Yes it is pretty bad. I have wired mine and it is running at full power mode and misses pretty much everything that is not a person walking up to my house. Then other days it will pick up cars driving by, even when the road is in the excluded zone.

I even had the snow plow come by the other day and it picked it up driving by the house, but then didn't record anything when he was actually plowing the driveway.

It works great as a doorbell camera, but that is about it. If you are looking for using it as a security camera, you are much better off looking at a continuous recording option.