Customer Reviews

X10 XCam2 InstantON Tiny Wireless Color Video Camera

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As a computer and Audio Video Tech with over 10 years of experience. I tell you go read the Forums in x10 even though the forum has been mostly deleted . You will know the hard hidden facts about this junk.

I had paid nearly $300- for a x10 camera kit for a client to install. The software is incompatible to all platforms. Has major glitches. Hardware , the cams are third class quality and so is the support. If you have nothing to do in life and want to sit and waste time on trying to figure out defective products then this is it.

Don't buy anything wireless from x10. Go Wired if you must. But then the software will not support its own hardware. So go figure ! or just stay away from it anyway.

I have three of these cameras.
Two of them have been working for over ten years, trouble free. The camera seems to last a long time and the power supply seems to have about a ten year lifespan.
As a basic surveilance camera you can't beat the X10.

The x-10 cameras are very small, and of limited resolution. They are CMOS sensors, not CCD, so they should be very cheap if you look around. For the price, you can put adequate video surveillance in a storeroom, porch, or nursery etc. You can have remote video for a trivial amount, when you possibly couldn't afford a CCD system. A "real" CCD camera system is a much bigger investment, and should give a better picture; but you are going to see the same thing with both cameras, so the x-10 isn't that bad!

do not buy this product. their software is full of bugs. customer service is a joke. bought active home software and it shuts down when clicking on certain things inside the program. bought iwatch mobile to view cams from smartphone, have had the software for 4 months and has only worked twice for a total of 5 mins., get message "server not found". they only have one level 2 tech for the whole company, level 1 techs cant seem to do anything but tell you how to plug the stuff in or email instructions to you, none of which help. you make an appointment with lvl 2 and wait a week, you get an hour, nothing gets solved, then you make another appointment for a week or two later, then repeat. been doing this for months. i dont know how they get away selling software that does not work, even the tech said it rarely works for him. buyer beware.

I bought this simple camera/receiver setup over NINE years ago for my parents. They have a large piece of property and wanted to see who was coming to their house before they got there. I installed one X-10 camera and one receiver. They have both been in constant use since 2001. It never, ever gets turned off! My parents love it and wouldn't want to be without it. The only issue that's less than desirable is that at about 20 degrees or less, the video image darkens. It always comes back to full brightness when the temp rises. Yes, it's not ultra hi-tech or the latest technology, but it does what it was designed to do and has been rock solid for almost one full decade.

I bought some X10 Cameras and they had serious interference. X10 Tech could not provide a solution so I had to send them back.

I had to pay return shipping even though the X10 Cameras would not work properly. Every other company I have done business with will pay return shipping if their product is defective but not X10.

I will not purchase anything from X10 again.

Ordered this on Amazon, used of course, from Sell_your_own - got the camera, but no power supply. Not sure what I'm going to do about this. SUCKS TO BE ME I Guess