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hey there folks Meagan Martin preceded appliances here with an updated review of the arcsoft simply cam now when i first reviewed this one hundred and fifty dollar security camera i really liked it it has to a talk night vision 720p 107 degree field of view a lot of good stuff but i didn't receive email alerts and the setup was a little bit wonky it took a lot longer than it should have basically but they are now back with a software app update that has improved some of those things the setup is now simpler and i received email and push alerts so that's the good news the other thing they added is face recognition so this is really a new thing for the DIY security camera field setting up facial recognition is really simple basically you just plop down in front of the camera and the app guide you through the process the whole thing takes just a couple of minutes so once you've scanned in your friends family members dog walker anyone who will be coming into your house who you expect to come into your house you can set custom alert so if you don't want to see footage of yourself or your kids walking around in from the camera you can do that but if you do want footage of your house cleaner or your dog walker you can set that too but then if it detects an unrecognized face that's something that wasn't scanned into the system you can obviously set that to send you an alert right away to find out if it was a burglar or someone else that you didn't expect to see the problem is that it is in beta form right now and it doesn't work all that well now sometimes it will get it right but other times it'll say that I'm an unrecognized face even though I'm skin into the system now I scan myself and three other folks from the office into the system and it got it right sometimes and got it wrong some other time so I wouldn't rely on this one hundred percent if you want to identify an unrecognized person but it is still in beta form and simply cam actually encourages people to provide feedback so they can the system which is the good news thank you for checking out this updated video review of the arc sauce simply can be sure to check out the rest of our coverage on cnet com and I am mega willerton forcing them apart