ToSee - Smart Camera

This app is so frustrating, just like the doorbell unit itself. We get a notification about nothing hourly, yet the camera is too slow to recognize a delivery being left on the porch and never notifies about that. There is no instruction/troubleshooting guide for the app at all. I want to know what the “data usage alert” does in settings, but the internet can’t even tell me that. The doorbell unit itself has been out for less than 2 years and already the battery can’t hold a charge for more than 2 weeks. The app doesn’t notify when the battery dies. I simply have to realize the annoying hourly notifications stopped some number of days ago. We’re shopping around for something else. This app and the unit it goes with are both awful.

Need to replace batteries after almost 3 months. No prior warning of low battery. Motion detection is slow to react. Either too sensitive and recoding too much or recording too late to capture a face instead of a back. Needs more work. Needs better transceivers. Downgrade to 3 stars. Update to previous 1 star review after help from tech support. First, be patient as tech support is in a time zone half way around the world. The problem was a faulty SD card. To fix You need to uninstall the camera from the door or wall and take out the batteries, if battery powered then take off the back cover carefully to avoid damaging thin wires connected to the cover. Take out the micro SD card and insert a new micro SD card class 10 and up to 32 GB. Put back the cover and batteries and press the reset button. On the ToSee app disconnect the existing device and add it again. There is also a short you tube video at the Akaso Life Style channel on changing the SD card. Also version 2.2.0 works a lot better though it could be improved. Initial review: Was working until 2.1.9 version. Biggest problem is that stored video should upon playback be saved on the iPhone via the app and have a viewer of saved video files with, fast forward, rewind and stop functions as well as slo motion. The device requires strong connections or will frequently disconnect. Getting exasperated with so many motion sensed warnings from passing vehicles and no videos. So used electrical tape to cover parts of the PIR sensor.

I set up this doorbell a couple of days before I actually installed it next to my front door. It seemed to work fine, only sending me notifications when I moved it from under the towel it was under. After I affixed it to the outside of our home it also seemed fine. Then it started sending motion detection notifications about every five minutes. It increased to every minute, sometimes more than one per minute. I bought a new SD card, 32G Class 10, installed it, and again all is fine, for about 18 hours. Then at 9:45 am it starts with notifications about every five minutes, increasing to every minute. This is ridiculous. I’ll be searching for either a new doorbell or app, or both, soon.