I was looking into these just to monitor the kitchen but would have had to have the socket rewired to always be "ON" (not to mention the unfortunate combination of wifi combined with an unknown manufacturer was a real turnoff).
Just wanted to use it to catch some room mate "gremlin footage", you know those times when all 8 people in the house say they "didn't do" something that clearly happened like grandma's china got dropped or they burned the h3ll out of an expensive saucepan on the stove. I figured since the 8 humans never "did it", I might have an infestation of tiny little people wreaking havoc in the kitchen when no one is around (see: borrowers).