I needed a monitor that would send me notifications if my 16 month old child woke up from a nap while I was working in the yard.It works! In the "notifications" section on the smart phone app I can have it send me an alert any time the child wakes up and makes noises. It will also motion detect. The camera can also be set to track the motion -- detecting and following the motion within it's movement range. Because of these detection options, I would consider using this camera for security purposes. I have thought of buying another one for monitoring my driveway at night for security purpose.It took about 30 min to set up, after carefully following the setup instructions. In the instructions there is a reference to ethernet network connection (which I ignored as I don't see an obvious way for that to happen out of the box... I suspect it may be possible to get a micro usb cord that converts/adapts to an ethernet wire for direct router connection, but there are no clear instructions for how to do this). Since the wifi connection works okay I am fine with that.Overall, this is a great value for what I paid for this camera. I am able to access the camera feed from the web via my online account (essentially making it a private web cam), but the "live" function only seems to give me still images when I "reload" the camera page. This might change if I paid for the cloud video storage subscription, but I don't need that at this time since I can connect through my LAN wifi. Since I mainly connect with the video feed via the app on my phone and my local wifi network, the only issue is if I go too far from the main house, the connection is only as good as my wifi router range -- if I get out of range of my wifi router (for example inside another building on the edge of the property), then the signal will drop from my smart phone. It will however reconnect again when I get back into the wifi range. I currently have my wifi router set to a lower signal strength, so I plan to set the router to a higher signal power for better range outside and I expect a longer range. I imagine I could connect to the video feed on the smart phone using the basic web site interface, but that would use digital data on my smart phone and I expect it would be laggy and slow. So I am sticking with the standard wifi phone app connection.One thing I really like is this product has live video with the local wifi connection using the phone app, so I can always check the app on my phone just to take a peek at the baby's room and visually check to see if he is asleep. There is at time stamp on the video feed so I can tell if the feed is current. This works well for what I need it to do. So far, so good!