Jaycar QC3839

Impressive specifications on paper, but fails to deliver – On paper, this is an impressive unit. HD (P720) web camera, pan-zoom, wireless IP, on board SD card, with options for external audio (in/out), and hard wired motion triggering. (When it works) its night time IR recording is acceptable. Unfortunately, it suffers from a number of limitations. First, its web interface is extremely clunky. Second, it does not offer a streaming video interface for use by LAN based security systems. Third, it was difficult to extract even static jpg for use in a LAN based security system (required poking around in the HTML source code, even then it was well hidden). Fourth, the files it captures to the SD are in some weird H264 format that none of my extensive suite of codecs can open. Fifth, the device is easily overload when called upon to write files to SD and provide static jpg for the LAN; causing it to continually reboot. Sixth, the supplied version of Active X will not work on current versions of IE (9+). Before purchasing; be prepared for some significant poking and prodding to get it to work.