HOSAFE 1MB1W HD IP Camera Outdoor 720P Night Vision ONVIF H.264 Motion Detection Email Alert Remote View Via Smart Phone/Tablet/PC, Working With IP Camera Software Blue Iris iSpy IP Camera DVR(White)

This is a wired network camera that you can use with the included software, but I won't even bother with the included software. It works, but its like "eh". Your best bet (or what I did) was plug the power/network cable in, load an image of Motioneye on a Raspberry pi, and add the camera as a network camera. You don't need to use the included software at all. The ip is configured by DHCP. The image quality is that of a digital camera from 1999-but thats not a bad thing. For the price and what you can do with it, its amazing. Daytime pics are great and nighttime can be good, but the included IR leds dont go very far. If you were serious about nighttime shots I would recommend a external IR LED.With motion eye for the raspberry pi you can easily take any snapshot you want; intervals, motion, constant. Same goes for video as well. Files can be saved locally on the pi, usb, or any network share. All this can be done WITH NO PLUGIN on any webbrowser. You can simply stream a live image or video on a webpage (internet or local network only) with no plugin or activeX plugin.Simply put it, this camera is AMAZING for the price. The same company has higher resolution cameras of the same model but the price is much higher. I might try them later, but this one has a great price/features ratio

Requires quite a bit of know-how to use this camera. I bought 2 of these to mount outside, mainly to be seen... and the white color with chrome band really looks nice (and conspicuous on my dark/light brown house). I didn't get the POE version, so I ran 12VDC lines to each of the cameras with the Ethernet drops. I tucked the connection block up inside the eave of the house and mounted the camera to the outside wall close enough so that I could plug in the connections, wrap them in a ziploc bag and tie-wrap it together and shove it through the hole I made in the soffit. A grommet finished off the wiring. Very straight forward install. I would add that these are a little too heavy to mount directly to the horizontal section of the soffit, but if you look at the device itself... you don't really want to do it that way anyhow.I'm not going to write a detailed HOWTO here, because, if you can follow what I did, you don't need the details, and if you can't follow the details... you are probably going to have problems.The factory configuration of these devices is horrid. And changing it is very painful... I would imagine this has something to do with the low price. To make sure you can adjust these... you need Internet Explorer 8, the quicktime 7 plugin, and enable unsigned active-x to run. Luckily, I had windows7 install media handy (bought a full copy way-back-when, moved everything to linux since). So, I installed Oracle's VirtualBox and installed win7 on a fresh VM. (and this is where things get really network-techie)...Once you do that (get a win7 VM up on on the internet behind a firewall... you can point IE8 at the camera's IP (I found it with nmap and the MAC printed on the box, but there are lots of other ways). Then do the hokey-pokey to get quicktime 7 plugin installed (it'll point you to the website to d/l it), then go into ie8's settings and enable unsigned active x... and then the hard part... configure your network for these security nightmares... While I was in the camera setup I turned down the FPS to 7 for both feeds and made a note of the resolutions. I also disabled the 'alarm' feature. Near as I can tell these settings (factory 25fps and alarm enabled) were causing my cameras to reboot almost every 15 minutes.... after I lowered them and disabled the alarm feature (zoneminder does all that anyway) I've not had a single reboot event of the camera... (I had the camera put what it thought the date/time was on the image... and it was always resetting to the factory default)If you have some of the netgear prosafe smartswitches, they can do .1q VLAN-ing. I vlan-ed these two cameras off so they cant get to the internet router at all. I am using them with zoneminder, so the zoneminder server is dualhomed the vlan with the cameras and the vlan with the rest of the stuff around the house. (I figure if you can pwn the zoneminder server... doesn't matter if you can get to the cameras anyway!) Even if these cameras were super-secure, VLAN makes sense because you are physically putting ethernet outside your house (e.g. you don't really have physical network security anymore for the drop the camera uses)Anyway, once you get ALL THAT done... you can setup zoneminder to monitor the main and aux feeds. and this is what makes these cameras totally worth all this effort.... you setup zoneminder to do motion detection on the lowrez feed to conserve CPU and network bandwidth and then link the hirez feed and capture it when there is an 'event'... I have a 10 year old dual pentium (E2180) system that is monitoring three cameras (got another mfg camera to play with too) and doing software motion detection and the load average is 0.3 and both CPUs are 75% idle... it drops to 30% idle during an 'event' while it captures video from 2-3 cameras at once.Not bad for less than $100 investment in hardware and cameras. BTW, these camera's (really any 720p) are probably not going to be enough to ID anyone you don't already know. Bullet style cameras are usually too far away from faces to see features... even eye color. Now, if someone is missing an eye... and they face the camera,... you'll see that. Nightime IR mode tends to washout/saturate, so again, fine for motion detection and general monitoring... but you aren't going to recognize anyone you don't already know.... just a limit of the resolution.

Update 1/20/2017 ******************I dropped this from 3 stars to 1. I have two of the 2MP cameras and 1 720p HOSAFE cameras.All three cameras reboot regularly, usually 5 to 15 times a day. This is a problem because it takes the cameras about a minute to return to presenting a picture. I didn't notice it at first, since you only see the reboot if you're watching or have your system set up to alert you when signal is lost. I have missed people coming up to my front door because the camera is in the middle of a reboot. For a security camera this is unacceptable. One crashes so hard it occasionally resets to default configuration with the default name and chinese timezone. The pool pic below is after a hard reboot and the camera name is reset to HD IPC.***************************************Update - Nov. 11, 2016.I dropped this one star because of a concern with the stability of the camera web interface. The video continues fine, but the management interface doesn't work.As I mentioned below the unit does not do Daylight Savings, so when I had to log in and change the timezone back, I realized I couldn't get it to respond to the web interface. This happens with some frequency, I noticed when installing the unit if it went more than a week, the web interface crashed requiring a reboot. Since mine is fairly inaccessible, I have to throw the breaker off then on to get back into the web interface. It makes a tedious job a little worse.At the time of purchase the $35 price point was fantastic. Now there are several 4MP cameras available for $75, and you can get a great Hikvision DS-2CD2042WD-I 4MP Full HD WDR IR Bullet Network Camera US English Retail Version Home Security IP CCTV 4mm for just over $100. If you can afford it, take the jump to 4mp Hikvision. Rock Solid, does DST, Rotate and wide dynamic range all in sofware.--------------------------------------------Pros:This camera has a good quality picture and includes an IR cut filter for great color reproduction. The base is aluminum and well made.Cons:The web browser software doesn't always work for configuration. You can click on the device configuration and nothing happens. The included software works fine for configuration, but it's a little more of a pain to deal with. This is important because...The unit does not do daylight savings time. It will pull time from a NTP server, but will be an hour off during DST. I compensate by adjusting the timezone twice a year. This is important for users of BlueIris - since you can save a lot of CPU by having the camera insert the time onto the image, BlueIris will write the stream directly to disk. If the time is off by an hour, that presents a problem with the saved video/images since the time/date is embedded.My last complaint is somewhat minor - it does not do an in-camera 90 degree roation. That would make it ideal for monitoring a doorway or hall.Bottom line - decent camera but for this price I would look at the 2mp version. If you can afford it, a 4mp camera from a company that supports DST and Rotation will cost about double. I have a single Hikvision that cost about triple this camera, but is easier to configure and does DST and rotation. The configuration difficulty wouldn't be a big deal if you didn't have to do it twice a year.I've attached a picture of the camera pointing at my front door for your comparison. You can see how a 90 degree rotation would be helpful.