I've been wanting this cam for a long time but it's pretty pricey in most places..180-300+++ dollars. Our local Frys have them at $229... saw it on offer on Amazon for $150 a month or so ago but when I went to get it next day the price was back up to $189. Saw it back on offer again last night so I grabbed one, it will be here tomorrow... can't wait to get it hooked up
It has night vision, 2 way audio and can remote pan tilt and zoom features and can be controlled online or by smart phone. Its perfect for us since hubby works nights.. and I am hoping it works like my old night vision digicam, black light bulbs make the night vision like green daylight...but you can easily sleep with those bulbs.
It has password protection so I can lock everyone out but hubby if I want to and open it up to relatives now and then if we choose. I can also keep an eye on munchkin when I am at work too
........doesn't hurt to be able to keep an eye on our apt when we arent home either
totally chuffed ( Brit for very happy ) lol
It sucked that one of us was always pretty much missing out on new things so now we can hopefully share more of LO's "first's"
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Re: Woot.. got me a baby cam
BFP #2 7/18/11 - EDD 3/29/12 - Born 3/13/12
BFP #1 4/4/11 - Natural M/C - 7w1d - 4/30/11
For me I like it...I'm a bit spoilt with cam quality since I used a digital cam corder with USB streaming for a long time, so I am used to high quality picture... this isnt bad but it's sure not as good as my cam. The lighting/color is a bit tricky but that could be as much an issue with us being in an upstairs apt and the heat here means we have the curtains shut a lot. It seems like if the cam is too close to LO he looks kinda bleached out and rather demonic.. haha ( it's actually kinda cool) but I would imagine since the cam is not really designed for up close monitoring that is why, distance makes an improvement in that.
The Android app is ok, and if you up the pan and tilt angle settings it doesnt take so long to move the cam. I havent attached speakers yet but the 2 way audio def works, we tried it with headphones... the confusing part is the buttons on the phone app seem backwards,.. the speaker is actually the mic and the phone looking thing is the speaker lol.
set up wasnt bad at all, I had to fiddle around with my router a bit to reserve some IP's and configure a port instead of the default port 80... but if you don't have as much hooked up to your router as we do it should be pretty straight forward. We have a lot of stuff hooked up in this house <<< is a geek
Recording is only available using the internet app not the phone app and I think the logins for family and friends only works on the phone app .. MIL had probs getting it to work in her phone browser.. but that might just be her lol. the admin login worked for her tho.
Still have to try out the other gidgets like motion sensor etc but for a "webcam" it's not bad at all and I'd def buy it again. Aside from using it as a baby cam, it's also a cool gidget to keep an eye on our apt when we aren't home