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TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night Cloud Camera
 
not good
- Pros: easy to set up
- Cons: fails after a few days; the apps on the android phone and IPhone works sometimes; seams to work ok the an android tablet ok; app not available to the Ipad; stopped recording after a few days with still plenty of room on the hard drive; emailed support and they told me to check their video on their web sight which told me nothing; their videos are useless for troubleshooting; filled out a second help ticket and heard nothing else from them for three weeks now. their software for the PC crashes too.
- Other Thoughts: you get what you pay for I guess.
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Reviewed By:not happy,5/21/2013 9:06:39 AM
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Decent camera for the price... not for everyone though.
- Pros: Powering up and setting up:
Setup couldn’t be easier. Plug the camera in, run the installer from the provided disk and you’re off and running. I didn’t go the WPS setup route, I choose to manually install with a wireless connection. Immediately following that choice, you have to plug the camera into either your router / switch so the camera can be programmed. Not a huge deal... the camera was still just sitting on my desk. Following the install wizard’s instructions... it programs the camera to your wireless network... then you disconnect it from your router / switch... then we’re ready to roll!
After setting up an FTP share on my NAS, plug in the settings through the camera web UI and set it to upload upon motion detection and AWAY WE GO! Pretty cool! (Although I wouldn’t expect everyone to A.) Have a NAS... B.) Know how to setup an FTP share... and then C.) feed those settings into the web UI of this camera to get it to upload on motion detection. Some-what of an advanced maneuver for the average user, but nice that it works for those in the know.
OTHER:
The TrendNet camera viewer app works well on my Droid X... let’s you view the video feed from the camera from wherever you are. Works on wifi or cell service. Also looks even better on my Nexus 7 tablet... nice to find a camera viewer app that works for tablets as well.
Motion detection is working like a charm. Set your hot zones and you are good to go. - Cons: First impressions (before powering up and setting up):
The AC power adapter is extremely short for a security camera... I was hoping to mount this somewhere in the corner of my entryway towards the ceiling, but this AC adapter is NOT going to make it that far from the power outlet. Maybe I could buy a longer one?
Can’t help but notice that nowhere in any of the documentation does it say anything about PoE... which is a bummer, because I could have used a power-injector over ethernet to fix the short length of the AC power adapter.
You don’t get PoE capability until you cross the $100 price mark and go for a “TRENDnet TV-IP572PI 1280 x 800 MAX Resolution RJ45 Megapixel PoE Day / Night Internet Camera”. If you wouldn’t be utilizing PoE anyway... you can save yourself a about $50 give or take and stay with the TV-IP751WIC.
Use:
I did receive an alert the first time I tried to access the camera from it’s web interface that there was a firmware update available. Alright... I’ll bite. Downloaded the firmware update and followed the instructions: Open the web interface, go to administration, tools, then firmware upgrade and a few minutes later it was done. In the firmware update instructions it says that after the camera reboots to do a “factory reset”... then the firmware update is complete. BUT I JUST SET IT UP! And then at the very end of the instructions it gives the steps on how to back-up your config BEFORE you do the firmware update and then how to restore your config AFTER the firmware update. Luckily, I hadn’t done much configuring yet AND setup is pretty darn easy... might as well step through it again, this time no more firmware updates and factory resets. Just seems kind of backwards to me to get the camera setup, attempt the firmware update, THEN tell the folks in the update instructions that they could have backed up their config BEFORE the firmware update.
The audio quality is just awful. Not like I was planning on using it anyways... but it sounds like a helicopter is flying around my entryway (there aren’t any fans or anything making noise at all). Kind of a bummer; would be a nice feature, had it worked and not sounded like a helicopter.
My first night with the camera setup covering the entryway in our house was disapointing. The camera is supposed to cover 7.5 meters (24 feet) in full darkness... but I did not get those results at all. My camera is setup on one side of my entryway covering our back sliding glass door and in complete darkness WITH night mode on (auto), I couldn’t see a darn thing. Going to try a few different setups to see if I can get video of my entry in complete darkness... but it doesn’t look good from the start. Measured our entryway and it’s less than 19 ft., so this camera should be doing its thing in the dark.
