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Pros

Best feature is the 4 mp resolution that allows zooming in while maintaining picture clarity. Daytime picture is excellent. Night infrared image performance is good. Video quality is terrific. Much clearer picture and much wider field of view.

Foscam r4s is an upgrade from a previous model that only supported 2. Ghz wifi. Work's great if you have to use a 5g router. The ftp server function works well - but has limitations. It can't write to sd card locally; which is nice and it can also wri...  Read More

Great tech support. Plus, their customer service responds quickly to questions and works to solve issues. They are ready to answer any question and to assist with any issue.

The camera itself is top notch. Every feature you have likely read about by now works without flaw. I usually upgrade one of my cameras as soon as a new model comes out.



Cons

The app is relatively easy to use when it works. The connection is unpredictable, sometimes successful and sometimes failed. Description says it “sleeps”. Don't trust.

Have many foscam cameras - returning this one. These cheaper cameras have major security holes. I find it very bad for your company to obligate you to buy the cloud service to see the cameras.

Don't even bother with the wifi. In my honest opinion, save some money and go a different route. Without doing this improvement, it is just junk products that no one should buy.

The video is lackluster for 4mp, not that much better than the c1 720p. The functions are lackluster and actually worse than lesser models since it is less reliable. Neither camera has zoom any more. This means every time the app is opened i have to z...  Read More

Foscam is concentration on vms and neglecting plugins. It connects to my wireless network but no video.

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Quality


The video quality is excellent and it works very well in low light conditions.


Good picture quality (which will depend on your connection speed).


Even with the access point close by, i can't get very high bit rates from the cameras and they often disconnect.


Even so, the cloud customization options (when compared with the onboard r2 interface) are paltry, you can barely do anything t...  Read More

Price


Foscam-put this back if it doesn't cost you anything.

Competitiveness


I use it as a nanny cam and have no major complaints other than requiring a foscam account to set up the camera locally.


Easy setup, especially if you download the app and set up a foscam account.


I tried this and a reolink and for me the main negative for this camera is the mobile app for setup requires a foscam account.


I have had 10 foscam cameras, with 6 still working.

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  • This product had a total of 2,629 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2023.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    However like every ip camera make sure you dont expose to the internet


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I wish the alert area could be a customized shape instead of just a resizable rectangle


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Hookup took minutes to get the cam working on my phone with the foscam app


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Zoom is digital but with higher resolution its functional


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I tried this and a reolink and for me the main negative for this camera is the mobile app for setup requires a foscam account


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Or you have to download and install the desktop app on a macpc


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    But each lasted about 5 years


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Browser based manual setup but ie or edge is needed because webcomponents is required and at least for me that has never worked in firefox

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