EasyN F-M10R COMS 300,000 Pixel Wireless Waterproof Outdoor IP Camera Security System Pan Tilt Horizontal 355° Vertical 90° 20m IR 22 Led

It works, but I haven't managed to set it up completely yet, mainly because I don't have a microsoft PC and it seems almost wholly dependent on microsoft activeX controls to work. Fortunately it has "iphone" and "mobile" interfaces too which just need javascript and thats enough to see a half-size picture in and work the left/right up/down controls with. There's a "preset" button that doesn't seem to do anything, though. And for a "PTZ" camera it certainly doesn't zoom! Or point any way but left/right up/down. Good 355 degree horizontal rotation, but I can only use 90 degrees of that. 90 degree vertical tracking is OK, but I would like zoom OUT. How far away from the floor do they think I can mount it? The field of view is not big.Scanning showed me it offers an http server on port 81. There's an rstp server on port 554 which is also responsive and gives a big picture at 1024x768 or better, with password. Once one gets in on the http service and clicks on PC (not mobile/iphone), one can change those port numbers. Fortunately I understand networking fine, because the guide's a couple of pages in chinese and english that might as well be chinese: "Download and install app; after installation app icon will automatically pop up". Uh no .. I don't have microsoft, and I don't have an iphone, if that's what they mean. They have a net-chat helpdesk (and skype) open on hong kong hours, but the (pleasant) people on it don't know any more than what button to click in IE. Tell them "I don't have microsoft" and they're lost. Apparently there's a technician one can email.There's still a lot of mystery to me in the setup. It looks as though setting the camera to trigger on motion requires the microsoft activeX installs, because all I get is a "missing plugin" warning in the "alerm" (sic) section. That's a pity - I was able to set up an email address for it to send pictures to just fine, and ftp address to place them too. None of that requires microsoft compliance. But there's no way for me to set a trigger without microsoft. I think. I _can_ set a schedule for the camera to alarm on, but I've no idea if I'm setting just one of many criteria and it needs the alarm to be set to motion detect as well as that. So as security it's presently no use. Perhaps I'll clear that up when hongkong is next awake. And what is "audion"? There are three leads out of the camera, ethernet, 6v, and WHAT. Is that third one an audio lead? I don't know. I can only hear crackling on the rtsp audio feed. And what are the names of the rtsp streams? there should be three in three different video formats .. perhaps examining their javascript will tell me!One can set base frame rate, and various parameters. I can't set the image parameters to anything sensible because they are settable only in PC mode, and that's the mode I can't see a video feed in, because it needs activeX. Fortunately there's a return-to-default-settings button that works.There are also configuration settings for "external alarm links". I have no idea what that is about. It seems to me that one might be able to set a motion alarm to trigger the camera. How? That might be a solution to my mocrosfot problem. About 1/3 of the settings are presently still a mystery to me? And did I mention it, but the PC interface is in chinese, with an English warning that I haven't installed the "controls". There's a microsoft .exe to download for that. I got to the configuration section OK but there are many other buttons to click that don't seem to do anything, despite being labelled with icons that look like logout (square with an arrow out), etc, and no picture steam. But I got lucky with the settings section!Physically, the picture is fine. It works well enough at night - visual range about 15m I'd say. One can see shining red lights when one looks at the camera. The camera is NOT strictly speaking "flush mounting" on the wall, however, which makes the 3/4" screws they supply pointless. They barely reach the plaster. The camera casing is flush, but the screw holes aren't! They're stood 1/2" away from the wall by the casing. I used 1 1/2" screws and they'd good enough, though I recommend 2". A better idea would be to mount a 1/2" thick block of wood on the wall, and use the screws they supply to screw into that. The body itself is metal and seems robust. The camera rotates inside the glass bulb thing. It's pretty well silent.The wireless works fine. I'm using WEP. It does WPA too. The camera grabs an IP address by DHCP when it's switched on, so connecting a real ethernet cable to a server works straight away. Then one can connect to the 81 port and configure the wireless via the HTTP server in the camera.There are only three user logins provided for! One "admin", one "user", and one "guest". And I'm not convinced that the camera actually asks for a password all the time - but that may be a session thing in my browser, even though I've deleted all the cookies I can find, and so on. I certainly could not get to the PC interface from an external address using my Opera browser because it passed me directly to a mobile interface each time! Perhaps it checks the browser identification string.Anyway, it's being a right pain to me, overall. I wouldn't get this thing. It's more nusiance than it's worth to me, except as a learning experience. But one can never tell exactly what one is getting until it turns up! If you have microsoft equipment perhaps you won't notice any of the difficulties.