Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #460 in Camera & Photo
- Color: White
- Brand: Lorex
- Model: LNC104
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.40" h x
3.50" w x
6.40" l,
1.00 pounds
- Battery type: Lithium Ion
Features
- Record, Play, Share. Record directly to the camera, your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac. Multiple recording options, no recurring fees.
- Dual motion detection. Advanced audio & motion sensors with smart video motion detection for improved alert accuracy.
- Expand your view. Watch over multiple locations simultaneously. Your home, your office or your vacation property, all in one screen.
- Quick setup. Activate your camera by simply scanning a QR code with your smartphone or tablet.
- Includes IP Camera, camera bracket, ethernet cable, power adapter, user manual, quick start guide, CD
Lorex LNC104 LIVE Ping Wireless Network Camera
Product Description
Stay connected anywhere you go with the Lorex LIVE Ping IP camera. Versatile and advanced the Ping is capable of connecting to the internet over Wi-Fi with WPS or a wired connection through Ethernet. With a quick & easy 3 Step Set-Up, all you have to do to activate your camera is simply scan the QR code on the back of the camera with your smartphone or tablet. Record, playback and share your video. Using H.264 video compression technology, choose to either record straight to your camera onto a microSD card with the built-in video recorder, or record to your smartphone, tablet, PC or Mac. Featuring advanced audio & dual motion detection with both PIR and smart video motion detection for improved alert accuracy. Built with a dual lens for enhanced day and night viewing, you can see at all times with automatic black & white night vision of up to 30ft. Expand your view and watch over multiple locations with up to 4 additional cameras simultaneously. You can even have multiple users such as family member, friends, or colleagues viewing the camera at the same time as well. View your home, your office or your vacation property, all in one screen! Flexible indoor mounting lets you install on a wall, counter, or ceiling. The included free mobile app has been developed to exceed mobile surveillance standards. Featuring push notifications of events & email alerts with a snap shot attachment. Configure your recording, scheduling, playback, initial and full setup all from your mobile device settings.
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
72 of 78 people found the following review helpful.
By David K. Watson
This good basic network camera. It is compact and has good daytime and night vision picture quality. It has a microphone and a speaker can be attached for two-way communication. It has a Micro SD-Card slot that allows it to record on its own; you can also record to your hard disk or a Network Attached Storage device. It can connect to your network by ethernet and Wifi. Apple routers do not support WPS (WiFi Protected Setup), so you need to use the manual setup instructions if you use an Airport or Time Capsule. I found it no more difficult to set up on my Apple Airport-based network than any other network camera. Once you have the camera installed, a QR Code on the back of the camera an be used to to configure the client software on your iPhone or iPad.A detailed user manual, Mac-specific instructions, and Mac client software are all available on the Lorex support site.Where the LNC 104 fails to measure up is in software:- Mac OSX. The L-View Mac client software, which is in beta and must be downloaded from Lorex is bare-bones and obviously a work in progress. An update came out recently which at least gives it basic functionality. You can now record to your hard drive, but if your want to play back your clips, you need VLC Player, a free open-source media layer. Ironically, VLC Player includes a feature not found and any version of the Lorex software: the ability to copy and convert clips to more useful formats.-iOS iPad. The basic functionality of the iPad version is OK. There are a couple or problems areas for me, however. The Lorex iPad software only works in landscape mode. This is a pet peeve of mine; the only time I ever voluntarily use my iPad in landscape mode is when I'm watching a long-form video like a movie or TV show. The Lorex software prevents your iPad from going to sleep; if you walk away from it while it is running (it does not even need to be connected to a camera), it will drain your battery. There are rudimentary playback controls for clips recorded on your iPad, but none for clips played from the camera's SD card. There is no way to export clips into a more useful format.While I was writing this review, both my iPhone 4S and iPad 3 lost the ability to connect to the cam (at the same time). The desktop client, the web, and my iPad 1 all continued to work. The iPad 3 and iPhone 4S had to be re-started to regain the ability to connect to the cam.-iOS iPhone. The iPhone app has the same functionality and issues as the iPad version except that it works in landscape or portrait mode and it needs to be connected to the cam before it overrides the system's effort to go into sleep mode and drains your battery. The iPhone version does have the ability to convert recordings made on the phone to .avi format files, but how this is done and how the resulting files can be accessed by other apps is not apparent. The user manual says only: "...you can...also convert the video files to .avi files for sharing."-Windows. The Windows version is not without its share of irritants. If you want to play back a recording on the SD card, you click a button in the viewing window which opens a dialog box with a list of the daily folders. You open the folder for the appropriate day, scroll to the clip you want to view, then click Playback or double-click on the clip name. The dialog box closes and the clip plays. If you want to see the previous or next clip, you have to repeat the entire process. Depending on the the capacity of your SD-Card, you can have dozens or even hundreds of clips on the card. The Windows version now has the ability to record clips to your hard disk. Like the Mac version, you must download and install VLC Player in order to view any you have recorded.-Web Interface. As you might expect, the web interface gives you the most information about the cam settings. To display video in the web interface, Internet Explorer is required because an Active-X control is used. This means you cannot view the cam image via the web page at all on a Mac or if you use Firefox or another non-MSIE browser in Windows. However, even with Internet Explorer and the Lorex Active-X control installed and enabled, all I ever got was a black frame with "Locating..." in the middle of it.I found part of the web interface to be unnecessarily confusing and perhaps a little flaky. To me scheduling basically means creating a list of things to be done at a specific day and time. This task is available under Scheduling, but they have also lumped a bunch of behavior controls under the same heading. To me, it makes more sense to have the set-ups for alarms, notifications, and recording criteria under one heading and setting the days and times to do those things under a separate header. I understand the need for complex scheduling in security cams and I've done it on other systems, but there should also be a "Use the settings I've specified 24 hours a day, 7 days a week" check box to simplify the process when appropriate.I was able to set up email notification and motion activation. The email notifications include a still frame as a jpeg file. However, it seems like anytime I made a change in the settings, I ended up starting from scratch. Accessing the web interface from Safari on a Mac, I was able to delete but not download clips from the SD card. Firefox on the Mac could see the clips folders, but none of their contents. Using MSIE in Windows, I was able to delete and download the files and view the downloaded files using VLC Player.I think this is a great network cam if all you need to do is set up a camera and monitor the situation in real time. You can accomplish that in iOS, Windows, and even the Mac beta version. However, I find the process for creating, viewing, organizing, editing, and exporting clips to be cumbersome at best. If you do not know the exact date and time a clip may have been recorded, finding the pertinent clip could be very time-consuming. I also think the process for setting camera features and scheduling could be more intuitive.
