Like if you put it outside your front door, do you have to run wires through the house for power? Does it video record? Thanks.
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This item is not a recorder at all. It is simply the input side that gets audio and video to another device such as a recorder or monitor for viewing. Yes, anywhere you want to place the camera will require the running of wires from the camera location all the way to the recorder or monitor.
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The power source is a house current (electrical outlet) this device can be either run through your computer for recording purposes (software included) or connected to a receiver as it has cables for both. Great machine for digitalizing tapes or listening to them. Only problem I had was the Apple software you must work with to record to computer. But it does it's job although more settings would be nice.
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Definitely don't have to, you could run wire to a device like vcr, security recorder, or any other devices. Another option instead of running wire, get a wireless device that connects to your recorder.
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It records as soon as someone ring the doorbell. I forgot to check if it does have a motion detector. You can't access the recorded feed remotely. It is meant to show you who's outside the door when your home without peeking at the peephole plus taping it so you know who tried to visit you while you're gone. It is really a fun useful gadget. I have it in my condo in Asia. If you want to access the feed remotely and record it in an sweetdreams card, I have the security camera at the house here for that. And yes, it has a motion detector, light sensor so it can record in the dark etc. pretty much what you wanted. I can't use this in the condo since the association is pretty strict about the common space which I'm perfectly fine with. Have a great weekend.
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The camera needs to be located near your wireless router. Mine are about 200 feet from the router and both are outside of the house. You can watch the output of the cameras from any internet link. I have software called "Vitamin D" that records the video and lets me monitor on my PC at home. On my iPhone I have an app called Pro Surveilance and it works great. I can watch my house from anywhere.
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It is plugged into a regular outlet inside our home and then our electrician drilled through the outside of our home and mounted it. As a sidenote...I highly recommend calling Foscam directly and having them remote into your computer to complete the wireless setup. We purchased a total of four cameras...our intention was to have two mounted on the exterior of our home. We had to send two back...purchased two directly from Foscam...the first is installed and working... Waiting on the second one. The other two were purchased from a company that sells Foscam products.... They were more expensive and both were defective.... Just ordered the second camera today directly from Foscam. Foscam has been so helpful each of the three times we have called to install two cameras. Waiting on the fourth (again.. Note that we only need two but the two we purchased from an outside vendor were defective) camera and hopefully the process will be complete. They will also provide you with the app to download so you can view your cameras remotely...be sure to have them set up port forwarding on your wireless router or you will only be able to see your video feed when connected to WiFi. Hope this helps. Overall....we could not have completed this installation without Foscam support... I did not feel that the instructions that came with the camera were enough, but then again I am not an IT expert and by calling them....you will alleviate any potential headaches.
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If you have given direct battery connection, it can record vandalism at front and the rear with the motion sensor. But there is no video coverage at the sides.
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Do I need to have something else to view the video on this camera or can I just connect to a monitor and thats it? I dont want to record, just real time monitoring for my garage. What I want to do, is to have a camera wired to my room's tv, so whenever someone is getting close to my garage entrance, I can see from my tv, instead of going to the garage entrance.. will this work?
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It does record sound, but usually doesn't pick up anything more than fifteen feet away. The batteries are backup power in case power fails. They don't operate the lights, just the camera and keep the date/time correct. It has to be wired in for the lights to operate. I suggest not putting it on switched power because the batteries drain pretty fast (a few days to a week). For the money, honestly I reccommend a stealth game camera (like hunters use). There is no visible flash, and the nighttime pictures are a lot better quality. I switched after a year (because my video of some kids breaking into cars was not good enough quality to identify)
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This unit records directly to a built-in hard drive. It plugs into a monitor (blue ended cable - analog) for video output. We use it primarily to monitor the driveway and the backyard and it works well.
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It records but the power cable,DVR, and audio and vision cables are sold seperatly it would be perfect for you it has night vision and an infrared beam so if you position it by a window or outside it would be perfect
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The camera can use a wireless network or be connected to an Ethernet cable. But either way it needs a power cable to work. You would need to run an outdoor outlet conduit box and have it power that way. But this is by no means a full weatherproof outdoor camera. At least not by my standards. Look into the outdoor vandal proof dome cameras.
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Your using it to monitor the exterior of your home from the interior of your home directly through a window? If so, I don't have an answer for that. It wouldnt expect it to do that, it is not the proper camera to do so. Get an exterior camera with the proper width and leds to do so. Just for example, have you ever tried to recording through the inside of your house to the outside with your camcorder. It's never worked very well, very bad focus. Look into an exterior cam. Mine works great.
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The video signal is wireless, it still needs to be plugged into a wall outlet. It has a heavy draw too. It runs on 5 volts, I tried powering it with a usb cable but it couldn't supply enough amperage.
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It does not record by it self, you need a security cam recorder for it, or a computer card with an RCI entry.
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I have it setup through my home computer. Any motion is recorded on that computer.
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No, it does not. When the power does out, it turns off. When it comes back on, it goes to the setup you programed. If the power is out for a long time (not sure how long) it will reset the time and not record unless you have it programed to record always.