I loved my camera system when we first installed them, so much that I purchased them for my business as well. I got notifications immediately, I could access live views to see if it was an important notification or not. Now I cannot even access live views without buying a plan,and I don't get notifications. I wasn't aware of that when we bought them, basically they are useless with the exception of someone possibly being deterred by seeing there are cameras installed. If anything ever happens I hope they record , and I would have to access the recordings from the USB after to even know. They are not accessible on my device. If I could go back I would purchase a different camera system.