TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W
- Video is transmitted over a secure encrypted wireless signal
- Pan 330-degrees side-to-side and tilt 105-degrees up-and-down from any Internet connection
- Program motion detection recording and email alerts with complimentary software
- Advanced encryption modes include WEP, WPA-PSK and WPA2-PSK
- High quality MPEG-4 and MJPEG video recording with up to 30 frames per second
Product Description
The 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.
TRENDnet SecurView Wireless Day/Night Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Surveillance Camera TV-IP422W
I am still think this is a nice device but be carefull where do you buy it. I bought it on Amazon and it was defective. I saw somebody else’s review with the same problem and after I got a defective replacement I do not think this was just bad luck. It took me a long time to set them up wireless as I expected because I am not a IT guy but that this happened because the cameras were defective make me mad. Now (just a couple of months later since I got the camera from Amazon and hardly use of it) I will have to pay shipping again to get the manufacturer replace it due that the guarantee with Amazon is expired. Well, maybe I wouldn’t want to get another one from Amazon anyway.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was so excited about this camara. I followed the set up instructions to a T. The camara worked while wired but not when I went wireless. Hmmm, I thought something was wrong with my router. I rebooted the router. Still didn’t work. I called in an IT pro. Then another. After 6+ hours and 2 professionals, concluded the camara was defective. It lost signal once unplugged so I was unable to move it from the initial set up spot.
I just sent it back to Amazon yesterday and am waiting my refund.
I went to Best Buy and bought the Panasonic wireless pan/tilt and set the whole thing up in 10 minutes, works like a charm.
This camara did seem cool when it worked while wired but it was not worth the headache it caused me trying to get it to work wirelessly.
Also, the pricing is whacked. When shopping for the camara it was around $275. When I went to finalize my purchase it was $312 but now it shows it is back to $275 – what’s up with that?
Rating: 1 / 5
Since this was not my first camera setup was simple. Typical plug in the cable and setup the camera then downloaded and installed the latest firmware. That part was ok.
Once setup the camera picture did not contain true colors of what is being seen. There was also a constant clicking noise when listening.
Support informed me the color was because of the infared feature. The noise was explained as a sensitive microphone. No fix was forthcoming.
On the up side the infared and motion detection work well. If you hook up speakers for two way conversation place them well away from the camera.
Rating: 3 / 5
There aren’t a lot of options out there for IP cameras. This one is pretty good. It does the job, but the quality isn’t all too great, and the infrared setting is decent but not amazing.
Rating: 3 / 5
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. I could see it using Quicktime. I don’t think this is the camera’s fault. I think Verizon blocks rtsp streams. I tried multiple ports forwarded to the camera and none would work.
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.
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. I think I am going to return this camera and try a different one. My next choice is a Sharx that states it supports mobile devices, including the iPhone, Blackberry and Verizon. The TrendNet did support 3GPP, but your carrier has to allow the streams on their network.
Overall, if you don’t need access from mobile devices, and will access the camera from a PC or Mac with internet, this camera seems like a solid purchase.
Rating: 3 / 5