![]() ![]() If you stand within 2 meters (about 6 1/2 feet) of the YI, raise your palm next to your face and make a fist, the camera will give a 1-2-3 count and then record a 10-second video. Gesture Recording is an interesting feature that worked flawlessly in our tests. MORE: Canary Wireless Security Camera Review Still, this is an important feature for parents to have to supplement any baby monitors, especially when leaving a child in someone else's care. But the camera also generated a Baby Crying alert when we dropped a piece of metal on the floor. This worked well when we played a recording of a baby crying. The audio is quite good, but the only audio-detection alert the YI has is Baby Crying. But as with almost all of the other cameras we've tested, the YI thought our cat jumping on the dining room table was human. Human-figure detection did a decent job of filtering out nonhuman activities. However, that useful overlay is never again viewable unless you reset the camera and reinstall the mobile app. ![]() When you first connect the camera to your phone, an overlay walks you through the process of using the camera. The YI Home mobile app (which supports Android and iOS) is the camera's only software for accessing and controlling the camera. The camera has continued to work reliably with no loss of connection for several weeks. When we moved the YI camera from next to our router (the best place to set up a security camera) to our test monitoring location in another room, the app on our phone recognized it almost immediately. After that, the app provided unambiguous guidance and voice confirmations each step of the way, including supplying a second QR code to pair the app with the camera. To install the mobile app, we scanned the QR code in the setup booklet. ![]() First, we removed the camera's back to insert the microSD card, then plugged the camera into an outlet near our Wi-Fi router. Installing the YI camera was very simple and straightforward. Regular data is encrypted with AES-128, and video is encoded with h.264HP level 5.1/ROI/LBR (SmartAVC). The YI supports 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi on the 2.4GHz band, and uses 2048-bit RSA private key encryption for the initial encoding key exchange, which should keep out any hackers.
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