Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver)
by Panasonic
Our Price: $179.99
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Category: CE
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Manufacturer: PanasonicModel: BL-C1A-S
Color: Silver
Product features:
- 10x Digital Zoom, 4 Lux Night View Mode
- Built in Web Server/IP Address
- Up to 15 Frames per Second2 CMOS
- Remote Monitoring from Cell phone
- 4-up and 12-up Multi-Camera Pages Built in Web Server/IP Address
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Digital Cameras Photo Reviews of Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver)
Customer Review: Great bargain price i got two white ones though. read up on tech
Summary: 5 Stars
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. 80% of the functions were the same.
1. throw the camera on your network-> panasonic sells a really good ethernet over power kit. If you search around you'll find its rather cheap. this kills the power and network in one stone. i use one master and 11 slaves in my house to do powerline networking.
2. the camera is odd in that it disregards the dhcp server and jumps to the x.x.x.253 address on your network. 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. 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. Also with TWO cams you definitely want to move them off the .253 address since they could collide should something reset. 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.
3. triggers -> just like the big brother panasonic net cams this has the same design but with very little nvram. 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. These can pump out alot of emails; i do not recommend this transport.
good stuff ask a networking buddy for help. the cd included is never used. this camera is comaptible with apps like webcam XP pro
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