Meets expectation - functional although the software part is a little minimalist

Given the difficulty in finding information on this camera, my review will be a little long and detailed. This is a motorized camera wireless / Ethernet IP Chinese that delivers very good image quality, night vision with 2 powerful infrared diodes, automatic triggering when the brightness down. She especially one feature: it has a 433 MHz receiver for integrated consider it as a control panel that accept external sensors. There are infrared sensors (PIR), magnetic doors or windows, gas detection, dinondation, smoke, glass break. We may even add to it a key chain style remote to enable or disable the alarm function without using his smartphone. One can thus connect up to 64 external sensors. You can choose whether the alarm is triggered on detection of external sensors, and / or with the video detection system integrated motion, which is found on almost all cameras of this style. But this internal system, although convenient, is still not very reliable because they are subject to all sorts of false alarms, particularly at night when other mosquitoes or gnats walk on camera, lighted hard by the two diodes infrared. It also has a very powerful buzzer which can choose to enable or not in alarm, regardless of the distance alert. The audio from the camera is transmitted at the same time as the image. Conversely, it can also talk to the camera, which features a relatively powerful loudspeaker. this inverse function works, but we should not think that it can replace a conventional intercom. On the one hand we can not talk and listen at the same time, but especially the deadlines for switching and transmission remove any comfort to this function. The audio function is still not just a simple friendly gadget. You can insert a microSD card of up to 32GB, allowing continuous recording on alarm, or a time range. Finally, and this was a major reason for my initial choice for this camera, alerts can be sent conventionally by sending an email including the photo at the outbreak of the alert, but especially via notification Instant push Android or Iphone. You should know that this camera is not a single thing: it is part of a complete ecosystem including servers (Chinese) connected to all cameras of this ecosystem database. This model camera is part of the family "erobot" not running with the 2 Cu application (French) carved exclusively to work with these Chinese servers. There is no way to operate the camera otherwise pure local, with port forwarding and use of a conventional software as found in abundance. The camera has a pseudo ONVIF accounting, but rtsp one hand compatibility is very wobbly, without access protection, and maximum definition then goes to 360p.
This brings me to the reproaches made to this camera. The 720p is effective only direct visualization. The video recordings or images (as well as a snapshot image transmitted by email) are limited to 960x360. It is not possible to view multiple cameras on smartphones simultaneously. We must make a connection to each camera that you want to view, this is not really a speed model. Personally, Android push alert totally reliably operates only when I am on my local network wifi (the one on which the camera is located. I have not tried from another local network), in But through 4g, the alert is not reliable at all, with a success rate below 50%. This is disappointing. Having no problem with my push notifications in general, I think the Chinese server must mismanage remote clients so requesting additional time at the Google GCM notification server. Another disadvantage is the very low built-in 433 MHz receiver sensitivity. This limits the interest of possible external optional sensors and even the optional remote control which for me only works 4-5 m. Contrary to what is sometimes found in Chinese listings, the camera does not know aim below the horizontal. The vertical clearance is about 80 °, 120 ° and not as you can read it. Another disadvantage is the difficulty in finding external sensors 433MHz compatible. I acquired 433 MHz wireless sensor in 2262 encoding that all seem to work, I do not know what it is for coding sensors 1527. The description associated with the sensors without son initially intended for central d Alarm rarely indicate the type of encoding used. This is also true for remote controls.
Finally, we must recognize that the camera configuration is childish, once we are warned that we must first connect the RJ45 !! I lost 2 or 3 hours because I did not know, and the English record does not indicate. Do not rely on any online help, I myself have found nothing at all, nor forum or feature article, nothing, either in French or another.
This ecosystem is clearly designed primarily for use on smartphone, but there are also Windows software since shortly. It is full of limitations, relatively crude, but it works and especially allows the permanent display up to 64 cameras simultaneously with the audio of the cameras. Attention however at the necessary rate! Once we know the limitations of this model, and if you can live with, the product quality is very good. For the current price of 50 I can only recommend