Leading Word: Smart homes have come alive in the past two years and have allowed many manufacturers to design and produce home smart cameras. Through network links, remote control of smart devices enables real-time understanding of the directional dynamics of the controlled range.
The emergence of smart cameras is naturally our youngest choice for smart home products. The smart camera that I started to understand was originally from Xiaomi's ecological chain, the first generation of small ant camera products. Standard version of a small ant camera without night vision. I bought two units in use before and after.
The environment I use is to work outside and work in a rental house. Surveillance, security, detection of abnormal dynamics, etc.
The use of small ant camera non-night vision products from this period of time, can be said to give their lives a lot of peace of mind, so that they do not have to worry too much about home conditions. At the same time, the small ant camera as a product of the millet ecological chain, Xiaomi smart home a software to achieve the management of a number of smart devices. This also makes me not want to download and install the troubles of using multiple APPs in my subconscious mind because of smart product management issues .
There are many smart products nowadays, but the biggest problem is that products need APP management. If one product has one APP , then multiple APPs on my mobile phone will affect the system from memory. What's more, it is cumbersome to operate. Today's millet smart home integration management, I have a lot of dependence, while at the time of the purchase of smart home products, personal preference is more inclined to a series of products in the Xiaomi ecological chain.
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One and a half years later, the second generation of the small ant camera came out. Today, we come together to learn about the second generation of small ant camera products.
Small Ant 2 , product appearance on the box, and product parameters.
The main parameters: 1080P HD recording, 130 ° wide-angle lens, infrared night vision surveillance effects, two-way voice calls.
Products and Accessories: Small ant camera 2 host one, power cord, power plug, manual, warning signs, 3M fixed one each.
Power cord, power plug, plug output 5V-2A plug, and a generation than the upgrade from 5V-1A to 5V-2A , I do not understand here whether it represents a small ant camera 2 generation power consumption is much larger than the 1 generation ?
The power line is about 2 meters long to meet the needs of different installation environments.
Product appearance, white body, base. Black camera. Non-smooth surface of the body surface, with a matte feel effect, finger touch feel better, but because of the shortcomings of a generation of long-term use, I have been able to predict long-term use, and no cleansing, wipe the consequences of the fuselage It is the formation of ash markings, cleaning can not, in view of this BUG , I can blame myself for not cleaning to blame. The white body has become a grey product. My lack of cleaning made him eat so much gray.
The second-generation small ant camera is an all-in-one machine, which cannot be disassembled and cannot be steered. The camera is fixed in the direction.
The back cover is removable, but is only used as a memory card inserted, as well as a reset, resetting the product key function operations.
Open the back cover we see is an aluminum alloy steel plate material, in the later use process due to the internal motherboard heat dissipation function, the use of aluminum alloy plate to heat, so touch the back of the small ant camera is relatively hot.
The bottom of the back cover is the speaker, voice prompts, voice output dialog.
Small ant camera second generation side, right side we can see the shape of the entire camera. The entire base is behind the high front and back, because the power connector is at the back, the thickness increases, the thickness of the front end is relatively thin, making the center of gravity behind.
At the same time, the small ant camera 2 supports 180 ° front-rear sighting recording. Attach a GIF motion diagram.
The second generation of small ant camera adopts 11 night vision lights, which are better at night recording. Compared to the small ant camera, the night vision version adds three to the night vision light. The effect is naturally improved a lot.
From the above figure, we can see the status of the night vision light when the camera is working at night, 11 night lights and 1 status indicator.
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About the appearance of the small ant camera's second-generation product, a black and white product, in addition to being resistant to gray, the entire product's face value is still quite high. The recording angle of 180 ° front and back can be freely installed in the corner of the room. With 3M glue, it can help you firmly on the wall.
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APP installation and operation:
Small ant camera APP installation, whether you are Android or IOS , can scan and install the two-dimensional code of the small ant camera, you can also go directly to the small ant camera official website to download. Software download and installation do not need to introduce more.
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Add devices by using the " + " symbol in the upper right corner of the APP home page . We can see that the current small ant camera has three cameras, one generation, two generations and PTZ cameras. Select the product name you want to add. Here I need to choose the small ant 1080P smart camera 2 .
The association indicator is set through the indicator light under the lens of the small ant camera. After the prompting, the mobile phone two-dimensional code is aligned in front of the camera, and the camera is used to scan the mobile phone two-dimensional code for association, and the entire association process does not take too long. .
If it is not able to bind normally when it is bound for the first time, this time open the back cover to reset and reset the small ant camera, and then add the camera again.
