I purchased two units to keep an eye on a parking lot. When installing the units on a pole, plugging in the solar panels was difficult and resulted in both plugs being damaged. Mokeyed around for a month trying to get new ones sent to me. No improvement made to plug. . . . just the same old CHEAP MATERIAL. For a product that cost what these did the design is terrible as plug interferes with camera movement and it is almost impossible not to damage. Always been a Tactical fan, but likely will not buy any additional products.
Great camera, takes pretty good pictures, I am using at my home build site and some days there are a lot of pictures due to all the motion, getting them off the camera to keep for my records has been a bit challenging and an ongoing process.
Love the versatility of the camera. Having issues with pictures capturing motion. I have it mounted on my gravel half-mile lane to monitor anyone going down the lane. Works sometimes, sometimes not. Not very useful if you cant trust it to capture all traffic.
I only have been using my new Defend 360 since Oct. of 2025. Viewing my remote camps (2) in live View is a piece of mind, wonderful. Nov. the camera worked good. (25-40 degrees) Dec. & Jan. have been cold (0-30 degrees) The 360 is not moving right or left and very little up and down, I'm thinking its the cold weather that has frozen it. I am 3 hours from camps at my house, won't go back to camps until fishing April 1, by then it should be warmer, (40-50 degrees). I do have another Defend camera (not a 360) pointing @ my gate before the camps, that's working fine taking pictures of animal's or someone who my pull up to gate, put that camera out April of 2025. I only have phone service @ these camps, that's why I purchased these cameras. I check both cameras daily for a piece of mind, used to have to call a friend who lives 10 miles away from camps, then he would check on them, these cameras took away his beer rans to camp or maybe not. Thank-You for these types of cameras. One camp (Uncle & Father) was built in 1959, I built my camp 1970, a lot of good memories past & future with grandson now,
I would rate this a 8. 5/10. The motion detection range is great. Love how you can obviously watch live and turn directions or move up and down. Quality is clear up close on recorded videos but not great when watching live. I wish you could make it take multiple pictures instead of just one. I wish the solar panel didn’t have to be attached(I know it can be taken off but would like an attachment for it). Other than those small things I overall love the camera.