Ezviz has produced some terrific, inexpensive DIY home security cameras: the Ezviz Mini Plus, a full-featured indoor camera small in both size and price, and the Ezviz Husky, a weatherproof outdoor camera. Now, the company has released the Ezviz Mini 360 Plus ($80), a pan-and-tilt camera for rooms so large that a fixed-angle camera won't do no matter how wide its field of view. The 360 Plus is an orb slightly bigger than a baseball. The top half houses the camera lens, which tilts a total of 90 degrees. The entire upper body can pan 340 degrees.

It's a great way to quickly review the days' goings-on when you get home from work. The camera's new 1080p resolution is impressive, rendering razor-sharp images with brilliant colors in day mode, and sharp detail and optimal contrast with night vision on. Unfortunately, the camera image still suffers from fish-eye bending around the edges. Many other home security cameras use some kind of de-warping technology to mitigate this byproduct of wide-angle lenses. It might be time for Ezviz to look into something similar. The fussy nature of motion-detection algorithms often means benign movement, such as a tree branch bouncing in the wind outside a window, can trigger an alert. Too many of these false alarms and your security camera can feel more like an annoyance than a help. Unfortunately, errant alerts were common with the original Ezviz Mini and the early version of the Ezviz app offered few customization options to curb the camera's hair-trigger sensitivity.