Hardware top, software, a complete flop.  Only with the Web interface or third-party software exploit properly.

Hardware top, software, a complete flop. Only with the Web interface or third-party software exploit properly.

HooToo® IP camera surveillance camera Megapixel HD 1280 x 720p H.264 Wireless / Wired Pan / Tilt with IR-cut filter, night vision WPS, Black (Electronics)

Customer Review

Hello!

I want / you describe to you here my experience with the HT-HooToo IP211HDP IP camera.

The delivery is next to the actual camera and the wireless antenna a wall bracket with mounting equipment, a power supply, an about one meter long LAN cable, a quick start guide in English / German / Italian and a software CD.
A micro-SD card slot, the camera does not have, unfortunately.
In this respect, I do not understand the response from HooToo / ZBT in the questions / answers for the product.
"Dear Sirs, automatic video recording function, it has not, but manual video recording function. For an SD card is required. Yours sincerely, HooToo Team"
This is simply wrong or not fitted to the product. I ask the manufacturer / supplier to correct this.

The camera itself does with its housing made of matt black plastic a high quality impression.

Around the lens, the 12 IR LED's mounted on the night vision mode and the associated sensor.
In addition, a small speaker and front are right there on the housing built in microphone.

On the back of the power and network connection and the associated LED's can be found.
Similarly, the WPS button, a connector for an alarm system, a nowhere Illustrated audio input or output (?) And the connector for the wireless antenna.

On the underside of the connection for the wall mount and a reset button is present (as described anywhere as long as these when and how must press).

The basic start-up turned out to be straightforward for a slightly more experienced users.
Beginners will probably overwhelmed with the matter at the beginning of something, because here but several quite complex network topics are to be observed and the subject IP camera always requires a number of functions and parameters to be set.

The Quick Start Guide leads a fairly well through the 4 possible paths to a connection to the camera.
These are:
- Direct connection via LAN cable
- Ditto, but after using a wireless vohandenen
- Direct connection to a wireless network using WPS
- Direct connection via smartphone / tablet with its own access point the camera

However, the first way described in the instructions for setting up and using the software IPCamClient the worst.
The software (in my case the Windows version) is simply abysmal!
Times Viewed from the fact that it is available only in English it does not utilize the possibilities of the camera far.
Alarm Definition, SMTP mail delivery and FTP recording, lower system settings such as frame rate, sensitivity, time stamps, camera name, Pan & Tilt presets, Port assignment, DDNS specifications, occlusion detection etc etc .....
All Wrong! This software is an absolute joke!
I do not understand what HooToo was thinking so extradite a bit rubbish with such a technically advanced camera actually.

I therefore recommend directly the complete manual of the HooToo webpage use.
(On the Internet I could unfortunately this only in English, but not in German, see).
There namely the use of the Web client is described, which is mentioned in the Quick Start Guide not a word.
Just so you can exploit the possibilities of the camera makes sense if you do not want to resort to the same third-party software / can.

I recommend for beginners is why this procedure:
Connect the camera to a LAN cable and the AC adapter and supply power.
After that starts the camera and you can either start the search tool IPC Camera search tool from the CD or from the HooToo website and see the camera or the same in your own router look (AVM example in the table in the point or under the menu item Home Network / Network) which IP address has been assigned the network camera.

Clicking the Search tool on the found entry or the entry of contracts awarded by the router IP address (possibly plus: Port) in the browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome) then you get to the browser interface of the camera.

The User Interface (WebUI = WebUserInterface) has at the top of three menu items for accessing the home page with the live video, general and system settings

On the left side of the web interface suitable additional menus are indeed at the option of the main function appears above.
Thus, for example, when live video launching the camera movement, called presets or adjust the video display.
There, the sorely missed when IPCamClient configurations can actually be made
Here, users will find at last very extensive options to configure his camera and to control, schedule recordings and alarms and set network settings such as DDNS, FTP, SMTP, P2P.
With the Web Client can thus actually set the camera to use and how it makes it technically.

In operation the following points are still to me particularly noticed:

The optional wireless device via WPS allows users without prior cable connection directly establish a wireless Connect. That worked smoothly with my Fritz box 7490.

The idea to have the camera set up their own wireless network as an access point with which you can then connect via smartphone / tablet is very innovative. Simply for the WPS button more than 10 seconds. A great feature, since you so requires no other network, so the camera can theoretically build up in the middle of nature (if one has power).

This is offered free of HooToo an own DynDNS service I find fine.
Although I could also use the built-in my AVM Fritz box but not everyone has this option.
Thus one comes also from the "remote" Internet on the camera.
The topic is not trivial, because it enabled some services and ports must be enabled in the router.

With the integrated microphone and the speaker built the camera can be directly used as intercom or baby monitor. Super!

The alarm function is solved well, because I could very quickly define the desired alarm areas and the required follow-up actions. For example, can be sent with pictures, or be placed on a defined FTP server automatically when the alarm mail.

There may also be a general recording schedule to be created.
This is very useful to eg take every night or only on weekends.
It can even single hour zones are defined, which I think is very positive.

A smartphone access with the app MyCam Pro (available for free for iOS and Android) worked after entering the required data immediately.
The selling of mine Android app Tiny Cam Monitor Pro has recognized the camera easily. I personally prefer this very mature app with its many great features.

An online firmware update is carried out either via the web interface still on the IPCam client software.
I find this unnecessary and incomprehensible as the user so it is instructed periodically himself to look at the HooToo website for software / firmware updates

All in all I am very impressed by this camera technically.
It provides a very solid quality and a rich feature set for a reasonable price.
However, the software provided by HooToo is underground, what with me leads to a clear star deduction.
A microSD slot I miss too much, since it was saved at the wrong end.

Therefore I will give this IP camera from HooToo so just 4 stars.
Three stars would be too much as well as the wicked, for the really good hardware would not deserve.

I hope this review could assist you in your decision to buy .....

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