Product Details
- Color: white
- Brand: D-Link
- Model: DCS-1130
- Original language:
English - Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.50" h x
3.21" w x
4.72" l,
.50 pounds
- CPU: AMD Athlon 1 GHz
- Memory: 128000MB DRAM
- Hard Disk: 1GB
- Graphics: This is the description of the PC Graphics 256MB
- Processors: 1
- Native resolution: 640x480
- Display size: 669.2913385827
Features
- Easily view and manage your camera from mydlink.com
- Can capture video in low-light conditions
- Comes with a built-in microphone, you can hear that everything is well at home
- Comes with a feature to record directly from the camera to a local hard drive
- Trigger motion detection, set recording schedules, set e-mail alert
D-Link DCS-1130 mydlink enabled Wireless N Fixed IP Network Camera with Built-In Microphone
Product Description
D-Link DCS-1130 Mydlink-enabled Wireless N Fixed IP Network Camera with Built-in Microphone
Customer Reviews
Most helpful customer reviews
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
By swb_mct
We have 4 Linksys IP Cameras setup at a vacation home for viewing the outdoor scenery and wanted to add or upgrade to cameras with better image quality. The DCS-1130 has good image quality and good low light capability, but it is limited in its usage scenarios.Pros: Video Quality . . . After you figure out it has a manual focus by turning the physical lens on the camera the video quality is very good. Not Fuzzy around a wide perimeter margin like the fixed focus Linksys cameras. There is no remote, motorized or automatic focus.Cons:Two deal breakers for me. Things you can do with Linksys Wireless cameras and not with the D-Link DCS-1130.1. This camera cannot be used to view normal daylight scenes out of doors. If you aim this unit out a window or even temporarily place it outside, the image is completely washed out...almost a blank white screen. The cameras automatic exposure control is calibrated entirely for interior use only. There are no settings that fix this issue. You would normally figure you received a "defective unit" except an On-Line magazine staff writer reported the same problem.Quote from wi-fiplanet.com review of DCS-1130"When we pointed the camera out the window on a sunny day, we got a totally white, blown-out image. The camera only creates a decent image in moderate light."D-Link Tech Support (by email) Says" "The camera is meant to be used for Indoor and indoor viewing."2. There is no option or method to view the streaming video without logging in with a user account. This may be fine if its strictly a private security camera but useless as an all-purpose "web cam". We currently have 4 cameras with exterior scenes and we can simply click on Internet Shortcuts to page through the 4 camera videos from any computer with a browser. I can email these links to my sister and she can also flip from camera to camera easily. These cameras are not likely to be found by strangers because the cameras are configured with very high port numbers (above 40,000) and the web address is complex. If you don't have the full address syntax including the random port number you get nothing.Other less critical issues with the DCS-1130.1. The D-View Cam software will not run in a Windows 7 64-bit computer. It will install but it will not run. Tech support said the camera's sofware was not tested on Windows 7 and you install it at your own risk. (hmmm . . . why do they still sell this camera without upgrading the software ?)2. Tech support by phone is in a far-away-land, with a very high latency, scratchy connection on the 3 calls I made. The tech support people have no knowledge of the product. If the answer to your question is not in the user manual, phone support will do no better. This was the case on 3 of 3 calls.There are two ways to connect to this camera;Direct or using the MyDlink.com web site. These usage comments are based on direct network access where you connect to the camera with a computer across your internal network or across the internet. If you use the MyDlink.com service you do not have to configure port forwarding on your router/firewall because your camera initiates and maintains a persistent bi-directional connection to D-Link through your router (like GoToMyPC).When using the MyDlink service, the interface is better than going direct to the camera, but not everyone is a fan of having systems on their home or business network that maintain 24/7 connections to external 3rd party systems. With multiple cameras the constant outbound traffic where your camera registers with DLink every second or two uses bandwidth. These arrangements also have security considerations . . Dlink has an open path into your internal network 24/7.Thankfully, using MyDlink.com is an option and the channel to-from DLink is not turned on by default.To be fair, this camera is significant Image-Quality upgrade from the latest Linksys Wireless web cams. However, the camera cannot be used if you want the option of anonymous access or want to monitor an outdoor scene.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
By D
