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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.
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2
Nice Camera, it is everything else that is wrong
on May 13, 2015
Posted by: RIMorton
from Bowie
We bought this and sadly returned it the next day. The simple setup works great if you have a real simple setup. Sadly, there are other issues that I can not explain that were the cause of the return.
First, I have setup dozens of wireless networks and hundreds or thousands of wireless devices, so I am by no means a novice. I was joining this to an existing Cisco Linksys EA4500 router. Downloaded the setup wizard and went through that. The camera would not connect to wireless by manually entering the information or using the WPS system. Everything worked hardwired.
Actually, that is not entirely true because the EA4500 admin site (https://192.168.1.1) was taken over by the DLink web admin site from this camera even though it was assigned and using IP 192.168.1.130. This is the part I can not explain.
Anyway, after several attempts, it seems this Camera will not join a WPA/WPA2 personal mixed environment. It joined once I changed that to WPA2 personal. Sadly, it once again disrupted the admin page of the EA4500 router. I did a factory reset on the device and set it up using just the web admin console. By doing that I could see no way to link the camera to the D-Link cloud and it still interfered with the EA4500 admin page. No matter what I did though, the D-Link Admin console always seemed to take over or interfere with connecting to the EA4500 admin page whenever it was on the network until the router was reset. It was really odd.
Reset again, got it on wireless and in the D-Link cloud (with the setup wizard). Configured some motion detection areas, configured an FTP site on a server I host at a remote location. Tested it from the web admin console and it saved a picture there. Configured some email alerts. The motion alerts were to send 15 seconds (max) video to the FTP server as well as some still pictures. I received alerts on motion in email with a link to the cloud device so I could see a real time view. Nothing went to the FTP server and I did not see anything saved in the Cloud (or a way to). As near as I could tell there is no way to see what triggered the motion detection. That makes the feature fairly useless. Due to these fatal flaws, the devices has been returned already.
Why 2 stars. The picture quality was way better than I expected. The night vision worked well enough to see things 18 meters away without issue. I was really concerned that the resolution was going to be too low, but it was fine for our needs. It was just everything else that was rather annoying.
My Best Buy number: 0963213110
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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