today we're going to be doing an unboxing of something we've never really done on my Linus tech tips channel this
is a wireless end network camera from d-link and the biggest improvement over
previous wireless and network cameras is that they're saying it is really really
easy to use they also have this my d-link portal which enables a lot of the
ease of use feature so here's one thing
can just get this sticker off you can see this sticker was thrown onto the box
at the last minute because my d-link now supports and this is brand
new uh iphone monitoring of your camera
so you just download a little iphone app you sign into my d-link and you can use
it to monitor whatever your camera is set up to look at so you know i could
set one up at home and then if i had an iphone which i am planning to get i'm
planning to get an iphone 4 yes i know about the
reception issues etc etc but cameraman has convinced me
he has convinced me he says there are no reception issues
and uh there are no problems and and apple does everything really really well
so i'm going to be getting an iphone 4 i'm on like a waiting list for it not in
any particular hurry so why don't we have a look at some of the features of this camera it is wireless n for one
thing okay that's a feature what other features should we talk about
minimum requirements if you have a reasonably modern pc that's not going to
be an issue aha features remotely off
monitor your home or office over the internet it does it has a one lux
sensitivity sensor for low light recording okay it has a 16x digital zoom
i'm digital zoom i never really recommend using it because you can always just um
like zoom in on the image later there's no there's no need to use a digital zoom
uh wireless n built-in microphone oh it has sound recording that's pretty good
uses mjpeg i think you can read all this if you
really want to there you go
one year warranty okay let's find out what's included here is a little quick start guide tells
you how to contact their live support
okay also located inside here so there's the quick start guide there's the
warranty info presumably okay
okay something in french and then we have a start here dvd i
would actually recommend using this because the whole idea behind this thing
is that you just pop in the disc and then it all works
quickly and easily inside here we will find mounting
hardware okay so we've got some screws we've got some uh other screws and
brackets a little stand oh it's metal stand nice i assume that was gonna be
plastic but that's actually got like some you hear that it's got some heft to it
okay let's see what else we got in here we have a power adapter
that will power the camera we have two wireless n
ready antennas not that it's uh an antenna particularly needs to be
wireless and ready but there we are why don't we put that
on there so we're just gonna assemble the camera
you can see the two antennas go on the back here
um i think d-link recommends this for use with something like their dir-655
which happens to be a router that i have in my fleet so i will definitely try
this out this is a product that i will uh most
assuredly do like a uh a video showing you guys exactly how
well it works so that you don't have to spend your hard earned cash
on it without uh without knowing that it's awesome
and i'm also just kind of curious too because i've never used an ip camera
before it's a growing category i mean people
who just want home security or if they want how the heck does this work
speaking of ease of use
okay the assembly process appears to have run into a bit of a snag
so why don't we just look at the camera itself and we'll forget the assembly process we'll do that off camera so
we've also got an Ethernet port at the back that's 100 Ethernet which is all
you really need for a camera like this there's your power over here we have wps
so that means that if you have a wps supporting router all you have to do is
press the two buttons you don't have to bother with wireless passwords or anything like that
it'll automatically sync up there's a reset hole right here also some
ventilation slots in the top so let's assume there's something in there that's
producing a little bit of heat there's some disclaimers here about
class b digital apparatus as well as some more ventilation holes on this side
there are screws at the back for disassembling it there's another way to
mount the stand which i guess would be why you'd have it
straight up okay and then finally we look at the front of the camera itself
so there's your microphone hole this is going to be some kind of uh power
indicator led and then there's the lens itself which turns for some reason
i hope i'm not ruining it you know there's not a whole lot to say
in an unboxing of a camera which is why anytime we've done unboxings with
cameras in the past we always include uh some performance for it so uh stay tuned
we're definitely gonna show you how this camera performs and i actually did see a
live demo when our d-link rep came in to my work ncix cameraman if you want to
check out the office so we're just outside the office right now and he did
show one of these cameras set up in their office and he just
showed it to us on his iphone and it was actually pretty cool someone walked past
and it was pretty fluid so yeah stay tuned don't forget to subscribe