ASCII.jp Setting is completed in just 3 minutes!Impulse buying of net camera "Camera one shot!"

The best internet camera for non-IT users who like pets

It was about 15 years ago that I first introduced a network camera to my home.

It wasn't a big reason, but simply a super-simple and stupid idea of ​​wanting to see the situation of pets at home from domestic and overseas business trip hotels.

At that time, network LIVE cameras for advertising and corporate surveillance installed in tourist spots were finally beginning to spread. It was common knowledge that network cameras at that time had a fixed IP address to identify and access the camera from anywhere on the Internet.

Although it is a long-awaited fun product for individual users, it has been a difficult setting work for professional use that has hindered the spread of network cameras for a long time.

Setting up a network camera required extensive knowledge to understand spell-like technical terms such as "NAT traversal" and "DDNS" (Dynamic DNS), as well as the ability and experience to deal with problems.

You've probably heard people around you say, "I just want to see my pet while I'm away ...".

Planex Communication's "Camera One Shot!" (CS-W70HD) is a high-performance net camera that completely eliminates such troublesome network camera settings (hereafter: W70HD).

If you don't need the pan / tilt function (camera up / down / left / right / swing function), you can select the cheaper conventional model "Camera one shot!" (CS-W06N, related article).

"Camera one shot!" That enables more full-scale remote operation

The product's melon is represented by seven circles, but the right-wing "amateur-oriented" is epoch-making!

As stated on the package, W70HD is a purpose-first "amateur-oriented" product that dislikes difficult things.

A familiar design like the space suit of the space pilot that appears in the science fiction of the moon trip

The "ID / Password Card" in the foreground, which is rarely seen with ordinary internet cameras, is epoch-making!

When you open the package, you will see the main unit, "Read me first" (device details, contact information, etc.), "Start guide" (setting manual), "ID / Password Card", RJ45 cable, and AC adapter. come.

The front where many cameras for day and night, infrared human body detection sensor, infrared LED, temperature sensor, function indicator lamp, etc. are arranged.It is summarized in a simple design without protrusions

On the right side, the Wi-Fi standard simple setting "WPS" button, audio output terminal, and microSD card slot are arranged.The first task is to press the WPS button on the Wi-Fi router, then press the WPS button on this W70HD to automatically connect the two.

On the back, there are hooks for hooking the camera on the wall, a power connector, an Ethernet port, and something that seems to be a tripod hole.

Compared to the entry model CS-W06N mentioned above, the W70HD has a camera pixel count of more than three times that of the CS-W06N, which is one million pixels. Like the conventional model, it is equipped with an infrared LED and automatically recognizes the ambient brightness. It is a mechanism to achieve optimum results by using two sets of lenses that are optimal for daytime and nighttime.

The shooting resolution has also improved to a maximum of 1280 x 800 dots. In addition, it has a built-in speaker, microphone, and temperature sensor as standard, and can utter voice from a smartphone, which is a remote control terminal, from the W70HD.

Of course, it is also possible to listen to the sounds around the installation site and to know the temperature change remotely.

Like the conventional model, it is equipped with a motion detection function and an infrared human body detection function, and has a sufficient function as a sensor camera. And as an advanced function of W70HD, it is possible to move the camera inside W70HD freely up and down, left and right (180 degrees left and right, 90 degrees up and down) just by flicking from a remote smartphone screen to reliably capture the target location.

Thanks to the increased resolution and the realization of the pan / tilt function, it can be said that the usage has expanded to corporate applications compared to the conventional CS-W06N.

I don't think there is a "strategy" in the action of "impulse buying" in the first place, but in many cases, people are often forced to look for the reason for impulse buying afterwards.

Sometimes it's a logical excuse for a housemate, or a persuasive task for oneself. In this column, I would like to introduce to readers the products from pins to drills that I bought involuntarily, and hope that the result will be to suppress the reader's premature action and sometimes to add oil to the fire ( Click here for the serialized table of contents).