Pros:
1. Produces decent images during daylight hours.
2. Reason price for image quality and wireless.
Cons:
1. Be prepared for next to zero support. Their software is dated and their instructions not in sync with their software which is even more dated than their instructions. They also do not develop their own software and are reliant on third party software (some of which is no longer developed or supported) to even setup the camera.
2) If you are a Mac user, I am quoting Foscam Support: "I suggest that you switch to Windows operating system and then you will be able to use firefox or chrome."
3) This camera in the housing is almost the size of a 2 liter bottle of Coke / Pepsi (see image) and heavy. It is much bigger than I thought it was going to be and comes with a generic mount that barely holds its weight.
4) The cables / power supply for it is a generic indoor style a/c block adapter AND the cable coming out of the camera has a bunch of other connectors. So even though it is an outdoor weather proofed camera you are going to have to get some weatherproof power extensions and some sort of protective box to plug the camera into power. The power supply cable comes out the side of the power supply too so will not work with traditional weather proofing covers for outlets either (or yet another extension)
5) Poor browser support: The software included with the camera is only for Windows and will NOT support full 64-bit browser mode. The camera's login page checks for a browser plugin that is only recognized on 32-bit Windows. You can get a third party plug-in (not developed for or supported by Foscam).
6) For Mac, Safari only and it has issues. It is not available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera or anything else. The Safari browser plug-in (or the camera software) itself has a few issues itself so I was not able to configure all of the settings like remote out of my home network viewing as it kept loosing or not saving the settings or would imply it saved them and reboot and then not be there.
7) The Foscam iOS app will not setup this camera, nor will any third party one and it does not have the QR-code setup function some other cameras have.
8) You need to be able to remote into the camera via a browser to set it up. The login page downloads a 3rd party Windows executable to your PC even on a Mac or in Linux. It will not take you to a compatible plug-in and the ones mentioned and screen shotted on their site and in documentation either are no longer supported, compatible, or even available.
Again quoting support: "doesn't work because of limitations of plug-in for cameras."
9) Once you get it mostly setup a variety of IPcam programs (free and purchased) I tried in other browsers (even IPCam wouldn't work) as well as iOS would not work with this camera running the latest firmware due to incompatibilities with usernames / passwords, image size, or the camera simply would not respond, say it is communicating but not return images, or it would crash the app when I connected to this particular camera.
10) Dusk hours where the camera is in and or looking at something in shadow but other areas are bright the darker areas, the darker areas are basically too dark to see detail even right in front of the camera and if you turn on the IR function. So basically it has poor exposure control to lock in and adjust the exposure appropriately for these mixed lighting conditions.
After multiple email exchanges with support I gave up on this camera (and Foscam) that never got it completely working and decided to identify a higher quality, better supported camera. I think if they had better software alone I would have been willing to work through the cable issues and size, but the ridiculously bad software and no support had it going back in the box and returned.
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Awful Software (if it works at all), poor support, HUGE physical camera, and NO Mac / Linux support from Foscam.
Pros:1. Produces decent images during daylight hours.2. Reason price for image quality and wireless.Cons:1. Be prepared for next to zero support. Their software is dated and their instructions not in sync with their software which is even more dated than their instructions. They also do not develop their own software and are reliant on third party software (some of which is no longer developed or supported) to even setup the camera.2) If you are a Mac user, I am quoting Foscam Support: "I suggest that you switch to Windows operating system and then you will be able to use firefox or chrome."3) This camera in the housing is almost the size of a 2 liter bottle of Coke / Pepsi (see image) and heavy. It is much bigger than I thought it was going to be and comes with a generic mount that barely holds its weight.4) The cables / power supply for it is a generic indoor style a/c block adapter AND the cable coming out of the camera has a bunch of other connectors. So even though it is an outdoor weather proofed camera you are going to have to get some weatherproof power extensions and some sort of protective box to plug the camera into power. The power supply cable comes out the side of the power supply too so will not work with traditional weather proofing covers for outlets either (or yet another extension)5) Poor browser support: The software included with the camera is only for Windows and will NOT support full 64-bit browser mode. The camera's login page checks for a browser plugin that is only recognized on 32-bit Windows. You can get a third party plug-in (not developed for or supported by Foscam).6) For Mac, Safari only and it has issues. It is not available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera or anything else. The Safari browser plug-in (or the camera software) itself has a few issues itself so I was not able to configure all of the settings like remote out of my home network viewing as it kept loosing or not saving the settings or would imply it saved them and reboot and then not be there.7) The Foscam iOS app will not setup this camera, nor will any third party one and it does not have the QR-code setup function some other cameras have.8) You need to be able to remote into the camera via a browser to set it up. The login page downloads a 3rd party Windows executable to your PC even on a Mac or in Linux. It will not take you to a compatible plug-in and the ones mentioned and screen shotted on their site and in documentation either are no longer supported, compatible, or even available.Again quoting support: "doesn't work because of limitations of plug-in for cameras."9) Once you get it mostly setup a variety of IPcam programs (free and purchased) I tried in other browsers (even IPCam wouldn't work) as well as iOS would not work with this camera running the latest firmware due to incompatibilities with usernames / passwords, image size, or the camera simply would not respond, say it is communicating but not return images, or it would crash the app when I connected to this particular camera.10) Dusk hours where the camera is in and or looking at something in shadow but other areas are bright the darker areas, the darker areas are basically too dark to see detail even right in front of the camera and if you turn on the IR function. So basically it has poor exposure control to lock in and adjust the exposure appropriately for these mixed lighting conditions.After multiple email exchanges with support I gave up on this camera (and Foscam) that never got it completely working and decided to identify a higher quality, better supported camera. I think if they had better software alone I would have been willing to work through the cable issues and size, but the ridiculously bad software and no support had it going back in the box and returned.
