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That way, your Wi-Fi signal won’t have to work quite as hard, and loading time should speed up.

#NIGHTOWL CLOUD STORAGE PRO#

Pro Tip If you’re finding it difficult to download or load footage from your Swann camera, we suggest reducing the camera’s resolution to “fluent” and trying again. But it’s still something to keep in mind. This wasn’t a deal-breaker, especially considering the relatively low price point of Swann cameras.

With Swann, we were spending more time viewing our recordings, waiting for the videos to load, and trying to make sense of all that activity. For on-the-go folks, the more insight we can get from our cameras right away, the more effective they’ll be. This allowed us to know exactly what activity the camera had picked up as soon as we opened our app. When we unboxed a Canary camera system, for instance, we received motion alerts that included thumbnails with green outlines around the activity the camera captured. So, we had to sit through the whole clip to learn what we’d missed – not a huge deal, but we’ve seen a few brands handle this better. The package, as of this writing, hadn’t arrived yet. Sure enough, it was something else entirely: It turns out it was my dear husband checking out some maintenance issues on the porch. Keeping in mind that most of the videos these cameras produce come in between two and three minutes, we now had to watch the entirety of our video to find out if the fine folks at UPS had delivered our package, or if it was something else entirely. We received a motion notification on our phone, and after that brief waiting period, we had our video, ready to view. For instance, when we were due to have a package delivered, we wanted to see if it had arrived while we were out walking the dog. This is all well and good, except that we discovered Swann doesn’t give us any indication of where or what the motion is. When the cameras detect motion, they work like most other security cameras do: by producing a video containing the motion, sending us a notification that motion was detected, and – after a few minutes of waiting – letting us access that video through either the AlwaysSafe app or our TV. FYI If you happen to need more video storage for your Swann, we like that you can also add a micro SD card to the NVR for additional local storage, or even attach another hard drive (up to 4 TB) via USB.

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