Home Safety Movable Camera Robot

My buddy first purchased this robot and showed it to me. I looked it up on amazon and was concerned about the mixed reviews, with Amazon's return policy I figured I'd give this thing a try and if it sucked I would just return it. Set up wasn't that bad, pretty easy actually. I have been messing around with this robot for a few days now and it has worked out perfectly for me with no issues. If you have bad cell service in places it will lag a little. I wish you could change the tilt sensitivity as it is a little snappy. I say give this a try and if you don't like it just return it. My cats are so fascinated with it I often find it toppled over when I get home. It would be cool if they had a flying drone version of this robot.

Worked for about a month and all of a sudden app won't work and appbot won't stay connected. Website doesn't work. No support. I was really happy at first but now thinking about how much money I spent on this thing.... should have gave that money to the homeless. Now I just have a $ 180.00 door stop. What a waste! SMFH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've seen other complaints that happened to people down the line and fresh out the box but somehow I thought mine would be different. Didn't even get to experience the battery problem....just will not connect anymore Everytime it drops connection the little speaker inside pops like every 4 mins. It drives me crazy so I can't even keep the dam thing on without it sounding like a walkie talkie. Thought someone was listening in my conversation at first. This sucks donkey!: HIGHLY UPSET!!!!!!

Mine arrived with the box seal broken so I assume it was returned. Not sure which version I received. I decided to try it out anyway. The setup was pretty easy and on my iPad without cellular it works fine. When I tried to install it on an iPad with cellular as a second user (see YouTube video about installing for added users) it would not recognize the bot no matter what I tiried. I looked for a solution to no avail but then I saw a comment on the app page about a user who had to disable Cellular Data in iPad/iPhone setup to make the connection, then once connected, to turn the Cellular Data back on. If you have trouble getting it to connect make sure to turn off Cellular Data during the setup. The bot is working fine and with WiFi turned off it works fine through the cloud too. I tested the upright feature when flipped over and it works great unless you are up against a wall. It will back a bit and then jerk forward righting itself which is pretty darn cool. I don't think it can right itself if on it's side. The video quality is fairly good. Two way sound is fair quality. The bot will easily handle transitions from carpet to floor and over short transitions such as a tile border. The auto dock feature is cool and works great as long as you navigate close to the base station. I would give it 5 stars but the connection issue with Cellular Data almost stumped me when connecting it as a second user. Folks unfamiliar with technology may have trouble getting it to connect. I think it would have a far higher rating except for a couple of hangups which frustrate the less technically inclined users. I stationed ours in the corner behind a lamp base so our Roomba won't knock it over. Once I got it connected I can see it will be a great device to watch over our house while we are away. Time will tell and I may post an update later.

This is great in theory but I returned mine, the tech is just not fully ready yet. My charge base wouldn’t dock my Riley, and the charge base had a glitch and would over charge my Riley to the point that the battery life was terrible. And I had to reset it every time because of the charge. The customer service was great they called me personally and trouble shoot all my issues, but in the end, it just wasn’t worth the effort and I will wait for tech to catch up

Texting in to get used to but this thing is fun. When I'm at work and I want to check on my animals or just the house this thing will drive around your house and let you see what's going on in your living room or whatever in your house. It does not climb stairs so if you have upstairs you may want to buy an extra one. But other than that this thing is fun to drive easy to work and my cats love it

While this machine does have all the ingredients to make a good device it unfortunately lacks many major things. It has no way of obtaining any of the footage from the motion after it happened. You can't download it. There's no replacement battery available and it does not last long. Which is odd as it's at its base, just an 18650 battery. Commonly available for 3$ at Every "head shop" at the same or greater capacity than the included battery. They went out for their way to make it impossible to replace without buying another whole device, instead of just adding a battery door. You must buy something that's half the price of the device. After speaking to someone from the company they explained that they do not intend on selling batteries individually, which is disheartening.. because the battery lasts at best a year as a single cell low amperage battery. like all other devices with single cell replacable battery. Would make this an almost perfect device if it had a way of replacing the battery for less than half the price of the machine actually getting footage from it, or adding it to a conventional up security system. Or replacing the battery. like at all. (Plus their now out of stock of the bottom half of the unit so if it dies you need to buy a whole new unit.) Disite the problem Being a single battery they could have, again, just been made with a battery door, like other devices that use this exact same battery. Realistically their charging you at least 13x the price of a battery for the battery. You could argue its because other parts might fail but realistically it won't. They designed it to be able to individually replace the battery so long as you have the proprietary cell they have. Because the drive system is extremely simply and almost flawless (it pulls to one side because it's simple and not a stepper motor, but a cheap simple DC motor, and can't steer, only can pivot as the motors have no power modulation. It's on or off.) This significantly impacts the cost of operation. And it's overall usefulness. So to spell things out No battery replacement (unless you pay half the cost of the unit) One year product life (the battery dies before then) No way to integrate into a security system at all. No way to use on anything other than a smart phone like a toy Can only go forward backwards and pivot. Cannot steer. All the downsides of a simple design without the benifits of easy parts access and replacement No way to obtain video footage from motion detection, or download it at all. so if someone steals the appbot riley they steal the footage too. Which umm.... Defeats the purpose. It's sad because I had such high hopes for this.. :( oh well, I'll have to just make something myself ;-)

What I like about this little security bought is that you can drive it from anywhere in the world the night vision works great and the camera is excellent qualities so if you're looking for some to watch over your place while you're gone that can send you notifications then this is it.

