Editorial Review:Product Description:The Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt Internet Camera Server with Audio (TV-IP422W) provides day and night security over a large area. See, hear and talk to people in your camera's viewing field day or night from any Internet connection.Secure a larger area with wireless pan and tilt Internet cameras. Pan the camera side-to-side a remarkable 330? and tilt up-and-down 105?.The TV-IP422W provides high quality video streams over a secure wireless connection. Advanced intuitive software includes motion detection recording, email alerts and scheduled recordings. This camera's brilliant image quality, pan / tilt functionality, day / night recording capabilities and built-in 2-way audio make it ideal for home, small office and business use.
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Piece of junk
I was so excited about this camara. I followed the set up instructions to a T. The camara worked while wired but not when I went wireless. Hmmm, I thought something was wrong with my router. I rebooted the router. Still didn't work. I called in an IT pro. Then another. After 6+ hours and 2 professionals, concluded the camara was defective. It lost signal once unplugged so I was unable to move it from the initial set up spot.
I just sent it back to Amazon yesterday and am waiting my refund.
I went to Best Buy and bought the Panasonic wireless pan/tilt and set the whole thing up in 10 minutes, works like a charm.
This camara did seem cool when it worked while wired but it was not worth the headache it caused me trying to get it to work wirelessly.
Also, the pricing is whacked. When shopping for the camara it was around $275. When I went to finalize my purchase it was $312 but now it shows it is back to $275 - what's up with that?
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Better than expected
Got this a few days ago. Very easy to configure. Had mine set up on my wireless network in minutes. Much better video quality than I expected for this price.
Definitely meant to be used indoors in low light. When I point it out the window, the image just washes out and goes all white. But indoors, with normal lighting, the image is great. Night time image is very good. The built-in IR LEDs work well to about 20ft or so. Beyond that, things are pretty dark. I tried an experiment and turned on a desk lamp with a very low power fluorescent bulb and the camera had enough light to see everything in the house in full color. Really good low light performance.
The microphone is also very sensitive. Almost too sensitive. It picks up every sound in the house. I can hear the ceiling fan, air conditioner, TV in another room, people talking in other rooms etc. Has 2-way audio but haven't tried it yet.
Super easy to operate. You don't need any special software to remotely view, just Internet Explorer. You can view with Firefox, but you lose some features. When viewing remotely over the Internet, you can click on any point in the image and the camera centers itself on that point.
Tons more options and features but, you can read about them on the manufacturers website.
If this had a true optical zoom, it would be just about perfect but, full Pan Tilt and Zoom cameras cost a lot more than this one.
I am pleasantly surprised with this camera. I've tried several 'affordable' cameras over the past few years and have been quite disappointed with them. The only really good network PTZ I've found is a nine hundred dollar Panasonic. Too expensive for me and it does not have audio.
If you need audio and full range pan ant tilt, but don't need zoom, this is probably your best choice right now for any price. Panasonic makes a nice, small, wireless camera with audio and pan and tilt but it does not have the range of motion that this camera has and this camera has much better low light image quality.
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Good for Watching the Kids
We bought this camera to keep track of our kids at home in their playroom, and to keep an eye on our daughter, who occasionally has seizures at night that are hard to detect just by listening. This system is a little bit of overkill for that purpose, but the following are some things that made us settle on this camera instead of a more generic baby monitoring video system:
* It's encrypted, so people can't spy on what's going on inside our house.
* It's digital, so it works with all the wifi internet connections in our neighborhood instead of interfering with and being interfered by them.
* It's online, so I can check in on the kids and feel like I'm part of the family when I'm at the office.
The camera uses a regular wifi internet connection, and you open up the camera's web page to view the video. There are controls on the side of the web page that allow you to move the camera around, turn the sound on and off, and things like that. There are 8 presets you can label that will instantly move the camera to spots you select, which is a great feature. There is a button to cycle through all 8 presets once and then return to where it was looking before. You can set up guest users who don't have access to the controls, but can just view the video stream.
Despite having quite a few options, configuration was relatively easy, with all the options available on a separate setup web page. They did a good job of laying out the menu heirarchy to make things easy to find, although there were enough configuration options that I missed some the first time through.
Some of the drawbacks are:
* Some things only work on Internet Explorer using ActiveX controls. That's not a problem for almost everyone unless you happen to use Mac or Linux, like me. The basic functionality is all there, except for sound. I was able to work around that, but it seems odd to take the effort to support other browsers and operating systems with a java applet, then stop short of full functionality.
* The full manual is only on the CD-ROM, the only printed manual is a quick installation guide.
* The camera doesn't tilt down very far, which creates annoying blind spots when you set it on a shelf or something. However, there is a mounting bracket that we used to mount it upside-down, which gave us the full range of motion we needed. There is a configuration option to flip the image back upright.
* I wish it had a zoom, but the wide angle lens is a good choice if you have to have a fixed lens.
* The camera occasionally needs to be rebooted after experiencing a heavy load.
* The infrared illuminator doesn't come on automatically when it gets too dark, which is strange because the camera adjusts pretty well for brightness otherwise. There is a night mode button on the web page.
* Some of the configuration defaults are frustrating, like a 1 degree increment for pan and tilt. That would be fine if you could just hold down the button, but the web page doesn't allow you to do that, and pops up an annoying message to "Please wait" whenever you click the buttons too fast. The increment can only be changed on the setup page, but it's not a big deal because once the presets are set up, we hardly ever use the pan and tilt buttons.
* I wish it had a feature to disable guest access during certain hours. It would be nice to give access to the kids' grandparents out of state, but it would feel icky in the evening when we are all in pajamas to have people looking at us. I think I can set up a schedule on my router firewall, though, and it does have a schedule and motion detection I could use to upload still images to the family blog.
* It would be nice if the lights on the front indicated when someone was watching the video, not just if a link is established.
However, the drawbacks are nothing that can't be worked around, and overall the camera exceeded our expectations.
