- HD 1080p, 107.5 degree View
- Night Vision Up to 100 ft., IP66 Outdoor
- Cloud & 16GB MicroSD (up to 128GB) Options Available
- Built-in Speaker and Mic
- Motion Detection Alerts with Ezviz App
- Works with Alexa and Google Home using IFTTT
If you want high quality and easy, this is IT!
11/21/2016
This review is from: EZVIZ Husky HD 1080p Outdoor Wi-Fi or PoE Video Security Bullet Camera, 16GB MicroSD, Works with Alexa and Google Home Using IFTTT (EZHUSKYG16)
Pros:
This is a nice camera! Has a great feel to it and is not made of plastic and junk. I deal with security cams A LOT with my job. This camera will easily hold its own with Dahua and HikVision camera’s in terms of build quality and picture quality. Very nice, looks as good as my 3 mega pixel Dahua cams I use. Box was nice, neat packaging. SUPER EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND INSTRUCTIONS! I cannot STRESS enough, if you want a SUPER simple VERY high quality camera to keep an eye on your home, office, barn, business or whatever. This is the ticket! Super easy to setup and deploy and I like that there is an option for PoE, which worked fine with my TrendNET PoE switch. The provided 12 volt adapter worked fine as well. It was also nice to see that EZVIZ provides the weather tight connector should you choose to run Ethernet to the camera, Dahua started to cheap out and now they don’t include them with their camera. It was nice to see that this camera had the plug and the drill template. That was a nice touch too. I have been using this camera for about a month now and it has been recording just fine. The picture quality is great and I know that this cam will last a long time in the elements. This is not your average consumer camera; it is much more higher quality, close to business grade, very close if not the same in terms of build quality of Dahua and HikVision which I feel are among the best over-all cameras on the market for price and performance. I cannot stress enough on how easy it was to setup the camera on my network via the application for Android. I did not have an iOS device at this time to test it with. I also like that it has IFTTT (if this then that) features built in, I don’t have Alexa, but I’m sure it would work well.
Cons:
Not many things to complain about, but the number one (at least for me, a pro level user) is the fact that I can’t do anything with the camera in a more professional environment. I’d like to see if they had other cameras to test out like this one, but something that had a web browser and used the OnVif standard so it could be used as a typical IP camera. Hook it up and then add it to a Dahua or Hikvision or other NVR (network video recorder). I am NOT going to deduct one egg because of this, since I know not everyone out there is a professional, they might want the easy simple solution. I know that the camera is built well and I know that it works great in low light / light. But they have this fantastic camera and I can’t REALLY play with it, or put it to use on my other NVR.
Overall Review:
Listen, this is a great camera. It works wonderful in pretty much all conditions that I have tested it in. Direct sun, shade, complete darkness, with PoE, without PoE, wireless, etc. The Android application seems to work reasonably well for me. It would have some errors (no picture), but then you could just retry it and it would work (I’m sure they will keep improving the application). Performance with wireless was good, I also had a good AP to test it with (a pretty high powered Ubiquity) and never had an issue with wireless. Also never had any issues with the PoE side of things aka, wired. The web client is okay, had some nice features for privacy but it only worked well in Internet Explorer. Ugh, please people, (MFGs) make things work cross platform; stuff like this should work in ALL browsers. If this camera would work outside its “walled garden” it would be easily be a go to pro level camera. It’s a great camera. Believe me I use a LOT and have seen what a good camera is and this camera easily has the build and picture quality down, like I said, very close to the quality of my Dahua cams. This camera will be PERFECT if you just want to monitor a few rooms, I think they come in a 3 pack as well, VERY easy to set up. I mean, my parents could follow the instructions. And if they can do it, anyone could, I cannot stress this enough. Getting the camera online and view-able is EASY. 5 minutes or less! BUT, if you are more of a professional or hobbyist like me, you’ll want something that you can change ports on and add to an NVR or other software to record and view the video (again, Dahua or HikVision). BUT, this is a great camera if you DO NOT care about that, if you want to rip the box open, download the app, make an account and get it online, this is your camera! One last thing to note is how you can toss in a MicroSD card, I like that. (It came with a 16GB but I used a 64GB) You could set it to only record movement and a 64GB card would last for a long time. I think we’ll see more options like this with future vendors. So, if you need something easy and with pro build quality, this is the camera you want!
Manufacturer Response:
Hi Max F.,
Thanks for the review! We always appreciate when our customers take the time to leave feedback about our products and share their experience with other customers.
Best Regards,
EZVIZ Technical Team
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