The functioning / software of the camera leaves a lot to be desired.
The box the camera came in is labeled PTZ. It's only PT!
The infra red at night is terrible. You have a circular haze all around the picture and hardly any picture.
I would not recommend this camera!!!!
I had to write a bad review to get any kind of tech support.
I have the Foscam FI8910W for my interior and it is great. I'll probably buy another one.
How can the same company screw this up is beyond me.
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First I have to say I am AMAZED at how this camera has 4 stars. It is the only reason I felt compelled to write a review. I have purchased 9 different cameras in the last 2 months. The only way this camera has such a high rating is that they paid a bunch of their employees or friends to give this camera 4 and 5 stars. This camera was by far the worst out of the 9 cameras I tried. I didn't get a lemon, read the reviews carefully. Skip all of the positive reviews. You can throw a dart against any results for outdoor ip camera on Amazon and you will be doing better than if you pick this camera. This camera is below sub par. The night vision is unusable. The halo created around the image is horrible!!! The image is just barely visible. The camera resets frequently. I thought it was because the camera was on wifi. I purchased the top of the line repeater. I have a $180 router. It still dropped the connection at least once a day. When it resets it goes back to a position that you can not control. I tried direct connecting the camera and guess what??? Yes the camera still dropped connection (even though every other camera has worked flawlessly when direct connected). There are much better options, a well trained pigeon would be a better option. I just purchased the Loftek Sentinel Wireless Pan/tilt 3xzoom Waterproof Outdoor&indoor Dome Camera and it is a much better camera for $30 less. It does everything this camera does without the night vision. If you have night lights you don't need the night vision. If night vision is such a big option with pan and tilt buy the Foscam FI8910W Wireless/Wired Pan & Tilt IP/Network Camera with IR-Cut Filter for True Color Images 8 Meter Night Vision and 3.6mm Lens (67° Viewing Angle) Black NEWEST MODEL and put it in a spot where it wont get wet or build a housing for it. The screws in this camera are horrible, they are small like the ones you find in sunglasses and you will strip them or their inserts when you try and remove the dome to focus this camera. The camera comes completely out of focus. There is no firmare upgrades. The technical support and forum answers on their website are laughable. Loftek Nexus 543 Outdoor Wireless/wired Waterproof Ip Camera is a better camera even though it is a fixed camera and much cheaper but the winner in my opinion is Shark $400 or Trivision (a Shark clone) for about $100 less. Whatever you do, do not buy this camera. You will decide that this is a paper weight that you should have returned weeks ago instead of trying to get it to work. You will check your return period. It will have expired. You will be angry and sad.Best Deals for Agasio A622W Outdoor Wireless Pan/Tilt IP Camera with IR-Cut Off
This product is decent, and passable so far for the price. I can't really understand why they're NOT using 802.11n wireless, not only for the range but the speed. The second issue is that the IR emitters at night actually reflect back into the dome glass and make the view a rather fuzzy, and useless rendition of whatever the camera is pointing at.Setup was actually very easy, but as a network engineer you'd expect that. I could see an average person struggling with the setup. We have 6 other IP cameras by various vendors from Trendnet to Zmodo. This is the first supposed all weather camera we've mounted in the "elements" of Minnesota.
Any kind of optical zoom would have been nice, but it doesn't have it, and not even the digital zoom works in the Agasio Internet explorer control page, nor from our tablets using Foscam settings.
The low light sensitivity is actually pretty nice. The camera quality is average at best, and oddly, the whole glass dome turns when using 360 pan. I can't see that holding up in the winter, and it's mind boggling why you'd have a weather enclosed dome camera, but choose to turn the glass dome instead of the camera mounting inside the dome. Weird.
Three stars is generous, and largely just due to price. BTW its actually a pretty big unit, so be prepared for that.
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This product works well, if you do these things....1. Use the wired connection to configure it if you intend to use it via wireless. Very simple to configure if you have basic skills adding things to your Wireless Network, or can read a manual and guess.
2. The built-in web admin page is nearly useless , download Mozilla to configure this cam, skip Internet Explorer, it isn't worth the hassle to bypass the IE security since their Active-x object is unsigned.
3. If you have a Synology, you need to choose the Foscam 8910W camera (works great), Agasio is NOT a Mfr. in their list. works great with Surveillance Station/DS Cam
4. If you use Android, you will need to get "IP Camviewer Basic" (unless you have Synology), free from the store.
5. If you use Apple devices, you will want "Livecams Pro" from the store (unless you have Synology), this is $1.99 (this product actually does multi-cam view and will take you to cameras all over the globe, bonus!)
The above was discovered by fiddling and calling support, nothing in the manual will help you with this important info... which makes no sense at all. It comes with software that finds the camera on your network, and launches you to the awful admin page.
The night vision inside was way cool, outside you do have the halo effect mentioned in other reviews, unless the IR can bounce off of something like your house. This produces an outstanding image at night. Out in the open yard, halo, but you still get great picture in the center and you can see clearly out to 35 feet or so. If you could bounce the IR, it might do better at greater distance (I can't test that). For this price, you have no right to expect the image in daylight to be better than it is, excellent price/performance in my opinion. The P/T works properly, but the device randomly resets itself to "home posistion" overnight, no way to change home in the interface and telling it not to in the interface does not stop it. The housing is metal, and seems to be very sturdy. This device uses a wall wart power supply and has an ethernet jack on the power cord that is not small, which presents a problem in the average exterior plug box. I had to get a double gang all weather box and extension cord, the power cord isn't very long, you might want to buy these with the camera.
Overall, for the price, the housing is great, the day and night images are great, the tech support was good, called back with correct answers (my request) within an hour I think. The manual, included software, and the web interface are terrible, the halo thing is dumb but does not bother me. This cam was easy for me to configure, but it wasn't my first rodeo. I have a Panasonic BL-C230 PTZ, the 2 products are not equal (nor are the prices or the overall spit and polish). I have yet to configure the triggers/alarms, but will update this if they do not work.
If you think all those reviews with 5 stars are not from the company trying to boost the ratings, you might be too easily impressed by reviews. I would just say that I have no idea what the support guys name was, and cannot imagine why I would care, he got me answers though. I am a technology geek and I don't like crappy electronics. This is not a "5 Star" product, but neither does it have a "5 Star" price and I will be keeping it... If you need a hammer, don't go buy a screwdriver.
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This is my third ip/wifi cam, the other two being an Astak Mole, and Sharx, and now this Agasio. It works well, no issues out of the box, setup was just like any other ip cam: get it set up on your network, access it's setup page via a browser on your local lan, and voila. Everything as expected, but the users manual is electronic on the CD provided in the box. I bought this as an outdoor, wifi, nightvision ip cam with pan and tilt. It is working great inside, I have not yet set it up outside to determine how reliable and waterproof it is. I use the Blue Iris software to monitor all my ip cams in one window, set up alerts, and provide web acess to all the feeds. Blue Iris did not have a setting for the A622W, but selecting the A601W worked, just FYI. It seems rugged and well built.The only thing I do not like is the all in one cable that is hard wired to the camera. The reset button, power, and wired netwok all use a single cable that has 3 connectors on one end that is hard wired to the internals of the camera. I will use this over wifi, so I don't need the bulk of the thick cable and wired LAN connector, but it cannot be removed and makes mouting it to the wall difficult as the tangle of cable/connectors doesn't quite fit in the small recess on the mounting plate.
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