A TECHIE REVIEWS A DCS-936L
The D-Link HD Wi-Fi Camera boasts a wide angle lens that easily captures your entire room, wall-to-wall, in high-quality 720p. Find out what else our techie had to say about it.
The most important specs you'll want to check out:
- 1/4” Megapixel progressive CMOS sensor
- 112° Wide angle lens for clear, whole-room coverage
- Built-in Microphone
- 5 metre IR illumination distance
- 4X digital zoom
- Built-in Infrared-Cut Removable (ICR) Filter module
- Built-in Micro SD card slot
The most important features:
IMAGE FEATURES
- Configurable image size, quality, frame rate, and bit rate
- Configurable brightness, contrast, sharpness, saturation and hue
- Configurable motion detection windows
- Time stamp and text overlays
EVENT MANAGEMENT
- Motion detection
- Sound level detection with adjustable sensitivity
- Event notifications in the form of snapshots/video clips via SMTP
REMOTE ACCESS
- Configuration accessible via web browser
- mydlink Lite app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, and Windows
- mydlink+ app for iOS and Android
How wide is a 112° viewing angle?
The Pros:
- Very nice professional look and feel for both small business and home environments
- Supports 720p HD video recording for excellent image quality
- Ability to send snapshots and video clips to a specified email address when triggered by motion, sound or schedule
- Built-in IR LEDs to capture video in low-light environments, or even in complete darkness
- Use mydlink Home application or quick setup card to quickly and easily connect camera to mydlink services
- Remote access via mydlink applications for IOS and Android
The Cons:
- Remote viewing quality depends on Internet connection speed and availability
- The smooth operation of the camera depends on your wireless signal availability and stability
- Camera connection and setup is completely wireless. No Ethernet port
What makes this unit special?
- Perfect for both the home and business environment
- It supports both day and night recording
- It offers motion and sound level detection with adjustable sensitivity
- Remotely view camera with the mydlink website or the mydlink Lite/mydlink+ application for IOS and Android
- Receive notifications straight to your inbox when motion/sound is detected
- Nice and small which makes it perfect to mount anywhere you need it
Minimum illumination:
- Colour (Day Mode), IR LEDs off: 2.6 lux
- B/W (Night Mode), IR LEDs off: 1.5 lux
- B/W (Night Mode), IR LEDs on: 0
- Fixed length 2.45 mm. Aperture F2.4
Angle of view: (H) 112°, (V) 77°, (D) 120°
Minimum object distance: 50 cm
Video Resolution: 1280 x 720; 800 x 600; 720 x 480; 640 x 480; 320 x 240 at frame rates up to 30 fps
- 802.11n/g wireless with WPA/WPA2 encryption
- Operates on 2.4 GHz band
- Single-band 1T1R mode supports a maximum data rate of 72.2 Mbps
- Administrator and user group protection
- Password authentication
- HTTP and RTSP digest authentication
- IPV4, ARP, TCP, UDP, ICMP
- DHCP Client
- NTP Client (D-Link)
- DNS Client
- DDNS Client (D-Link)
- SMTP Client
- FTP Client
- HTTP Server
- PPPoE
- RTP, RTSP
- UPnP Port Forwarding, UPnP
- HTTPS for configuration
- Bonjour
System requirements for web interfaces
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10/8/7 or Mac OS X 10.7 or higher
- Browser: Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 12, Safari 6 or Chrome 20 or higher
Dimensions: 92.1 x 65.9 x 90.7 mm (3.6 x 2.6 x 3.6 inches)
Weight: 140.0 grams (4.9 ounces) ± 5%
