it will not serve your purpose because it is not uploaded in real time. it uploads twice a day at specific time (i think its morning 8am and evening 5pm?).

motion detection : yes (but mine also sensitive to light changes ie on off light also detect as motion)

video recording with motion detection : yes (about 10 to 15sec) will be alerted to your mobile phone with mihome app.

Nope. Only works for china ip if not wrong.

Not too sure if this if of any interest. After some searching around, I found these two spy (hidden) video cameras. Since it looks like a digital clock on the outside, it may not be noticed by the intruder and the video recording can be stored on the SD card without worrying whether the unit will get smashed to pieces as chances would be very low.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wireless-HD-1080P-...sIAAOSwgSBaMI4T

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1080P-Wireless-Wif...Z4AAOSwyCZazXux

Thank for the response. It is surely good to have the video camera visible to act as a deterrent only if it works for the purpose, which means the captured video will be uploaded to Cloud and not on an SD card. If the video camera sends the recorded video to Cloud upon detection a motion via the motion-detection feature, then there isn't any issue anymore. If the video camera does not do that, and assuming the potential intruder is not too perturbed by the sight of the video camera, after a successful break-in through the main front gate, he may proceed to damage the video camera and all evidence would be lost if the recording is not uploaded to cloud but to an SD card.

That is assuming that the visible sight of the video camera does not cause any concern or alarm to the potential intruder or robber.

My other thought is that if the owner of a particular house or unit in an apartment has installed video cameras and/or alarms, this will give the perception that there is something valuable inside the house to cause the owner to install all these security measures. This may give the potential intruder more cause to break-in to the property although the sight of the video cameras and/or alarms may act as a deterrent. Nowadays robbers are smart. Even if there are video cameras, I am already thinking that these robbers will put on face masks to cover their faces if they want to attempt to break-in to a house or unit apartment.

If there is no video camera at the front of the property, the potential intruder might not wear face masks since he may not expect any video cameras inside the house or unit apartment. So when the intruder has successfully broken into the house or unit apartment, his/her face will be captured by the spy video camera that's hidden somewhere in the house, camouflaged by the unsuspecting form of a digital clock.

Considering the above, I am actually sitting on the fence whether to follow your idea of putting a visible video camera at the front of the property so that everyone will spot it when they walk past the house or unit apartment. There are pros and cons to it.

dafang is good for monitoring but not good as a security cam
its too slow to send out notification.
as for cloud storage - there is practically no other company that will allow you to store videos on their server without paying some fees
xiaomi one works at first and now it doesnt. only way is to view and snap photos or record video manually once you receive notifications
or hope that the motion detect recorded something.

I got two dafangs - only one can download motion detected videos...the other one still cannot move from 0% like last time. Both are latest firmware

I didn’t try. You got how many dafang? All working?

Nice new firmware let you set upto 4 points of the auto cruise, no longer limited to 360 cruise which end up seeing walls like previous if you put it near a wall or something

Try to swap the server from China to sg then back to China. I can dl the video from cloud again.

BTW I m using xiaofang which previously got the dl from cloud issue