Yi Home is a powerful smart home control application designed to provide you with a convenient one-stop solution to achieve centralized management of all YI brand smart devices.No matter where you are, you can stay connected with loved ones, pets or important items at home through real-time video and audio streaming with just one tap.The built-in high-quality microphone and speakers ensure that when you make remote two-way calls, the sound is loud and clear, as if you were there in person.Yi Home is committed to creating a safe, smart and warm home environment, so that you can feel the warmth and peace of mind at home at any time even if you are far away.
Basic functions of Yi Home:
Panorama View Control
The Yi Home app utilizes gyroscope technology to allow users to view a complete panoramic image and easily monitor every corner by simply moving their phone.
Intelligent motion detection
It has a built-in high-precision motion sensor that automatically sends notifications to the app when activity is detected, ensuring that users are always aware of what is going on at home.
Efficient storage management
Supports up to 32GB SD card, intelligently stores video and audio of important moments, only records when the image changes, and optimizes storage space usage.
Adaptive streaming technology
Automatically adjusts video stream quality based on user network conditions to ensure a smooth viewing experience regardless of changes in the network environment.
Update 12-19-23 You know, I didn't think that your app could get more annoying...now it opens with a full page Temu ad. Glitchy as hell since the last upgrade. Plus, the distracting bars across the top and bottom of the display are so annoying. UPDATE More annoying is that the long, white time-strip covers the left side of the view. Trying to adjust the camera view is difficult because the damned white strip is covering the toggle. At least give us an option to turn that thing off.
I used to love Yi Camera. In fact I have 5! But I'm switching! It is terrible to use, especially the Wire-free camera! Battery gets low fast! The app does not load the live video at all! It is stuck "loading". When it does load, it is stuck on an image from a few weeks ago. You also now have to pay for a subscription to access any of your videos. You are only able to view the current view and are locked out from viewing yesterday's events. Terrible! Taking a photo or recording is an illusion!
Used to like this app a lot. Minimalist but practical. However, since a few updates ago, the sound notification for baby cry detection has completely stopped working. Even more infuriating is that the app starts push notifications with promo code. It tells me that the app's push notification functionality is intact, but it is selectively choosing what they want to support. Plus, the app starts sending pop up ads on launch while I had expressly turn on the "opt out of launch screen ads".
Notifications are (still) broken, unreliable. Alerts pop up constantly when there is no motion. Something has been wrong for a few months, but now has reached the point of being unusable. Update (03/07/2019): Notifications and camera feeds have been more stable for a couple of days. There is still a delay in when notifications come through, and when alert videos show in the app. Update (3/20): Notifications are broken again. Very disappointing...
Update: no notifications for close to two weeks now. This app came well recommended but is turning out to be a wash. Each update brings its own issues, with notifications taking a deeper dive every time. Cameras were 'offline' all day yesterday, and when they finally came back on, the sd card had recorded motion. Today, I have yet to receive any notifications, even when the app is opened. I've followed all the directions given and still nothing. My two cents: Don't waste your time or money.
Prior to the last two updates, the app worked very well. With the latest update (fix), the app still lacks most of the SD functionality, the ability to save clips to your phone, a timeline when playing back video, and the app often struggles to connect to the cameras. The prior version worked so well. I do not recommend downloading the lastest version of the app. A rollback to the prior version would be nice.
It's one of the worse camera app that exists in today's technology. It works as should, but very inconvenient. Why not have the motion detection settings in the camera options and only under the alert options???? If I turn off the alerts I can't allow my camera to pick up motion, which is just a terrible design flaw. That's just all bad. This app needs to be reconstructed completely.
Nothing but problems the past few days. Since 2/8/24. Not just me. Two other people that have these cameras are having issues. Camera will not connect at times. Also, when there is motion detected, instead of showing a short pic next to the alert, there is a pic of the camera and that particular 6 seconds won't play. It will play if you view live and then slide the timelap bar back. Not happy with this company right now.
9/29 They fixed it!!! FIX THE NEW UPDATE OR ROLLBACK!!! New 9/1/21 update is horrible. Full screen doesn't show the time or the slide to go back and forth. Clicking the SD card to review footage, doesn't allow you to jump back days instead asking you to pay a subscription. I did figure out that you can slide back on the small screen to past days...it just doesn't show the time and date you're at.
Had 5 cameras for the last 5 years. One died. Not bad. Motion detection is FAR from perfect. Loading a cam almost never works the first time. Solid picture and features, though. Decent price for the cloud. Would get better cameras it was a priority, but these have lasted and done good enough.