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Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver)

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Panasonic BL-C1A-S Network Camera and Pet Cam (Silver)

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This network camera is truly easy to install and use in most cases. With industry standard automatic configuration (UPnP), the camera and your router or PC will automatically decide the best settings allowing you to access your camera without any complicated setup. Once connected, using a simple Web browser, just enter in your free, permanent Web address which comes with the camera and you can see and move the camera! Its that simple.

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Product Details

Product Length:	10.2 inches
Product Width:	12.6 inches
Product Height:	9.0 inches
Product Weight:	4.0 pounds
Package Length:	10.1 inches
Package Width:	10.0 inches
Package Height:	4.3 inches
Package Weight:	0.9 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 9 reviews

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

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 3.5

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Does what it should and does it WELL! Dec 02, 2008
Its labeled a pet cam...but it doesnt have to be for pets alone!
I bought this to use in a SERVER room in our company's network operations center. It was basically set to keep an eye on specific servers that were giving us some issues and we could not ascertain if it was hardware or software.

We plugged this puppy (no pun intended) - had it setup inside of 15 minutes and pointed it to a rack that held 3-4 servers. Then we got to work monitoring on a regular basis inside our office as well as over the internet.

Voila - it worked perfectly - we found our HARDWARE problem and then moved the camera back on to a wall for regular room monitoring.

Do NOT expect this to give you HIGH RES images...but it does a GREAT job in giving you the quality it should. If we can get enough detail to find a faulty server then this will do what it should for you to keep an eye on your PETS....

Enjoy!

Difficult to set up--anyone want mine? Nov 25, 2008
I bought this on a gold box deal and it has turned into one of those ulcer-in-a-box things. I got it going for a short period with the help of Verizon, the manufacturer, and whoever made my modem. Then something changed and I haven't been able to get it to do what I want since.

0 of 2 found the following review helpful:

Bad video quality Oct 28, 2008
I was not happy with either the video quality or software/website interface.

Returned to amazon for refund.

Works well Sep 16, 2008
This product functioned as described, was easy to set up and the image quality in both the 320 - 200 and 640 - 480 vga mode was very good.

Plugging into a wireless access point allows you to bridge connections.

Four stars since it does not support sftp or https uploads, otherwise very nice deal.

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

Great bargain price i got two white ones though. read up on tech Sep 13, 2008
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