Perfectly accomplished my goal of pointing camera down to view front porch floor for packages. Easy installation, secure fit if using screws versus double sided tape.
–Bell J6 “Plus” might provide slightly better image details and color saturation than Bell J6 models (see pics)

Cons:
–Full right side of images are blurred in day/night images, might be a lens imperfection (cleaned lens, not a smear). Might be returning–it’s an important area in my images
–Internal speaker on Live view sounds like it’s picking up cross-talk on the 2.4GHz wifi band, other doorbells don’t have that issue
–The included “LongLife” batteries in the chime. Had serious acid leakage with 2 out of 3 in one chime within 4 months of...

United States on Dec 26, 2021

C. D. JohnsonC. D. Johnson: It's a mixture of good and bad. Installation and account setup was fairly easy. BUT, doesn't appear to be any app option for PCs, only phones. You'd have to use a desktop app emulator. The app itself has issues.

The video is better than I thought it would be. Even the night vision is top-notch. The audio, both incoming and outgoing is warped in most cases. Good enough to do the job, but far from audible. The motion detection sucks. There is little else to say about it. I've seen other people say that the motion detection was too sensitive, but for me it was the opposite. I think what they probably meant was that it kept going off. But actually capturing video when it alerted me was a different matter.

I turned it up to its most sensitive level, and still only get about 80% of events captured. My cat literally pawed at the lens after I had set it up, and it didn't capture a thing. Also oddly enough, it has a problem with capturing deliveries, even when delivery people are placing items in our lock box. Out of 14 deliveries, the camera's motion detection only captured two delivery people in its frame. Just TWO. Probably because they weren't moving around much in front...

United States on Jun 12, 2021

Zenman: 5/15/21 Update
It has been close to one month since the camera was installed. While the shortcomings as shared in my review are still present, I decided to upgrade my rating by one star to encourage the manufacturer given the following reasons:

1) Notwithstanding the shortcomings noted in my review, the camera continues to function.

2) The camera is priced reasonably as compared to the features offered. This assessment, of course, is subjective and relative to the other solar powered security cameras being sold on Amazon.

3) I have been monitoring the network traffic at my house. As far as the monitoring software can ascertain, there is no mysterious packet ever sent to a server somewhere in the cloud by this camera. Note that I never activated the cloud storage service.

4) The company representative has been responsive to my feedback.

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4/29/21 Update
After conversing with a company rep and my own experiments, I discovered there are two flaws not previously described in my review. One flaw is related to 'sharing'....

United States on Apr 18, 2021