Is this camera easy to set up for e-mail alerts, or do I have to be a computer genius? Also have the wireless e-mail alerts been successful for you?
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Our son set it up for us because we didn't know how to do it. If it's not on the internet somewhere, it's probably not a do-it-yourself job.
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This camera is set up as part of surveillance system with its own access and alerts mechanism. I am not using this camera with wifi either as it drops connection with blueiris a lot. It's a camera with good resolution, angle as documented, IR is very strong but it's the slowest camera on my network by far.
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The Email is a bit of a pain to set up. However, once you get it to work it works fine. I set it to give me alerts on a motion event. Which it does perfectly.
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Yes, the camera must be wireless and ON (transmitting) thanks! Sleuth Electronics LLCPS: to avoid false alarms you MUST turn OFF all electronic devices in the area such as cellphones, radios, TV, etc...because they transmit radio frequencies. It is important that you educate yourself on the proper way to use this item. In your case you may want to hire a PI that knows how to use this type of product.Good day.
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Well I didn't have any luck making it work on any OS. They sent it with a third party software, the disk had a corrupt file and when I googled it for a fix it directed me to download it from another site. It's basically spam ware and opened up my computer to the free world. In researching it a bit I think lots of others users experienced the same issue. I would look elsewhere for a camera.
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I have my camera/s run stand alone and configure them to simply email me captured images that are triggered by motion or sound. The emails provides time & six photos spaced over a few seconds. That avoids saving huge video files to your PCs disk. The camera does not store video. They usually send emails at dawn & dusk when changing over from infrared to the visual light spectrum. Not bad for the price. You can also login remotely with iPad, PC whatever and fully record or control the camera.
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Wifi works fine once I worked with ESET anti-virus who showed my how to create a rule to allow the camera access. I knew it was a anti-virus problem since I turned off the firewall and it worked fine. Once its set up all you have to do is turn on the camera, go to menu and hit 'down load via wifi' and it takes care of eveything else, sends the pictures straight to PICTURES. Ater a few seconds the camera closes the lens since your not using it as a camera. Takes longer to download the pictures using wifi vs. a USB but I don't care how long it takes, its much easier than finding a cable. The Sonly has such a large battery I haven't had to charge it once yet either!
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I have not found an app to put on my PC. I've had this camera for over 2 years and still can't find a PC app for it, only the smartphone app...if you find a PC app let me know. It's the easiest camera to setup with limited options BUT you trade options for easy setup. I have other cameras for more sophisticated stuff but this one is the best for simple setup and decent enough observation for simple stuff...pick your poison, all depends on what you're trying to watch. Hopefully they'll come up with a desktop app.
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I actually really love this little camera. There are virtually no instructions but if you play with it some, you can get it to do many cool things. Customer Service is difficult. They would always respond, but could not always help me because of the language barrier. The alerts were one of the most difficult things to set up. I had to play with it for quite a while. I was able to get it to email me. If you have a "phone" email address with your phone number, you should be able to use that to send you a text instead of an email, but I have never configured it that way. I did not really have a need for motion detection. Good luck. I actually really love this little camera. There are virtually no instructions but if you play with it some, you can get it to do many cool things. Customer Service is difficult. They would always respond, but could not always help me because of the language barrier. The alerts were one of the most difficult things to set up. I had to play with it for quite a while. I was able to get it to email me. If you have a "phone" email address with your phone number, you should be able to use that to send you a text instead of an email, but I have never configured it that way. I did not... » Read More I actually really love this little camera. There are virtually no instructions but if you play with it some, you can get it to do many cool things. Customer Service is difficult. They would always respond, but could not always help me because of the language barrier. The alerts were one of the most difficult things to set up. I had to play with it for quite a while. I was able to get it to email me. If you have a "phone" email address with your phone number, you should be able to use that to send you a text instead of an email, but I have never configured it that way. I did not really have a need for motion detection. Good luck. « Show Less
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S. Albert -I was thinking the same thing - taking the laptop and Minoru webcam out and capturing something interesting (more interesting than my face). But when going through the reviews, a few people have said that the picture gets overexposed easily and it works much better indoors. That's the only reason I'm hesitating to buy this thing. Hopefully they'll get it fixed soon -- someone mentioned that it was possibly just a software fix.
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Thx for asking! I've problem to get it connected to my wifi. My computers can detect it only when the camera is connected to the router with the cable. But when I remove the cable, my camera cannot be detected! I bought it on Sept 2014... Not sure if I can return it. &#128546;
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You might need a computer for initial configuration, but once configured there is no reason to have camera this webcam connected to PC. It is wifi ready.
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I had it set up for live video's, but had to have an IT guy set it up. I my opinion it is to difficult for the average computer user to do himself. The camera itself worked for a couple of weeks and then quit altogether.
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You can set it to record on at schedule an take photos by motion detection on a schedule and it has an option to send an email... I have not used the email though so not sure how that works but there is a place in it's setup to enter the information for that.
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When you're a novice like myself, the one thing everyone should do is tweak the "sensitivity" in advanced settings for "Motion Detection", I stopped a sh.. load of unnecessary e-mail notifications. AND also (for new "owners of), you DO have to "continue anyway" and click on that when you get certificate security warnings. Working great for me with it set on 65 sensitivity, and for 30 second "Intervals", with "All the time" there's motion detection. Can't stress the sensitivity levels enough.
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Yes, I'm not a computer expert either. I am just a basic user. I really love it. It seems user friendly to me and I enjoy using it. I get my e-mail and look up different things and play games. What is also nice is that you can take it wherever you want in the house and it runs off a battery providing you get the wireless router for it, which doesn't cost much. I would buy it again if needed. Have fun.
2021523
Again, for me is good but not the best. Right now, I do have problem with two of the 4 cameras since for time to time they enter into a blackout mode. So, I do suggest that if you are looking for a really best wireless solution, must go with something more expensive. For me is working since I don't need a 24/7 system but I would like to get it some time in the future since I paid for that.
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Yes they were simple, if you are somewhat literate with a wireless network. You do need to know your network settings, and password. Actually the software will automatically detect the wireless settings, but you do need to know encryption key for network. I have a PC, but I do recall the instructions were also for a Mac. It took me almost two hours to hook up a Panasonic one I got at best buy, and it didn't work in dark. This one only took me about 15 minutes to install and you can see in total darkness. Just really have to follow instructions and have some knowledge of a wireless network setup. So far it's been a great camera that we can use with our iPhones and iPads. I love it!
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No. The remote camera needs to have access to the internet in order to send you the alerts and video. Furthermore, this version of the camera is faulty and obsolete. Check out either the updated Logitech system or another brand.