BlueFire Semi-Rigid Flexible Wireless Endoscope IP67 Waterproof WiFi Borescope 2 MP HD Resolutions Inspection Camera Snake Camera for Android and iOS Smartphone, iPhone, Samsung, iPad, Tablet (33FT)

Revised from 2 stars to 5 stars I received a new unit from the manufacturer promptly along with an email urging me to try the new one. My original problem was primarily due to poor documentation and my misreading of it. The PRODUCT IS GREAT! The SOFTWARE IS GREAT. The documentation is ... not so great - confusing. The instructions are poorly written by a non-native speaker, so here I am helping out North Americans: 1) Before you do anything, download the app with either the QR code (very handy) or at Google Play or the Apple App Store. DO NOT OPEN THE APP YET*****. 2) So you are sure the device has enough power, charge the endoscope at the mini USB charger port on the opposite side as the camera. After 15 or 20 minutes, you certainly have enough battery to test the device. 3) Turn the power on at the device. The slide switch is on one of the the long and narrow sides next to the charging port. The blue light indicates that the WIFI is communicating. The other light is red when the unit is on and green when the battery is charging. They are all off when the unit is off. The green LED comes on if the unit is off and charging on the mini USB charging port. 4) To communicate with the device, go to your PHONE's WIFI center and find the Jetion_???? SSID. This is your first sign on which you can change later. the password is 12345678. 5) Open the app you just installed ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE SIGNED IN TO THE Jetion_???? WIFI network. 6) The endoscope light is controlled from the roller wheel on the same side as the ON/OFF switch. Roll it Toward the switch for brighter, away for dimmer. 7) NOW OPEN THE APP - VOILÁ, you are looking through your endoscope. SOFTWARE CONTROL: If you press the gear Icon, you can CHANGE the name of the SSID and CHANGE the password if you wish. The top line changes the SSID - I changed mine to endoscope and also made the password endoscope since I was not worried about security. Use the red "X" in the upper left hand corner to go back to the endoscope screen. PHOTOS & VIDEO on iOS: Works REALLY well. When you give it access to your photos, it neatly puts them with your other photos and videos. Very convenient. Original Review: Received this unit and it worked as advertised for an iOS 10.3.3 iPhone 6+ ONCE. I shut it down and attempted to reconnect with the wifi and it would not connect. It was as if the password had changed itself. I tried over and over in the course of two days. RETURNED. ***** This happened because I accidentally changed the password because I opened the app before I knew the gear changes the password, it is not the place to sign in. You sign in on to the device your phone's WIFI settings, not the app settings. The device automagically works when you are on its WIFI.

I purchased in 2021 and never used it. I found a YouTube video called Bluefire WiFi Endoscope. Long story short, it worked. Download wifi borescope DL for you Android users. It'll work just fine.

I had a drainage issue behind a wall, and my options were: call a plumber and pay a small fortune, or buy this and maybe figure it out myself. I chose the snake camera. Best decision. Setup is genuinely simple once you know the trick: connect your phone's WiFi to the camera's own network signal first, THEN open the app. If you try to connect from inside the app it can be confusing, going through your phone's WiFi settings first makes it click immediately. First-time setup takes about three minutes. The 33-foot semi-rigid cable is the real selling point of this version. The semi-rigid design means you can shape and steer the camera rather than having it flop around uselessly. For walls, pipes, engine bays, HVAC runs, and crawl spaces, the length and steerability together make it genuinely useful. Image quality at 2MP is adequate for most inspection tasks. The six adjustable LED lights around the lens handle dark spaces well. The best focal distance is about 3-8 cm from the object, so get it close to what you're inspecting. The IP67 waterproof rating on the camera head means pipes and wet environments are fair game. Note that the WiFi module box is not waterproof, so keep that end dry. Battery life runs a few hours on a charge, which is usually more than enough for a single job. The companion app (WiFiView) works, though it is basic. Video and stills both save to your phone. For the price, this is a remarkably capable tool. It paid for itself the first time I used it.

I followed the instructions and scanned the QR code for android. The software downloaded and when I opened it, it said, "There was a problem parsing the package." I tried it several times and always got the same message. So i went to the google store and there were 3 options. Two with very poor ratings. I downloaded the first one and opened it then went to the settings page. I followed the instructions and I must say, the log on is ridiculous; i have no idea why they need it so difficult. Anyway, once everything was correct, nothing happened. There is not an ok, enter or go button. I tried this will all 3 options in the google store and the same thing happened, nothing. I got frustrated and went to bed. The next day I started in again, scanning the QR code, same thing. So I decided to read the reviews on amazon for help. At that point i noticed that my laptop internet wasn't working so i clicked on the internet icon and while troubleshooting the internet, i notice there was another option, "Jetion_fd20da76" on my laptop. Went to my phone, clicked on the internet option "Jetion_fd20da76", put the password in the phone internet. It said connected without internet. Then I opened the software on the phone, went to settings left the default "Wifi_Name" as it was and put in the password, it finally worked. I haven't used it yet for what it was intended for because I was able to solve that situation before the camera arrived. Just tried it again before i hit enter for the review and the battery is already dead after using it for less than 5 minutes. The night prior I did let it charge for about two hours and like the instructions said, I waited until the green light went off, meaning it is fully charged.

