These are great cameras for the cost. Pan, tilt, low light, color, wifi, email alerts, screen capture, etc, etc... But, as others have said, all the docs are poorly written for english, but if you have any sort of network knowledge, these things are a snap to get going on your home wifi and manage/view from any internet access point. They are NOT plug and play though. I just ordered another for outside. I'll figure out some sort of weatherproof cover. They work great except the sound and talk suck...
The video is color in lighted conditions and black and white at night. The color video quality is typical for a web cam. The night vision is better than I expected. The night vision works in zero light. It is crisp black and white. The frame rate drops in night vision mode though. I'm getting 10 frames per second on average at 640x480 (15 is max) over WiFi G in lighted conditions, and about 4 FPS at night. The video is equally good indoor and out. There is an outdoor setting you must use for outside use.
The audio input is pretty noisy, but you can understand someone talking. I have not tried the audio output.
The motion detection is a little slow to start recording, so it will miss a car going by, but not a person walking.
You can monitor using Firefox (worst) IE with an included DirectX plug (better) or the included software (best). When you connect with a browser, it has a smartphone option. It works okay on my Droid X. My computer is running MS Windows XP SP2.
A good quality adjustable wall mount is included, as well as an Ethernet cable and software CD.
The documentation is hilariously Engrish. The software registration code is on a sticker on the last page of the manual. That took awhile to find.
Bottom line: I paid $57 for mine. The price keeps going up, as at the time of this writing the price is $68. It is worth every penny of $57 and probably $68.This camera was like having a new pet in the house! I plugged it in and the camera starting surveying the area like it was getting to know the place (cute). SOOO Excited I opened the instructions and WOW what are they trying to say here? It is in such broken English that I don't know if it's telling me to do something, not do something or what anything means??? (Mommie)
So, broken English is not my specialty, I'm going to have to go off the reservation hooking this up! So let me try to help:
Hook camera directly to your router (it comes w/that cable). Load software on computer/laptop. If you ever get to the part where it give you 3 options to log-in, choose the 1st ONE thru IE (internet explorer). It will prompt you for user name/password. Use the default it provides by just hitting (enter). It should detect your camera and a screen that looks like a remote comes on with a window of what your camera is viewing. The bottom button is your options, click that. Go to user options and set up your own userID/password and on wireless setup put in your router info & WEP Key. That should get it done. Now my new little HooToo is set so I can scan my entire area and view my doggies activities. Picture is clear and crisp, very quiet when you movie it too. Once you get this little guy up and running you'll love your HooToo-Too :)Pros:
Very good price
Complete package (inlcudes all needed)
High sensitivity (low light)
Easy of use
Feature rich firmware
Cons:
Only works with Java enabled smartphones
No Ipod/Iphone support
Not heavy duty looksI just recived my camera this afternoon. I connected power and connected the camera to my router so I could setup the wireless configuration. It was all pretty easy using the wizard driven software. I set up port forwarding on my router. I had everything up and running in about 10 minutes. I even dowloaded an app for my iphone called uCamPro that displays the video from the camera perfectly. I think a lot of people that complain about these cameras are having a hard time dealing with the router settings or are expecting the camera to work out of the box. The only thing that does not work very well is the microphone and internal speaker. I havent tried connecting an external speaker yet. There is a ring around the lens you can turn to tweek the focusing.
If your someone that is not used to messing with router settings and such you are going to pull out your hair getting this to work outside of you local (in your house) network. Other wise I think you'll be pretty please with this IP camera :)
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