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- Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2015
Pros:
Awful Software (if it works at all), poor support, HUGE physical camera, and NO Mac / Linux support from Foscam.
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2015
1. Produces decent images during daylight hours.
2. Reason price for image quality and wireless.
Cons:
1. Be prepared for next to zero support. Their software is dated and their instructions not in sync with their software which is even more dated than their instructions. They also do not develop their own software and are reliant on third party software (some of which is no longer developed or supported) to even setup the camera.
2) If you are a Mac user, I am quoting Foscam Support: "I suggest that you switch to Windows operating system and then you will be able to use firefox or chrome."
3) This camera in the housing is almost the size of a 2 liter bottle of Coke / Pepsi (see image) and heavy. It is much bigger than I thought it was going to be and comes with a generic mount that barely holds its weight.
4) The cables / power supply for it is a generic indoor style a/c block adapter AND the cable coming out of the camera has a bunch of other connectors. So even though it is an outdoor weather proofed camera you are going to have to get some weatherproof power extensions and some sort of protective box to plug the camera into power. The power supply cable comes out the side of the power supply too so will not work with traditional weather proofing covers for outlets either (or yet another extension)
5) Poor browser support: The software included with the camera is only for Windows and will NOT support full 64-bit browser mode. The camera's login page checks for a browser plugin that is only recognized on 32-bit Windows. You can get a third party plug-in (not developed for or supported by Foscam).
6) For Mac, Safari only and it has issues. It is not available for Chrome, Firefox, Opera or anything else. The Safari browser plug-in (or the camera software) itself has a few issues itself so I was not able to configure all of the settings like remote out of my home network viewing as it kept loosing or not saving the settings or would imply it saved them and reboot and then not be there.
7) The Foscam iOS app will not setup this camera, nor will any third party one and it does not have the QR-code setup function some other cameras have.
8) You need to be able to remote into the camera via a browser to set it up. The login page downloads a 3rd party Windows executable to your PC even on a Mac or in Linux. It will not take you to a compatible plug-in and the ones mentioned and screen shotted on their site and in documentation either are no longer supported, compatible, or even available.
Again quoting support: "doesn't work because of limitations of plug-in for cameras."
9) Once you get it mostly setup a variety of IPcam programs (free and purchased) I tried in other browsers (even IPCam wouldn't work) as well as iOS would not work with this camera running the latest firmware due to incompatibilities with usernames / passwords, image size, or the camera simply would not respond, say it is communicating but not return images, or it would crash the app when I connected to this particular camera.
10) Dusk hours where the camera is in and or looking at something in shadow but other areas are bright the darker areas, the darker areas are basically too dark to see detail even right in front of the camera and if you turn on the IR function. So basically it has poor exposure control to lock in and adjust the exposure appropriately for these mixed lighting conditions.
After multiple email exchanges with support I gave up on this camera (and Foscam) that never got it completely working and decided to identify a higher quality, better supported camera. I think if they had better software alone I would have been willing to work through the cable issues and size, but the ridiculously bad software and no support had it going back in the box and returned.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2016
If you already purchase this CAM, relax, you made the right choice, if not, read before you buy:
-The picture quality is great, HD as described day and night.
-The color quality is perfect day time, see attached image.
-The night vision is perfect, with 36 IR lights , it will get you over 70 feet for sure, see attached image.
-The interface is in English and stable, tested on windows 7 and 10.
