Once the exterior:
The Motorola 10N2651 is quite compact and features a modern, if not exactly inconspicuous appearance. On the one hand there is objective and infrared LED, while on the other side a speaker hole is housed. In addition to a status LED, a on / off switch, a link button and the USB power connector there are no other controls on the device. The base is quite large and offers the camera a secure footing, it can also be monitert on the wall.
In-Shutdown:
For operation you need the Hubble for Motorola app, which also serves as a viewer. After the camera is receiving power and said app is installed, you have to really just an account with Motorola to create, over which the camera is registered later and press the Link button on the camera, that's broadly. Then, the camera is linked to the account and can be accessed by any device on which the Hubble app is installed. One should make a software update of the camera, as extended range of functions with the new software is the first by the way. The wireless receiver of the camera is actually very good, at the border areas of my WLANs where as smartphones already get connectivity problems, a use of the camera was still possible good.
Operation:
The camera offers a surprising number of features and offenbahrt their true heart, because it can be found for example reproduce the way children's songs, or a talkback function, features a baby monitor. The Übetragung the room temperature adjusts as the image. Otherwise, the camera can alarm when motion or noise on the Hubble app the owner. When motion is also equal to a corresponding photo transfering with. Against payment also an online video recorder can be used, the created motion detection equal to corresponding receptacles.
The camera's sensitivity to sounds and movement can thereby adjust any setting on the camera app.
App:
To this end, I will shortly write something. On Android, the app frequently had some trouble. Thus no connection is often set up to camera and you have to go to the main menu and select the camera again.
Is also selected in the video playback to landscape mode and selected the temperature display crashes the app when re-rotated to portrait mode. Otherwise the app is simple and intuitive to bedienen.Auch the clarity is good. Go (use of HSDPA +) has the app very often Nachpuffern and although other video streams ran perfectly (in 720p) over the same connection. But it remains available and you can see the video. It will stop only every now and then briefly interrupted for recharging.
Video quality:
From HD certainly far away, but still useful enough that you can see some details on the videos. The quality in bright environments is better than in night vision mode (the switching is done automatically). Virtually on the product images but it is not far. The infrared LED has a high range (about 9 meters), but beleuchtetet mainly just a spot in the center of the image, the edges are illuminated visibly worse. The video stream also has a lag of about 3 seconds, regardless of whether the recipient is in the same WLAN as the camera or not. Overall, a moderate result. In addition, I lacked a zoom option. The poor video quality seems to be less on the camera than with the strong compression of the video stream. Here would be great if you could adjust the compression and thus the bandwidth requirements in the configuration of the camera.
Audio:
The recordings of the microphone, however, are good and small sounds are given yet well understood again. The Talkback function, however, is very quiet and the speaker sounds highly distorted.
Alerting:
Works quite ok. Not always alerted the app on movements or noise 100% uverläsig. Movements were often ignored times, especially in dark environments. Noise, however, were reported directly as an event in the app, here there were fewer problems.
++ Functions
+ Audio Quality
+ Long-range night vision function
+ Functional app (can manage several cameras)
+ WLAN reception
+ Intercom function
+ Transmission of the room temperature have a few cameras (shows if the heater is still working in the absence :))
o One is forced to use the Hubble app, which also stands in the article description
(O alarm not always reliable in movement - Fixed> Update with the Android app)
o app is better but still not perfect
- Video quality is no HD
Conclusion:
The camera serves its purpose and even more. I put it now also as a baby monitor, if you take two houses is further invited to dinner and the normal baby monitor comes up against its limits. The surveillance works quite well, but the alert via the app did not always work immediately. The video quality is far from HD, but sufficient in order to evaluate the image and recognize faces can eg. A push here would nevertheless have been helpful. Well, the transmission of the room temperature, so you can see a winter holiday, whether at home, the heating goes. However, because of only moderate quality video and the recurring problems with the app I subtract a star. Possibly here is happening here in the future so something by updates. So remain good 4 stars. Can I recommend, if you consider the drawbacks. Even as a baby monitor.
Update:
There has been an update to the Android app. The notification of movements / noises now work more reliably. Moreover, in motion short videos in the alarm message can be transmitted, so that you can see what was the cause of the alarm. Beautifully solved by Motorola, the software is better. If now something is being done on the video quality (Adjustable compression / bandwidth) and the bugs are fixed the app, I would give the camera also 5 star.
Update2:
After yes criticized here that the positive reviews do not go into the Internet access, here is a small supplement:
To access the camera, an account must be set up with Hubble (who wants to find out in advance should hubbleconnected after googling)
The camera establishes a connection to the server Hubble, which have the appropriate app to access the camera is possible.
The service is free of charge, only if a video recording is required when motion is detected, a paid subscription must be taken out (is due to the space that you need also to understand).
Even without app is possible to access the camera on the Hubble website (hubbleconnect).
This works fine, without additional configuration, when a stateful firewall is used (with manual configuration, the camera should be assigned a fixed internal IP address and the communication are allowed).
The stream is transmitted by the way encrypted using SSL (seen with wireshark)
Update3:
Is certainly also worth mentioning that Hubble its users informed in advance if there is planned maintenance and service times is not available (only came once at night before). Otherwise, the Hubble service in recent months has always reliably works!.
