Smart camera, a small ant, how to connect several mobile phones?

Smart cameras can only be connected to one mobile phone.

Operation process:

There is a prompt to insert a memory card on the back of the ant camera. I'm not ready yet, so I won't plug it in, so I can't support video recording, only real-time monitoring. As shown below, the power socket of the camera is below. It should be inconvenient if the camera is too close to the base.

Xiaomi Smart Home APP or Ant Camera APP needs to be installed on the mobile phone prepared in advance. I recommend installing the ant camera APP to support the motion detection function of the ant camera. Connect the power of the small ant camera, and after opening the mobile app, there will be a prompt on the mobile phone.

Click Next according to the steps, and you have heard the prompt. Next, you need to enter the password of the wifi connected to the mobile phone.

The next step is the configuration of mobile phone and camera. The night vision version provides the configuration of scanning the QR code of the mobile phone with the camera. Put the QR code on the mobile phone in front of the camera, and then scan it successfully later.

See this step, basically connected, as long as the network password is correct, it's OK.

Once connected, it can be monitored in real time. The problem of setting is very simple, and it can be switched remotely, which is really practical.

Recently, Little Ant's smart camera 2 ended crowdfunding, and the accumulated crowdfunding amount was 36 1 0,000 people, which proved that its market recognition was still quite high. And Lei Technology also received the product recently and made a detailed evaluation, hoping to provide some reference for users who are ready to start.

The packaging is simple and generous, and the accessories are quite satisfactory.

Small ant smart camera 2 is packed in white paper box, with clean pattern printing and striking red logo on the front, giving people a comfortable and concise feeling. This simple style is also commonly used by small ants, and the new packaging of small ant smart cameras 2 also inherits the "lineage" of small ant packaging.

In the packing list, there are smart cameras 2, charger, data cable, instruction manual and a 3M apron and sticker. In addition to the necessary accessories, the little ant also provided stickers and aprons, which can't be said to be insincere, but it still makes people feel that there is nothing particularly brilliant, and overall it is quite satisfactory.

The hardware configuration is better.

On the chip side, smart cameras 2 adopts American Anba safety-grade main chip. Anba is a global leader in high-definition video technology, mainly providing low-power high-definition video compression and image processing solutions. Many top brands of digital cameras and camcorders in the world are using AMBA chips. It can provide 1080P full HD image quality, 25fps recording and leading SmartAVC enhanced video stream compression technology, which can provide high-quality images with low bit rate and extremely low power consumption.

As for the lens, Panasonic MN34229 professional CMOS image sensor is adopted, which improves the resolution to 1080P, F2.0 super aperture, 130 super wide angle, LDC deformity correction technology, supports 4 times digital magnification, and has original intelligent HDR technology, which can intelligently judge the light and provide clear pictures under backlight and dark conditions. There are 1 1 infrared beads around the lens, and the night vision distance is 10m.

Compared with similar competitive products in the market, smart cameras 2 is superior in hardware. The configuration of large aperture and high sensitivity camera and powerful main core really adds a lot of color to it. However, the actual performance needs to be tested by practice.

Round and unique back shell design

When he opened the package, Lei's first impression was that the camera was very large, accounting for half of the volume and half of the thickness of the whole camera. In addition, the contrast between the camera and the fuselage is obvious, which makes people feel that the camera is too prominent, but the fuselage is very thin.

Nowadays, many smart phones use rounded corners to get a better feel. I believe obsessive-compulsive disorder patients will feel very satisfied when they see smart camera 2: the round base, oval shell, round camera and repeated rounded corner design make you feel a round integration. Plus the unique fresh taste of white shell. If it is decorated in a house with a white exterior wall, I believe that smart cameras 2 can also be used as a handicraft and integrated with the house.

Details: There is a microphone hole under the camera and a relatively large speaker behind it. Below the base is a Micro Usb socket, which can rotate at any angle of 180 degrees. Unfortunately, it can't rotate left and right.

As far as appearance is concerned, what makes Bian Xiao a little hard to understand is the detachable back shell on the back. After the back cover is opened, a huge metal plate is exposed, which is incompatible with the overall appearance and even feels a little out of harmony. Officials say it can provide better heat dissipation, but isn't covering the metal with a plastic shell blocking heat dissipation?

Only the MicroSD card slot and reset button are provided behind the back shell. In order to provide these two functions, the shell and the main body are designed separately, which not only increases the process complexity, but also requires the user to take down the shell that is difficult to open. The contradictory design adopted by the little ant actually makes Bian Xiao feel weird.

