TRENDnet TV-IP612WN ProView Wireless N Pan/Tilt/Zoom Internet Camera Review

Others/Miscelleneous by stefan @ 2011-04-15

The new TV-IP612WN Pan/Tilt/Zoom camera from TRENDnet features 10x optical zoom, which is very useful to get details of objects located at a high distance, 16x digital zoom and auto focus. It also comes with Wireless N support, WPS, an included monitoring software with motion detection, IPView Pro 2.0 which supports up to 32 cameras at once and a wall/ceiling mounting kit.

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IPView Pro 2.0 Software

The Internet Camera also comes with the IPView Pro 2.0 software, which is really easy to install:

 

 

 

After the installation is complete and the application is started up, we are offered the possibility to search for the compatible cameras on the LAN, or import a previously saved configuration file:

 

 

 

The Add Camera menu is also presented to us when the IPView Pro 2.0 software is launched for the first time; this menu can be accessed at any time from the Configuration menu; for adding a camera, we have to check the list and if nothing appears, we can press the Refresh button; after selecting the camera from the list, we have to enter its user/password and a preview window will appear from that current camera:

 

 

 

The main interface has a lot of controls we can modify; in the center we can find the Live Video display area, which can be altered depending on how many cameras we have online, we've got the Minimize and Exit buttons, the Pan and Tilt controls, Zoom buttons, Snapshot, Recording and Audio controls, Live video display controls, Camera configuration menu button, Camera status and Camera information section:

 

 

 

 

The Configuration menu has multiple tabs; in the Camera management section we can add new cameras see their details and enter their username/admin details; if the connection is successful, by clicking the Enable live preview option, we can also see what the current camera transmits:

 

 

 

In the Monitoring settings tab, we can create schedules for recording and apply the schedules to any camera in the list; here we can also set the Motion detection settings and Digital input options, like we've seen on the firmware too:

 

 

 

The Recording options tab helps to conserve and manage the allowed memory storage for the video and snapshot files; the recorded files can be limited by time elapsed or by size. We can also choose a custom destination for the files and storage limits can be set for each camera by time elapsed or HDD space allowed; a limit can be also set for the system and all cameras used in IPView Pro 2.0:

 

 

 

In the Other options tab, we can specify details regarding Proxy server, email notifications, scan interval and alert type settings:

 

 

 

The IPCamPlayer application can be used to watch the recordings and can be accessed directly from the IPView Pro 2.0 or from the Programs menu.

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