- Other Thoughts: AFTER SOME TWEEKING (camera focus, placement / alignment), the night vision actually works well. I have the day / night set on a schedule which seems to work well.
I’ve always had to use the View Video (JAVA)... doesn’t matter what browser I use, never been able to get a video feed with the View Video (ACTIVE-X). Weird.
Packaging and Un-boxing:
Included in the packaging are the following:
1 - TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night Cloud Camera
1 - ethernet cable
1 - AC power adapter
1 - mounting bracket / hardware
1 - installation cd
1 - manuals / literature
Like I've said above... a decent camera for the price, but it's def. not for everyone. I wouldn't expect my sister or mother or father to be able to set this up properly (I'd be taking that phone call). A little previous setup and use of cameras / networking is required to get the full potential out of a camera such as this one.
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Reviewed By:sanitarium909109,5/21/2013 8:48:31 AM
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HooToo HT-IP206 Indoor Wired/Wireless Network IP Camera with CMOS, Pan/Tilt, 2-Way Audio (Black)
Actually Incredible
- Pros: I keep waiting for this thing to let me down. When I read the description of this camera I was like "no way". No way are all those features going to work. No way it's going to stream well. No way that the network interfaces will be that easy. No way the wireless won't blip out when more than 2 people are viewing it.
It does. It does all those things and w/o a hitch for 3 months. I'm buying a second one right now - Cons: None really. The only realistic way to make to make this better would be to include a mariachi band.
- Other Thoughts: You can run multiple cameras on one dyndns.org address by using ports. Run the main one (the one you'd want to see most) on 80 and others on 81,82,83 etc.
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Reviewed By:N/A,5/21/2013 4:54:13 AM
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TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night Cloud Camera
Quick & Easy Setup
- Pros: A decent small Wi-Fi cam. Very simple to set up if you have a WPS capable router/modem, one touch of the WPS button on the camera and it’s connected! With the cloud connectivity, it makes it even simpler for you to connect….even if you’re lazy! It comes with an internet address that is specific to your camera if you turn the cloud feature on within the settings of the camera. This way, all you do is type in the supplied IP address with the specified number and you are viewing the camera!
This device also has a hard-wire Ethernet port if you prefer to have it hard-wired to your network. If you know the assigned IP address on your network, just type it into your browser to access the settings within the camera. Even though its only 640x480, its quality is good enough for those situations where you’d like to set up a camera quickly or for monitoring a room, your basement, a hallway, etc. 640x480 looks fine on a smart phone or a tablet either in the browser or with the specifics apps. Of course, if you’re running a monitor with high resolution, the picture will look smaller.
Not only will the device work with the Trendnet Cloud View App, I found it also works with Secure View Pro App. Both of these can be found on Google Play and are free. Again, they are easy to set up and will allow you to view the camera through your mobile device or tablet and works on both your network at home or while you are away…..as long as you know your home IP address! - Cons: As mentioned in previous reviews, the point at which it mounts to the base is secured with a wing-nut. There is a supplied washer in the hardware bag, but it does not seem to help this minor issue. I would suggest adding a second washer, or finding one that is just slightly thicker, as this will take the play out and allow the wing-nut to tighten down and hold the mount to the camera tight. Also, the supplied program can be a little difficult to set up. It does work, but I had to uninstall and re-install it to get it to work properly.
- Other Thoughts: This cannot be used outdoors and, of course, must be located close to an electrical outlet so that its power supply can be plugged in. The cord on the power supply is just over 4 ft long. Email alerts and FTP all work fine if you know how to set that up. You can also set it up to use your cell phones text address so that it can just text alerts directly to you if needed which is nice. There are a lot of nice features if you are into really tweaking it out.
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Reviewed By:Radx,5/20/2013 3:05:12 PM
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TRENDnet TV-IP851WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night PTZ Cloud Camera
Update Phone App works great
- Pros: The phone app works great the first time I used it my connection was not to good and I could not control the camera. Once I got a good wifi or 4G signal I had no problem panning the camera around. Even with my old Droid Bionic. I can check on the dogs from my desk at work.