Enter the APP , enter the second generation interface of the small ant camera, we can see the operating functions of the interface.
From left to right, the voice intercom turns on and off functions: You can turn off the real-time intercom call settings through operations.
Video recording function: Click to start recording video, click again to end recording video.
The real-time intercom function APP needs a long press to talk, press and hold, and release is completed. However, due to the implementation of the function, the small ant camera has begun to receive and play while the mobile terminal is talking. On the other hand, the small ant camera does not need to press any button after the APP has enabled the voice intercom function. Direct dialogue with the camera can receive the voice dialogue in real time on the mobile phone APP .
Camera function: take a photo of the current interface and save it to an album.
Enlarge picture function: It is the full-screen mode switching function.
Cloud storage features and settings in the upper right corner.
About the cloud storage function: The second generation of the small ant camera provides one year of cloud storage function for free, and you can choose to activate it. It can be used to activate, but the use of this function will not be postponed. It will be automatically closed at the expiration.
One year's cloud storage can directly synchronize the video recorded during this period to cloud backup, which can be viewed and downloaded at any time. Of course, the time limit is 15 days or 30 days of cloud recording, and a free one-year experience is 15 days of cloud recording. Loop scrolling recording effects. Like monitoring video, it automatically cycles for more than one month.
The benefits of cloud storage, to make up for the lack of memory cards, long time cloud backup, general memory card 32G almost smart backup about two days of video recording, because this thing, when choosing a pixel is certainly the best choice of pixels. A memory card is stored for too short a time. The function of cloud storage can extend the time of video storage and is a good function in function.
And the cloud storage charges, the above maps for the 15 days and 30 days of cloud storage prices. In accordance with the comparison month is 15 yuan 25 yuan. A one-year comparison is equivalent to buying a service for eight months at a price of one year.
Whether 120 yuan, 200 yuan a year of cloud storage service is worth buying, it needs to see the user's own environment. If it is only a simple family burglary, it may not be necessary to buy a 32G memory card and use it for two days. The resident people in their own homes are not too much of a problem. Personally, it is not necessary to buy at home, of course, local tyrants.
In addition, cloud storage services need to occupy broadband. At least 4M broadband is required to use the cloud storage function normally. However, this factor is believed to be satisfied by the average family.
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Setting function:
The current version can be set as shown above.
The camera switch, which is not smart at present, needs to enter the APP to perform the switch operation. It is not possible to automatically switch the closed state of the home WIFI through the mobile phone and the self-opening function after leaving the WIFI . It belongs to semi-intelligence and is set according to each person's different scene needs.
Camera settings, light turns on and off, personal likes to be closed, hidden place in a humble corner.
Image flip: This function is suitable for use upside down on the wall and flipped. Normal use does not require this feature to be turned on.
High-definition picture quality: personal use, it is definitely the kind of choice for ultra-high-definition, or else such a good product.
Camera microphone: Personal advice is always on. After opening the camera to speak phone APP to receive!
Camera speakers: Set the volume level, camera firmware upgrade voice prompts, etc.
Infrared is also a function: the personal setting is automatic, and whether the night vision function is enabled is automatically adjusted according to the indoor light intensity. After the experiment, the camera will have a sound when the automatic conversion.
Smart Gesture Recognition: As shown in the figure, the operation guide, this feature is a good personal feeling. Emergency recording in case of emergency, but the recording time is only ten seconds and it is short. If it's longer, it won't be better
Intelligent detection alarm: multi-function selection, development of regional monitoring, humanoid mobile monitoring, including baby cry monitoring, the first two can achieve this function in many monitoring devices, and added baby cry monitoring in the smart camera, This has certain requirements in the environment, the indoor environment should be relatively quiet, if the situation facing the street, I'm afraid not so good results.
Alarm sensitivity, frequency, and time period are all optional.
Attach a GIF dynamic map with the specified locale :
Daytime effect and night vision effect comparison chart, night vision effect in the curtain off the effect of the outside light without the effect of the map.
Summary: The operation of the APP , the link effect is relatively stable, and there is no connection interruption.
　　
Multi-functional monitoring mode, suitable for a variety of occasions.
　　
The function of the number of people in cloud storage is that I don’t have any place to test.
　　
Aluminum alloy cooling I can Tucao really good hot thing. At first, I didn't know why I used 5V2A charging head for the adaptation. It now appears that the need for cloud storage 4M broadband support, plus 24- hour use upload video recording. The output of 2A can better stabilize and work with it. Â