-The wireless range is not bad at all, it's true 802.11 bgn, means you get 54 Mbps as maximum which is more than enough.
Well, the above spec / features all looks good while others may had hard times to get it to work, how did I do it?, here is how:
-A good home wireless router, any good brand with 3x3 802.11 abgn will do, see attached image ( cisco linksys EA 4500).
-A good wireless plan, what does that mean? it means you setup a separate SSID for the CAM only and dedicate a static channel for that SSID after you scan your wireless environment with a good RF scanner, like the wireless scanner app from the google play ( works on Blackberry and Androids), see attached image.
-Setup a network shared folder, which you can access remotely , then point the storage path for your videos and snap-shots from the CAM interface or the desktop client to that folder.
-Because of the good recording compression rate, a 20 GB of storage will give you a month worth of motion detected videos.
-It's an outdoor CAM, so it will normally sit behind a wall or a metal door which will affect your wireless signal, how to deal with this? get a 2.4 GHz 11 dBi Omni Antenna , and fish the wire out to the CAM, the Omni Antenna should be inside, be aware the Antenna cable connector is very rare which is SMA male, see attached image.
-My wireless router is in the first floor away from the camera, I used same brand wireless range extender and got the signal almost perfect for the CAM, see attached image.
-On the storage hosting PC / machine, I used a free PING server ( like the emco ping monitor ) to measure the quality of the connection, after all above, I got around %99-%100 stable connectivity and availability, see attached image.
-The smart phone app is stable and you can get it for free from the Blackberry world or the android google play, you can view the live CAM remotely and locally , you can take snap-shots and record video on your phone as well, see attached image.
Hope this help,
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AlessandroReviewed in Italy on February 3, 2015
A me è piaciuta
A me è piaciuta molto questa telecamera.AlessandroA me è piaciuta
Reviewed in Italy on February 3, 2015
Appena aperta la scatola ho potuto apprezzare la robustezza costruttiva e la qualità dei materiali: appare veramente solida e ben assemblata.
La sto usando da diversi giorni come webcam per il mio sito web e devo dire che sono soddisfatto della resa delle immagini. L'inquadratura appare buona con luce diurna, anche contro sole aumentando la luminosità dalle impostazioni, e con un notevole grandangolo.
Persino in notturna con i led IR accesi la resa è soddisfacente.
La risoluzione massima di 1280x960 pixel non è impressionante, ma adeguata allo scopo di utilizzo e al prezzo del prodotto.
Ho montato la telecamera all'esterno sul tetto del mio edificio in posizione particolarmente esposta a vento e pioggia.
La tenuta per il momento è ottima. Occorre semplicemente di tanto in tanto pulire il vetro anteriore per evitare aloni provocati da pioggia sporca o salmastro.
Io ho applicato dei dissuasori per volatili per evitare che gabbiani, piccioni o simili ci si poggiassero sopra.
Lascio il link all'immagine in diretta della mia telecamera in modo che possiate valutare personalmente la qualità dell'immagine:
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Nella confezione sono inclusi: l'alimentatore; un cavo ethernet non molto lungo, ma utile per collegare la telecamera ad un router per le prime impostazioni; una staffa da muro; una guida rapida all'installazione, un mini cd con il software indispensabile.
La telecamera si configura piuttosto facilmente.
Io la sto usando con collegamento wired con cavo ethernet lungo 20 metri.
Leggendo altre recensioni ho notato che alcuni utenti si lamentano dei connettori per la connessione dell'alimentatore e del cavo ethernet. Personalmente credo che questi siano ben fatti e che sia normale doverli proteggere in una scatola di derivazione adatta al luogo di installazione.
Il software fornito è semplice da usare e ben fatto. L'aggiornamento del firmware è facile da eseguire.
Con l'ultimo aggiornamento è possibile salvare in FTP o in locale le immagini o i video secondo un calendario settimanale impostabile a piacimento con frequenza di cattura personalizzabile.
Puntualizzo che la telecamera non ha in dotazione nè microfono, nè altoparlante. Per avere l'audio in ingresso e/o uscita occorre acquistare tali accessori separatamente. La telecamera ha semplicemente due jack RCA ai quali collegarli.
Insomma per quanto mi riguarda sono molto soddisfatto dell'acquisto.
Il prodotto mi ha colpito per qualità costruttiva e resa delle immagini.
La definizione dell'immagine non è impressionante, ma i colori sono davvero belli e l'obbiettivo ha un notevole grandangolo.
Credo che il rapporto qualità prezzo sia molto alto per utilizzo webcam o per videosorveglianza su distanze non troppo elevate.
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