ZyXEL IP4605N Cloud Enabled IP Camera 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 zel's cloud enabled IP camera the IPC
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465 n it uses h264 HD format recording
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which is pretty cool because this is a consumer level product that is wireless
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and Records in HD very neat is tablet compatible as well as smartphone
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compatible so you can use those to monitor your security system okay the
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first truly consumer friendly IP camera okay view anywhere no complicated setup
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HD video works day or night so it does have a built-in infrared emitter and
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then it's also an infrared camera so that'll make it so it can actually see
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the infrared light bouncing off the stuff in front of it which is good okay
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it has 340° pan range of motion so that's like going around like this 100°
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of tilt so that's up and down cloud enabled viewing powered by eye Security
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Plus so you can view amateure camera directly from your smartphone compatible with iOS or Android yay free apps
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available web based vi from your PC and most flash enabled devices neat okay
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802.11n Wi-Fi 24/7 surveillance infrared
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LEDs automatically eliminate up to 15 ft in low light conditions HD
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video okay package contents which we'll obviously see as well as setup utility
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requirements web setup camera I Security Plus okay cool cool cool so they show a
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diagram the camera connects to the home office Network connects to the interwebs
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which can beam to you wherever you happen to be so if I you know I'm at the
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office and I want to know what my cats are doing on the cat tree I can put this
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in my living room and I can be
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like and I can see what they're doing from work I can hang out with my
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cats I mean how do you go wrong I mean I
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guess you could also you know monitor for intruders or like babies or stuff I
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mean that that's that's a really useful thing about something like this you know
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how security companies will charge you if there's a false alarm set up one of
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these bad boys or set up a couple set them up at your house you don't even
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have to worry about like what happens if you know they see something and it
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doesn't notify you in any way or whatever the case may be your alarm
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company calls you you go oh well let me find out if it's a problem log in real
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quick on your smartphone even find out if there's actually someone at the house
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you can be like yeah there's someone there go please uh get them and make them go away um and make them not and
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take my stuff so all this is pretty clear I think we've already uh covered
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that so let's have a look at what's actually here in the package first we've
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got an instruction booklet with key product highlights as well as oh hold
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on oh okay brief product description uh
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application scenarios baby monitor oh that's smart actually so not only sound
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but also video that's cool and it uses infrared Nanny pet camera oh I came up
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with that one on my own all right what else we got home/
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business security got it and street price is around 185
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cool okay I don't think that comes with everyone's I think that was more for my
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uh use all right start here run dis first download the latest from zeel
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here's the setup guide so there's a quick start guide uh when you finished
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you can do a bunch of things there's all your default settings all on one convenient card very
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nice moving right along we've got some boxes which presumably have like some
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power adapters and uh oh what's this Wireless and USB oh okay so it just uses
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a uh a USB dongle plugged into the back of the unit in order to get the wireless
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going on I wonder if you could even just use this on like a computer if you
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wanted to wow that is the ugliest like yellow plastic I think I've ever seen
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okay so there's that going on we got a power adapter we've got mounting kit
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we've also got an Ethernet cable should you desire to uh run it wired and a
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mounting bracket very cool okay this
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must be the power brick there we go so that
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plugs into the thing and then this plugs into the other thing which plugs into the
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wall and finally we have the camera unit itself look at that custom Pham
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packaging very nice actually it's not custom you guys want to know how this
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foam packaging works you just uh you you have someone actually Cuts these um
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unless they you know are fancy and they have a machine that does it but then
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they actually cut all the various layers down to whatever they need to be and
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then they stack them all together they glue them all together and that's how you can do packaging without the expense
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of of doing a custom mold not mold like grows on bread like
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mold like you know to you know have something be the right shape at the end
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all right so remember guys we've got 350° of rotation this way 100° of
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panning up and down oh look at that I can just move it that's very cool so it
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turns all the way around there look at that it's like it's like creepy it's like horror movie it's all
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like it's neck should be broken but it's not um okay sorry indicator LED on the
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front there's your infrared there's your camera remember this is 720P HD camera
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metal mounting plate on the bottom actually makes it feel a lot more solid and that's how you're going to pair it
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to the bracket which has four little mounting pot spots right there so you
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just go and you can uh put it like that and then it can kind of look around like
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this and be like the neck should be broken but it's
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not okay let's look at the back so we've got our Len as well as what in the world
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is that okay well moving right along audio out microphone in so oh look at
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that so you can plug in a an additional uh external microphone that's cool
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there's the power in reset and a Micro
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SD oh that's cool no
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way does it support actually recording okay well we'll be
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back okay we got it all figured out this is a light sensor the IR LED or the IR
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emitters are inside here and finally this is an IO Port of some sort and this
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can be used for easy local storage so what's really cool is you don't even
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have to run NW netor to it you can still record your microphone in is here
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however it supports both uh external microphone and external audio for
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two-way communication so you put one of these by your front door and you're all like someone comes to your door and
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you're like yeah it's next should be breaking
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but it's not um no no you wouldn't you wouldn't say that to them you'd say who
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is this and they would say oh it's me I'm here to visit and you'd be like go
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away um and that's pretty much how it would go down so what we really need to
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do is a video quality test so I'll have set that up at some point but that
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pretty much wraps it up for the unboxing don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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the wireless thing goes you don't have to use it though remember there's local recording as well as uh network attached
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recording by um a physical cable that
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plugs into the back of the thing and then
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you can turn it off