It's a nice extra touch that will make it easy to save and share any adorable or funny moments the camera captures. If you want to keep a clip, you can easily download it to whatever device you're using. Footage of your family is kept locally, for you and yours only. It's a fine approach, as Netatmo avoids the fees of competitors like the Nest Cam and Arcsoft. Nothing is kept there except a single screen capture of each event, so you can get an idea of what happened even before hitting play. The 8GB card can supposedly hold up to 100 clips at a time, and will roll out the old ones when it starts getting full. The camera films constantly, and records when it senses motion or sees a face. Get the camera pointed the right way, and you can watch the live feed and dive into Netatmo's many useful features. It's disconcerting, but not a safety issue. It'd get pretty warm after just a couple of hours, then would level off. I left it running for more than a week straight. The instructions mention this, and reassure you that it's normal and won't ever get hot enough to cause damage. Tyler Lizenby/CNETĪs it runs, Netatmo also gets a little warm to the touch. Here's where the pleasant design proves a little inflexible.īe selective about where you place Netatmo. You can't attach Netatmo to a wall, so you'll need to find flat surface for it where it can reach a plug and see the door without too much interference from backlight. Netatmo's instructions specifically warn against pointing it out a window or anywhere with too strong a backlight. Though ideally, you won't need to move the Welcome much once you get it set up.įinding a perfect location for it might be tricky, depending on your home setup.

Unplugging it and plugging it back in didn't cause me to lose any settings, or force me to set it up on Wi-Fi again.

Moving the camera around the office was easy enough.

It's a little counterintuitive, and it can only remember one network at a time, but once I knew where to go to start the process, it was just as quick getting it set up in a new location. Switching back and forth required me to hit 'Install a new Welcome camera' in the Settings menu. I tested the Welcome both at my home and at the office. After that, I found the app quite responsive. Screenshot by Andrew Gebhart/CNETĮxpect it to take up to a minute after the signal starts to get a live feed, but that's just on the initial setup. The app walks you through the setup process with pics.

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