12/14/2023 0 Comments Mini ip cam wirelessApart from passwords (which for obvious reasons are kept elsewhere) everything I know about my various projects can be found in the blog system. Update December 2021: One of our readers asked me about this camera, setting up etc so I’ll take this opportunity to point out that the blog, now very popular, was originally started as a journal for my own use. I happened to have a couple floating about.įor general use in terms of value for money, my much larger Alfawise camera previously blogged about is better if ultra wide angle isn’t important. The camera takes a microSD, not supplied. Along with others of it’s kind, I’m not sure the magnetic connection would stand up to a severe accident. For actual use, I could see this going in the car, a lot less obnoxious than the camera I have now in the car and it could be used for recording minor accidents or near misses. The 150 degree wide angle fish-eye lens is as you can see here on the top. Underneath you see the magnetically attached stand who’s base is adhesive, not magnetic. One of these cameras would be easily hidden but for the bright lights. Yes, the green and blue indicators are bright. There are two clearly marked buttons – one for on-off, the other for setting up etc. The fish-eye view and inconsistent frame rate would prevent using this as a Skype webcam but then that’s not what it is intended for. Since starting it up it has worked 100%, plugged into the USB on my PC. What I find interesting about this model is the size and the fact that it has it’s own rechargeable battery. Well, the good news is, it works – it took seconds to connect to my phone via the free app though I’ve not tried a PC connection yet. The HD MiniCam app for the Q9 can handle multiple cameras as the thumbnails are quite small. It was just fine on my desk but in a cupboard not so good. Aidan Ruff and I were talking about this over dinner as I was pondering how to put a water pressure sensor into/onto the incoming mains water and to cut a long story short, this little camera can be magnetically mounted anywhere – in this case to monitor the manual water pressure gauge and control panel without invalidating any warranties – HOWEVER on experimentation, despite it’s undoubted small size I’m not 100% happy about the quality, at least in low light conditions. Just because I can, I have security cameras everywhere but when I last headed off to Spain it never occurred to me to keep an eye on the heating system water pressure in the UK. Brian Gentles apparently has this camera running on iSpy – I’m waiting to hear back from him. Update October 2019: I thought I’d finally found a use for this little thing… I recently returned from Spain to the UK and in the not so distant future I’ll be going back. I received this particular camera from Banggood back in January 2019 – a miniature fish-eye type camera which connects (as do most) via an app – in this case the free Android App HDMiniCam and the quality/ersolution claim is H264 1080p. Bringing the Q9 into my office it is reliable (even overnight) on a different supply able to manage (arbitrarily) 1 amp.Īs some of you know I have various IP cameras dotted around both in the UK and Spain – just to keep an eye on things. I used a 200ma USB supply with which the other (Q8) camera is happy. ACTUALLY, too late now but it was I believe down to power. It has just lot the job to my spare (and wonderful) Q8 camera. I don’t think the camera is ONVIF compatible, the picture quality is variable and it seems to keep logging off then back in. U pdate April 2020: the APP for this camera is no longer available on the Android Playstore and the QR Code takes you to a dead website – another nail in the coffin for cloud-based cameras?
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