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Product Description
Not only does the Belkin Net Cam HD allow you to keep tabs on kids or pets from your Smartphone or tablet it also allows you to see all the action in vibrant 720p HD video. Ideal for anyone who has kids, pets, or grandparents at home, the camera captures smooth video and crisp digital audio that makes you feel like you're right there with them. You can watch and hear all the fun on your mobile device, wherever you go now in HD!
Product Details
- Color: White
- Brand: Belkin
- Model: F7D7602
- Released on: 2013-04-28
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.18" h x 8.07" w x 7.72" l, .84 pounds
- Networking: IP
Features
- 720p HD: High definition video gives you a sharp, clear more vivid picture.
- Easy setup: Use your smartphone, tablet or computer to connect directly to your Wi-Fi network.
- Wide Angle Video: See more of a room so you know what?s going on.
- Night Vision: Infrared lets you clearly see when there?s little to no light.
- Crystal clear sound: Listen to what?s going on in the room.
- Compatible with Android and iOS devices.
- Mobile Device Recording: Record live video right to your mobile device.
- Movement Detection Notifications: Enjoy piece of mind with email alerts.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
56 of 60 people found the following review helpful.
Poor video quality, horrible framerate when recording
By Lon J. Seidman
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R25RO6W435OMEV I'm not sure if this product falls short because of its hardware or the lousy app that accompanies it. Belkin certainly makes a nice presentation with great packaging and industrial design, but unfortunately the product itself operates more like a relic of the 90's than a useful high definition wifi camera.
Despite the fact you'll see an iPad in the product description, the app that the camera requires is not a native iPad app. In fact searching for the app using the iPad's app store will turn up nothing - it does, however, show up when iPhone apps are included in the search. The app runs in the iphone emulation mode that results in a smaller size image - pretty much negating the "high definition" resolution of the camera.
But it gets worse. What's immediately apparent is the horrific framerate the camera delivers even over a local network. Initially it looks a lot like a convenience store surveillance camera that runs at only a few frames per second. This can be partially rectified by forcing the camera to its highest framerate (25 frames per second), but it stil doesn't deliver consistent smooth video.
Things get really bad when the record button is pushed in the app. The framerate then slows to a crawl. It's so bad that everything is just a big blurry mess with only a couple of frames per second. I can assure you won't be preserving any "memorable moments" that Belkins suggest you can do with this.
Audio quality is also lacking. In fact it's terrible. Nothing more to say than that.
Overall I'd say this is not worth its high price. Perhaps if some work is done on the app to optimize some of these frame rate issues it might be more useful. But as it stands there are much better options available at this price point.
25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Okay for My Purposes. Quality is Lacking.
By L.Gildart
This was incredibly easy to set up, and the only thing I am using it for is to see who is at the front door (I live in an upstairs apartment). The camera is fairly well-suited to that task, and it seems to stay connected just fine with my iPhone 4, but I'm not actually using it that often or asking that much of it. The video quality suffices to show me whether it's the UPS driver or a person here to give me a copy of Watchtower.
What the camera supposedly *does* but doesn't do well:
It's not good for video chatting. The video quality, while supposedly HD, is considerably worse than the front camera on my iPhone 4, and audio is lousy.
Motion sensitive security: way too sensitive and annoying.
Recording video: Nope. It's like a strobe sequence in a horror movie. Just, nope.
Bottom line -> this is not a good value in an IP camera. As of this writing, it is every bit as expensive as the higher quality cameras that are available. If it were selling for about 1/3 of its current price, I would add a star for value. At its current price, it gets three stars for mostly serving its purpose.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
still needs some work
By Ms. T
*Update 6/15* - thanks to a commenter, I did get it to work with ISpy, by updating the camera list in the wizard (off to the right, for some reason even with the latest software, all the cameras weren't listed), and then I could use the wizard to set it up. This also showed me the extra info that was necessary to also get it to work with IPCamView - basically http://admin:admin@[camera ip adddress]:80/goform/video. Basically the admin:admin is the username and password, then @ipaddress of the camera then :80 for the port that it streams thru. Using this I think you might be able to set it up with any other camera monitoring software or app you choose, altho I haven't been successful configuring it with anything besides ISpy yet. I gave it an extra star for that to bump it up to a 3 star rating. The hardware aspect of this camera is great, the optics are good and build quality is about what you'd expect, but it doesn't perform well in low light, and there is no way to adjust the brightness/contrast (I would really like to see belkin add image settings and even an option for auto image setting that could automatically adjust the brightness/contrast based on current lighting conditions). Also the software for this camera is severely lacking in advanced features - such as saving to an ftp server, setting up motion detection zones, etc..
* original * Wow - i saw the other reviews, but thought, surely it can't be that bad. It is. The app has virtually no functions and no options. I thought, well, that's okay, I can use it with IPCamView or even Blue Iris on my computer - BUT NO - it is NOT COMPATIBLE with any other software and apps that almost every other IP camera is compatible with. WHY? Why did they choose to limit it like this and render it virtually unusable. You can't even adjust the image, or set motion detection zones.
The app is so basic that you can only log in, and view the camera. If you go into settings you can turn the audio on or off, turn the IR on or off, turn image auto adjust on or off, and set emails on or off and that's pretty much it! This camera and it's pitiful app mean that it is only good for real time viewing - forget about it if you want to record anything automatically or use it for any kind of home security. Maybe Belkin will wise up and add some better features in the future, but as it is, this camera is really not good for much other than viewing real time activity. And because it's not compatible with other software besides Belkin's own, you can't use it to mix and match with other cameras in your home security system. Trendnet and Foscam both have similar cameras that have all the features this is missing. IE - the ability to record to SD card or computer when motion is detected, the ability to use it with any software and app that you prefer - and I believe both of them are similar, if not cheaper in price than this Belkin. I may be trying one of those two for my next WIFI camera. The logitech alert cameras are more expensive, but also have a much higher feature set than this, as well as really nice desktop software for recording activity and scheduling alerts, etc.
Motion detection alerts seem to work okay and it will email you two frames at the time it is triggered, but again, since this is meant for phone/tablet use only, why only email alerts? There should be an option to have it send push notifications so you can look right away and not have to wait for an email to come thru. And without it having the capability to automatically record when motion is detected, it is useless unless you happen to be able to drop everything and go into the app and press the record button. If someone breaks into your house - forget it, you cannot have it record them ripping off your stuff so you can give the video to the police. This makes it basically a glorified nanny cam or pet cam. And if that's all you want it for, I would get something a lot cheaper than this.
Also, at this price point, I feel like it should have an sd card slot to record motion events to, but unfortunately it does not.
These Belkin cameras seem to be released prematurely - they advertise easy setup, and sure that is true, it is easy to setup because they are so limited in functionality. I think they are planning on these cameras as part of a whole home automation system, but right now I would say they are in pre-beta stage and have a lot of work to do - they are starting out with less than other makers have had available for years. I'll be interested to see if they improve functionality of these over time.
It does deserve at least one star, because it is so simple to setup that any novice user can do it, and for those that don't want to have to mess with port forwarding, dynamic dns, etc but still want to view their camera from anywhere, then maybe this is the best option and they won't mind all the missing features.
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