So I bought this unit to help me do some work in ducts and in walls. It actually worked fine for that purpose while I used it. It was a bit hard to maneuver once it was in more than 5 feet or so but otherwise I had no complaints about the image quality or ease of use from the software side. The wifi connection using an app seemed like a strange way to do it but it worked and I was happy enough up until the point that software stopped working. Sometime this past year the software simply stopped running. The moment I would try and open it the app on my phone it would immediately close and report that it had crashed. Uninstalling and reinstalling the software did not help at all and attempts to reach the company wouldn't yield a response. I decided to give them some time to resolve the problem and update the app but here we are quite a long time later and the app still doesn't work and there's still no update to resolve the problem. If you read the reviews of the app in the play store you will find this is not an uncommon issue. It seems the app does the same thing to most people out there and, as such, the apps rating has sunken to 1.6 stars. Sadly I have not been able to find any other software that will let you use this device and without the software the endoscope is effectively useless. Near as I can tell the device still works just fine, but sadly that doesn't mean a thing if I can't run the software required to actually see what it sees. Avoid this one and go with a unit that connects via USB or has its own screen. They may cost more but at least you're much less likely to run in to this problem. (Edit: I increased the review to 3 stars because the unit itself does a great job aside from maybe lacking rigidity once you get so much out, but the software issue is the main problem. Well, I found that you can get newer versions of the software if you hunt it down in the Google Play store and not just rely on the one linked on the paperwork with the unit. It would seem when they release a new version they just put a whole new version on the Google Play store instead of simply updating the existing ones. So there IS newer versions out there that do work on newer devices, it just seems you have to hunt them down.)

Easy to use--synced up with my Android phone right away, and I tried it on an iPad as well, to get a larger screen. Both worked great. I bought this specifically to look in a vanity drain that was clogged, where I was having trouble getting the auger to drop. If someone made this with some replaceable cutting tools on the end I could have cleared the clog using this alone, but of course this isn't a medical device to remove polyps. The picture was good, the lighting was perfect inside a drain pipe, and I couldn't be more pleased. I also used it through a small hole in a wall cavity to make sure I wasn't about to cut some 110 volt wires, and it was very useful there as well, although perhaps not as entertaining as snaking around bends in pipes. Great price for an excellent little tool, and the fact that you use your own screen makes this affordable. Highly recommended.

Depending on what you are planning to do with this, it will either be sufficient or insufficient for your task. We purchased this to look into our pipes as our bathroom sink has a major clog. We had previously watched the plumber stick a camera into both our toilet and vents when the toilet got clogged so for the price I figured this camera was worth a try. While we couldn’t see what was clogging our sink drain, we were able to look into every vent from the roof, we were able to discern that the snake we were sticking in the drain might have been going in one of two directions (i.e. up the vent or down to the main line), and also looked at the pipe structure under the house (not easy since our house is on a hill and the crawl space is sloped). All in all, the camera is easy to use, gives pretty good images, lights up dark places well (see photo of one of our sludgey pipes. can’t imagine a darker place than a vent 25 ft down or so), and fits almost anywhere. You can capture still images or video from the app you use to view from the camera. The app is pretty self explanatory, no bells or whistles but you don’t really need any with a device like this. Start up is almost plug and play so long as the camera is charged and you can locate the wifi easily. I have no problem with either. I did notice that at first use the camera seemed to be fully charged yet turned off when we were using it. No problem, I just connected it to a battery pack since we wanted to use it right away.

UPDATE, February 2018: I used this camera a few times, and as I said, it did work very well. Yesterday I plugged it in to charge, as I was planning to inspect the underground drains from my gutters. This morning I turned the unit on and then noticed that I couldn't turn it back off. The on/off switch was split in half and ... gooey. I disassembled the unit and found that the lithium battery had ruptured. The battery itself didn't seem swollen, but it looks like the placement of the on/off switch impinges on the battery, at least as it was placed in my unit. It's not a huge surprise that there's some defects given the price, but it's pretty disappointing that it's something so avoidable. Were the batter just placed a little farther down the unit, there wouldn't have been a problem. Original review, November 2017: I ordered this in the scope to help me examine the inside of my water heater as I was replacing the anode rod. The unit works very well with a few minor issues. The focal length is fairly short which means you have to get close to the thing you’re looking at in order to see it very well. The light works well in small enclosed spaces but can fail to illuminate a larger space very well. The stiffness of the cable is very helpful although I wish it was a bit stiffer and easier to straighten out. I bought the 10 meter cable thinking longer cable could only be more useful but it can be awkward to control the excess cable while you’re not using it. Overall this device is a remarkable piece of equipment at a remarkable price and I am very glad I purchased it