Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver)
This network camera is truly easy to install and use in most cases. With industry standard automatic configuration (UPnP), the camera and your router or PC will automatically decide the best settings allowing you to access your camera without any complicated setup. Once connected, using a simple Web browser, just enter in your free, permanent Web address which comes with the camera and you can see and move the camera! Its that simple.
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Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver) Reviews
Then something changed and I haven't been able to get it to do what I want since. I bought this on a gold box deal and it has turned into one of those ulcer-in-a-box things. I got it going for a short period with the help of Verizon, the manufacturer, and whoever made my modem.
I was not happy with either the video quality or software/website interface. Returned to amazon for refund.
This product functioned as described, was easy to set up and the image quality in both the 320 - 200 and 640 - 480 vga mode was very good. Plugging into a wireless access point allows you to bridge connections. Four stars since it does not support sftp or https uploads, otherwise very nice deal.
the camera is odd in that it disregards the dhcp server and jumps to the x.x.x.253 address on your network. 3. the best scenario imo is to setup the unit to FTP the images somewhere when a trigger (motion on XX to YY day of week, during XX to YY hours) occurs. I've got a very high end version (PTZ-360 20x optical zoom) and the core of the o/s is the same as this camera which was a gold box item. the cd included is never used.
so if you have 192.168.1.1 as a router the camera jumps out of the box to 192.168.1.253; then just browse to that page since these cameras have the newest firmware and it will require you to setup an admin password. Most routers leave 100 ip's (like x.x.x.2-x.x.x.99) alone so you could just move them out of dhcp range and set them up. Also with TWO cams you definitely want to move them off the.253 address since they could collide should something reset. These can pump out alot of emails; i do not recommend this transport. now i'd strongly suggest you move the camera to a static ip since disconnections will occur and static ip's have no recovery time nor do they move around if your router gets twonky and decides to move everything around.
1. i use one master and 11 slaves in my house to do powerline networking. good stuff ask a networking buddy for help.
If you search around you'll find its rather cheap. this camera is comaptible with apps like webcam XP pro 80% of the functions were the same.
this kills the power and network in one stone. triggers -> just like the big brother panasonic net cams this has the same design but with very little nvram. 2.
throw the camera on your network-> panasonic sells a really good ethernet over power kit.
So, since pet and computer system are not located together, I have yet to find a way to use it and I will probably return it when I am finally convinced there is no way. I was not well informed and believed I was buying an item that could be plugged into the wall in my pet's room, but it actually has to be attached to an internet connected computer/router. I am sure it is an excellent item if you are knowledgeable and equipped to use it. I am neither. I looked for other internet info since it was unclear how this item worked from the info available at Amazon at the time. I bought this on a gold box deal and had only a short time to make up my mind. (Perhaps it has been supplemented since).
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