Filled with costumes, haunted houses, trick-or-treat fun, and loads of candy, Halloween marks a time of year for grownups and kids alike. As you get ready for this year’s scare-fest, D-Link offers some tips for tricking out your standard Halloween fare to help make your front porch spookier than ever with several smart home products – the D-Link HD Outdoor Wi-Fi Camera (DCS-2330L), D-Link Wi-Fi Smart Plug (DSP-W110), and mydlink® Wi-Fi Motion Sensor (DCH-S150)
HD Outdoor Wi-Fi Camera
Outdoor surveillance during any season is helpful for keeping an eye on things, and with Halloween around the corner, neighborhood foot traffic and pranks can be at an all-time high. An outdoor camera like the D-Link HD Outdoor Wi-Fi Camera monitors the ghosts and goblins, candy thieves and seasonal pranksters, and helps you stay one step ahead of trick-or-treaters. Visit D-Link’s blog for steps on setting up a Pumpkin Camera (or Pum-Cam) on the front steps or watch the how-to video.
D-Link Wi-Fi Smart Plug
Wi-Fi Motion Sensor
Our Thoughts
This device was extremely easy to setup. I used the WPS button on the camera and router and it connected on the first try. After that I downloaded the camera driver to my PC from D-Links support website. I installed the driver, detected the camera and setup the network credentials. Now I can simply access the camera using the IP address and log in that was created. You can also set it up to log in to "my dlink" website but for my application that wasn't needed. The included ethernet cable is only about 4 feet long and has a nice weatherproofing cap for it but you would need cat5 outlets or have it pretty close to your equipment to need it.
The camera is approximately 75 feet from my router going through one window and one wall. I was afraid it would be too far but I have a stable connection and clear picture. The camera has a very long power cable that unplugs from the camera so I was able to drill a tiny hole in the wall and fit the cable through the wall to an outlet close by.
Construction appears to be pretty durable. The camera is sealed up nice to protect it from the elements. The stand has 2 screws to secure it to a wall and the arm screws into the stand and crimps everything together to seal it up. My only concern during installation was putting it high enough so it couldn't be easily tampered with. It is white and pretty noticeable. However during the Halloween holiday, using the idea of having it hide in a pumpkin is brilliant and works very well.
The camera GUI has a ton of options from setting up the display, to audio, presets, sd card, etc... I have the camera setup to use a 3rd party software for my recordings and then updates it to a google drive account.
Overall this camera works great and will be very useful, not only for the holidays, but day by day as an excellent security camera.
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Reviewed by Jackie
3 comments:
This outdoor camera is really neat, that way you can keep on eye out for all the little trick-or-treaters coming to your door if your kinda busy doing things in the house-
This outdoor camera would not only be great for Halloween but for security at other times too.
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