Yi Dome Camera 1080p Review

The Yi Dome Camera 1080p packs a lot of home security camera into a small package. For $59.99, it offers mechanical pan and tilt, motion and sound detection, motion tracking, and local and cloud-based event recording. It also takes panoramic photos and has a Baby Crying alert feature (though we were

 unable to get the latter to work in testing). It offers lots of value for per dollar, though it doesn't interact with other smart devices like our Editors' Choice for affordable security cams, the D-Link Full HD Wi-Fi Camera DCS-8300LH.

The Yi Dome Camera can be mounted on a ceiling, a wall, or be placed on any flat surface. The pear-shaped black enclosure stands 4.3 inches high and measures 3.6 inches in diameter at the base and 2.5 inches in diameter at the top.

The top portion holds the circular camera, which captures video at 1080p and has a 4x zoom with a 112-degree field view at its widest setting. The camera is attached to a mechanical hinge mechanism that gives you 115 degrees of vertical (tilt) rotation, and the top half of the enclosure is attached to the bottom half using a mechanical mechanism that gives you 345 degrees of horizontal (pan) rotation. Black-and-white night video comes by way of eight infrared LEDs.

The base of the camera has a USB power jack, a reset button, and a microSD card slot for storing event-triggered video locally, but you'll have to supply your own media. If you'd rather store video in the cloud, Yi offers several Standard and Premium storage plans. For $54.90 per year, the Standard plan 

offers storage for motion-triggered video for up to seven days and supports five cameras. For $89.10 per year, you get 15 days of storage, and for $134.10 per year, you get 30 days of storage. The seven-

day Premium plan gives you access to continuous video recording (CVR) for one camera for $59.40 per year. For $89.10 per year, you get access to 15 days of CVR video, and $134.10 per year gets you 30 days of CVR video.