Digitus has managed to develop such a legendary bad user interface that makes it not only the device itself completely useless, it contributes even to the fact that you clearly insecure lives with this surveillance camera and must in psychological treatment. The real purpose, the automatic monitoring of a room is, with this camera not possible, and probably not the intention of this product. If the intention was to drive me insane and write this recession, then congratulatory. But hey, you can not blame I had not tried it myself,
Set Up
The first Optiarc that I had died after 24 hours of technical failure, probably because the hardware department, impressed by the inability of the software department, sometimes wanted to break something. The second camera may work, but as accurately can the account of the incredible software not say. What it does is light up red and currently stored in completely confused intervals times a blurred jpg. That was not easy because it is a 70 expensive micro SD card, 3 days of work and four different computers was necessary. Anyway, I'm a trained system integrator, and that helped. But not much.
This basic setup is relatively simple, as if you want to lure the unsuspecting user-nothing into a trap. About a QR code with a smartphone you (you need a smartphone) is scanned from the back of the manual registered your camera. Then you can log on [...]. Or. you will be redirected to [...]. There you click on the login, the then but again [...] back forwards. What ever. There simply logs in and reached ...
Hell Level 1. MyDigitus.com
MyDigitus.com is a page, which is characterized by two features: First, it requires a Java plug-in, which is so sure about, easy to give as potential burglars, the house key and secondly the interface is approximately as self-explanatory as a fictional hybrid authority from TÜV and customs. The former is a bit problematic, because for remote access via the Internet from an office computer or Internet cafe separates this site from it. It is therefore intended basically for PCs in the same network, which makes the matter of the "Internet" page somewhat meaningless. Speaking of PC: the need, because three different Macs with all different browsers were not properly able to display this page. But if one has a Windows PC and Firefox (why not?), You will be greeted by 6 boxes, of which the upper left may display a live image of the camera. Alternatively, it also shows five different loading bar, a crash report from Java, the contents of other tabs (Wow, that has to manage one first!) Or nothing. Now you want to VLT. set the camera so that it receives a video or a series of images, when someone comes into the room. If we ignore all the other confusing menu items on this page, and clicking on a tiny Settings icon, which one passes in ...
Hell Level 2. Camera user interface
Then you end up at the interface of the camera itself, but the camera's IP address is called. That's not very beginner friendly, but here at least is clear that you will have nothing to do with beginners. A black, broken layout greets you with the error message: "Please install VLC 2.0.0 (2.0.7 Twoflower)". The latter is, of course, long since installed'm not a beginner, including manually installed browser plugin. Clicking the message away again the live image of the camera. You can choose between "Firefox / Chrome" and "Internet Explorer" what produces the error message "Please install the ActiveX widget RSAV.exe" About a drop. In Internet Explorer. Let it therefore in Firefox. Another drop allows change between "Main Flow" and "Minor Flow", which, when selected, make sure that the layout briefly surrounded in Chinese, then again asks for VLC and then crashes. If one language to German to (Pah, beginners!), The two options the way translated "highly resolved? Stes Video" and "Online Video". About a directional pad on the side, you can rotate the camera ... just fun: When clicked, the camera starts endlessly and herzudrehen and the interface crashes. What else. At the top right, there is the "Dwnload OCX" (without option o, but even then, if you have OCX installed. What is OCX is not installed, but there is a not just a feeling just for the safety of have contributed to their own system. No matter firefleanz where the Movement detectors?
The menu items are called "Home, playback, log, settings and system". So, off in the settings. In fact, there is something that "motion detection" is. As of this moment (for hours to sit around) joins the normal Systemadimistrativen work the occasional standing, waving and walking around. It can also save because that does not impress the people of Digitus course. The motion detection would enable ridiculous. The course gives no sense at all. So, look at the manual (Pah, beginners!)
Hell Level 3. Manual
There is no manual. There is a guide on how to change the camera to WLAN, but that's it. There are also online user manual. There is a "Help" button in Hell Level 1. If there draufklickt comes "If you have trouble viewing video, please click" Start "to test your environment." and a button on the home stands. Pressing him, you get the answer: "Your Success Network willfully support P2P services!.". Oh. That's great. On [...] there is something called manual, but basically found only a collection of screenshots of Hell Level 2 and the hopeless attempt an overmatched and underpaid translator a grain of sense in this software. But if one reads through it to get some time in the depths of the camera user interface ...
Hell Level 4. Alarm Settings
Oh. I want to reveal anything. This screen is so maligned and so incredibly hard to use, it is worth buying this camera. So if you would like more time to spend days of his life to bring a cheap China-white label camera to run: vergisses. If nothing. Get you not to run. But still worth seeing.
Conclusion
Definite Must Have for sadists, UX-student or as a gift to system integrators who they think could bring everything up and running.
