TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
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Manufacturer: TRENDnetFormat: CD
Platform: Windows
Model: TV-IP422W
Product features:
- Secure your home or office with high quality dual streaming MPEG-4 and MJPEG video recording with up to 30 frames per second at 640x480 VGA resolution
- Complimentary SecurView software: view and record up to 16 cameras simultaneously (32-bit only)
- Hear and talk to people in your camera's viewing area through your computer
- Supports TCP/IP networking, SMTP Email, HTTP, Samba and other Internet protocols (Does not support SSL)
- Pan 330° side-to-side and tilt 105° up-and-down from any Internet connection. Infrared lens enables day and night version (night visibility up to 5 meters)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to A-Female Extension Cable (3.3 Feet/1.0 Meter)
- AmazonBasics USB 2.0 A-Male to B-Male Cable (6 Feet / 1.8 Meters)
- AmazonBasics Ultra-High-Speed HDMI Cable Braided (9.8 Feet/3.0 Meters)
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)[Supports 3D + Audio Return Channel][OLD MODEL]
- AmazonBasics High-Speed HDMI Braided Cable (6.5 Feet/2.0 Meters)
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
Customer Review: Good inexpensive Pan/Tilt VGA resolution IP cam
Summary: 4 Stars
The Trendnet IP422W is an inexpensive Pan/Tilt (note no optical zoom) designed for the consumer market (and for Indoor use only, unless there's some kind of outdoor housing available which I'm not aware of).
Network connection is made via either Wireless 802.11G (not N) or 10/100 Ethernet. If Ethernet is plugged in the WiFi is disabled.
POSITIVE:
Supports 640x480 image, many other IP cams support a lower resolution image like 320x240. In my opinion an IP camera should have nothing less than 640x480 resolution.
Supports both MJPEG as well as MPEG4 compression.
Supports RTSP streaming video, with or without audio (untested by me)
For a Pan/Tilt IP camera this has a really good price.
Cam has IR night vision functionality (and includes 7 Infrared LEDs so it can see in total darkness for approx 10-15 feet)
Cam has manual focus so it can be adjusted to focus on what you set it to.
Motor movement noise is very quiet.
Camera has a built-in mic so it can also capture audio.
Camera also has a speaker out port so it can be used as a 2-way intercom (not tested by me).
Camera has a GPIO port (i.e. general purpose input/output port) so you can hookup an input (magnetic alarm sensor etc) and an output to the camera and control via software. Although I have not tested this yet this should be very convenient for WiFi operation as no additional wires need to be run back to the PC.
Camera has a status LED that can be switched off to be more inconspicuous.
Steel mounting bracket is included, along with the necessary screws.
NEGATIVE:
The camera takes approx 50-60 seconds after powerup or reset before being ready. I wish this startup time was quicker.
Focus control (turning the lens ring) is difficult to adjust as it is small and your fingers usually obscure the lens when adjusting. So what you have to do is turn a bit, move fingers, turn back a bit, etc until you're happy.
The included software is crap. I took the advice of fellow reviewers and spend $50 on BlueIris which is much better software and well worth the price.
When powered up or reset the camera auto centers itself. I think there should be a firmware update that allows the camera to move to one of the user-programmed positions upon power-up. Otherwise in some cases the auto-centered view where you mount the cam will not ideally give you the scene that you want.
I wish the cam would be able to Tilt downward more. I usually mount these high so people can't tamper with them but the max downward tilt angle is not very much. An option is to mount the cam with the bracket upside down and flip the image vertically in the cam's web setup page.
IMPROVEMENTS THAT I FEEL SHOULD BE MADE FOR FUTURE PRODUCT MODELS:
1. Wireless 802.11N support. This would give better range and be able to support more cams over a wireless network.
2. Put a true auto-removable InfraRed (IR) filter on the camera sensor. There doesn't seem to be an IR cut filter on the camera which means that for normal day operation certain colors may be off somewhat (some reds or blacks). True Day/Night cams have an IR filter that is present for "Day" color mode to maintain color accuracy and is removed from the sensor light path when light levels fall and the camera switches to "Night" Black&White mode.
3. Have a model that uses a Pixim DPS CMOS sensor for much better dynamic range. As it is the camera is not very good if you want to view a scene that is strongly backlit, like a glass shop storefront where lots of light comes thru. Yes, there is an "outdoor" setting in the setup page but this may not help all that much.
4. It would be nice if the mic audio could have some sort of filter feature to reduce background noise in noisy environments (maybe just restrict audio bandwidth to 4KHz like phone network does so speech is easier to understand).
5. Have the Focus control adjustable via software (i.e. remotely)
OTHER TIPS:
I set all the 422W cams to a static IP address to avoid problems with DHCP address allocation. This is a bit more work but ensures that the camera's IP address will always be the same. This may fix reviewers' issues that the cam has to be reset at various times.
The black button at the back of the cam is the "unmount USB device" button. For some reason this is ONLY described on the packaging box and is NOT in the printed manual so if you throw away the box you might think that the black button is the reset button and then get confused when it does nothing.
Still, it's a good product for the price. I hope followup products fix the issues pointed out above.
***ADDITIONAL FOLLOWUP NOV2009***
1. Now that I've been using these for a few months I can better comment on the reliability. Despite allocating each cam a static IP address there have been occasions where the camera USING A WIRELESS CONNECTION has stopped working and must be manually reset (unplug then plug back in). Personally I find this intolerable when it occurs (which admittedly is not very often) as the whole point of a camera is to record evidence and if it stops working unnoticed then it's useless. A suggestion for the firmware programmers: Allow a programmable option to reset the wireless every x days, this may help with the problem. However this problem seems to occur ONLY if the WIFI is enabled, if you are using a WIRED connection then I have not seen this problem. I think there might be a bug with regards to wireless functionality. However if you're going wired then a better option might be the Trendnet IP422 or IP410 (without the W suffix) as these models may be cheaper.
2. Since my purchase I have noticed the price on this camera go up. I paid two hundred per cam, and as of this writing it is higher than that! If you don't need the Pan/Tilt functionality there are cheaper cameras such as the Linksys WVC80N or Dlink DCS-1130 (which both support Audio & 802.11 N Wireless as well as wired Ethernet). These may offer better reliability for Wireless connections.
3. The one really good feature this camera has in the setup web interface menu is that you can do a site survey and get an idea of what other networks the camera's WiFi is seeing and the signal strength %. I have not seen this feature in other IP cameras. This is really useful in positioning and getting an idea of interference from other WiFi networks and also what sort of improvement can be gained by replacing the stock antenna with a higher gain one.
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Description of TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
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 ( Does not support SSL, USB port supports up to 500mA power device with FAT16/32 format, the 3G service from a mobile phone provider is required, Windows 32-bit only. Monitoring multiple cameras may require a high performance CPU and graphic card.) 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. Note: Does not work with TV-H400 dome camera enclosure. SecurView cameras are not compatible with TRENDnet?s IPView Pro camera application for ProView cameras.Cameras
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