D-Link - Day and Night Wi-Fi Video Security Camera - White

Easy to set up if you are somewhat computer savvy. Video and sound work well over high speed ISP. Night vision has limited range, but is clear up to about 10 feet. Phone app works well and camera can be viewed remotely. Although not advertised for outdoor use, mine is under a protected porch and I've had no problems. Wish there was better recording options however.

I bought two of these to add to an existing system using Blue Iris as the DVR. They work okay most of the time except for the occasional blip in the picture caused by the camera that is detected as motion by the software so an event is recorded. Other than that issue, they are fine as a simple WiFi camera with sound.

Absolutely the worst wireless camera I have ever purchased. Bough for remote viewing of my pets and home while at work. "Easy Wireless Connection" was a joke, spent two hours trying to get it to connect before calling customer service. Tech support treated me like I was an idiot for not knowing how to change settings that I can't explain even now, and after about 2 hours of him guiding me through random internet pages (most of which wouldn't even load) the camera worked wirelessly. I was pleased with the picture quality as I need it for in home pet and child surveillance, but if I viewed the camera from within my home I got horrible audio feedback. Unfortunately after 2 hours this camera went offline, so I called DLink back. Tech support said "It does that sometimes, you can reset it and it will work." So.. I did, and 2 hours later it went offline again. Called back and was told to take back the camera if I didn't like it, and promptly hung up on. Reset the camera again hoping it was just my wireless connection going out due to storms and for some odd reason the camera wasn't reconnecting.. but it did it again. Called back DLink yet again and was told to hardline the camera via ethernet cable to see if that helped. Out of sheer desperation (It is 12am, can't really go switch it out) I tried this, even moving my camera to a room I do not need to watch so it is near the modem and my ethernet cable (since I dont have a 100 ft ethernet cable to stretch to the room it needs to be in) and lo and behold, it disconnected its self again. Called back tech support one last time to ask if my camera was defective and I was told to buy a new router (we have clearly established it is not the router as it does this hardlined) deal with resetting it every 2 hours (which if I'm at work how am I going to reset it? Defeats the purpose of a remote camera don't you think?) or return the camera. After all of these problems and the HORRIBLE customer service, I will be returning first thing in the morning and will never purchase another DLink product again. I absolutely do NOT recommend.

This was our first security camera for the home, but when we discovered that the same company had a camera that would pan and tilt for a similar price, we returned it and got the pan/tilt model. Both models seem to have the same picture quality and work even in the dark. The 1150 model had a short power cord. The pan/tilt model had a more acceptable cord length. Set-up required 2 calls to D-Link tech support, but they were very helpful and patient. Afterwards, I bought 4 more cameras and set them up myself with no problems. You can monitor and angle the cameras on a smartphone or iPad, as well as a desktop computer, as long as your home wireless is working. You can have notifications sent to you when the camera detects motion or loud sounds. If you were to use the camera to monitor an outdoor setting, you might want to turn off the motion detection notifications, as just a slight breeze will be detected. My biggest concern is that they do not record when motion is detected, so if you are not actually watching when something happens, you will never know what it detected. But, for the money, this will work.

This little camera produces very good daylight images. It has a night-time mode, where it switches to black-&-white; but I have it placed inside my house, shooting the exterior through a window. I get a lot of reflections (of the window-blinds) off the window at night, and so my night-time pics are not as clear as they might be. Set-up was almost trivially easy; but, to be fair, I'm an IT professional, and I understand networking pretty well. Still, like I said, almost trivial. One thing I really like about it is the camera's ability to just email you clips of events, without the need of any server or PC; the camera contains an SMTP (email) server, so it can just send email on its own. The camera also has a web-server built in, and you can just connect to that to do the set-up/configuration stuff, or just watch the live feed. You really don't need any dedicated software. However, D-Link has a free-download 'console' program you can use for stuff like multi-camera monitoring, if you want to set up multi-camera monitoring, and/or record to your PC hard drive, ether per-event, or just according to a schedule. If I decide I need any more security cameras, I'm likely to buy another one of these; I'm pretty satisfied with the value for the price.

If you live in an area with marginal internet speeds it will not connect to D-link cloud service, even to configure. You can config manually though once you get it on the network after waiting for all of the auto config options to fail. Needs to have a manual setup option from the start. That Zero Config option only exists if you have an entire D-link cloud router set up. I can't yet get it to FTP images but it will do vid clips on motion. The camera has lots of features not even mentioned in documentation. There is also a PC based DVR app from D-link that will record on schedule or motion. You can set motion on the camera for the FTP images and motion in the DVR for recording separately. The real down side is image quality. It states its VGA quality at 640 x 480 but it is obviously up-scaled from a much lower resolution. image is grainy and at 6 to 8 ft would likely not be usable in prosecution of a thief. It has its uses but not much of a security camera due to poor image. This day and age we 19 megapixel sensors in even the cheapest cell phones, but most home security cameras still suffer from low res sensors.

If you're looking for all the bells and whistles this camera is probably not for you. Bottom line it's just so you can check in on a particular area from time to time. The pro's are: it has quality video and audio and I found the process of connecting it directly to my router to be very user friendly. (I have not tried to connect with WiFi but it does have that capiblility). It even has color video feed if there is enough light. It will email the user in case there is motion and/or sound and there are sensitivity settings that work surprisingly well. Con's: It won't text you so be aware, email is your only method of alert communication. You can take a still photo but you can't record video from the online feed. It may be possible to set up a DVR that will record but I haven't chosen to use it for that application. I can say for beginners like myself I found it to be inexpensive and easy to set up and use.

Purchased this Camera to monitor home while traveling on vacation - pleasantly surprised with the video quality and images plus the ability to zoom in. Your frame rate depends on your Wi-Fi connection or 4G connection. Great bonus is that you get audio as well! I installed my camera using the convenient wall-mounted and positioned it exactly where I needed it. Set up took longer than expected and the only reason I wouldn't give this product five stars is that the D link website seems to be a little buggy at times especially during set up. Other than that the camera works fine on my tablet smart phone and PCs. I've had trouble viewing from my MacBook Pro however that seems to be a configuration issue not a big deal considering I use my smart phone or tablet mostly.