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$269.99 - TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W (White)
Product DescriptionThe 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.
Most Recent Customer ReviewsDate : 2010-02-24
Summary : Works well, setup instructions are ...
I bought this WebCAM as a way of keeping an eye on my dog. My dog is Bloodhound and everything that you've probably heard about their sensitive noses is completely true and worse! Her nose gets into everything so I needed a way 'catching her in the act' so that I could correct the behavior.
The WebCAM is quite small and the web based configuration is simple. However, if you're not a computer guru who knows all of the ins and outs to setting up your DSL router and webCAM, good luck. I consider myself very tech savvy and I struggled with getting the router and camera to work together for quite some time. Forget about the instructions that come with the camera, they are almost worthless.
Here's a tip that I found on a third party web site almost as an afterthought. If you want to use the "Speaker Out" feature, you have to supply the speaker! Nowhere does TrendNet give you this little gem of information, or at least nowhere that I could find it.
The camera "looks up" much further than it "looks down." So if you mount the camera high, (I mounted mine near the ceiling) you may need to mount it with a little down angle so that you can increase the field of view below the camera. I mounted mine so that it looks straight down giving me the widest field of view possible. Note that if you do this, the image will "rotate" as you pan the camera from side to side.
The wireless works very well, again using the web based setup is a snap to setting up the wireless. It has a lot of different security features that works with a wide range of Access Points.
The zoom is a joke. It's nothing more than like zooming in on a photo using your favorite picture viewer / editor. Worthless in my opinion.
All in all, I like the camera a lot for what I'm using it for, essentially a security camera. I'm considering purchasing a second one for my downstairs.
Date : 2010-02-22
Summary : Great Camera - But Issues with Install and Parallels 5.0
I have a Macbook running a virtual machine on Parallels 5 and tried to set up the IP address with the provided CD. After a half-hour or so I gave up and called tech support. Call was answered promptly and soon I was speaking with a knowledgeable support person. We tried a number of things, none of which worked.
Finally, we connected the camera direct to the Macbook, changed the ip address of the Mac to 192.168.10.50 and the camera showed up immediately. Once I changed the address of the camera, it worked great in IE (Parallels 5); the CD installation program just would not recognize the camera under Parallels.
I now have the camera set up in my lake home at it works great -- sends emails based on detection, decent night viewing, etc. (Have no need for sound and thus have not tried it.) I couldn't be happier. Would have given it a 5 had there been a virtual machine warning.
Date : 2010-02-18
Summary : Doesn't work over my WiFi and is NOT zoom
I read all the reviews before buying this Pan Tilt Zoom (BTW it is NOT a zoom camera) network camera. My initial requirements were that it work over wifi, viewable on iPhone with PTZ, and have night vision. I am using it as a infant/toddler room monitor. Well, this product works very poorly on my network over wifi. I have all apple equipment and I was so displeased with the wifi performance that I ran cat5 to the room and have it on the wired network. Now it runs flawlessly. I would have saved $50 and bought the wired version. Aside from that the best I can get on my iPhone is about 3 frames per second. It makes it functional but far from fluid. The night vision works GREAT! It is in a 10x15 room and I can easily see my child even in complete darkness. I have the manual focus set on the bed because that is the area of most concern. The audio function is terrible and I never use it. I paid top dollar and thought I was getting one of the best home use IP cameras. I am a little disappointed it doesn't zoom and am VERY disappointed it does NOT work over wifi. I am not disappointed enough to return it. Three out of five stars. It is "OK".
Date : 2010-02-15
Summary : Great for the money...but could use a couple of tweaks....
Prior to this I owned the BL-C131A Panasonic wireless cam, which worked great for 2 years, then suddenly didn't work wirelessly anymore. I decided to try the Trendnet TV-IP422W because of the very good reviews I read and also the fact that it has night vision and 2-way audio. Neither of these features were offered on the Panasonic.
The IP422W is a little difficult to set up. As with most products these days, the owners manual is a bit lacking. Luckily I had the experience with the Panasonic camera and wireless set up was very similar. Additionally, one of the prior reviews for this cam gave very good instruction on setting up wireless connection using static ip, which is what I had to do(Verizon FIOS router).
