TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)

by TRENDnet

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8 x 5.5 inches ; 12.5 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B0018DJF4K
• Item model number: TV-IP422W
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (112 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,536 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Style Name: wireless

From the Manufacturer

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The TRENDnet 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.

Personal Computer Magazine was impressed by TRENDnet’s Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt Internet Camera Server with 2-Way Audio (model TV-IP422W) stating, “...it has wide horizontal range, easy menu configuration and is silent when operated.”	SweMOD.com (Sweden) gives TRENDnet’s Day/Night Pan/Tilt Internet Camera Server with 2-Way Audio (model TV-IP422) an Editor’s Choice Award and a 100% rating stating, “A stylish security camera with good quality picture, fast response times and features to keep you busy for quite some time.”	Energy Star certified products are more energy efficient than non-certified products. They not only protect the environment, but also reduce your electrical bill. TRENDnet Energy Star certified products use high-efficiency external power adapters. The energy efficient adapters reduce energy consumption by an average of 30%.
Installation Diagram and Network Solution

Key Features

• Compatible with wireless g and b devices.
• Advanced encryption modes include WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK
• Pan 330º side-to-side and tilt 105º up-and-down from any Internet connection
• High quality MPEG-4 and MJPEG video recording with up to 30 frames per second
• Hear and talk to people in your camera’s viewing area through your computer
• Built-in USB port allows you to store still images directly onto a USB flash or hard drive*
• Infrared lens enables day and night vision (night visibility up to 5 m)
• Supports TCP/IP networking, SMTP Email, HTTP, Samba and other Internet protocols
• Record streaming video to your computer and network storage devices
• Sends image snapshots to FTP, email and flash drives
• Motion detection email alerts
• Two adjustable motion detection windows with just-in-time snapshot and time stamp overlay
• Quick Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) installation
• Complimentary SecurView™ software: view and record up to 16 cameras simultaneously **
• 3-year limited warranty
• * USB port supports up to 500mA power device with FAT16/32 format
• ** Monitoring multiple cameras may require a high performance CPU

What’s in the Box

TV-IP422W, Multi-Language Quick Installation Guide, CD-ROM (Utility and User’s Guide), Cat. 5 Ethernet cable (1.8 m / 5.9 ft), Power adapter (12VDC, 1.5A), GPIO adapter, Mounting kit

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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 ( 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

187 of 188 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better than expected, June 7, 2008

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Cheetokhan (Gulf Coast) - See all my reviews

This review is from: TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White) (Electronics)

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. UPDATE- two way audio works great. You need a powered, amplified speaker; I used an old computer speaker.
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.

REVIEW UPDATE- I've had mine now for several months and it still works great. I changed the video setting to "outdoor" and now it works perfectly in full sunlight. And it still works just as good in full dark as it did with the other video settings. I was having some problems with the camera losing it's wireless connection to my Linksys router. I would have to power cycle the camera to get it to reconnect. But then I started having other problems with the Linksys router so I replaced my old Linksys router with a newer D-Link router and the problems have gone away. The camera has not lost it's connection since I replaced the router.
Because this camera is UV sensitive and does not have a switchable mechanical UV filter, daylight images sometimes look a little fuzzy, as if the lens is dirty. This is most noticeable when viewing indoors with a lot of sunlight coming in through the windows. I have other UV sensitive cameras and they exhibit the same behavior.
Overall, I am still quite pleased with this camera and just wish Amazon would make it a Gold Box deal so I could get another one!
Amazon recently put the Panasonic BLC131A wireless network camera on sale for about 1/2 price so I got one to try. The Trendnet TV-IP422W is far superior to the Panasonic; it has much better image quality, sound quality and range of motion, and the Trendnet configuration screens seem much more intuitive to me.
If Trendnet would add a zoom lens and a mechanical UV filter, this camera would be perfect.

