Outdoor Vandal PoE IPCAM, IP66
M**T
Good features, bad construction
These cameras have a good feature set, good compatibility and good picture quality at this price-point. However, inside the "vandal proof" dome (that scuffs quite easily, I'm not sure what vandals it's proof against) the camera is mounted to the housing by screws into three tiny, frail black plastic pillars. Of the six cameras we ordered, four arrived with all three pillars shattered and the cameras bouncing around loose inside the dome.Note: The Airlive OD-2060HD (this camera) is advertised elsewhere as PTZ, but it is pan/tilt only. Any "zoom" is a function of software. Fortunately at 1080P it has enough resolution to give that a chance in good light.The rest of the housing is quite high quality, metal with rubber moisture rings at all possible entry points -- bordering on over-engineered. So it's just a mystery why they would cheap out on such a fundamental and failure-prone component, but it's very disappointing.Naturally the broken four were the ones we only spot-checked, so since they look fine in the box, we didn't spot the issue until installation day at which point we were not in a position to return them. We were able to work around the issue with epoxy and patience for two of the cameras, but the other two are still giving us trouble; the cameras just kind of lay in the dome and refuse to respond to pan/tilt controls since they aren't attached to the base.Although I gave these three stores for the features and picture quality, I would strongly recommend not using them unless you have the patience to deal with the 2/3rds chance of a broken mount.
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