Best WiFi Indoor Security Camera on Amazon | IMOU Ranger 2C Camera Review

My Impressions

Overall. the Ranger 2C from IMOU is a relatively decent and cheap way to add a good level of security inside your home. I found it very helpful to monitor our new kitten when we were out of the house, and it also helped me monitor my house when I was away for a few days. With its 7-day storage online and its up to around 30 days worth of recording storage on a 32GB card, I also found it very helpful to look back and see various moments and events that were captured on camera.

If privacy is a concern, it is very quick and easy to enable privacy mode. This will automatically roll the camera up and into its base, out of sight. So you can safely tell from a distance if the lens is visible or not and whether it is able to capture you. You can also link this to geofencing, so when you return it can enable privacy mode, and roll back out when you leave the house.

I found the recording quality to be very good. Its 4 Megapixel captures very well, with good natural colour and its 2K resolution makes sure small details are captured well too. Viewing all the footage and alerts back in the app is very easy, and from here you can upgrade to cloud storage and manage the camera and its functions very easily too. I found its £2.59 for 7 days capture per month of its cloud subscription was very reasonable. You can save a little money paying yearly at £24.99, and there are cheaper 3-day plans, and there are also 30days at £5.99 per month or £54.99 annually. Compared to Google’s Nest plans, it is a fair bit cheaper.

You don’t have to use this camera with the cloud though. Local storage is just as good and you get your recordings stored for as long as your memory card can hold onto it before older recordings are overwritten.

The playback is decent in both day and night. There was one issue that I found, and that was the noise of the rotating gears is quite audible when the camera rotates and tilts. This is captured quite loudly, which might mean you might miss out on any key audio from the event being captured. It also doesn’t rotate continuously around either as it pans through detection or manually with the pan and tilt controls in the app. It will stop roughly towards the rear of the camera, and to capture further you would need to rotate the other way to get to this point and continue tracking.

So if you’re looking for a relatively cheap indoor security camera with detection, 360 tracking, great day and night recording, and options for local and online storage, then I would take a look at this IMOU Ranger 2C indoor camera.

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TIMESTAMPS:

0:00 - Intro
0:16 - Brief overview
1:29 - Unboxing
1:50 - Installation
2:46 - Features
6:35 - My Impressions

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[CarPlayLife]

This is a great and relatively cheap indoor security camera that's available on Amazon. You get a lot of features for your money here, more so in the UK with its current discount. Let me know in the comments below if you have any questions about this camera. Thanks for watching.

[RumahPijar]

Hi..Nice review..especially with mentioning that the camera can return to it's default position after object tracking is lost 😁 which feature that for me is important for motion tracking camera, most of other review didn't mention this. Thanks Man

[RangerHauk]

Thank you for this extremely informative video, cheers.

[EyeofMatthew]

I have several imou cameras and for the price you can not beat them!

[trampster]

Hi Anthony - thanks for this review - it's the first English one I've managed to find! We have a Tapo C200 and it has been fairly good but looking for a camera with a slightly better resolution, especially in the dark. This Imou Ranger 2C would fit the bill, but I have an issue - we want the camera to sit on an upstairs windowsill and monitor our rear garden whilst out or away, but I have read the Imou only tilts down 5° from horizontal. Not sure that would be enough? Difficult to mount it at the top of the window which would solve the problem, as we have blinds mounted there, and I guess the only opther option would be a tilted box on the windowsill, but that involves carpentry! Any other solutions or advice please?

[marketingteam]

Can 2 cameras (located in 2 different cities) fall under 1 single subscription? (I heard 1 subscription covers 4 devices? Or does it need to be 4 in a single location??).... And will the camera reboot by itself, if there is a Power Outage (like if I'm still... far away on holiday, and I can - not - reboot it, at the camera location? thanks!!

[marketingteam]

Can 2 cameras (located in 2 different cities) fall under 1 single subscription? (I heard 1 subscription covers 4 devices? Or does it need to be 4, all in a single location??).... thanks!!

[nicoleandreareal]

Hello sir, how to turn on automotion? Mine is not turning when there is movement

[nicolerebekahphibbs]

HI! I bought this camera to record from inside my home to keep and eye on my car in the driveway, although I'm having trouble trying to get it to record through the window at night, I have it in a dark room but the the activation light seems to be shining back in the window, not sure what I can do to stop this from happening if anything

[mfonetuk]

please is the camera for pets and monitoring kids at home only?

[jgkrus]

Howdy from Hot Houston Texas, USA... I like your review of the camera. I have a new puppy and wanted to keep track of her while I am at school (I am a teacher) . I have a Ring doorbell camera while I like it is expensive. So I have ordered the imou.2k for $40.00 usd based off the review. Like I said I like my Ring but their products are expensive and for me looking for a indoor camera so I can watch over my puppy. Have you tried their other products? Are there other products that work just as well atvthe Ring you recommend?
Yall have a nice day!!

[vaibhavkumar]

When electricity is turned off and wifi or net is also off then after restart when wifi or net is not available then will it record on sd card bcoz
Most of cam dont work like realme and xiomi cam

[betchaanbetjane]

Good afternoon my siren just goes off randomly, how can I stop the 02:07 am alerts, please?

[jgkrus]

The issue with security cameras is that there are so many to choose from.. Like my battery operated tools I have one brand because I didn't want to have different batteries and chargers ect and it's the same with these cameras. I would like to just stay with one brand maybe 2..I mean I get it, I have a Ring doorbell and works great and they do have other products but the issue is there might be one brand has a better indoor camera, and another 360 camer, or outdoors camera ect. I just don't want to have 10 diffrent cameras and apps for them. Not sure if Iam making myself clear.... Is there a brand you like?

[MB-stbe]

Could you try speaking in a more boring, monotone voice?