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hi I'm Andrew Gebhardt for Sina today I'm taking a look at the netatmo welcome this is a Wi-Fi connected camera that can recognize your face this thing knows me it also moves my face from the away section to the home section and it does that with any profile you've created so your spouse your children friends family you can create profiles for them all and in theory netatmo is going to recognize them and keep track about whether they are home or away the way parts may be a little bit more foggy it knows your home because it sees you it knows your way because it doesn't see you you can send how long before it thinks you're gone the default for hours in addition to facial recognition then that atmo has a fine list of specs 1080p video resolution it comes with an 8 gigabyte SD card for local storage it has a hundred and thirty degree field of view and night vision it's gonna take the camera a little while to get to know you and while it does if it doesn't know it's gonna say that it's not gonna guess wrong and I actually appreciate that I'd rather go in and say hey no that's my daughter as opposed to oh you thought this stranger was my daughter and there was a problem and you didn't let me know about it so it takes the slow careful approach when it comes to figuring out faces which I really like the problem is it takes that slow approach when it comes to everything including alerts the live feeds about ten seconds behind and with the motion alerts by the time I got the push notification whatever triggered them headlong ended there are also a little unreliable and the welcome can be kind of slow to pick up faces so if you're pointing this camera at your front door like you're supposed to if someone's just walking in the door and going about their business it might not recognize it's a person so look this is a pretty good camera with great ideas that are almost there it has me charmed but it falls short in a few pretty important ways so for $200 if you're looking for a security camera piper NV is a better option if you're looking for a webcam the nest cam is a better option for more be sure to check out my full review on cnet.com for CNET appliances I'm Andrew Keppler