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Looking for a Wi-Fi camera that can capture and stream 1080p HD video, while also giving you remote tilt, pan and zoom control? The BAVISION unit is a very good, affordable choice. Except for one problem, as Dave Taylor from http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ highlights in his review. Sample photos and video footage is included too!
Interested in buying one? You can pick it up on Amazon: http://amzn.to/290T5nu
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hi Dave Taylor here again and this time
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I'm looking at the be a vision 1080p
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wireless Wi-Fi IP camera that's this guy
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and you look at this and you think
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that's pretty cool and it is pretty cool
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it's a pretty nice camera and with the
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software that the company supplies it
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actually gives you the ability to
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remotely do tilt pan and zoom so if I
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have it here from my remote app I could
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actually have it turn I could have it
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move up and down of course I can zoom in
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and you see all these little dots on the
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outside those r ir leds so this thing
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actually works in daytime and nighttime
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mode so it's pretty sweet it has a 2
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megapixel camera and like i said day or
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night surveillance has a motion
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detection system i'll get back to that
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in a second but the idea is that if you
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have this sitting somewhere for example
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may be pointing at the crib when your
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baby's having a nap then as soon as the
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baby starts moving this thing can
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trigger a motion sensor and then it can
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take certain actions sort of will get
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back like I said it's compatible with
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what's called PC central management
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software they have apps for Android and
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iOS and mac and windows and it also goes
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all the way up to 80 to dot 11n wireless
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so it's pretty fast and the camera
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itself you can change the settings to be
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240p 480p or 1080p so let me give you a
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couple quick examples so this first one
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is a photo that I took now what you're
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seeing is you're seeing the camera was
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sitting on the windowsill right by my
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front door and its shooting through a
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screen so it's not the most exciting of
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images but it's certainly quite
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functional and then the second example
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this is actually a video I captured and
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in the video you'll see my friend walks
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up to the door so this is really more of
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how people typically would use this for
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surveillance and you can look at this
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and you think wow this would be really
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cool to have with emotion trigger and
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here's the problem the issue with the be
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a vision camera is not the camera the
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camera is actually
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be well thought out and well designed
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the issue is with the software that's
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included and the software is just not
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very good so I used primarily my iphone
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to control this and when i was first
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setting up the iphone i got to a point
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where it said advanced settings and i
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went there and it showed me things like
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how to set up motion triggers and i
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thought oh this is cool i'll come back
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to this later and set it up except i
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can't get back to it it's gone it's not
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in the app i can't figure out how to get
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to it so i emailed the company and they
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said oh use our pc software instead
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looks like well little strange but okay
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and so i launched the pc software and i
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got the camera hooked up and i still
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can't get to the advanced settings I
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know they're there I know this camera
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has the ability to do things like
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trigger emotion event and then actually
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email me video footage or save the video
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footage to on the back a microSD card
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there's a slot for a microSD card so all
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these capabilities are really cool but
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man this software really needs another
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generation of design and that's really
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the Achilles heel of this bit of this
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device itself it's even well priced it's
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actually base prices 169 bucks but you
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can go onto amazon com and it's 8999 and
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that's a really good price for a 1080p
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HD remote control wireless camera now
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let me just say one more thing about
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wireless because it's not completely and
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fully wireless because it needs power
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but once you have it all hooked up and
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configured all it needs is power so you
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could easily have this sitting for
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example pointing it the fridge so late
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at night when someone comes in for their
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late-night fridge raid that this camera
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could trigger and start recording events
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not sure I would want to live in a house
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like that but maybe that would be
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beneficial the point is is that the
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device itself is actually really cool
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and they've done some really smart
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things like when you first pair the
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camera to your network they have a QR
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code on the bottom so instead of you
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having to enter some ugly mac address or
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something then all you have to do is in
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the app you just scan the QR code and
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boom you're connected to the camera so
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that's really easy there's so much they
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got right they just really need to redo
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the software so
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this is dave taylor i'm talking about
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the be a vision 1080p Wi-Fi wireless IP
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camera you pick one up at amazon for 89
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99 and if you can figure out and get
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through all the software issues it's
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actually a pretty nice camp so hope to
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see you in the next video
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