My wife is impressed with the privacy mode... Previously we had a NEXT camera that constantly viewed into our bedroom making her uneasy. Setting the Away mode sets the camera into motion so we can detect if we have any intruders in our home. When returning set the camera to home and it goes back to privacy mode. Looking forward to setting up the Geofencing mode to see how that works.
Seems to be working just fine now for a few weeks. It does a good job identifying people vs dogs passing through the room. It is a bit too sensitive to human motion detection as it keeps picking up motion from our TV about 10 ft away and off to the side slightly. Seems to be more an issue when watching soccer games. The camera is connected to a HomeBase 3, so I will see if reducing the sensitivity helps. I could mark the TV as a privacy zone, but then a warning came up seeming to indicate that there would then be no more motion detection recorded by the camera which seemed inconsistent. I could just turn off motion detection for the same result.
The camera works fine. However, the range of filming and the motion detection are both very limited. You can only get video of very near areas. Based on the website description and movement of it, we thought it could detect motion and record film in a much greater area. I painstakenly ran the wires and built a mount for it that was perfect for a camera that can see more than 10 feet away. But, this camera can't and so it is pretty useless where I put it. If it could catch 25 feet, it would have been perfect. Just know this camera is very limited.