stevil Posted April 27, 2010 Share Posted April 27, 2010 Will be picking up an iPad tonight, and have also been thinking about how I might like to expand my Control4 system beyond Home Theater control... Currently have a HC-300.We have baby#2 on the way and our video monitor we used for #1 might be dead/dying... Was thinking that investing in some C4 compatible video cameras with sound might not be a bad idea. Would give us flexibility to monitor from the Home Theater, and hopefully from an iPhone/iPad via C4... but I i know I can get an iPod app to access an ip camera directly:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/u-cam-pro-ip-camera-viewer/id363118358?mt=8Couple of questions: Does the iPad/iPhone C4 app allow for viewing a Camera feed?Can I view the feed(s) via my HT through C4?Are there any recommended cameras for what I'd like to do? Not sure if I care if they are wireless or wired (I think I have CAT-5 wiring in the room(s) I'd put a camera. Also, I want motion and suitable "night vision", not successive still images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Panasonic cams work great. Getting sound from them on the mobile devices isn't possible though, as far as I know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Panasonic makes an inexpensive BL series and an expensive BB series of IP cameras. Do they both work with the included Control4 drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 Panasonic makes an inexpensive BL series and an expensive BB series of IP cameras. Do they both work with the included Control4 drivers?I know the BL series does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pharmdsmith Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 I have 3 BB-HCM331a and 1 BL-C131 and they work with c4 fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigrzeye Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 On quick look here are the Panasonic drivers I found listed in C4... however I am on 1.7.4 .. may be more under 1.8BB-HCE481ABB-HCM311ABB-HCM331ABB-HCM381ABB-HCM511BL-C10ABL-C1ABL-C30A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted April 30, 2010 Share Posted April 30, 2010 ^There is interoperability within the drivers you have listed. These also work 100%-BB-HCM371BB-HCM715BB-HCM735As Dan stated, no sound through these drivers so don't expect noise out of a TS or your TV (without additional equipment and just CAT5e connect) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted May 2, 2010 Share Posted May 2, 2010 BL-C10ABL-C1ABL-C30AOn the Panny site (http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Computers-Networking/Network-Cameras/Residential-IP-Network-Cameras.list.81535_11002_7000000000000005702) I don't see the BL-C10A or CL-C30A. Are these older models that are no longer available? What about the C101A - is there a driver for it in C4?It looks like the wireless cameras are about $70-$100 more than the wired versions of the same camera. Why would that be? Certainly wireless chips are not that expensive anymore, are they? Or is this just because people are willing to pay for it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigrzeye Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Network-Cameras/model.BL-C10A_11002_7000000000000005702http://www2.panasonic.com/consumer-electronics/shop/Cameras-Camcorders/Network-Cameras/PetCams/model.BL-C30A_11002_7000000000000005702 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Allow me to correct to my previous endorsement of the BB-HCM371. The Control4 driver may not apply to this model only in that the zoom function is inop. through 4Sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panamagixxer Posted May 3, 2010 Share Posted May 3, 2010 Are there any wireless "N" cameras out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanE Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 Allow me to correct to my previous endorsement of the BB-HCM371. The Control4 driver may not apply to this model only in that the zoom function is inop. through 4Sight.That's because the camera does *NOT* support zoom. It only supports digital zoom, which isn't controlled by sending commands to the camera. That's implemented on the client side, and is not really zoom.Control4's IP Camera support only supports actual, optical zoom.RyanE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 So as not to suggest to someone *less informed*, because this camera does not have optical zoom but digital zoom ("zoom" being zoom), the camera should not fall under the *works 100%* using Control4 driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingzz Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 So as not to suggest to someone *less informed*, because this camera does not have optical zoom but digital zoom ("zoom" being zoom), the camera should not fall under the *works 100%* using Control4 driver.Hugh difference between digital zoom and optical zoom, digital is not real zoom but an interpolation of what the sensor is seeing and adding in pixels to make the image look zoomed where as optical zoom is real because your actually moving the lens to create a zoomed image being presented on the sensor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFUG Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 LOL, you guys are killing me. Look, all I'm saying is that if you exclude the fact that the zoom feature on a 371 won't work through the Control4 driver you can use it all day long with the driver. It's up to the user to decide if optical zoom is useful or not. I'm not saying one way or the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted May 4, 2010 Share Posted May 4, 2010 So, can someone explain digital zoom again...I'm getting confused. I just thought zoom was zoom. Someone mentioned moving optics?=) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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