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D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White
This D-Link Day and Night DCS-933L wireless surveillance camera features an IR LED that enables night vision up to 15' for clear viewing in dim lighting. The built-in Wi-Fi extender expands your wireless network and helps prevent dead spots.
Very Good Value + Easy Set-Up
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4.0
This little camera produces very good daylight images. It has a night-time mode, where it switches to black-&-white; but I have it placed inside my house, shooting the exterior through a window. I get a lot of reflections (of the window-blinds) off the window at night, and so my night-time pics are not as clear as they might be.
Set-up was almost trivially easy; but, to be fair, I'm an IT professional, and I understand networking pretty well. Still, like I said, almost trivial.
One thing I really like about it is the camera's ability to just email you clips of events, without the need of any server or PC; the camera contains an SMTP (email) server, so it can just send email on its own.
The camera also has a web-server built in, and you can just connect to that to do the set-up/configuration stuff, or just watch the live feed. You really don't need any dedicated software. However, D-Link has a free-download 'console' program you can use for stuff like multi-camera monitoring, if you want to set up multi-camera monitoring, and/or record to your PC hard drive, ether per-event, or just according to a schedule.
If I decide I need any more security cameras, I'm likely to buy another one of these; I'm pretty satisfied with the value for the price.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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My Best Buy number: 0399062672
My Best Buy number: 0399062672
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D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White
This D-Link Day and Night DCS-933L wireless surveillance camera features an IR LED that enables night vision up to 15' for clear viewing in dim lighting. The built-in Wi-Fi extender expands your wireless network and helps prevent dead spots.
When it's records. Can the person robbing your home keep you from seeing it? Can they delete information?
Can I look up my recording on line?
You can set it up to email you clips of any activity (motion-detection is built in to the camera). There are other ways of getting the videos off-site onto a 'cloud' server, but email is a cheap/easy way to guarantee that the BadGuy can't erase the video that caught him.
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D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White
This D-Link Day and Night DCS-933L wireless surveillance camera features an IR LED that enables night vision up to 15' for clear viewing in dim lighting. The built-in Wi-Fi extender expands your wireless network and helps prevent dead spots.
Can you see at night thru a window with this camera?
Yes, it will see through a window at night; however the image tends to be degraded by reflections bouncing off the inside of the window.
I have mine set up to shoot through a window; the window-blinds are behind (more 'inside') the camera; but at night, the inside lights cause the image of the blinds to be reflected off the inside-face of the window, and back into the camera lens, making the image somewhat noisy.
Clean the window real well; and the more 'straight-on' (90 degrees/right-angle) you can point the camera at the window, the better. The more slanted it is, the more reflection you will get.
I have mine set up to shoot through a window; the window-blinds are behind (more 'inside') the camera; but at night, the inside lights cause the image of the blinds to be reflected off the inside-face of the window, and back into the camera lens, making the image somewhat noisy.
Clean the window real well; and the more 'straight-on' (90 degrees/right-angle) you can point the camera at the window, the better. The more slanted it is, the more reflection you will get.
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D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White
This D-Link Day and Night DCS-933L wireless surveillance camera features an IR LED that enables night vision up to 15' for clear viewing in dim lighting. The built-in Wi-Fi extender expands your wireless network and helps prevent dead spots.
If I put this in my car without an internet connection, can I review the photos/video later?
I would like to keep this in my car as a security measure but the Wifi will not extend that far. Can I record the video/photos at night and bring it in to review them later?
No; it has no significant internal storage capability. You'll have to either find a way to get WiFi out to your car, run an Ethernet cable (not likely), or chose a different product.
9 years, 4 months ago
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D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White
This D-Link Day and Night DCS-933L wireless surveillance camera features an IR LED that enables night vision up to 15' for clear viewing in dim lighting. The built-in Wi-Fi extender expands your wireless network and helps prevent dead spots.
How is this camera powered? battery? and can i rotate it remotely
Just two questions - How is it powered? by battery OR wired? And will I be able to rotate the field of view remotely?
No Batteries; It requires household AC-line power; it has a small block transformer that plugs into a regular outlet, and has about a 6-ft long connection to the terminal power connector that plugs into the camera; much like a portable radio might have.
Also, this model has no pan/tilt/zoom capability; it sees what it sees, based on where you place it - the only way to change the view is to just physically move the camera (with your human-hands).
Also, this model has no pan/tilt/zoom capability; it sees what it sees, based on where you place it - the only way to change the view is to just physically move the camera (with your human-hands).
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