39 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
By Scott Bright
I was able to get this camera working with no trouble at all. I installed the PC based software and that worked great. To get at all the detailed settings, you need to go to the web interface for the camera. The camera supports two way audio, so you can talk to anyone who is at the camera location. I have my camera set up at my cabin in Wisconsin through WiFi and I can monitor the weather and the neighborhood dogs! Quality is great. I am really impressed with this camera and recommend it.Notes:- To get the software from the Lorex website, you must first go to this products web page, then you will find a tab on the bottom for downloads.- WPS setup was fast and easy. Just hit the button on your router and then on the camera.- Quality of the picture is really good. I can monitor the camera from my Android phone, Kindle Fire, and PC.- Customer service was great and replied fast to my question. I wanted to know how to record only when the motion sensor when off, not all the time. Here are the details:*******************For motion setup, In the manual under SD card recording/Schedule. The general steps are:1. Enable SD card recording in Schedule mode.2. In the Schedule menu, set the SD recording for PIR, Motion orPIR+Motion.3. Create an everyday schedule that covers the entire day.*******************
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By yanamal
This camera is functional, and I eventually got it to do maybe 60% of what I bought it for. But overall the software for all the systems I tried is pretty crappy and buggy; and the features I bought it for are nonexistent and/or very well hidden.I bought this camera for monitoring my pets, who apparently bark a lot when I'm not home. So naturally, I wanted a web camera that could record when triggered by sound, and preferably alert me remotely. In fact, I found this particular model by searching for something like "pet monitoring audio trigger", which led me to the "Pet Monitoring Solutions" page on Lorex's website. Although that page doesn't list the model number, the page behind the "view details" link on the bottom clearly lists the camera as LNC104.The "Pet Monitoring" page makes lots of appealing claims, including:"you can set the system to record automatically whenever your pet makes a sound with the audio trigger function"and"The SD compatible IP camera can store up to 16GB worth of footage" (and also mentions uploading said footage to social media sites)After fiddling with the camera and puzzling out the instructions for a few hours, I finally found an audio trigger function. However, bizarrely, it is only available on mobile devices, and only for triggering push notifications, not to start recording or send email alerts or any of the other kinds of alerts that are available for motion detection. Luckily for me, I was going to use it on my Android tablet, anyway. After another hour or so of deleting and re-adding the camera to the list (and watching it spontaneously change its own settings), I actually got the push notifications to work! on a local network. sometimes. with a delay of a few seconds. So if the dogs only bark once or twice, by the time I see the notification and "tune in", it'll be all over and I will get no information.OK, fine - so maybe I can just use the sound notification to alert me to events, and record using movement triggers, ont the 16GB of space the camera is supposed to have? Not so fast. This camera does not, in fact, have any built-in space. It does have a micro SD slot that can take up to a 32G card. So I guess now I have to find or by a microSD card. and then manually compare my sound-triggered observations with the timestamps on the motion-triggered recording. Yay.Other annoyances:-extremely unintuitive menu design; setting up recording schedules involves going to at least two separate menu "families", one to schedule the times in question and a separate one to say what you want to do during these times. The various trigger options are spread out in different, inconsistent menus, also depending on what it is you want to use the trigger for. "alarm" can either mean push notification or making the speakers("sold separately") attached to the camera itself make noise.-proprietary video format (?) the software for running the cameras comes with a separate player that you need to play the videos. the format is .sdb, and a quick googling does not show it as a widely used video format. I haven't looked into it too much though. This seems to preclude the advertised "uploading to social media"-inconsistencies between manual and software, for example: manual says that 1 is lowest and 10 is highest sensitivity; android software says the opposite. Still not sure which one is right - I ended up just setting it to 5.Conclusion:should have just downloaded the open-source iSpy softaware and used it with my webcam.
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