Update August 2014:
It is a single offense. The app launch will take on my iPhone 5S getting longer as acceptable and even smartphone and Cam in the same WLAN are, the connection takes the Cam after re lame app start here partly minutes: Many times I have to repeat the (only explorative searchable) trigger "Refresh" function in the action list to get sometime once displayed as "online" an ongoing action. The most recent firmware update has both B120 / E Cams permanently connected with me offline. I have separated the two devices for 8 hours from the mains. After working a back, the second I had to reset a solid hour and newly set up - this process suggested repeatedly fails when setting up the WLAN, eventually it worked then, surprisingly. Now both cams back online, but this is no reason for premature euphoria: Last night, were triggered 26 audio alarms and uploaded files corresponding to 52 (26 photos, 26 videos) on Dropbox.
The number of push messages thus obtained amounts to:. 2
Motion detection through window glass through now works the way better.
Original Review:
After I first tested the Philips M100E and lack of promised or due to unacceptable faulty functionality returned bitterly disappointed, I have a second attempt started and my more sophisticated device than ordered two cheap Gebrauchtware times. In fact, the B120E / 10 works much better! However - and this is my opinion unfortunately typical PHILIPS - is the discrepancy between (brilliant) idea and (listless) execution and here severely. It begins with the documentation, here we see screenshots of an app, contemporary, chic designed and obviously of appropriate functions. However, you load the corresponding App, you will be amazed both iOS and Android via the interface does not really like the unstable iOS and Android apps. Meanwhile, Philips has made a second app via search In.Sight discoverable - this seems to be considerably more complex and professional, but it is only intended to be visually basically identical B120N. The B120E can therefore not configure. Would have been nice.
Inertia is overall a distinctive characteristic of the device. The initial set - great idea - via generating a QR code with the wireless data (followed by automatic self-device) in the app and recognition by the cam. This works contrary to other reviews certainly both Android and iOS, but the time frame between each step from the moment of turning on each long enough until 3 minutes after any exceeding tolerance limits, a further step has been successfully processed. Will (humorous slightly exaggerated) say: Prepare for the initial time. Wait until they think, "Okay, now that does not seem to work," and then wait in addition another 5 minutes. You will see just before draufschlagen the device signals the success.
If you then configure it, it works - mostly. Mostly. Ramping up the Cam took forever to date. In the meantime I have already repeatedly experienced that me the Cam has been displayed for about 20-30 minutes as offline - probably it has started here even new. As long as there is good light, does the motion sensor. Are the lighting dim, works on 99% only of the audio sensor - this is also in the small print of the product description. A glass panel through, eg to monitor an exterior terrace, I have it even in high summer sunlight so far only in exceptional cases, done it, trigger motion detection. The picture - according to Philips razor sharp HD 720 - is at best at best acceptable acceptable if smartphone and Cam in the same Wi-Fi are. When connecting via LTE / UMTS / WLAN is external of "HD" absolutely nothing to feel.
The notification of detected motion / audio signals with a time delay via push message. The time window is between 20 seconds and sometimes up to 200 minutes (as I have experienced it at least several times). Under Android, I received in the mobile network sporadically push messages, iOS this worked, however, mostly satisfactory. Quickly lose out, however, even impossible - since the last update starts the app though jagged, after starting the app the Cam is still loading in addition, it may once again up to a depending on the connection, take two, three or four minutes - if the app does not crash before (you have Android poor mobile network coverage, you have the worst case initially also again username and password for their Philips In.Sight account type). Only after the Cam will be shown as online, are delayed subsequently individually set alarm features displayed as active (patience so, and not equal trust in panic the ad that there first shows that a previously enabled sensor is apparently inactive. The coming . Sometime. do not rush). Especially with alarm-controlled monitoring has alarmed as user so basically all the time (irony).
If by movement and / or sound and / or temperature triggered alarm Cam produced a still photo and an approximately 20 second video showing about 15 seconds before the shutter button and 5 seconds after - so it seems to be so that permanent added and then A corresponding cutout is provided separately. Clever, but this may be the reason for the delay. The provision is only possible via DropBox, you can access the records of the Dropbox app or via the Philips In.Sight App. Who wants to live monitors, can activate an uninterrupted audio stream or watch Video 5 minutes at a time. Then the video transmission needs to be retriggered. If you want permanently without pause video streaming over 3G or external Wi-Fi, you have to take out a paid subscription. The cam can, incidentally, be used only on the PHILIPS software.
Conclusion: I would use this combination of cam and app because of their hakeligen software and their after my personal feeling rather less reliable power only very limited and only within its own Wi-Fi as a baby monitor.
For monitoring purposes it is relatively well suited - relative means in this context: clearly better than nothing, and through it can only be used in good light and not through window panes.
Noteworthy here is the fact that Philips fully makes use of the Cam on the availability of services of other providers depending on amount: DropBox for caching of films (via e-mail or use a self-defined FTP / WebDAV services are not possible) Yoics for streaming. If it comes here as recently after Heartbleed vulnerability to changes in technology, you will feel as a user by PHILIPS hang long left: It took about 2 months for the suddenly no longer existing recording functionality by PHILIPS in a firmware update for all Cams was restored after DropBox had tightened its security settings. The rollout of the new firmware for the respective cams (installable via smartphone app) also found strange place: this was about Android already weeks before the availability of iOS users downloaded.
The high price of just under 150 I do not see as justified to, here, Philips has for my personal impression definitely uninterested and delivered past the user - hand is the part with a bit of luck for in order to have the 65, that is my opinion then verschmerzbar.