- Cons: Resolution not so hot, but I knew that going in so I did not take off an egg.
- Other Thoughts: I have never had it not connect to the camera since I set this up. Even in 3G and poor wifi signal it still connected and I was able to view the picture.
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Reviewed By:Gris1969,5/20/2013 11:58:35 AM
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TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night Cloud Camera
Half 'n Half
- Pros: It is a well made design and and is built sturdy. Mounting brackets and all the screws needed to mount it on the wall. It is adjustable in any direction and angles possible.
Supports wireless N and is backward compatible to b/g, however streaming videos on b or g networks is very slow. 100M fast Ethernet is also an option if you can run cables to it.
Also has microphone which can be turned on or off through the software or the web interface.
The main feature of this camera is the free cloud service that comes with it. I believe the higher price for this camera is also because of the cloud service, but, i have mixed feelings for the way cloud service works. See cons.
The picture quality and audio quality is very good. Even though the resolution is only 640x480 the video is very very clear.
The 4 infrared LED's for night vision work very well. I can recognize people about 20-25 ft away from the camera pretty well during night outdoors. Night-vision indoors is even more awesome.
Motion detection can be done within the camera or by the software. If you have many cameras and/or the server computer is little bit slow, you can offload the motion detection work to the camera it will reduce the stress on the server. I had to crank the motion sensitivity way up in order to make the motion detection work.
Through the login page of the camera you can not only view the live video feed, you can also set it up to send images to a FTP server or send you emails at regular intervals. You can also add users other than admins who can view the live feed but not control the features of the camera. For the network usage there are lots of features like static IPs, DHCP, PPPoE, Dynamic DNS and port forwarding. There is also an option to disable the cloud link and setup DDNS in order to view the feed away from the home.
I do like the 3 years warranty. - Cons: I don't know where to start. First of all installation was a little skewed. They don't supply the default login with the camera and I had to google for that information (default logon is admin:admin). I think they want us to use WPS, which any tech savvy or near tech savvy person would never use.
The camera doesn't have a default ip, by default it is configured to listen for a DHCP server. I had connect it to the router and logon into it to find out what IP it was using. But after that using that ip to log on to the camera made it much easier to look into the various features of the camera.
Trendnet secureview pro is a good software and has many features like motion detection, selection of areas exclude from motion etc, but navigating through the archives for recorded footage is pain. Secureview doesn't let direct control for the camera like night vision toggle, LED control. You have to logon to the camera from the browser in order to access those features.
While using indoors I ran into problem of the night vision switching on and of quite frequently under low light condition so I had to force it to stay on NV.
The LED's in front of the cameras are attention grabbers, especially when outdoors, but they can be turned off through the camera's page.
The cloud link makes it easy for to view the camera when away from home but it lacks any kind of control to the camera. To use the cloud link you have to install a plugin which is a .msi package that takes out Linux users completely not being able to utilize the feature. Why use a .msi package rather than browser based .xpi plugin installers?
Also secureview is not supported on linux. Zoneminder is not being able to logon to the camera and there are no other viable options to record the camera feed on linux, I am not being able to use my linux based home server as a DVR.
- Other Thoughts: After using this camera for about a couple weeks I have come to conclusion that this camera indeed fits the need for average people but for me there are some quirks. It not only fits the bill, but excels in many ways. It has tonnes of features and tweak options. Video quality is very good but I would have appreciated if it was of higher resolution. Night vision is also excellent, motion capture works but for night use the sensitivity has to be cranked high.
The cloud thing is awesome on one hand but limited on other. Say if I forgot to switch it to automatic mode and kept it on day mode and left my home for a few days, there is no way for me to turn the night vision on from the cloud. I am also an avid supporter of linux and the cloud doesn't even work with linux, not only that the linux support for this camera is almost non existent. This is a major setback for me and possibly many others who already have linux based home servers and want a surveillance system for their home. It is a shame that the camera itself is running on a linux platform but lacks support for linux based end users.
