Smart home is gradually accepted by people because of its safety, convenience and intelligence. According to the introduction of friends from the decoration company, each of his customers has more or less some at home, such as smart lights, electric curtains, sweeping robots, etc. Even in a resident's home, he has seen a complete set of intelligent central control equipment, including fingerprint locks, Bluetooth colorful lights, intelligent central air conditioners, sweeping robots, and intelligent webcams. Speaking of these smart home devices, I think the most practical one is the smart camera. In addition to remote monitoring, voice intercom, infrared night vision, automatic alarm and other functions, the current smart camera also supports cloud video and alarm. The flaws do not hide the merits. Although the functions of smart cameras are very perfect, few manufacturers are willing to work hard on the definition pixels. Until I came into contact with the Zhongwei Century Apollo C3H, which is an upgraded version of C3A, mainly improving the camera's definition and night vision. If you haven't known about C3A, please skip it and follow me directly to learn about C3H, Believe it will not let you down.

[Unpacking]

The snow-white carton package is slightly low-key and square. The text on the side explains the meaning of the letter H well - stronger and better. The lower left corner uses lines to outline the shape of Apollo, which is small and cute. On the other side, the functional features of C3H are introduced, including 2 million high-definition, ultra wide viewing angle, mobile viewing, intelligent detection, video calling, multi device access, infrared night vision, and time photo album.

Turning the two sides again, we can see its serial number and other parameter information. Oh, yes, Zhongwei Century is a security brand that makes Shandong people proud. Its head office is located in Jinan, and Yunshitong is a smart family brand of Zhongwei Century. If you are interested, you can follow the WeChat public account (Xiaowei Smart Family), and provide Weimei to flirt during working hours.

Only one "Vision" cloud connection is required between a camera and the client.

The box contains a camera, instructions, two expansion plugs, power supply and power supply lines.

The camera model is C3H, which is also called Apollo, with profound meaning and meaning of bright sunshine. The lens is about 65mm wide, the base is about 92mm wide, and the body is about 130mm high. It is very compact and bright white. The lens circle is made of black acrylic material, which looks like a small alien from afar. The pan tilt can rotate 355 ° horizontally and 105 ° vertically, giving a panoramic view of the indoor environment.

Apollo C3H's graceful posture, do you really want to have it?

The camera has a pixel of 200w, which can be magnified 4 times electronically. Six 14mil high-power lamp beads are built in the lens circle. Combined with the light sensor at the top, it can automatically turn color into black. From the picture, it is easy to leave fingerprints on the acrylic around the lens circle. On the camera package, a protective film can be added to the black part, which will make the whole machine look more textured after being protected privately.

The Yunshitong LOGO on both sides is printed through the thermal transfer process, which makes it look more exquisite.

There are also two holes in the cerebellar melon seed. Because it is not integrated, it needs to be fixed with screws. The neck adopts a connecting rod transmission structure, which makes it easier to adjust the upper and lower angles.

The speaker is located on the side of the base, with holes arranged neatly, and the pan tilt base is also quite solid.

The back interface has RJ45, power supply, SD card and reset button.

The base is a frosted acrylic disc, with three anti slip pads, which is convenient for non ceiling installation. The model and Yunshitong number are also displayed here, and they are coded to prevent someone from peeping.

The measured power line is 1.5 meters long, which can basically meet the demand. If not, the flagship store of Cloud Vision Smart Home Tmall sells longer power lines.

After power on, the base emits red light, indicating that it is not connected or is being connected, and the connection is normal after turning blue.

Cover the light sensitive hole with your finger, wait for a few seconds, and the six night vision lights will light up.

[Appreciation of beautiful pictures]

Installation

Because my parents are getting older and my son entrusts his parents to take care of him, I chose to install Apollo C3H in my parents' home. My parents' home has been decorated for more than 10 years. It happened that thin plank ceiling was used around the house, eliminating the requirement of hoisting and holing.

Rotate in the direction of the arrow in the figure to separate the base and camera.

The position of the arrow on the base is the interface of the camera, which needs to be fixed near the corner of the wall.

Reverse rotate the camera cloud base to fix it on the acrylic base.

Since the power supply is far from the camera and the attached wire is not long enough, it is decided to cut it from the middle and extend it for a while.

The power supply of the camera is connected  。  

[Connection method]  

The Cloud Vision C3H supports WiFi connection, which saves a lot of wiring trouble. The connection method is also very simple. First, download the APP provided by Zhongwei Century, Xiaowei Wisdom Home or Cloud Vision. The configuration method here takes Xiaowei Wisdom Home as an example. Entering the software will require you to register users first, and this part will not be explained in detail. Look directly at the connection steps:

1. Prepare the camera: after powering on, long press the setting button until the device emits a prompt tone of "waiting for configuration"

2. Connect to wireless WiFi: enter the WiFi password corresponding to the ssid.

3. Send sound wave: click the Send Sound Wave button to connect the camera to WiFi. After the sound wave is sent, wait for the camera to send the prompt of receiving network configuration.

4. Configure wireless: wireless will be configured after a while

5. Back to the home page of Xiaowei Smart Home, we can see our equipment.

The Xiaowei Zhihuijia APP has a simple interface and rich functions. First, it briefly introduces the main page. After adding the device, you can see the five buttons above the device, which correspond to cloud storage, alarm messages, device settings, video recording and sharing.

