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The amazon reviews are saying: good camera quality, and questionable firmware with bugs, a foscam specialty still. This one might have worked, again if you forget all the fake amazon reviews, but it's superseeded by the FI9900P.

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Sadly foscam only got worse software/firmware-wise, sometimes even making cameras that work with virtually no OS (including new versions of windows in some cases), and they continued to have lots of fake 5 star reviews on amazon, which is enough of a reason not to by from them anymore.ĭon't buy this, get the cheaper Wansview NCM625GA/Q1 (or Q2) which comes with higher resolution and no cheating fake reviews on amazon. My old Foscam fi8904w died (it was my only outdoor camera), so I looked at replacements. You can fully configure it in any browser (including from linux of course), and see the live view without any special plugin. This is a camera that all other manufacturers should inspire themselves from. The web interface and protocol support are fantastic. Too bad it does not come motorized, and for Wifi you'll need the F3215 which is not motorized either ($280).

#WANSVIEW W2 DVR.WEBCAM 1080P#

It's more expensive ($260), but the picture is fantastic, even in 1080p (reduced here for the web page). The caveats are that it's not motorized, and it does not have night/IR vision, but otherwise the picture and resolution are good and you can't beat them for the price (assuming you can still find it for sale anywhere) This is a nice cheap camera with an honest resolution of 960p.

#WANSVIEW W2 DVR.WEBCAM 480P#

This is only barely better than the 480p version but great wide angleĤ80p picture blown up to 720p to compare with 720p 'native' Out of focus out of the box, this is kind of sad At times, it'll also show you wrong colors. Note that some cameras ship blurry because the lens (very very hard to turn, it's stuck with glue I think), is not focussed. I would not really recommend this camera unless you want the very wide angle. The newer firmware offers image capture if you turn off authentication, but I didn't get it to work well with zoneminder (it's too slow), so I use RTSP. If you take a 480p shot and you blow it up to 720p, it looks almost the same. It wins for the very wide angle and cheap price for 720p, but that's because the sensor is not 720p, only the output is.

I also changed the F2.8 lens to a wider dealextreme F2.0 lens that's blurry around the edges: It also has an RTSP stream, but I found it often gave me frames where the picture was aborted half way (actually I found out later that reducing the frame rate seems to fix this), so I use image capture instead of RTSP for zoneminder. The web interface does not work with linux but you can capture screenshots from it with zoneminder on linux after you've set it up. To be honest, the 720p HD picture is still blurry, but it's better than 480p. It's the not as bad version of the FI8921W. It's supposed to be an HD camera (720p), but the picture is horrible and the web interface too (does not work with linux). It blurs the picture around the edges quite a bit, but gives me the shot I wanted:

Similarly the FI8910W is ok enough for 640x480, but don't expect miracles:īecause it wasn't wide angle enough, I got a 3rd party (cheap) wide angle F2.0 lens for it. The firmware isn't great, but it works well enough for image capture and it's the cheapest you'll find for 480p with a motorized base _and_ night view. It's not wide angle at all, which I don't like, and it's low res (640x480), but the picture is decent enough for that resolution: Today, it's utter crap, the picture is bad, the camera is slow, but back in the day it was cheap-ish and there weren't many other ones:

One good page to know about is ispyconnect, which gives all the entrypoints for many cameras: Here is a short review of them below if that helps others. I have tried a bunch of IP cameras with linux and zoneminder. Zavio truly sells good cameras, but sadly they cost more than double, which may be a bit out of reach for many people.

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Note that while wansview cameras do not offer the sharpest 1080p pictures I've seen (Zavio and FI9900 win, even I hate foscam), the nice things I've written on wansview are not based on the free cameras, but the fact that they have always answered my support queries, including the technical ones showing issues with the firmware, and fixed the firmware after that (including making it work on linux and other other operating systems), while Foscam tells people that they're running the wrong version of windows, and that's it. I hearby want to thank Wansview for giving me some of the above cameras for review (I bought some of them on my own, and after seeing my reviews, they asked me to test and review a few more).

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