Got my hands on a homebase3 and this is what I can review from my preliminary use so far. I have two solar s4 cameras and both suffer from the fixed lens fogging up but you can read that in my other posts…With the homebase3 addition, I rolled the dice to see if it had any improvement with being incorporating the cameras with the homebase3 and so far it has.
Pros: It does improve the access of the video alarm captures. Before without the homebase3, I was accessing the stored videos from the cameras directly and it was just overloading that process. Sometimes I was able to view the video and other not…very frustrating. I think being a solar camera on top of trying to access the live and or captures was a hit or miss. Now with the homebase3, the access is like instant and no delays with the de-encryption and was now able to bump the records to 4k with no issues.
Cons: I would say the only difference is a slight 30sec delay rather than 10sec before without the homebase3 when an event is captured to when it is notified on my phone and/or accessible to view on the app. I believe it is a trade off in the transfer from camera to homebase3 but I can live with that.
As with the facial AI addition…eh not so impressed. Seems more of a pain to setup so I don’t bother with it. Buy do have to say the AI tracking and ID has been really good like 99% good…sometimes it thinks my mailbox on a post is a person but from the detection icon you can click on it and tell it if what it captured was a person or not but not sure yet as to its effectiveness in manually correcting the AI. I also upgraded the storage to a 128gb ssd and it seems to be fine also…more reviews as time goes on.