151 of 153 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars DON''T rely on Wireless Functionality, September 2, 2009

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Richard Lau "Gadget Geek" (Lost Angels, Calif.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White) (Electronics)

Hopefully you will find this review helpful for your setup. I know I rely HEAVILY on reviews and feedbacks for my purchase.

First off, don't expect much from the wireless feature. It's nice to have, for portability e.g. but not for reliability nor stability.

I bought 4 of these cameras, mounted them all wirelessly with (a) front door, (b) back door (c) kitchen and (d) foyer, to keep an eye on our dog. I figured I may be able to skip on pet hotel fees and get a big peace of mind at the same time. I setup my routers, sort out the remote web access and even got them to work via my iphone using the $5 eyecam app. The $25 IP PRO View app does not work with the IP422W's data stream.

When I was still home and before my first trip that truly tests out these cameras, one of the cameras would be missing from the network and never to be seen again even after a reset. Amazon promptly sent out a replacement but only after I discovered you really need to leave these cameras disconnected for more than a few minutes before it was really re-initialized.

Then we went on our vacation and after a few hours into it, 1 of 4 cameras were MIA. Still, it was fantastic to able to see our dog through the other working cameras. However, by day 2, we were left with only 2 cameras working and on our way home, only 1 camera was working. Of course, bear in mind, there's NOTHING you can do to fix it unless you get someone to go to your home, unplug and replug the camera's A/C adapter (a reboot).

The following week, we went On our 2nd and longer vacation and it was pretty much the same story. First, it teases you with much relief that it's working but then it never fails to disappoint with a non-functioning camera by day 2 or 3. On our way home from this 5 day trip, only 1 camera was working.

When we got home, I was bent on researching this further and opened two tickets with Trendnet, the 2nd one, they didn't even bothered replying. Now dizzy with the experience of being able to check on the house when we're away, I was prepared to send the Trendnets back to Amazon and swap them for far more costly Toshibas, Sonys or Axises.

But after much research, I quickly concluded that almost all of these IP cams just don't have very robust wi-fi components. Most reviews were plagued with widespread reports of losing connections, reboots and the like.

Still, I pushed forward, upgraded the router's firmware to DD-WRT, bumped up its transmitter range, added another router in as a repeater, relocated the routers to higher ground e.g. I even tried swapping the antennae on the furthest camera with a longer antennae that came off an older Linksys router. By now, there is probably sufficient signal strength in my house to service the neigboring five streets!!

But of course, one camera or another will still continue to drop out, never to be heard from again until they are rebooted. I supposed it would have been great if they will self re-connected again sometime later but they never did, not even once.

The geek in me then went into innovation mode, perhaps I can set up a script, reboot them every two days, use X10 power modules and restart them remotely. Then my wife gently reminds me we just spent a grand on cameras that have questionable functionality.

At this point, I bid kudos to those who have written about this same topic, about futile attempts to troubleshoot wi-fi problems, about even with the router next to the camera, it STILL loses connections. The optimist in me finally agreed, my wi-fi network is not the problem, THESE CAMERAS DON'T WORK WELL WITH WI-FI. Not that the wi-fi don't work at all, it's just that they don't work consistently.

So finally, I bit the bullet and reluctantly HARD-WIRED ethernet connections to all the cameras. I had explored using POE and possibly Homeplug to ease the installation pain but they added more point-of-failures and cost quite a bit more as well. I eventually opted to punch holes into the wall, fishing e.g. and did the hard-wired routine.

It's been a week since my wiring/stucco/drywall/painting work has just completed and the cameras have been live 24x7 without a hiccup.

All in all, the IP422W is great, has a good enough picture, decent IR, great low-light capabilities to 15 feet, unmatched panning angles and more importantly, good value for the money. Just don't expect an optical zoom or a continuously functioning wi-fi.

61 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Watching the Kids, June 5, 2008

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Karl Bielefeldt (Huntsville, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White) (Electronics)

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.

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