The image is very good with the IP422W, and the night vision in a completely dark room is amazing. Everything is black and white in night vision mode, but still amazing. The ONLY problem with the night mode is that you can't turn it off. When the light level drops to a certain point, the IP422W uses it's night imagery and sometimes it slightly obscures visibility in a room with weak lighting. This is not a problem most of the time, but it would be great if the night mode had an on/off switch.
Another nice feature is the 330 degree rotation. The Panasonic cam could only do about 180 degrees. And the 2-way audio works well (you need to connect computer speakers to the IP422W), but you must click on and off the talk and listen button so you and the person on the other end don't get the delayed feedback. I don't think this is a major issue either, but something to point out. One other thing the Panasonic cam had but not the IP422W is a DISABLE button on the front of cam that you could turn off at night for privacy, and turn ON remotely if you are administrator. This camera can only be turned off by unplugging it.
Overall I am very happy with this cam, but I think the low light images are better on the Panasonic cam, and microphone on IP422W is not as sensitive as the Panasonic cam. I used to be able to hear someone leaving a message on my answering machine at home, and clearly hear the song on the radio in the background at home as well. Now I can hear something, but cannot decipher a phone message or identify song now. If someone is speaking, however, that is always clear enough to understand. For the money ($199), I think this is a very good wireless IP cam.
Date : 2010-01-31
Summary : Works OK, Could Be Much Better
I rarely comment on my amazon purchases, but I have really depended on reviews to guide my netcam purchases and figured I needed to give my feedback on the product. I bought this camera with the intent to purchase three more if it was a great product. I would like to have three or four in my home so I can monitor remotely.
Pros:
1. Fairly easy to configure
I plugged it in to AC and ethernet. I used a Win 7 box to run the installer that basically searches for the camera on my LAN. I found it right away and gave it a static ip. Reboot.
2. Works better than expected on my iMac under Snow Leopard
I was able to see live streaming video using both Safari and Firefox under Snow Leopard. I could also pan the camera with both browsers. You lose digital zoom and audio, but I believe you can open quicktime and stream audio separately. I did not try that part.
3. Solidly built product.
4. Tech support was available on a Sunday and with no hold time.
5. Great picture quality
Issues:
1. Live view under IE 8 and Win 7 64bit would not show video from the camera. I could see the camera from the setup audio/video screen though. I called tech support and was quickly connected with an agent. She was very nice and attentive, but unable to resolve this issue. She stated that IE 8 under Win 7 doesn't always work and she suggested I use Firefox. I tried Firefox on the same Win 7 box and it did work by calling the quicktime plugin and was slow.
2. I could not access the camera using my Verizon Blackberry Tour's browser. I could hit the camera's webserver, but had no access to controls and no picture. I configured the 3GPP stream but never could get to it on the blackberry with the proper port forwarded. When I put the camera in the DMZ, it would work. I tried to troubleshoot this with Trendnet email support and found it to be abysmal. I was told to forward ports 5002-5003, but these UDP ports are not configurable on the camera, only the TCP RTSP port. Had I been able to stream to my blackberry, I would not have returned the camera.
3. I could not access the camera stream with my iPod Touch via Safari. The browser failed to load the control icons and the video stream. No iPhone support and it is 2010. Disappointing.
Conclusion:
This camera, like many netcams, has IE ActiveX dependencies. Surprisingly, I could not get it to work under Win 7 IE 8. I normally use Firefox on my Mac, so this was not that big of a deal. I also have XP on the Mac so the IE limitations were not a problem. It would be great if manufacturers would not use proprietary coding in favor of open source functions available to many different OS and browsers.
The real deal killer was not having any access using a mobile device. Due to the webserver's dependancies on either java or activex, I could not view the camera using my blackberry or iPod Touch. This means I would need access to a computer with internet to see the camera. To the camera's credit, it did offer 3GPP mobile streaming, but I am fairly certain that Verizon blocks these streams.
Considering this product costs over $200, not having access to the camera using my Blackberry was very disappointing. Lack of iPhone support is another reason to look at a different camera.
Overall, if you don't need access from mobile devices, and will access the camera from a PC or Mac with internet, this camera works. If you want more out if it, including mobile phone and iPhone support, take a look at Sharx Security.
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