Canary All-in-One Home Security Device – Silver

Canary All-in-One Home Security Device – Silver

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Canary is a complete home security system packed into a single device – a modern approach to security that lets you protect the people and places you care about most. It’s built to learn and adapts to your home over time; whenever it detects something out of the ordinary in your house or apartment, Canary sends intelligent notifications with HD video and audio directly to your smartphone. That way, you can make smart decisions when something’s wrong and feel connected when everything’s right.
See and Hear: Stream real-time video of your home with Canary’s 1080p HD camera, 147 degree wide-angle lens, automatic night vision, and high-quality audio.
More Than a Camera: Protect your home with Canary’s 90+ dB siren, motion-activated recording, auto-arm/disarm, and instant access to local authorities.
HomeHealth Technology: Monitor air quality, temperature, and humidity to help understand how your home might affect your health.
Intelligent Notifications: Receive instant video alerts on your iOS or Android device.
No Installation/Contracts/Monthly Fees Required: Plug in Canary, connect to the Internet and you’re ready to go. Free secure cloud storage included.

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Price: $158.99
(as of Jan 03, 2025 00:15:15 UTC – Details)



Canary is a complete home security system packed into a single device – a modern approach to security that lets you protect the people and places you care about most. It’s built to learn and adapts to your home over time; whenever it detects something out of the ordinary in your house or apartment, Canary sends intelligent notifications with HD video and audio directly to your smartphone. That way, you can make smart decisions when something’s wrong and feel connected when everything’s right.
See and Hear: Stream real-time video of your home with Canary’s 1080p HD camera, 147 degree wide-angle lens, automatic night vision, and high-quality audio.
More Than a Camera: Protect your home with Canary’s 90+ dB siren, motion-activated recording, auto-arm/disarm, and instant access to local authorities.
HomeHealth Technology: Monitor air quality, temperature, and humidity to help understand how your home might affect your health.
Intelligent Notifications: Receive instant video alerts on your iOS or Android device.
No Installation/Contracts/Monthly Fees Required: Plug in Canary, connect to the Internet and you’re ready to go. Free secure cloud storage included.

Customers say

Customers find the security camera effective and useful. It’s easy for them to set up and use, with a good design that doesn’t look like a webcam. The picture quality is great, in color during the day and black and white at night. However, some customers have issues with internet connectivity and delay. Opinions vary on home security and value for money.