Getting started is simple and quick.

Nowadays, many smart devices tend to be fast and easy to use, and smart cameras 2 also follows this advantage. Open the back cover, plug in the MicroSD card (you can skip it if you use cloud storage), plug in the power cord, and complete the necessary hardware connection. The rest of the operations are realized by the mobile APP.

After scanning and installing the APP, log in to the ant ID and connect the camera according to the operation. One thing to note is that when connecting the camera, you need to let the camera scan the specific QR code in the mobile phone.

After the above steps are completed, you can see the monitoring screen of smart cameras 2, which is convenient and intuitive to use as a whole, basically does not need any complicated operation, and the ant is quite concise, which I believe everyone can accept.

There are many options in DIY settings, such as camera settings, distortion correction, image quality settings, intelligent detection settings and so on. Among them, the most important are distortion correction function and detection setting. This function is an important feature of smart cameras 2, which will be explained in detail below, while other settings are more intuitive, so I won't show them here.

A veritable "smart"

Smart cameras 2 has intelligent feedback systems, such as humanoid detection, gesture recognition, crying detection and traffic statistics. Whether it is useful or not depends on the needs of different people. Bian Xiao focuses on the most commonly used human detection.

To put it simply, smart cameras 2, a small ant, built an intelligent monitoring system based on the traditional monitoring camera to judge whether various dynamic changes in the monitored area need to be monitored, and notify the user once suspicious actions are detected.

The specific operation is also very convenient and fast. After setting the monitoring area and notification sensitivity on the APP, it can be directly handed over to a small ant like smart cameras. When the monitoring area changes, the user will receive a small video in the application.

On the whole, smart cameras 2 is worthy of the word "intelligence". When someone moves, it can accurately identify the trace of the person and automatically monitor it, and remind the user of the corresponding situation through the mobile APP or WeChat in time. After opening the APP, you can see the small video automatically recorded by the small ants, and users can judge for themselves whether there is any special situation within the monitoring range.

As for the sensitivity, after adjusting to the medium alarm sensitivity, some small movements on the edge of the screen (see GIF for details, changes in the computer screen are detected) will also be recognized as humanoid movements. This proves that the monitoring of small ants is well done, and users can be notified when there are changes, but the disadvantage is that this "intelligence" cannot be 100% correct.

If the user sets the alarm frequency to high, the mobile phone notification bar will fill up quickly. Fortunately, Little Ant has also increased the sensitivity settings of low, medium and high gears, and you can make relevant changes according to your own needs.

The picture quality can only be seen, and the video volume control is good.

Smart cameras 2 is mainly used for video recording or monitoring. Its camera function is not so much to take pictures, but rather to intercept a frame in the surveillance video as a photo. So the actual quality is not very good, the noise and white balance have reached a touching level, not to mention the performance of color, on the whole.

In terms of video size, small ants control it well. The 32GB memory card can handle 1~2 days, which is more than enough for recording, and it also gives away one year of free cloud storage, which can ensure that there is not much problem in storage. Even if the memory card is not installed, the mobile phone can still be monitored through the APP when connected to the Internet, and videos can be downloaded for a certain period of time.

What needs to be spit out is that the image delay is quite severe, and basically the picture has a reaction. You should see this action every 2~3 seconds during monitoring (there is no problem such as slow network speed). I believe this is a certain time delay when image processing and suppression occur.

The calorific value is very touching.

Strange to say, the small ant's back is wrapped in a metal skeleton, which should be able to dissipate heat well. Moreover, the computing power required by a camera is not very high, and the chip does not need to run for a long time with high frequency and high power consumption, so the heat generation should not be very large.

Smart camera 2, a small ant, is contrary to tradition, and its calorific value has reached a touching level. After running for half an hour, the relatively high temperature can already be felt on the back of the machine, but once the back cover is disassembled, it directly touches the metal skeleton, which is simply hot.

Excessive calorific value will not only bring security risks, but also greatly reduce the life of the machine. In general intelligent devices, chips are the main heat producers. Smart cameras's added function is the main reason for the overheating of smart cameras 2-it needs to calculate whether the various dynamic changes in the shooting area belong to humanoid motion or general object motion.

Summary:

The flagship store of Little Ant Tmall is now promoting 6 18, and the price of smart cameras has dropped to 399 yuan. If you just buy an ordinary camera, it will obviously be expensive, but will it be worth the money after adding "smart"? However, Bian Xiao believes that if smart camera 2 has better imaging and lower calorific value, it will undoubtedly enhance its competitiveness and become an excellent product worthy of everyone's choice.