It’s a bizzare business model. Quite how they’ve managed to get any GENUINE positive reviews all for the app or on Amazon is strange.
They made a brilliant product. The 720p then the 1080p cams were great. pan Tilt cam fantastic. Then destroyed everything they had built including all customer loyalty with a series of reckless decisions.
It’s impossible to rely on Yi or Kami products for security at this point.
Horrible. Bait and switch . Nothing else to say.
I have been getting more and more ads. The app was never very good but at least there wasn’t a subscription, I have had a couple of cameras for several years and they are going to get binned.
Now all they can say is “Please buy our subscription to solve the ads that we added”.
No, we don’t want to buy a subscription. We would buy Ring if we wanted that.
Hey isn’t that TEMU getting sued now for using that cctv spyware. And I only wanna use my sd card too but cloud subscription adds keeps annoying me by popping up. Like they’re trying to gangster people into buying their storage. And anybody that has a smart remark just because we don’t wanna purchase Cloud storage must be working for them getting free storage. Matter of fact I thought about googling to see if cloud getting sued because this ain’t right !
Today I got a new Amazon AD with very loud music. These invasive ads are getting worse every time. Kami/Yi crearly doesn’t care about their customers but only fast money. However, they forget that retaining customers is much more important than a single customer being driven away due to stupid advertisement that ruins their own products because they can’t be used disctretely anymore. Now I’m looking at the Reolink TraxkMix. They have good reviews and you can find many reviews on Youtube. The image quality is also WAY better than Kami/Yi products.
Why did you even put SD card slots in the cameras if you don’t want us to use them and only want to sell subscriptions?
Because of the intrusive advertisements and the increasingly poor image quality, I took my Kami Outoor camera off the wall and bought a Reolink. I should have done this much earlier. Great quality, much better than Kami/Yu and a beautiful app that works just fine without any ad clutter. I should have done this much sooner!
I just joined this forum to say I will be removing all Yi Home products from my home due to the complete intrusion of ads and spyware into their products. I deliberately bought these initially because of the ability to store images in SD cards, without needing subscription to cloud services. Now these ads have made the product unusable, and mysteriously the SD cards functionality and notifications seems to have ceased. I will be removing this Chinese crapware full of spyware from my home and replacing with a different brand. Deliberately downgrading and hampering your own products to manipulate customers into buying a cloud subscription. Outrageous!
this is a method of bullying …forcing us to look at ads to purchase a cloud subscription will only makes us hate your product …i will no longer be using Kami home …you will lose more customers by this .
Is there a way to return the product? It is rendered unusable, I do not get notification that my baby is crying, I get notification about ads. This is not freemium product, we paid for the device and it is not doing what it is supposed to do. I will not provide video of my child to cloud.
This is an extortion technique.
Kami answer: “You wanna use the product you bought from us? Then we have exclusive offer for you: send us your baby video stream and pay for it as well!”
Your advertisements are a f’in joke. They come up as a notification as if an alarm has been triggered. You have ‘bricked’ your own product. Appalling strategy for any business. Constant spam instead of security. Shame on you!
Yi’s app is sending push notification advertisements several times a day. This persists even with a subscription. I tried to make my own topic a while ago but it looks like it was not posted due to moderator approval. This is really disappointing.
Yi and Kami Home apps are now delivering 35 Ads to my wife’s phone before she can view the cameras. As the owner of the cameras I have a subscription but it seems this doesn’t stretch to anyone you share your cameras with. This is daylight robbery and I will do everything in my power to remove Yi and Kami from my home and business.
Das ist echt das letzte, obwohl ich ein aktives Abo habe bekomme ich erst Werbung wenn ich in die App gehe. Ich montiere diesen Schrott jetzt auch von der Wand und sehe mich nach alternativen um.
I’ve been using the Yi cameras for a few years.
Once the summer weather comes I’ll be changing out my Yi cameras for another brand due to the annoying ads that start before I can open any cameras.
I don’t have a subscription I use SD cards.
The ads that come up are making my Yi experience a disappointment now.
I have started to replace all my yi cameras to tp-link tapo. No ads, better wifi range, plenty to choose from. And support for third party software. Have already been setting these up for my friends and guided them to stay away from yi/kami. Best decision ever.
It looks like Yi has released a firmware update which stopped the push notification ads. I noticed all of my detection settings were reverted and now I am no longer getting constant ads.
My burglar alarm went off when I wasn’t home. The monitoring company contacted me. I tried to get to my YI cameras on my i-phone to see if it was real or a false alarm. I got a bunch of ads blocking my ability to get to my cameras, stupid video games blocking the entire screen… It took quite a while to get through the ads. I’m going to trash all my YI cameras and go with another camera company.
It’s fk…g joke. I have to go through and wait for they to finish advertising before I can access to my videos. Now, I am pretty sure those 6 cameras will go to the trash. I am shopping for alternatives.
I reached out in the app on my phone and asked them to remove the ad’s and they responded back they would have it done within 48 hours. I will see tomorrow if they actually do it. I only have 3 camera’s and I can easily replace them with zumimall or another brand and spread the word that Kami is garbage with their ad trolling.