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  1. SunohC –

    NOT a smart device. Just a dumb security camera that sends too many notifications to your phone..
    **UPDATE 3/8/2016***I’ve been using the Canary for 4 months now and at first I was very excited and satisfied with it. However, now it’s becoming a nuisance and I’m very disappointed that after 4 months, it hasn’t learned ANYTHING. Every morning I’ll get 10-20 notifications for Sunlight activity, Pet movement, Roomba activity (I created a tag for this) and Living Room Lights (I also created a tag for this).This is incredibly frustrating that Canary relies completely on a camera sensor that doesn’t know the difference between sunlight, pet, tv screen, and lamps. Now I wish I simply had a sensor on my door to alert me instead of camera that alerts me for every little change.This defeats the whole purpose of a “smart” learning device when it doesn’t actually learn anything. Are my tags actually helping the device learn anything? I have a suspicion this is just a gimmicky claim but Canary but the device doesn’t actually have the capability to learn ANYTHING. I get the same damn notifications, every, single day.And no, I will not LOWER my motion sensitivity notifications because the whole point of having a home security system is to keep it secure. If my “camera” senses activity, why would I take the off chance of not checking it just in case?Also, lowering the motion sensitivity notifications doesn’t actually prevent the device from recording those movements and posting them to my timeline.Overall, I’m very unsatisfied with this product now because it wastes my time at work every day with “false alarms” and has FAILED to learned my very predictable, routine habits of when I come home, my roomba in the mornings, etc.There are other competitors out there that offer extended sensors, smarter cameras, 2-way audio,etc. that Canary cannot compete with.They keep talking about all these new update and features they’re going to add but I’m very skeptical and doubtful.OVERALL //I’m pretty satisfied with the product. It served its need when I was on vacation for two weeks and needed to monitor my apartment (my unit is particularly vulnerable to burglaries since its street-facing and ground level). I had Philips HUE lights set up in my apartment and I could check to see if those lights turned on/off remotely from my phone. The Canary product gave me the EASE OF MIND I needed, because I was able to periodically check into my apartment and rest assured that I would be notified if there was any movement activity while I was gone.QUICK REVIEW //The camera is HD, the physical design of the device is elegant, high-tech and blends in well my other gadgets. Most guests wouldn’t notice that it’s a security camera, nor does it look like a dopey web cam device like the Nest Cam.The app is intuitive to use and modern. It’s a bit over-simplified and lacks many features. The “Watch Live Video” feature has a 3-5 second delay and only works well if you have really good wifi or cellular connection. The camera doesn’t move but you can zoom in.I appreciate how easy it was to set up this device. This product is dependent on the Canary server and the “FREE” features are pretty limited. For more features, you have to choose a paid, monthly subscription option that I personally do not believe is worth it at the time.I’ve had this product for almost a month and here are some features that would be nice to have:NICE TO HAVE FEATURES //1. 2-way audio would be a great addition. I often monitor my dog when I’m away and it’d be a great feature if I could somehow “talk” to her while monitoring her. It seems like 2-way baby monitors are the norm but I’m not sure why this security camera doesn’t allow for it.2. Auto-arm and auto-disarm feature based on IFTTT when I wake up and sleep. I wear Jawbone’s Up2 activity tracker. It automatically detects when I fall asleep and when I wake up. It would be amazing if I could set up a IFTTT formula in which my Canary would arm itself when I fall asleep and then disarm itself when I wake up. I try to arm my apartment before I sleep every night, because I don’t want someone breaking in when I’m asleep. However, I prefer the default setting of “Privacy Mode” when I’m at home.Sometimes I forget to arm the Canary before I sleep, and sometimes I forget to disarm it when I wake up. It would be a huge convenience if Canary would integrate IFTTT capability or have a similar arm/disarm feature based on when you sleep and wake up. It’s one less thing I have to remember to do manually.3. Better geo-fencing. Sometimes when I come home, my Canary doesn’t realize it fast enough because of wifi/connectivity issues and I will accidentally set off the alert, even though it should automatically set to Privacy mode. Some of these things make the Canary system a bit slow and buggy and disappointing.4. Custom geo-fencing settings for mobile devices that don’t travel with me (eg. iPad). I want to use the Canary app from my mini iPad, however, I usually don’t take this iPad with me when I go to work. If I sign onto the Canary app from my iPad and leave my iPad at home, then my Canary system will not auto-arm because it thinks I’m still in the house… It would be a convenient feature if I could indicate to Canary that my iPad doesn’t need the “geofencing” feature, it simply wants to have access to the controls.5. Better smart-learning of pet movements, etc. Though the app “claims” to be self-learning, I am constantly tagging my pet movements in my house. My dog is 25 lbs and very small. There should be no reason that my Canary keeps thinking that the little movements at the bottom of the screen are confused as an intruder in my house. My Canary faces the back entrance door of my house, I’m surprised when it detects other very obvious pet-activity and alerts me ….6. Night-mode is sometimes buggy. Even though there is clearly enough light in my house (day time or lamps on), my Canary will think it’s dark and the “live mode” will be in night-mode. It’s very difficult to monitor anything in Night-mode, especially if this happens during the day. This defeats the purpose of having a HD security camera if the burglar’s face will black and white and difficult to see. This seems to be a firmware issue that can be easily upgraded and smarter.7. Online streaming option for live video. I’d love to be able to monitor my place straight from my desktop computer, over the internet. Or better yet, allow my friends/family to check for me using a share-able link.

    SunohC –

  2. Ganesh Balakrishnan –

    The best security camera (in my opinion).
    I am really impressed by this product. It is so great to see such high quality products by startups. I was going to buy a nest camera on amazon but after seeing the canary and watching reviews on youtube i decided to buy the canary instead. Here are the pros and cons.Pros:1) excellent attention to detail. every aspect of the camera is just high quality. I couldn’t bring myself to even throw the carton out because of how well it is done. The cables included are very nice and the camera itself is very pretty. The app is great as well. The features that are included are just perfect for the house – temperature, air quality and humidity sensors are great. The auto arming feature is really a nice touch as well. The entire product is very well though through.2) Great camera. Good fish eye lens, 1080p and very clear sound.3) cloud for video: The base video package is free and is actually very usable. So they don’t sell you a camera and then try to make more money by forcing a cloud package on you. I will be upgrading to their 50$ per year plan and adding two more canaries.4) one cloud account supports up to four canaries. This is a big deal. it is because of this feature that i will be adding more canaries in the house. I don’t mind the upfront cost, but the monthly fees can bleed you to death.5) Constantly improving. I have read through most of the reviews and clearly the issues that were reported by users have been fixed. This bodes well for long term use.Cons (more a wish list):1) Backup battery – If you pull the plug on the canary the unit immediately shuts down which means that if you sound the siren a thief could possibly just pull the plug on the unit. It would be good to have a backup battery to let the alarm sound even without power. Also this would be a good way to check on your pets during a power outage.2) ability to tilt the lens up and down. The lens is fixed which means that if you place it too low or too high in the house you will essentially be catching the floor or the ceiling. it would be great if i could tilt the camera to fine tune the video.3) out door model. It would be great to make a waterproof version of this camera with outdoor temperature and humidity.4) pets trigger the camera.

    Ganesh Balakrishnan –

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