Customer Reviews

Mister Robot-o Pan & Tilt Webcam

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

I tested out this camera for my company and it worked great. The resolution is better than other webcams I've tested and the motion feature was nice to have.

The motion feature is useless for small movements when you're mostly sitting. Otherwise it's average quality camera, not worth its price. I've requested a return authorization.

Good resolution doesn't matter, because in order to get good frame rate (25-30fps) in low light condition, you have to significantly reduce exposure and image quality at 640x480 will be worse than you might expect even at 320x240.

It's also difficult (inconvenient) to manually turn it for proper positioning.

The driver disk require you to register with their online video sharing service before you could change camera settings. Not sure if it true, but this is a weird request, and the online sharing service is nothing fancy or unique. It also installs an unnecessary tray icon that you can manually remove if you know how.

(Upd.: I can see the price went down to $20. My review was written when it was much higher).

I'm using this with Blue Iris Software for my home security system.

The PTZ tracking feature is my favorite thing about this camera. It's extremely quiet and hard to notice when this thing is tracking you. It sometimes stares and gets stuck on the mess I have in my kitchen sink or sometimes stares directly at a wall and gets stuck there (Can't find anything else to track if it's stuck on a blank wall) Not a very intelligent system but for $30.00 I'm not complaining. To fix this I simply moved the camera to another location and it happens less frequently.

I can't seem to get the PTZ feature to work from my iphone, it works directly from my computer though. Doesn't seem to work from the Blue Iris Command Center either, unless I go directly into the camera settings. Kind of a turn off, that's why this is getting 4 stars.

One more thing... This is useless in low light conditions. I'm considering getting motion activated lamps connected near this camera to make it work at night, I don't see any other option. Once I do this I will have a motion activated PTZ tracking security camera with text message/photo alerts that I can access from my phone for under $50.00 (price including lighting accessories that I need to buy to make this work at night)

Somewhat better than paying $120.00 for an IP camera that won't track. Although my computer does run a bit slow with all of the junk I have connected to the USB ports.

I won't bore you with details.
- The webcam part works as advertised, provides a good picture in two resolutions (320x200 and 640x480) and allows you to customize the frame rate and compression.
- The motors are very quiet but the motion range in the advertisement is a big lie. 204 degrees pan is very overstated. The camera barely covers 170 degrees of horizontal angle. The vertical motion seems about right at 140 degree range.
- Driver installation is pretty straight forward and any good chat program should be able to handle the webcam.
- Remote control can be achieved only by installing the funky proprietary outdated Mac-looking messenger Seedonk (registration required).
That piece of SW is a joke. I believe the Chinese could have stolen a better one elsewhere. Barely any keyboard access, all of it is mouse dependent.
- Remote viewing can again be accomplished through the company's Seedonk webpage (registration required).
Overall, for the money, I do not regret the purchase. Other motorized webcams are grossly overpriced so this one is a great winner.
I would give five stars if it wasn't for the cumbersome connectivity for video streaming and that horrendously designed and ridiculously looking messenger program. Four stars are very fair, considering the lies in advertisements.

this is a very good webcam. it has a motorize tilt and pan function that really do work, it can be set to follow you movement around the room.
the video output is not perfect but its good. It could be smaller. not bad for the price.

I attempted to install this on an HP touch smart running windows 7 64bit. During the install, the system stopped responding, and I was left having to click on about 30 popup boxes stating that files could not be found. I attempted to remove the software but it will not allow me to. I Figured it might be my computer, so I gave the camera to my daughter and she had a similar experience on her laptop, and had to actually pull the battery to shut off the computer as the task manager would not stop the program. A few minutes later I got an email from her account, as did everyone in her contact list, from a scam web site with a link. I am not sure if the software caused this, but it was uncanny timing, and the camera still does not work. I am not happy at all, thank goodness this was a cheap camera. It's going in the trash in the morning, and I'll chalk this up to experience.