u/Stone804_

I own pretty much every iteration of the latest cameras, indoor, outdoor, flood, etc.

NONE of them seem designed to allow me to point it at the angle I need. Either the “neck” is too short so the head and base bang against each other preventing the angle I want, or the cable that powers the magnetic mount gets in the way of the angle I want for those cameras.

It’s madness… how are they THIS BAD at design.

I love how easy they are to set up and seem very reliable, but it’s useless if I can’t actually aim them where I want.

Maybe they just only test them in mansions but not real people’s homes?

Not many have key fobs that require you to insert into a mechanism. I have the rare key fob like this, over the years various people like mechanics and valets struggled to understand the whole “push it in to pull it out” movement, and I was at Firestone and the guy must have yanked it out and broke the mechanism.

It seems like the mechanism is just “backward” in how it functions. I can’t see inside, but when you push it in it’s supposed to release some arms that hold the key. Instead, when I push it in, it locks on and doesn’t release. So I have to do a VERY FAST push-in-pull-out. If you do it too slow it locks the key and won’t release it. Also, when I’m driving and the key is in, it’s easy to just pull it out. Sometimes it just falls out randomly.

Is there any way to fix this? I just don’t know if there’s a trick. Replacement is $1,000 plus the new keys (since they can only be reprogrammed once. And both keys were already redone once.

Thanks for any tips here.