welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear view Zone okay so I don't
know what the difference between wiress and wire free is but there are no wires
I think that is the point they're trying to make wirefree video monitoring system
place it anywhere view it anywhere includes this there's a there's a
variety of different kits but this particular one includes two motion
cameras one base station one outdoor shell and mount four wall mounts and the
batteries that you need to have them run at an estimated sort of 5 minutes per
day depending on when they turn on from motion sensing for up to 6 months at a
time place anywhere view any time okay I think we covered all of this already aha
here we go wirefree motion detection email alerts indoor use and outdoor use
are all supported let's go ahead and flip over to the side they give you some
examples of where you could mount it like to a tree or to a wall or to with
our Innovative wirefree cameras you'll avoid the hassle of running ugly power cords you'll spend more time deciding
where to put your cameras than you will setting them up so there's a chick with
a phone and she's presumably like something good to do with monitoring
security so she can see her property her family and her
pets H that's a white girl I mean I'm not
trying to you know be like that about it or anything but I don't think that's her kids they could be adopted okay so
moving right along we've got a few different options software wise you can
use the free option which gives you you know the camera well you bought the cameras so obviously you have those
motion detection with email alerts you can take a snapshot so no video okay
$4.95 a month to get video next we've got live video on your computer no big
deal camera supported 25 and 15 from the free to Premier to Elite options the
base station does support 15 cameras so the hardware is already there to support
the elite option location supported 1 one and three so you can monitor
multiple different locations digital pan and zoom you're going to have to pay for
that live video on your iPad iPhone or Android got to pay for that and look at
that you can securely record video to the cloud with the premier and the elite
service options it's compatible with both iOS and Android so that's a good
thing and we've also got some specifications down here as well so
check this out video resolution is 640x480 at 3 FPS okay uh qvga to 320x
240 at 7 FPS so we're not talking about you know taking beautiful HD photos
we're talking about like functional security motion sensing and you know
that kind of good stuff physical specifications okay let's open this bab
baby up and have a look at what we got going on in here so first thing we see
is a quick install guide followed by another quick install guide two quick
install guides because one quick install guide is not good enough for net gears
customers no no they will provide
multiple quick install Ah that's for the outdoor Mount and this is just sort of
in general what to do on sort of one page or less there you go what do they
say connect your viewone system to the internet okay install camera batteries
sync B sync cameras to the base station okay there you go hold within 12 in and
something something install cameras register your viewzone system and get the viewone mobile app that's it okay we
got a general public license sure whatever okay got a bag got some
environmentally friendly paper packaging very nice love to see that all right we
got some power adapters here so you can run these up the walls to the camera n
I'm just messing with you you don't have to do that you just plug this into the
base station which wirelessly communicates with up to 15 cameras so
you plug that guy into your router and I have no idea what that does guess we'll
find out hold on there we go power
connector okay it's not labeled either we'll be back in a moment so we didn't
figure it out but there's a highly amusing Amazon review of this thing that
basically it's a good review overall of the unit but it says that that you
manual and website make no mention of it they couldn't figure it out either so
there you go reset button there's your sync button up there as well as your
power internet view Zone status indicators and that's it that's the base
station it just basically looks like that plugs into the wall nothing that
complicated here we have some of the
forget what this battery standard's called CR a something or other it's a
3vt battery so presumably there are two cells inside there and these are for the
cameras themselves they're really cheap you can buy them in bulk on Deal extreme
I have a laser pointer that takes these batteries so I have tons of them at home
already anyway wall mounts so these are your drywall screws if you wanted to W
Mount to drywall here these are little base station little doodads so you just
kind of uh this must come off here
somehow oh adhesive surface there you go
so you just pull that off caution adhesive may damage surface or paint so
be careful maybe test it in a discreet location or what I sometimes do if I'm
going to stick it to something that I don't want to damage is I'll just kind of go like this on my shirt a little bit
first make it sticky enough to work but not sticky enough to take the paint
right off the wall when you're done so those are little mounting doodads and
they're magnetized see that so you just kind of put this wherever you want and
you put this guy on here and you can position it wherever you want so those
are those are the cameras they're not wide angle lenses so you do want to get
them nice and up high maybe in a corner if you want to capture an entire room
okay there you go it's got little rubber things here so you can not lose your
grip on them when you're putting them up presumably that's why okay there's your
motion sensor right there there's your lens right there
and there is your battery compartment
right presumably yeah there all right so throw
a couple batteries in there no big deal I like that they're nice and light and
compact I mean yeah it's only 3 FPS or you know whatever other complaints you
might have but at least it's small and Compact and you can easily scale it and
add more U more cameras to it should you
should you want oh that that opens it up okay I didn't realize that before so let
me power it on okay just like that all
right what else we got in here Ethernet cable for plugging in the base
station aha outdoor Mount very cool so
this guy right here is I guess what the screws are for well no different screws
for that so you can screw it into a tree or the side your house or whatever else
you want has a mount right here that is actually capable of rotating as much as
you or as little as you want you just use this guy right here to lock it in place there you go now it won't turn
very easily anymore once we go ahead and tighten this guy as well so there you go
point it wherever you want you just open it up with two screws here and here
throw the unit inside and it should be weatherproof they operate uh up to I
think -4° so for those of you who live in
Toronto sorry it never goes under-14
here um yeah it's probably fine especially if you keep it close enough
to your house that it's getting some incidental heat off of there and I mean
besides the batteries wearing out faster I can't imagine there's anything in here that would be particularly damaged by
the cold weather but feel free to let me know if I'm wrong includes a screwdriver
actually for for this so includes pretty
much everything you need right out of the box there you go that's everything
so you got your two cameras and you can buy more you got all your mounting
screws you've got I mean this is cool so it includes extra of these so you could
potentially move them around if you want you could have these permanently fixed
in places that are convenient and you can attach one of them Outdoors should
you desire to do so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the view
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