Panasonic BL-C131A Network Camera Wireless 802.11 | 
 enlarge | Brand: Panasonic
Category: CE
List Price: $299.00
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Rating:  243 reviews
Sales Rank: 2351
Format: CD
Platform: Windows
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: N/A
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 2.9 x 2.9 x 3.9
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Warranty: 1 year warranty
MPN: BL-C131A
Model: BL-C131A
UPC: 037988845156
EAN: 0037988845156
ASIN: B000NVR9SM
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| Features:
| • | Place anywhere you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required at the location | | • | View and control from a standard web browser, video display, or compatible cell phone or PDA | | • | Point the camera where you want with eight shooting position presets | | • | Built-in heat sensor allows record and/or notify by email when someone enters the room | | • | Connect wirelessly with standard 802.11b/g devices, SSID filtering and 40/64/128-bit WEP encryption |
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Product Description
Place this plug-and-play camera in your home, office, vacation home, or almost anywhere else you'd like to keep an eye on things, with no PC required at the location. The camera can be viewed and controlled from a standard Web browser, video display, or even a compatible cell phone or PDA, with no additional software required. All of the other required software is already inside the camera.With the built-in heat sensor, the camera can be set to record and/ or notify you by email when someone enters the room. It can even automatically move to a preset location when triggered, just in case someone was viewing a different part of the room.With the built-in Privacy mode, your privacy is protected by simply pressing a button. An indicator on the front of the camera turns red, and you know at a glance that the camera is now only accessible by you. The camera can also be set up to show a green light when the camera is being accessed.The camera can be set to automatically record video at certain times and certain speeds. In addition, with optional, external sensors attached to the camera, it's possible for the camera to email or record when triggered by motion, sound, light, timer, or even a push button. These convenient functions eliminate your need to constantly check the image.
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 Decent camera, Still too MS centric February 7, 2010
dmeister
The initial setup requires a PC, Panasonic's software that comes on the included CD and an Ethernet cable (not included) to connecting the camera to your network/PC. Panasonic's software and a PC are needed to set the camera's initial IP address. Once this is done, the rest of the setup can be done via a web browser. Wireless network setup was fairly standard and should be not be difficult for anyone who has configured wireless devices before.
The networking seems reliable, its been up for three days now without problems.
This camera is surveying my business parking lot. The daytime image is good. At night, one can see the shape of a person standing in the parking lot, but not fine details.
The camera can be viewed and controlled from Firefox but there is no audio or zoom capability. Instead of telling me this plainly in their documentation, their on screen messages tricked me into wasting time installing the Java Runtime Environment and searching for non-existent applets on their website.
In order to get audio, you need IE and their ActiveX control. Panasonic could have made this camera where setup could be done 100% by a web browser, just like a Linksys router. They could have made it so that all of the features work with other browsers besides IE. For this reason, I only give the camera a rating of 3. It may be better than anything else out there in this price range, but it is not as good as it could be.
 From Wisconsin February 7, 2010
Robert Groh (COLUMBUS, WI, US)
Although I had a lot of time setting this product up and getting it going it paid for it self in monitoring our home in Wisconsin while we were in Florida. The furnace quite and we were able to see the temp in the house and call the repair man so the house did not freeze up. Works great. Easy to log on and see and hear what the camera sees.
This camera rocks! February 5, 2010
A. Black (Atlanta, GA USA)
I use this camera to keep an eye on my dogs while I'm at work. I point it toward the dog door and set the motion trigger and it sends me an email whenever one of them goes through. I love the presets (you can point the camera to a certain area, then save that and name it, then easily go right to that area). The audio is nice also. I know a lot about routers so I was able to set it up myself, but others may need help from Panasonic support. (I hear they're good though.) One it's set up, it works like a champ.
Excellent Camera, but could use a little more detail in video February 2, 2010
D. Nguyen (San Jose, Ca.)
Just bought this Camera and I'm pretty impressed with it. Software and setup was easy and well thought out, however I'm a little disappointed in the image quality detail. I have a Linksys WVC54GCA wireless webcam ($120non-pan&zoom) as well and a side by side comparison the quality/detail on the Linksys is a little better in my opinion and produces more realistic color and definition (look at the detail in the cups and dishes on the table, however to be fair the pany does have better low light sensitivity as you can see in my photo capturing the items in the background but at a cost of washing out some other things that are well lit. In this comparison picture, both camera's are setup next to each other and a snapshot was taken at the same time. They both were configured for best quality at 1024 minimum kbps at 640x480 15frames per second. Wired and wireless for the pany yielded no difference. Viewing it from a browser or on my iPod touch you can notice the difference right away. Overall I think the trade off from low light sensitivity to image quality is acceptable, and I will be buying another pany for another part of the house, but will be using the Linksys where the details matters more and don't need PZT. If you can't get to this link then i'll upload a photo to Amazon. [...]
Great Cam, but watch MAC Filtering Setup January 31, 2010
C. Young (SOBX, NC USA)
I now have three of the 131 wirelesses. Read the specs...its resolution and fixed focus is as described. If these are sufficient for your application, it is a great camera, but do not expect sharp long range vistas taken through your window. That takes $600 to $1000+ camera. For this camera, think 5 to 50 feet range with images twice as good as a standard USB webcam but only half as good as a decent standard definition camcorder.
One thing I don't now why is so hidden in the documentation, is what MAC addresseS to set in your router if you use MAC filtering for security. You need to enter TWO (2) MAC addresses in your router. 1st the one labelled on the camera and that appears on the Easy Setup screen plus many other places AND after you have connected to the camera the 2nd one hidden under the MAINTENANCE tab WIRELESS STATUS side tab, the BSSID address must also be entered in you router's allowed MAC address list. This is either the next letter or number (varies) in the last (12th position) from the main MAC address. Example: If main MAC is 00:90:F0:B7:1H:3C then 2nd is 00:90:F0:B7:1H:3D or if 00:90:F0:B7:1H:37 then 00:90:F0:B7:1H:38.
Internet viewing and control works perfectly on both my wife's and my 3GS iPhones. But, it is very slow if your connection is Edge rather than 3G or wifi.
The web interface is fine for locally or remotely viewing and controlling a camera. It is very weak for surviellence and recording use. And the Panasonic software for this purpose is absurdly expensive for what it does. Search online and you will find something that will fit you needs for $35 to $100. I use and like Active WebCam Deluxe from PY Software at $89.
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