A surveillance camera for your home can be a smart way to check if everything is okay at home when they themselves are traveling.
They can also be a way to show potential thieves that the house is monitored by smart technology.
Behind the name D-Link PowerLine HD Day / Night Cloud Camera Kit (DCS 6045LKT) hides a network camera that has a built-in feature for so-called powerline technology .
In short, this goes out the camera sends data traffic via your mains.
In practice this happens by connecting a small Powerline adapter into an electrical outlet near your router and drag so a network cable from this Powerlan adapter to a free port on your router. That way you can access your webcam via your network.
Easy Setup
The setup of the DCS 6045LKT is quite okay if you use the supplied CD. You can also find the installation program on the website of D-Link. Here it is mostly just to follow the recipe from D-Link step by step and you will reach our goal in the end.
We recommend that you find out where to put the camera before starting the installation, for we experienced some times that we had to reset the camera and reinstall it when we connected webcam from mains and moved it to a new location.
Out of the box, and when powerline adapter and webcam were physically close to each other, worked layout smoothly.
Unfortunately we experienced that it was not as cooperative as the distance was too great.
Some key range
With us went limit of six to seven meters from the powerline adapter (and router) to the camera. At greater distances struggled we to make contact with the camera. This makes the use naturally somewhat limited. For example, probably not place DCS 6045LKT in the garage or in a Shed a piece of the router.
We think also mains will determine the range.
Viewing at night
The camera can “see” at night via an IR system, which according to specifications rows six feet.
Under normal lighting conditions, we think the image quality is one of the better we’ve seen on this type of “surveillance camera”. Night mode also functioned well.
DCS 6045LKT is meant to be used indoors. We set it up so that your webcam “so” through our window and watched part of the grounds and garage. It worked fine even when it was dark outside, as long as all obtrusive light indoors was extinguished.
Viewing movements
The camera also features Notification movements in view of the camera.
This works fairly smoothly, but we found that the motion sensor was in excess sensitive in the beginning. The sensitivity can be screwed down so you are not notified unnecessary.
It is also possible to delimit the area of the image being monitored, so that for example only get notifications when someone goes in and out of a specific area – such as a garage or the door to your house.
Conclusion
DCS 6045LKT is a good webcam and the solution to communicate via the mains are smart. Unfortunately, we experienced the range of this solution as a major problem. This camera will precisely be used where your wireless network does not extend to or not stable enough and then it becomes the range of DCS 6045LKT slightly scarcest team.
We should therefore like to see that it was possible to use the camera as a normal wireless network camera as well.
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