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Reviewed By:Black,5/20/2013 12:01:07 AM
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TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC
- Pros: This Wi-Fi camera works really good I set it up within 15 minutes, has ok quality video and audio the android app works ok, I can log in and see what's going on at my house anytime. It also can feed to a server to save the video feed. The video stream over internet has a slight delay but only about 2 seconds. Camera supports motion detection IR night vision the night vision switches to black and white.
This camera has manual focus and night vision very surprised how well this item works in low light. Software Is easy to use for advanced users but can be a bit daunting for basic users. - Cons: The mounting bracket adjustment is kind of cheaply made
power cord could also be a little longer. Higher quality
video would be nice.
- Other Thoughts: This is a great start for trend net getting into this market of
Wi-Fi cameras but they need to refine a little bit but is a
great start keep up the good work.
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Reviewed By:ElectronicMechanic,5/19/2013 5:56:13 PM
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camera
- Pros: Not a very good picture at 640 X 480 maximum resolution, but much higher quality picture than I expected. This is not a professional security camera and does not have an HD picture.
Night mode works well, but the range is pretty short and colors wash out as should be expected with any 0 lux camera.
Firmware upgrade is easy. The directions say to plug it into an ethernet cable to do the upgrade, but I was in the process of doing the upgrade when I read that and it worked fine. It took a lot longer than it should doing it wireless versus over Ethernet cable, other than that no issues.
LED power and action indicator lights can be turned off, or left on for a nightlight.
Once I got around the installation glitches, I could watch live streaming using the camera wirelessly on my home network with no problem. But for the average user, this product’s software will be very user-unfriendly.
Packaged very well. - Cons: Software installation is red-flagged by Windows.
Trendnet app will not install onto my Android phone, even though it has the required Android version. I get an “incompatible with this phone” error.
The most useful advertised feature of this camera, the remote access, is limited to older computers and I can’t use it on my phone which is the only remote use I wanted. So if you only want to use it in the home as a baby monitor it should work fine. That is, if you want to be able to determine if your baby is still in the crib this camera will show you that. But if you need to determine if your baby is still breathing this camera is not sharp enough for that unless your baby snores really loudly.
The metal bracket has very sharp edges. This could really slice a hand open. It is very cheap to de-burr metal parts but that expense was spared on this bracket leaving me with an overall impression of low quality for this product. And this is odd considering how extremely well packaged it is.
- Other Thoughts: Camera makes a distinct clicking noise when switching between day & night mode. If your application requires absolute silence this may be an issue, but in my case it is no problem.
Overall the camera seems like a good unit, but the software leaves a lot to be desired. If Android support is beefed up I would recommend this product. But like it is, I do not recommend.
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Reviewed By:username censored,5/19/2013 12:31:50 PM
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TRENDnet TV-IP751WIC 640 x 480 MAX Resolution RJ45 Wireless Day / Night Cloud Camera
Great indoor camera
- Pros: The best thing about this camera is how easy it is to set up and use. The device comes with everything you need to connect it to your existing network and mount it to a wall or other surface.
The included cloud storage account gives you a place to save the captured video/images. You can also send the captures to any FTP or SMTP (email) server.
The WPS button is a nice touch, because it allows you to connect it your router or access point just by pressing both buttons within 30 seconds.
Motion detection is works well, and you can turn it on or off for specific quadrants of the image.
You can set up users and access control for advanced situations.
There is a CD for novice users and as well as a web interface. The software on the CD could be helpful for some, but it is not required.
The camera uses very little bandwidth and storage.
The IR light source is very bright and should have no trouble illuminating any room. - Cons: You have to spin the lens a lot to focus it.
The IR light from the camera will bounce off of glass or window screens making it less useful if pointed out a window. ( You can disable the IR )
Setting up the cloud link is not obvious if you don't read the manual. You have to create the account and add the camera to your account instead of adding the account to your camera's settings. It would be nice if this could be accomplished from either direction.
The live stream requires activeX controls or java. It would be nice to have html5 support or support for mobile browsers.
- Other Thoughts: The 640x480 doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. You can adjust the amount of jpeg compression as well.
You can still see a still if you are on a browser without java.
Overall this camera is a good experience and it has lots of features for tweaking.
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Reviewed By:Poptart911,5/18/2013 8:16:28 PM
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