Don't expect Pro or HD., 3 Jan. 2015

As all reviews mention, rain sets it off continuously. So the warning function of it is pretty much redundant from the start. So the only real value this camera has is recording evidence. A neighbour had an attempted break in during the night so I checked my footage for a suspect. Sure enough it had spotted someone in the vicinity at the time. Quite exciting. Naturally I forwarded the footage to the police, who were grateful but wanted an uncompressed, higher quality version. It was frustrating to have to say "sorry the compressed fuzzy footage is all there is".

Although the image is fairly large, the frame rate during the day is 14 frames a second, at night this drops to 8 frames a second. Which is poor and creates a rather disappointing video. The night video I referred to was encoded at a bitrate of 500 kb/second which is very low. For comparison youtube recommends a bitrate of 5000 kb/second for 720p video, that's 10 times as much data for a clear picture...

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A very good device but could be improved, 4 Aug. 2014

Got this a few weeks ago and installed outside pointing at my private driveway, where we park the cars.

Positives

- very easy to configure and set up

- very easy to use from PC, IPhone, IPad

- very reliable (only had to reset it once in 5-6 weeks, and I think it would have sorted itself out)

- always gets a strong signal

- very easy to administer remotely through the web interface

- pretty decent picture both by day and by night (this is very impressive actually) ... although more resolution would be welcome of course

Negatives

- the power cable and the mounting system. To mount this on an outside wall you have to drill a hole through the wall straight behind it, and run either a power-over-ethernet or the 12V power cable through that hole. I do not have a POE router, so I had to run the power cable. Sounds straightforward? Drill a little hole and pull the cable through?

Yes, would be, if the power cable (which is hard...

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Excellent all round - product and support, 29 July 2014

I've been running these on two separate sites for several weeks now and they have been absolutely superb.Site one BB is (9.5/0.45 Mbps down/upload) and is supporting one camera set on HD.Site two BB is (6.3/0.35 Mbps down/upload) and is supporting two camera set on Standard definition.Once you have motion detection adjusted these are fit and forget items that do the job as advertised.My previous setup included two Y-Cam cameras feeding into a PC that was running 24/7 to manage the motion detection and storage of video files.Have now been able to dump all of that and let HomeMonitor take up the slack.Support is excellent and very responsive.The only improvement would be to get rid of all the spiders and moths that love IR Cameras :).

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