The Sumvision IP camera product was surprisingly a very good purchase.
Using the APPS account which hold both of our IP cameras.
I can monitor my house and flat everywhere in the world from my Iphone .
The quality of the picture is quite clear
The built in- alarm was nice and loud.
It has built mic and speaker (video conference with my bro )
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rheumatoid
13 Jan 165#14
Amazon reviews generally good but I am always a bit wary when I see most of them were given them to review or received a 'hefty' discount for a completely unbiased review :neutral_face:
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mymymy
7 Jan 162#1
So i could use this to see who's knocking my door. ...and tell then to go away?
pnaylor39 to mymymy
7 Jan 16#4
or perhaps someone could be looking in to see what your up to . is thus camera safe or hackable?
jaypr
7 Jan 162#2
Loads of 720P ip cameras on Amazon for this price and lower. There is nothing special about this one.
TheUrbis
7 Jan 16#3
Ebuyer had a clearance Wansview at £24.99 last week, think it's still available and would probably be a better bet?
peddy to TheUrbis
7 Jan 16#5
Can't see it on their site
jaypr
7 Jan 16#6
If you're just looking for something cheap, this will do the same thing at £23.99. Available in white or black.
Could these (and similar) be weatherproofed I wonder to make into budget security cameras? i.e. pour potting compound over all the internals.
melted to Roger_Irrelevant
7 Jan 161#8
I can't see how you'd pot this without wrecking the pan & tilt. There were third party waterproof cases available for foscam type ptz cameras, but at silly prices. Maybe you could find a dummy camera like this sort of thing, but with a big enough case to fit this in, would probably need lots of silicone and a little fan to stop it overheating, or maybe even making a dome out of the top half of a 3L coke bottle :smiley:
That's fixed, but good quality hikvision = the nuts
joshtbh
13 Jan 16#10
after spending years of trying to coerce a raspberry pi to do this job, I think i'm close to defeat and caving to buy one of these type things. The problem with the raspberry is providing an infrared light source in a neat way
wildcolor to joshtbh
13 Jan 16#16
do you really need infrared? With the PI, I can only find security cameras (with 1 security camera). Is there any tutorial that teaches to control multiple cameras?
I would of thought switching between day and night vision would be a bigger problem, because of the fixed IR filter in the PI cam. I briefly considered getting a pi and either replacing the lens mount in a PI camera module to add a powered IR-cut filter and a CCTV lens, or else trying to multiplex 2 PI cameras, a standard and a no IR camera to the camera connection.
try this, using it on a pi 2 running wheezey, waiting for my IP cam to come but got it up and running with rpi CSI camera with motion detection that uploads direct to google drive for cloud storage. Little bit of port forwarding and got it set up for remote access.
Makkand to joshtbh
13 Jan 161#40
Omg I was thinking about doing the same thing...you've saved me years by the sounds of it!
Toon_army
13 Jan 16#11
Literally just got sent this yesterday to test and review, been hoping its a good little camera. For the price it looks ok to me.
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Opening post
Using the APPS account which hold both of our IP cameras.
I can monitor my house and flat everywhere in the world from my Iphone .
The quality of the picture is quite clear
The built in- alarm was nice and loud.
It has built mic and speaker (video conference with my bro )
Top comments
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B017GOCGDQ
Outdoor ptz £60 :- http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wireless-WiFi-IP-Camera-PTZ-Dome-IR-Night-Vision-IR-Cut-Outdoor-Security-Cam-UK-/161939209869?hash=item25b4543e8d:g:ygEAAOSwHaBWjLfX
Buying three cheap outdoor IP cameras and pointing them in different directions would probably be better and could be cheaper.
https://www.use-ip.co.uk/hikvision-ds-2cd2432f-iw-3mp-ir-cube-network-camera.html
Or even just use a IR board http://www.ebay.com/itm/48-LED-IR-Infrared-Illuminator-60-Degree-Bulb-Board-For-CCTV-Security-Camera-/121800666577?hash=item1c5be2add1:g:XrgAAOSwYHxWMe-r
I would of thought switching between day and night vision would be a bigger problem, because of the fixed IR filter in the PI cam. I briefly considered getting a pi and either replacing the lens mount in a PI camera module to add a powered IR-cut filter and a CCTV lens, or else trying to multiplex 2 PI cameras, a standard and a no IR camera to the camera connection.
720p ip camera modules with IR-cut are very cheap though:- http://www.ebay.com/itm/161809301379?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
try this, using it on a pi 2 running wheezey, waiting for my IP cam to come but got it up and running with rpi CSI camera with motion detection that uploads direct to google drive for cloud storage. Little bit of port forwarding and got it set up for remote access.