Netgear VueZone Battery Operated Wireless Security Camera Kit Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear view Zone okay so I don't
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know what the difference between wiress and wire free is but there are no wires
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I think that is the point they're trying to make wirefree video monitoring system
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place it anywhere view it anywhere includes this there's a there's a
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variety of different kits but this particular one includes two motion
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cameras one base station one outdoor shell and mount four wall mounts and the
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batteries that you need to have them run at an estimated sort of 5 minutes per
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day depending on when they turn on from motion sensing for up to 6 months at a
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time place anywhere view any time okay I think we covered all of this already aha
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here we go wirefree motion detection email alerts indoor use and outdoor use
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are all supported let's go ahead and flip over to the side they give you some
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examples of where you could mount it like to a tree or to a wall or to with
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our Innovative wirefree cameras you'll avoid the hassle of running ugly power cords you'll spend more time deciding
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where to put your cameras than you will setting them up so there's a chick with
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a phone and she's presumably like something good to do with monitoring
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security so she can see her property her family and her
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pets H that's a white girl I mean I'm not
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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
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moving right along we've got a few different options software wise you can
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use the free option which gives you you know the camera well you bought the cameras so obviously you have those
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motion detection with email alerts you can take a snapshot so no video okay
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$4.95 a month to get video next we've got live video on your computer no big
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deal camera supported 25 and 15 from the free to Premier to Elite options the
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base station does support 15 cameras so the hardware is already there to support
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the elite option location supported 1 one and three so you can monitor
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multiple different locations digital pan and zoom you're going to have to pay for
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that live video on your iPad iPhone or Android got to pay for that and look at
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that you can securely record video to the cloud with the premier and the elite
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service options it's compatible with both iOS and Android so that's a good
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thing and we've also got some specifications down here as well so
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check this out video resolution is 640x480 at 3 FPS okay uh qvga to 320x
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240 at 7 FPS so we're not talking about you know taking beautiful HD photos
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we're talking about like functional security motion sensing and you know
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that kind of good stuff physical specifications okay let's open this bab
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baby up and have a look at what we got going on in here so first thing we see
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is a quick install guide followed by another quick install guide two quick
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install guides because one quick install guide is not good enough for net gears
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customers no no they will provide
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multiple quick install Ah that's for the outdoor Mount and this is just sort of
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in general what to do on sort of one page or less there you go what do they
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say connect your viewone system to the internet okay install camera batteries
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sync B sync cameras to the base station okay there you go hold within 12 in and
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something something install cameras register your viewzone system and get the viewone mobile app that's it okay we
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got a general public license sure whatever okay got a bag got some
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environmentally friendly paper packaging very nice love to see that all right we
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got some power adapters here so you can run these up the walls to the camera n
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I'm just messing with you you don't have to do that you just plug this into the
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base station which wirelessly communicates with up to 15 cameras so
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you plug that guy into your router and I have no idea what that does guess we'll
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find out hold on there we go power
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connector okay it's not labeled either we'll be back in a moment so we didn't
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figure it out but there's a highly amusing Amazon review of this thing that
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basically it's a good review overall of the unit but it says that that you
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manual and website make no mention of it they couldn't figure it out either so
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there you go reset button there's your sync button up there as well as your
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power internet view Zone status indicators and that's it that's the base
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station it just basically looks like that plugs into the wall nothing that
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complicated here we have some of the
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forget what this battery standard's called CR a something or other it's a
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3vt battery so presumably there are two cells inside there and these are for the
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cameras themselves they're really cheap you can buy them in bulk on Deal extreme
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I have a laser pointer that takes these batteries so I have tons of them at home
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already anyway wall mounts so these are your drywall screws if you wanted to W
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Mount to drywall here these are little base station little doodads so you just
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kind of uh this must come off here
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somehow oh adhesive surface there you go
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so you just pull that off caution adhesive may damage surface or paint so
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be careful maybe test it in a discreet location or what I sometimes do if I'm
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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
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first make it sticky enough to work but not sticky enough to take the paint
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right off the wall when you're done so those are little mounting doodads and
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they're magnetized see that so you just kind of put this wherever you want and
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you put this guy on here and you can position it wherever you want so those
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are those are the cameras they're not wide angle lenses so you do want to get
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them nice and up high maybe in a corner if you want to capture an entire room
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okay there you go it's got little rubber things here so you can not lose your
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grip on them when you're putting them up presumably that's why okay there's your
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motion sensor right there there's your lens right there
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and there is your battery compartment
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right presumably yeah there all right so throw
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a couple batteries in there no big deal I like that they're nice and light and
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compact I mean yeah it's only 3 FPS or you know whatever other complaints you
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might have but at least it's small and Compact and you can easily scale it and
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add more U more cameras to it should you
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should you want oh that that opens it up okay I didn't realize that before so let
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me power it on okay just like that all
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right what else we got in here Ethernet cable for plugging in the base
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station aha outdoor Mount very cool so
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this guy right here is I guess what the screws are for well no different screws
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for that so you can screw it into a tree or the side your house or whatever else
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you want has a mount right here that is actually capable of rotating as much as
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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
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very easily anymore once we go ahead and tighten this guy as well so there you go
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point it wherever you want you just open it up with two screws here and here
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throw the unit inside and it should be weatherproof they operate uh up to I
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think -4° so for those of you who live in
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Toronto sorry it never goes under-14
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here um yeah it's probably fine especially if you keep it close enough
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to your house that it's getting some incidental heat off of there and I mean
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besides the batteries wearing out faster I can't imagine there's anything in here that would be particularly damaged by
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the cold weather but feel free to let me know if I'm wrong includes a screwdriver
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actually for for this so includes pretty
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much everything you need right out of the box there you go that's everything
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so you got your two cameras and you can buy more you got all your mounting
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screws you've got I mean this is cool so it includes extra of these so you could
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potentially move them around if you want you could have these permanently fixed
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in places that are convenient and you can attach one of them Outdoors should
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you desire to do so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the view
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