TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
by TRENDnet
|
List Price: Our Price: $209.99 You Save: $85.00 (29%) Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Buy Used: from $179.00 (click here) Category: Digital Camera See more product details |
|---|
Customers in the UK,
Buy this product at amazon.co.uk
for British Pounds
Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
Customer Review: More than I expected!
Summary: 5 Stars
I spent a long time trying to find a decent but affordable wireless camera to use outside in our barn. After reading multiple reviews I settled on the IP422W, not knowing what to expect. I am completely amazed. The camera is located 125 feet from my router, outside in a barn. The setup was easy, I gave it a static IP address. The picture is very good and the infrared at night is spooky and clear. It is very easy to control and responsive. I was able to set up internet access outside of my router using [...] using port :8080. The sound at first is the only downside since when there is silence you only hear static, but any sounds do come through loud and clear without the static. You can also talk to the camera by attaching a speaker, and use it as an intercomm if someone is near it. The price is incredible for all of the things this camera does. I have been using it for 4 days without a single disconnect.
Review Update: Disabled Indication LED, UPnP and Bonjour in the setup menus and I never have a disconnect.
Customer Review: 6017 new files
Summary: 2 Stars
The main purpose of purchasing this camera was to photograph movement in my apartment. Fail.
I was able to setup the camera and connect it to my FTP site. I configured the camera so it would take a photo if motion was detected and save the photos to my FTP site. I left work and by the time I returned I had 6000+ new files on my FTP server.
I adjusted the camera's sensitivity, points of motion detection, and tried several angles. Note: The apartment had very few windows and the amount of light changed very little during the day.
No matter what I did it would always take photos every couple seconds. This leaves me to think there were two possible scenarios for this problem:
1. The camera's motion detector sucked
2. I had not configured it correctly
Considering I have a solid technical background, if scenario #2 is true then the user interface is very confusion. Either scenario called for the camera to be returned.
At least I got my money back!
Customer Review: Poor video poor support poor performance
Summary: 2 Stars
There is a good reason the price is dropping on this camera. The firmware that is current has broken the ability to send out email alerts for motion detection. There is no ability to send out .avi instead of still photo's.
The lens constantly needs to be adjusted and I have to power off and on the camera at least every other day. If you use the wireless feature the performance drops quite a bit so plan on hard-wiring it with ethernet. Your better of sticking with a Cisco product (which by the way is really a linksys product) since the support is very good and the monitor software (recorder/monitor) works and the is capable of up to 16 camera's.
This camera is suppose to have night vision but it also is broken and is worthless. My advice is to go with a true night vision camera for that portion of your security and stick with a day camea like a Cisco that has a true optical zoom. The digital software zoom is not worth much. These camera's are becoming cheaper so be sure to shop around.
Customer Review: Didn't work out for me (Wireless a complete failure, wired a horrible laggy experience)
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this IP camera based on the reviews, although it had it's share of negative feedback. However, overall, it looked promising. Well.... after 3 hours of dinking with it, it got returned to Amazon. I AM technically inclined, but getting this camera to work smoothly with my setup( Cradlepoint MBR1000 router and computer wih Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit) was beyond my ability. I never got it to work wirelessly. The webpage would just hang after changing the wireless configurations to work with my router. The router would give it an IP address by the way and the camera would blip in and and out existence on the router's wireless devices list. Even when wired, it was SOOOOO laggy that is was unusable. Anyway, maybe it didn't like Cradlepoint, maybe it didn't like Vista 64 (although I would think this wouldn't be a problem since it works by IP access through Internet Explorer), but after 3 hours of wasted time, I didn't like it! Just my experience for your consideration.Customer Review: Piece of junk
Summary: 1 Stars
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?