I bought this camera along with the Panasonic wireless to test out.I was able to set up the dlink wireless camera in just a few minutes and view on the internet. (Panasonic took a lot longer but instructions on the review were great help!)At first I thought this camera was horrible because the picture was so blurry.I figured out that I had to turn the front lens to get it clear and was impressed with the picture. :)I have not had to mess with it since then and the camera works well.I have motion detection setup and every time someone comes up to my front door or walks in my front yard I receive a picture in my email. I think it is very cool and the picture is pretty nice.One thing you cannot do with this camera that you can do with the Panasonic is control movement from the internet but I am ok with that. Also, I sometimes try to connect to my camera via mydlink and the connection is broken.I haven't had time to figure that out yet but I suspect it has something to do with comcast.I do still receive the motion detection emails even when I cannot connect to the camera over the internet from work so I know its setup issue.Sound is also quite clear!I do not think it is fair for the other reviewer to give this 1 star because it doesn't work on their iphone so I am giving it 5 stars :DI can understand the frustration they may have. Maybe you can ask dlink support for assistance?P.S. dlink support was supportive when I had a question about ports to set up with motion detection.They did only have to direct me to comcast support which took multiple calls and finally on third call I got a port that worked and emails from motion detection are now sent out using comcast email.Port is 587 for comcast smtp setup.All in all it is a pretty decent camera.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
By Johnbiz
I have had this for only 2 days so I will try to remember to update for any longevity issues. But as these thing go, it was easy to setup. The wireless setup using WPS did not work but I have never had a product install using it. Has anyone? So the wizard took me through an Ethernet setup, then to wireless which worked smoothly. I have since tried it in several different locations in the house and each time after I plugged it back in it quickly reestablished network connection. The free D-viewcam software for your computer is nice. I also found the Mydlink remote connection to be just fine, and free. The routine of establishing the mydlink account from the desktop wizard was a bit odd but it worked. The picture is not great, but perfectly adequate for my modest petcam purposes. As I said. It works as advertised so I give it 5 stars.Two notes:-- In other dlink camera reviews here I read that the mydlink does not work with Firefox. It works just fine for me. Firefox invokes java and includes the modest zoom the camera is capable of.-- I have an HP Windows Home Server (WHS) and the D-viewcam Beta software 1.00 is not working with the WHS. WHS was just upgraded to Power Pack 3 and I wonder if that is the issue. The Addin installs but has no connection to the camera. I am engaged now with Dlink email support. We will see how that goes.UPDATE 08/03/10.Dlink released ver 1.1 of its Windows Home Server (WHS) add-in. And it works. Although the specs for the add-in say it is for WHS power pack 2 it seems to do fine on my HP Mediasmart WHS with Power Pack 3. I did not find the use of it intuitive and I am still playing with various settings but it does work. When you install the add-in it creates a series of folders on the D:\Share drive on the WHS. Then there is nothing much to see until you start recording something. The WHS interface is merely where you see the files you have recorded. You can double click a recording to see it play in a VERY small window but no controls like pause or fast forward. You can also delete any recordings from this interface.To administer and view the camera in real time you launch a browser (both Explorer and Chrome worked for me). The address you use is your WHS internet IP address followed by /dvc. The first time you do this a program is downloaded from the WHS it appears. You install that. After that it goes more quickly. The program you are launching is the D-View Cam for Windows Home Server. There you have numerous settings, FPS, Events, Schedules to play with. Most of which I have not tried so cannot attest that they work. I just put mine to record 24/7 to see what happened. It recorded as advertised, breaking the recording up into 1 hour files (which then appear in your WHS interface, but also in the D-View).When I connect via the browser at home it is very snappy. However, I had someone else test it from 100 miles away and it was very slow to download the initial software and viewing the live feed was very sluggish. HOWEVER, you should know that my ISP is Hughes satellite, a notoriously slow provider. So the uploads of the camera feeds to my remote viewer were coming off the WHS server through my slow internet connection. I also wonder, since I had it recording, if there was some sluggishness caused by the bandwidth being used in the recording process.So there it is. I found the users manual from Dlink to be useful but could have been much, much more useful and better written. There are a couple of Chinese screen shots so maybe we have a language issue as well. Mostly though it just did not seem like a real technical writer was doing the job. For example, while it explains how to install the WHS add-in (which most of us know how to do anyway) it does not tell you anything about how it is structured or how it works. Good luck.BTW, a few weeks back Dlink upgraded its MyDlink website and the firmware for the DCS-1130. I successfully updated the firmware following Dlink instructions. I cannot tell what exactly it all did but using Mydlink to view the camera live has seemed more stable than before. Purely anecdotal though.
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Great for the money
No 400 foot range here