The robot has a lot of nice capabilities including being able to remotely stand it upright if it falls over backwards. The ability to drive and park it in a charging station is a mandatory function that is pretty unique to this robot. BUT! There are a couple of things that make it virtually unusable: (1) The app is far too simplistic and unprofessionally developed. If you pause the app for any reason, you have to start over and re-enter the password. That is super annoying especially if you need to temporarily run another app such as a smart light app to illuminate a room you want the robot to investigate. You constantly have to restart the Appbot Riley app. (2) The driving & camera positioning controls are WAY too sensitive. There are effectively only two speeds. Slow & and super fast, making it hard to control. If the app was improved this robot could easily have a five star rating.

Riley has been a great addition to my home security system whilst it does look like a toy it functions really well as a mobile security camera and allows me to check areas where I have no cctv coverage. It worked out of the box and I was running it from my iPhone in minutes ; the instal procedure was very simple. As it's a small robot you do get a floor view of everything but it has near 360 deg viewing so no problem. Image resolution can be adjusted and is excellent as is motion capture. The only weak spot seems to be night vision where I find coverage poor. The robot is moved via the smart phone app and it quite good although adjustable sensitivity would be a nice to have as would a patrol mode where it can go over a predetermined path.

Un très bon produit. Bien pensé avec encore quelques petits bugs sur l'application mais très positif dans l'ensemble. Me sert à distraire mes chats et m'assurer qu'ils vont bien depuis n'importe quel endroit où mon iPhone a du réseau (3g minimum). Je vous conseille de le laisser sur son socle pour qu'il soit toujours pleinement chargé et prêt à partir en exploration de la maison ou pour une parti de cache-cache avec les chats. Vous pouvez même prendre des photos/vidéos pendant l'utilisation qui arrivent directement dans votre smartphone ! La base est orientable à distance comme une tourelle. Je suis conquis ! Juste un bémol (histoire qu'ils ne s'endorment pas sur leurs lauriers): la vitesse de pointe de l'engin pourrait être supérieure.

Sólo lleva un día en casa, pero va más allá de lo que esperaba: Se sincroniza muy fácilmente con el teléfono y lo llevo por toda la casa sin problema como si fuera un coche de radiocontrol. Graba en HD y tiene una excelente función de visión nocturna. Puedes hablar y escuchar desde el móvil a través del robot. Tiene una función que detecta movimiento y te avisa al teléfono, permitiéndote ver un video de 10 segundos de lo que haya grabado. Y lo que en principio me pareció una pega, que es su velocidad, ahora me parece una ventaja, porque evitas estrellarte contra la pared. Lo utilizo para echar un vistazo a una persona mayor y va de cine. Pensaba comprar un par de cámaras IP, pero por ese precio controlo toda la casa. Tras seis meses de uso, a la vuelta de vacaciones se ha averiado. No sincroniza con el teléfono. Me puse en contacto con el soporte técnico de la marca y no me han respondido. He mandado un correo a Atención al Cliente de Amazon y en dos horas me han ofrecido el reemplazo o el abono del importe. He optado por uno nuevo porque el robot me encanta. INMEJORABLE SERVICIO DE ATENCIÓN AL CLIENTE DE AMAZON.

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Sembra un giocattolino ma non lo e' . Ben fatto e solido , nulla a che vedere con gli standard cinesi . Facilissima installazione , basta seguire il foglio illustrativo , si connette con l'app al vostro smartphone . La visione normale a colori e' si' , un po' scura , ma sufficiente nelle ore diurne . Il led infrarosso invece permette di vedere al buio ben oltre i 3 mt. La fluidita' dell'immagine e' buona e sufficiente per farlo gironzolare per casa . Provato in 4g e va benissimo , in 3g un po' meno ma ci si riesce ugualmente . In 2g e' meglio lasciar perdere ! Provato anche in esterno in giardino su mattonato alquanto sconnesso e non ha fatto una piega e non si e' mai ribaltato ! L'alert sui movimenti e' sufficientemente sensibile come anche il face motion. Insomma , che dire , una piacevole sorpresa ! L'unica , diciamo cosi' , pecca e' la mancanza dei roller di ricambio . Dove trovarli ? ho scritto alla Varram per saperlo e sono in attesa di riscontro . Per chi lo utilizzera' : pulire spesso i cingoli in gomma perché raccolgono molto sporco oppure pensate di usarlo come puliscipavimenti . :)