Equipment Settings

It includes alarm settings, time zone, system management, storage management, version information and others. Alarm settings are mainly used to complete mobile detection and alarm push. This function can also be associated with cloud storage. After association, starting mobile detection starts cloud storage video by default, and alarm sounds can be turned on to scare criminals. Time zone can be turned on for network timing without manual settings, System management is to modify the default password of the camera to provide more protection for privacy. Storage management, as its name implies, is to manage the SD card. In the version information, we can check the current version and the latest version. After checking, we have the latest version. In other options, we can adjust the camera placement mode and LED indicator lighting mode.

cloud storage

Quoted from official website

What is cloud storage?

Introduction to cloud storage functions:
1-1. At this stage, cloud storage only supports automatic uploading of alarm videos to cloud storage and downloading for viewing, but does not support manual video cloud storage uploading and downloading. Card storage defaults to all day video, and the two do not affect each other. Cloud storage alarm recording has the highest priority. As long as it is enabled, only cloud storage alarm will be pushed. If it is disabled, the push card will store alarm recording.
1-2. The video recording logic of cloud storage is to record 30 seconds after each triggered movement alarm and upload it to the server. The first video recording and the second video recording are separated by 10 seconds of silence (10 seconds of silence means that no object moves in front of the camera within 10 seconds. If there is a moving object in the sixth second, it will be timed again)
1-3. "" Three day cloud storage "" means that the alarm video will be stored in the ECS for three days, and the video will be overwritten circularly after three days (the fourth day overwrites the first day). "" 7-day cloud storage "" means that the alarm video will be stored in the ECS for 7 days, and the video will be overwritten in a cycle after 7 days (the eighth day overwrites the first day). "" 30 day cloud storage "" and so on.
1-4. In terms of price, three days of cloud storage is only a free gift function for some models (C5). After the free period, it is automatically closed, and no paid subscription is provided. Cloud storage for 7 days is 12 yuan/month and 120 yuan/year. 30 day cloud storage: 25 yuan/month, 248 yuan/year.

C3H seems to give away the cloud storage function for one month, because the device I activated on March 10, after entering the cloud storage personal center, shows that the service expires on April 10. It's a more conscientious experience. It's very convenient to experience cloud storage these days. The alarm can be pushed in time, and each alarm has corresponding motion detection video recording. I can accept the price of cloud storage, but the services provided by cloud storage are far less cost-effective than SD cards. After all, SD is a once and for all object. However, compared with cloud storage of other products in the same category, the pricing of this cloud storage function is an absolute conscience, so we will not disparage any well-known enterprise here.

Alarm message

Ordinary alarms can prompt when there is no SD card, but if you want to view the specific message, you will not see the corresponding video. The free cloud storage has a long time to go, so you can consider buying an SD card when it expires. Cloud storage alarm is really convenient. You can check it at any time, and don't worry about criminals who understand technology and steal SD cards.

Share video

This function is simple and practical. As long as you click to invite relatives and friends with a QR code, a 30 minute effective QR code will appear on the mobile phone interface, and friends and relatives can watch the video after scanning it.

Night vision function test

The night vision effect of C3H is almost comparable to that of the 4-lamp or even 6-lamp camera of the project. From the night vision effect picture below, it is still clear at night, but careful friends will find why it is still night vision when the light is on? Is it blocking the light sensor? In fact, no, because of the hoisting, and the sensor is located at the top of the camera, if the lens is turned down too much, the camera light sensor will not sense the presence of visible light, and will automatically switch to the gray mode. This is a big or small part of my dissatisfaction with C3H. If the sensor can add 1-2 groups, will the light perception be more accurate?

Two-way voice

From the video, it can be seen that the living room area of my parents' home is not large. In this state, excluding network reasons, I can clearly communicate with my parents and son. Finally, we can get away from the silent world and communicate with them happily. If we go further and travel for a long time in the future, we can also ease our yearning for parents and sons through C3H.

PTZ

The control of the PTZ feels very good. The response sensitivity can be adjusted through the APP. Even if it is adjusted to the highest sensitivity, there is no picture or the PTZ itself gets stuck when using the PTZ control. It is always very smooth. Although the up and down rotation angle is not as large as the horizontal rotation angle, it is also quite flexible. Since then, there is no dead corner in the home, and the son's every move is only for the eyes.

Life Record Chart

Summary

In addition to the most beautiful starlight, Zhongwei Century also has the most beautiful C3H. The ultra-high definition monitoring interface allows you to enjoy every time you open the Xiaowei Smart Home. It also supports horizontal and vertical movement, so that there will be no dead space in the house. Two way real-time voice communication can complete calls to family at any time, instead of waiting for a long time when contacting with WeChat or QQ. I was really caught off guard by the powerful cloud storage function. The accurate push of alarm messages and the fast playback of videos were really powerful. Although I was faced with the option of purchasing an SD card, I still had to consider whether to renew the cloud storage after its expiration. No one is perfect, and nothing is perfect. I am not satisfied with C3H in the evaluation. As far as the sensor is concerned, if there is a better plan to improve the product, I am sure it will be recognized by more users. But as far as the market price is concerned, 300 yuan will be able to win such a nearly perfect camera, and Zhongwei Century can also be called a real conscience enterprise.