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the easiness mini is a bit of a security camera anomaly for starters it has night vision 720p live-streaming motion alerts and it costs just 70 bucks but it has a couple problems the main issue is that its motion alerts are unreliable often times I would get a push notification and watch the recorded clip only to find out that no discernable activity had happened maybe it was a shadow passing or a bug flying by but whatever it was the sensor is way too sensitive and there's no way to customize it so that's kind of a negative if you want to use this as a reliable dependable motion detector it's really not the device for you but then again like I said it costs just 70 bucks so for a live streaming HD camera it's actually incredible it also has free cloud recording for the first year that you use it after that you have to pay a monthly fee but I think that's really reasonable and it also has local storage so it actually comes with a 16 gigabyte microSD card so if you want to look at your videos locally instead of through the cloud you can do that too one other thing that could be a deal-breaker to some is that this camera doesn't integrate with third-party devices and it doesn't have an if channel so if you want to do some more advanced automations between this device and some other devices in your home you won't be able to do that but again for 70 bucks I think it won't matter to a lot of people you can read more of our security coverage at cnn.com at the scene at smart home I'm Megan