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Belkin NetCam F7D7606 HD+ Wi-Fi Camera: Keep an eye on your home or office and receive e-mail alerts and notifications when the camera detects movement. Stream live HD video to your Android or Apple® smartphone or tablet.
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So far so bad
on July 9, 2014
Posted by: Justin
from Wisconsin
How many cameras do you need?1-3
I've had this unit for less than 24 hours so my thoughts may change within my first 14 days, but so far...
Set up was relatively simple. If you know how to connect to wifi through a smart phone, you can do this.
Range is relatively decent, I bought a range extender just in case but so far it seems to have a pretty good antenna without the need of the extender.
Picture quality is decent. There are 3 settings, we'll call them meh better and best.
Meh is the lowest of the settings and it is pretty much impossible to make out a face clearly beyond 4 ft away, but movement is somewhat smooth.
Better seems to have a decent picture quality, you can probably make out a face clearly from about 8 ft away, video smoothness becomes choppy.
Best give you about 12 ft of range to make out a face clearly, but the video becomes EXTREMELY choppy... to the point of making it pointless to use.
I chose to use the middle setting.
Meh is the lowest of the settings and it is pretty much impossible to make out a face clearly beyond 4 ft away, but movement is somewhat smooth.
Better seems to have a decent picture quality, you can probably make out a face clearly from about 8 ft away, video smoothness becomes choppy.
Best give you about 12 ft of range to make out a face clearly, but the video becomes EXTREMELY choppy... to the point of making it pointless to use.
I chose to use the middle setting.
Audio- This unit allows you to hear and talk back to the camera. Audio is decent, talking back is delayed about 5 seconds. It has worked 5 times out of about 15 attempts. Definitely needs improvement here.
Nightvision- works great. Probably the most solid part of this camera. I can see clearly (not to facial recognition quality) out to 60+ ft.
Motion detection - so far, my biggest complaint about this unit. I have sampled each setting of sensitivity, both with and without the microphone sensor engaged. Even with mic off and sensitivity set to the lowest setting... I have been getting constant false alerts. When I say constant, I'm talking every few minutes at times.
Fort my trial testing, the camera was sitting on a solid shelf in my garage. It was silent through the night, but the sunrise simply coming through my garage door window was enough to trigger the alerts all morning. After sunrise, apparently the morning traffic is enough to trigger the motion sensor. FYI, my driveway is about 30 ft long and my camera cannot view the road or the traffic. My garage door has remained shut during this entire test.
Live viewing from a phone works well, and the ability to record to the phone is a great feature.
Overall, I'm ready to return this model to try something else. Do yourself a favor and don't bother starting with this one. 7/9/14
What's great about it: It does work, in some ways
What's not so great: Shotty video quality, false alerts
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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