Canary - Smart Home Security

Canary

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About this app

Canary is home security made simple. The Canary app works with our security devices to connect your home to your phone, allowing you to view and protect those that matter most.

Monitor your home: Watch live or recorded HD videos day or night. Access Canary’s timeline for a living history of your home. Save and bookmark your favorite clips.

Intelligent notifications: When Canary identifies something out of the ordinary, you’ll get a notification with recorded HD video of the event, as well as the option to watch live.

Automatic arming: Canary changes modes when you come and go. No complicated keypads or codes to remember.

- Away
When all members are away Canary monitors for activity and sends notifications

- Home
When a member is home Canary is customizable. You can set notification and privacy preferences.

- Night
Schedule Canary to monitor for activity while you sleep.

- Privacy
Camera and microphone are completely off.


Emergency Options: Respond to incidents directly from the Canary app. Trigger the 90 decibel siren, or be connected directly to your home’s local emergency responders.

A healthier home: Canary’s HomeHealth Technology™ monitors indoor air quality, temperature, and humidity. It all adds up to a smarter and safer home.

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Ratings and reviews

I've always had issues with Canary, even when we paid for the service, there would be periods of no recordings at all, always when we needed them. It seems like it will only record every 10 minutes when it detects activity. It always switches to home mode, even though we disabled that. Useless. Will never record anything anymore. Additionally, the temperature and humidity won't pull up anymore and the app seems to not respond to touch. It is like this on all our devices (2 phones, 1 tablet).

I held on hoping that updates would fix prior issues. But nope. I have to manually switch to home mode, there are skips in the recorded video, it randomly and for no logical reason goes offline, it will notify me when a fruit fly goes by but not an actual person. I was out of state for almost a week only to realize that it was stuck on home mode. This service used to be great. Now, it's so unreliable, I can longer justify paying for the service and will be cancelling.

Kind of a love/frustration relationship. I have had Canary since first available. I have 4. My biggest complaint is the geo fence just stops working sometimes. Then I struggle to get it working. This has been going on for years. They seem to have improved the lag in live view and added direct download of video. I tried a download. It was quick and funtional. I wish the Geofence would work all the time. Or at least be easy to fix. I am going to log out & back in. That eventually worked last time.

What's new

- Various bug fixes and stability improvements.