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Ok, here's my short review of the SAMSUNG SAMSUNG SNH-P6140BN ip camera.
Started the camera at 5.30am this morning.
Part 1
Strengths
1) Wide angle and has IR - meets my needs.
2) Very easy to setup. No worry of any ip address and setting port forwarding in router.
3) Camera settings, even edited, are retained across different devices like laptop and multiple handphones as you only need to access SAMSUNG server to view them
4) Allows dual band WiFi selection (i.e. 2.4 & 5 GHz)
5) Video movement is smooth with no stuttering. My home internet connection is M1 300Mbps fibre BB with ASUS AC68U dual band router. The camera was set using 5GHz
Weaknesses
1) Cannot record to external storage (NAS/DVR) and cloud
2) Comes with 4x digital zoom
3) Cannot achieve FHD for video (H.264) using home WiFi when connecting camera wirelessly to my router and Note 3. Even using Ethernet to connect from camera to router still unable to achieve FHD. Video is 1280x720 only running in HQ mode. FHD can only be achieved using laptop.
4) Cannot use 3rd-party software to view multiple cameras at the same time.
Notes in proper exiting the SmartCam program when using Samsung Note 3. Samsung S4 mini do not have these issues.
1) No quit/exit button in SmartCam program. So if you quit/exit abruptly when in video mode the SmartCam program will hang and have difficulty in starting up again unless you quit the internet connection
2) If the video is in landscape mode on your handphone and you quit/exit using the back button on the handphone the SmartCam program will hang and have difficulty in starting again unless you quit the internet connection
The right way to exit/quit is to have the video in portrait mode and then use the back button on the handphone to back till it reaches the menu page. Then exit the SmartCam program.
Part 2
1) Heat issue - Came back at about 6.30 pm. Overall camera is slightly warm except the back where heat escapes through the openings which is slightly hot
2) 2-way audio - Very clear 2-way communication after re-testing
3) To test SD card recording
4) To test motion detection
Got another camera today.