Cube camera outdoors??

[blake]

Is there anyone who has the Hik cube camera mounted outdoors under an eave that hasn't had any problems?? Potential customer wants camera at front door with speaker microphone.

 

[Fruit]

I have it pointed out my window behind a bug-screen, sort of exposed to the sun and light rain but in heavy rain i take it down. So far so good!

 

[blake]

This is a covered porch so I'm thinking it'll be fine.

 

[klasipca]

I had one for half a year outdoor in the porch, no problem. It's now indoors will be 2 years soon. Frankly microphone isn't that great. Dahua has turret with better microphone

 

[zero-degrees]

Is there anyone who has the Hik cube camera mounted outdoors under an eave that hasn't had any problems?? Potential customer wants camera at front door with speaker microphone.

As long as the camera is not in a large amount of direct sunlight or exposed directly to the elements (rain) I believe you would be fine as the temp range certification on these is pretty wide.

Operating Temperature Range: 0° C to 40° C (-22° F to 104° F)

 

[blake]

If I could get away with just microphone I would be good. Customer wants like an intercom system. I might have to do Hik microphone cam and something like Ring to make em happy.

 

[blake]

I just installed another Hik cube inside for a customer and the mic and speaker are okay. Took some adjustments but they're happy.

 

[zero-degrees]

If I could get away with just microphone I would be good. Customer wants like an intercom system. I might have to do Hik microphone cam and something like Ring to make em happy.

I've tried ring personally and was not a fan at all - I'll take video security and a home alarm over the ring system any day. Just me personally though.

 

[blake]

I've tried ring personally and was not a fan at all - I'll take video security and a home alarm over the ring system any day. Just me personally though.

Thats where I'm at also. I have a re meet with customer tommorrow so we'll see how it goes. I would much rather do an alarm and camera system then an intercom system. My monitoring company can monitor Blue Iris also..

 

[blake]

Meet with customer again. Gonna give the Cube cam at the front door a try. Customer wants to have the ability to talk to and listen to anyone that's at the front door. If anyone has any ideas or can offer me advice please feel free.

 

[klasipca]

Why not just open the door to "talk and listen"?

Seriously though, with these cubes I was not able to talk AND listen at the same time without getting echo or feedback.

 

[blake]

Customer is disabled.

 

[klasipca]

I guess I missed that part, but in any case I was frustrated with the whole "talk and listen" feature personally. It wasn't the same as using dedicated "talk and listen" device.

 

[pschmehl]

Sounds like your customer has been influenced by the Ring commercials. If that's what he wants, why not get him a Ring or Skybell?

 

[blake]

I think I'm going to have to and put a standard cam over the door.

 

[blake]

I should be able to add the ring system to BI since it's on the network.

 

[klasipca]

Hm, SkyBell looks good, might have to upgrade my bell

 

[blake]

I looked at the SkyBell also. My concern is the height of mounting of their existing doorbell button.

 

[blake]

Found another solution. What about the DS-2CD2532F-IS? If I use a poe splitter in the junction box and use the +/- off the second line from the poe splitter to power a speaker, I can install a mini speaker. What ya think?

 

[klasipca]

There is someone on the forum already done exactly that, you can probably find it in the search, but it wasn't just the hardware. What about the entire user experience? With the Hikvision cube it wasn't all that pleasant. Someone calls the door, I unlock the phone, launch the IP cam app, select the front door camera, find and press tiny button to talk and then press it again to disable the talk and press button to listen only to find out that I miss part of the response... it wasn't all that fun... Perhaps SkyBell takes the pain away from this experience.