Uniden UDW20055 Wireless Video Surveillance System, Black, One screen and Two cameras
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Product Description
From the Manufacturer
- Night View capable
- 2.4 Digital FHSS wireless technology = zero interference
- 100% Privacy Protection
- Supports up to 4 Cameras
- Zoom and Pan capabilities
- Quad, Auto scan, or individual views
- Scan period interval adjustable
- AV out to TV Monitor
- 640 x 480 VGA / QVGA Resolution
- Advanced MPEG4 compressed AVI
- Smart motion detection
- Detection sensitivity
- Recording Scheduler
- 7-inch Color Display
- 2 Wireless Outdoor Cameras
- Remote Control
The UDW20055 digital wireless surveillance system by Uniden offers security and peace of mind with the convenience of a 7-Inch monitor receiving video from two camera’s. Included in the digital surveillance system are two weather resistant Camera’s
Product Details
- Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.2 x 5.5 inches ; 1.2 pounds
- Shipping Weight: 6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
- ASIN: B002KFZSKA
- Item model number: UDW20055
Technical Details
- 7-Inch Color display
- 2.4 Digital FHSS = zero interference
- 100% privacy protection
- Supports up to 4 cameras
- Digital Zoom, pan and tilt
Uniden UDW20055 Wireless Video Surveillance System, Black, One screen and Two cameras
Customer Reviews
Looking for a small, rather inexpensive camera system to basically monitor the outside of my property at night I settled on this system. Only a few reviews here about it but it seemed to have all the features I was looking for which were for the most part a wireless system with night vision, and motion censor recording. I must say up until discovering this system's major flaw I was quite happy. Picture quality is very good, night vision quality is pretty much on par with lighted picture quality I really noticed no degradation. Audio quality is pretty good, and the wireless connection was very stable as well, I set a camera up at one end of the house and one in the garage, then went to the other end of the house and upstairs and had no trouble connecting to both cameras.
Now the deal breaker, and I think it might be a deal breaker for a lot of people. The motion sensor capability is quite unless if you plan on using 2 or more cameras. In setting up a recording schedule with the provided software you are only allowed to use set one camera on motion sensor at a time for every given 2 hour period. Meaning unless your sitting in front of the screen manually switching through the cameras, the only camera you're going to get anything out of is the one that is scheduled to record at that time, and if you set the system to motion sensor only that one camera selected for that 2 hr time slot will be enabled with motion sensor, all the other cameras are as good as off and are basically useless (unless your sitting at your computer all night switching between cameras!). This really baffles me why Uniden didn't incorporate motion sensor capability to be enabled on all cameras at the same time, and automatically switch and record when motion is detected on any of the cameras, other systems of this same type and price range seem to have it. So if you have four cameras running on this system and it's set to motion sensor, you're going to have a 25% chance of recording any motion going on outside your house, that's not acceptable to me, and I don't consider that surveillance! So I'm sending this back and checking out the Lorex LW2702 which Costco sells for about $50 more, it includes automatic motion sensor switching between cameras and quite a few other bonuses.
After having this system up and running for a month, I finally broke down and wrote to customer service.
here is the conversation:
Your Question :
Will there be a software update to allow the motion sensor to capture video on either (Or all) camera(s)?
Right now with V 5.0.0.302, I can schedule ONE camera to record movement, but if the other camera sees movement it will not record it.
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Updated 10/06/2010 03:41 PM:
So if the 2 cameras are placed to watch for theft, only one will ever be able to record if there is movement? Doesn't that seem less then useful?
Our Solution :
Thank you for using our system.
Unfortunately we have not been told of an update being planned or in the works to allow record any camera that get motion.
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Updated 10/06/2010 04:18 PM:
I apologize it does not do what you are looking for it to do. Unfortunately it is not designed to be able to do that kind of recording.
You can schedule 1 camera to record. That scheduled camera can either record constantly during its hour schedule, or can be set to motion capture. If camera 1, say at the front door is scheduled, and at camera 2 (back door) someone breaks in...Well, hopefully they leave by the front door. Camera 2 won't catch it.
And WHY would you want to buy _more_ cameras. Seems kind of pointless. You can't only motion capture the scheduled camera. I suppose I could put a sign up sheet for someone to steal from my home: Between the hours of 3 and 6AM please break in through the back door, between the hours of 7AM and 11AM please break in the front.
I'll probably use this unit to watch for ducks. I would not buy it again. I'll have to find a better system, not uniden this time.
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EDIT: I added notes from the last message from Uniden, and lowed the rating I had put for this product. I would now rate it at "Buy something else"
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Second Edit: After the THIRD time of not getting a good picture/video of the people breaking into my cars I'm really sick of this camera's software. I can't set how long it records after it hits an alarm. Being able to keep recording for 30 to 60 seconds after it hits an alarm would be useful. The sensitivity is 0 to 100, but you can't change it other then using the buttons. So it either records everything (including the shadows of birds), or doesn't notice someone moving. The picture at 25' at night is poor, but it's night so what can you do.
I would rate it now at: "Don't buy it."
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