As of the last 6 weeks, all notifications I get will say NO FOOTAGE AVAILABLE DURING THIS TIME even though the graph shows many instances of stored events - they all say nothing avbl during this time, even when clicking the notification itself and the app taking me directly to it. It’s ok when it works, and is good at differentiating cars from animals and people USUALLY but not always, but the software is more of an unreliable hassle than it should be. I have another camera from a competitor and their software is more reliable but it tracks everything as an alert and doesn’t notify you if it’s people, animals, or vehicles. But aside from that annoyance, the event review console works great on their’s. I want Zmodo to be better but it seems to be worsening instead of improving. Both my app and my iOS are always updated to current versions.

I’ve had an outdoor zmodo camera since 2017 no issues ever, and have recently gotten some indoor cams to watch my pets while at work. The cameras themselves work as they should no issues with wifi or anything on my end, however the app is horrible. Every time I get a motion notification and click it to open the app, I just get a blank loading screen and eventually returns me to a log in screen. I have to exit the app, reopen it just to view the motion alerts. 95% of the time I want to just open the app itself, it will stay on the Zmodo screen and not show anything. Once again I have to close and reopen the app just for it to work. Definitely don’t recommend, I should’ve bought a Reolink or a Ring but against my better judgement I chose this.

I bought four cameras about years ago, I was unaware at the time of purchase that you would be limited without a subscription service, but that's my error, and when I bought them I was more than happy with them without needing 24/7 recordings. I mainly wanted them for my animals and the motion detection was extremely accurate, and picked up everything. However for the past year and half the clips of motion capture, are now only 5 secs max. And will not pic up anymore motion til a long time as past! I'll leave food for my animals, but i can't see which one...in the daytime too. A car will pull in my driveway, and it will record for 5 seconds, and that will all the motion capture, it won't record them coming to the door, me coming to the door, or them leaving if I'm not available. Also my garage briefly caught fire while I was working, it caught me working here and there, but there was no capture of the fire, or my reaction at ALL! That's not fair, when I would get motion activation all the time. And now years later I have to pay for what was the normal free use. I really hope no one breaks in and kills me, because the only evidence would be 5 seconds of them reaching for the door 🤦‍♂️ I don't need your 24/7 coverage subscription, just the normal motion detection!