Panasonic BB-HCM371A Outdoor Wireless Network Camera | 
 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: Photography
List Price: $849.00
Buy New: $611.60
You Save: $237.40 (28%)
New (13) Refurbished (1) from $499.99
Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 23171
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.7
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 7.5 x 5.5
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: BB-HCM371A
Model: BB-HCM371A
UPC: 037988809776
EAN: 0100000003305
ASIN: B0009PD0ZI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Two-Way Voice Communication | | • | CCD Sensor for Enhanced Image Expression | | • | SD Memory Card Recording | | • | Simple Ethernet Connection - No PC Required | | • | One Year Warranty |
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Product Description
BB-HCM371A camera can be viewed and controlled from a standard Web browser, video display, or even a compatible cell phone or PDA. Place them in your home, office, vacation home or almost anywhere else that you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required on location! They are easy to install and operate and require no additional software for the PC that you're viewing them on. This camera can communicate wirelessly with standard 802.11b/g wireless devices, allowing the flexibility to install and operate the camera without running network wires, and utilizing SSID filtering and powerful 64/128/152 bit WEP encryption helps to protect your wireless network from illegal intrusion. Can be used outdoors. Two-way voice communication. CCD sensor for enhanced image expression. record directly onto SD cards. Control the camera remotely. record only what you want to record. Create your own free web address. Sensor recording and email alerts.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Not as advertised November 20, 2009
Blaine D. Richardson (Durham, ME)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Not as advertised!!!
reviewing different models of Security cameras for the features that that I wanted. I though that I had found the right one with this camera. It is wireless at least to the network but still needs power running to it. It has a built in mic so you can hear what is going on, and it is water resistant. Panasonic advertises this unit as having a built in motion sensor to trigger an alarm to cause it to send pictures over the network and track the movement. I could not get the camera track motion or to trip an alarm on motion. I contacted Panasonic, the agent informed me that it does not come with a built in motion sensor but agreed that it was advertised to have on. He informed me that I would have to buy a separate sensor to activate the camera (set off the alarm feature), but that Panasonic did not have any products that would work. Panasonic offered to sell me a different model camera that would track and trigger an alarm with a built in sensor, but the price was more than I could buy the same camera for at a local store and the camera did not have the other major feature that I wanted and that was being made for the outdoors. Bottom line, if you want a security camera for outdoors and that will work as an alarm, Keep looking!!
Panasonic has still not corrected their advertisment!
 Great camera for our sailboat October 13, 2009
D. Cook (Hawaii USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking for a camera we could put on our sailboat so we could watch the boat remotely. I wanted it to be weatherproof and wireless.
I own the other panasonic wireless models and while they work well, they don't have audio that works on Apple computers (no codex).
I was very surprised when THIS camera's audio worked! Not only that, but when I added my other cameras to the MULTI menu of THIS camera, their audio suddenly worked as well (that is because THIS camera has the codex in a little plugin that it installs when the webpage comes up - so as long as THIS cameras software is running, if you look at other cameras in MULTI mode they get to use the codex as well).
Anyway - great camera, FANTASTIC color and good motion. Good audio. Works very well!
Best Wifi Web Server Camera Out There August 11, 2009
LaLoca (Florida)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I purchased this camera to keep an eye on my house while away. So far it has delivered for over a year. Also has helped to finger those who don't pick up after their dogs!!!
Setup was straight forward, until it came to the part of connecting over the WAN (for viewing from work). Don't know why anyone would think that WIRELESS means not having to run wires for power. Oh yeah, that guy who gave it 2 stars :)
This camera is not for the meek if you to go through more than 1 router. You need to understand quite a bit about networking to get this to happen.
All that said, customer support was excellent and they put me on the right track. I am going to buy another for the back and I tried to see if I could find something less expensive, but you give up a lot. So here's my list in order of importance:
Pros:
- Free DNS Account (this would cost you otherwise)
- Totally browser based so can be viewed from iMac, PC or Linux box
- Alarm I/O, which I use to trigger the camera to preset view area
- On-board storage via SandDisc
- email alerting
- motion detection
Cons:
- Clumsy playback!!! when on frame 244/1000 and you hit play, it starts from 1.
Should be able to take a date and time and find the frame for you
- No optical zoom. At 640x480, having 10x Digital Zoom just gives grainy video.
I'll take 2x optical zoom and give up 10x digital
- Cannot zoom on a preset
 Beware: No WPA support May 18, 2009
N. Andersen
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I find it appalling that a camera this expensive only supports the flawed WEP WiFi encryption protocol.
It leads me to believe that it is an older model that hasn't been updated in a while.
I returned mine.
Limited wireless range & older version software November 7, 2008
webmaster (USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this camera two months ago and was very disappointed with the image quality, wireless range and software. Therefore i returned it and bought the panasonic BL-131A camera instead. The panasonic BL-131A is a newer model that comes with better software.
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