Useful camera with software quirks

Useful camera with software quirks

DBPOWER® Pan Tilt Wireless IP Camera WiFi Two-way Audio Night Vision Night Vision IP Network Camera IP Cam for MAC / Windows / Linux / Android and IPhone, support alarm output, alarm via email, FTP, web access, Free Mobile Remote Viewing

Customer Review

The DBPOWER camera was left me free to test.

The camera is supplied with tilting wall mount, short LAN cable, power supply 5V / 2A and CD-Rom.
For commissioning, the camera must be connected via a LAN cable in the home network. The device can now be done either directly via the IP address of the camera (if it has already been assigned to get from a local DHCP server provides an IP) or via the supplied P2P ID Finder software. Within minutes, even WLAN is set up - supports is WEP / WPA / WPA2 with AES or TKIP.
You have the choice to access via a simple browser interface (picture + camera orientation) or can be made through a more extensive interface for Firefox / Chrome / IE, with numerous settings. Firstly, the camera itself (image, brightness, contrast, pan, tilt, frame rate, etc.) can be controlled, and the settings are changed.
About an Android app can also be accessed on the camera (P2PIPC in Play Store) - the possibilities are very similar to the browser interface, but the camera does not need to be accessible by IP, but is already found on their ID on the Internet. For this purpose, it is enough the QR code by the camera of scanning the ground.
I have tried unsuccessfully to take a browser and via Android app in operation, the alarm functionality. FTP I have set up and activated, and was accepted by the software when tested as working. Despite entries in the alarm log, but I get even after long Try not recording.
To this end, I would like to have tested the included Device Viewer software because the promised better set up this functionality.
However, this software comes with a combination of Win7-64bit and 2560x1600 monitor not clear - it lacks controls and the window will be displayed larger than the monitor. Also described in the documentation menus do not appear to me.
All software (except for the Android app) makes a total of some half-baked idea.

The image of the camera is only 640x480 pixel resolution and is fine, but significantly worse as a good surveillance camera with CCD and DSP tidy. I have for example at the front door with a camera 700TVL resolution, Sony Effio DSP (not tiltable and without a network connection) - this camera provides a significantly More detailed, higher-contrast image with improved color and significantly improve their behavior in backlight.

The camera has both a microphone, and a small speaker. The reproduced sound is still acceptable, but the microphone is too quiet and has a poor quality.

Questionable I find the camera without any activation (I have no function to disable found) is found directly from the APP on the Internet. If the quality of the included software is similar to the camera firmware (as I believe, as a number of functions is limited or unreliable function), then there may be a potential here for Einfalltor attacker. I do not mean the eventual control of the camera by strangers on the Internet, but breaking into the local network via vulnerabilities in the protocol used used for the control interface. Here I would expect that this function is at least deactivated. So only the manual lock will remain in the router's firewall.

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