preface

Video monitoring originated from the security industry's installation of special equipment in certain public places for 24-hour continuous monitoring. On the one hand, it is to protect the interests of the public, and on the other hand, it is also to prevent the occurrence of evil. Since the concept of smart home was detonated in China, smart surveillance cameras have become popular in the country, What kind of intelligent surveillance camera is really suitable for the public at home? There is no standard for this in the industry, so the industry is in chaos. All kinds of smart cameras are flooding the whole market, making it difficult for buyers to start.

Xiaomi Smart Home Ecological Chain is an outstanding technology company in the field of smart home, and its smart cameras Xiaoyi, Xiaofang and Xiaobai are doing quite well. This experience with you is from Love to play computer games What are the outstanding performances of Mijia's smart camera PTZ version provided by the trial platform? rub one's eyes and wait.

Regular unpacking

Mijia has always produced a simple style package, with a large main picture of the product showing and marking the specific product name. On the side are Mijia's LOGO and Xiaomi's LOGO, which have always liked the style. Through the package, Mijia's smart camera PTZ version has been seen at a glance, which is nearly 90% similar to Xiaobai's shape. Some details are slightly different. The back simply lists the relevant product parameter information, But none of them is the key point. People may pay more attention to performance.

The simple style of white, from the product itself to the packaging, instructions, etc., all reveal the minimalist life elements of Mijia. White is a versatile classic element, which is not abrupt in home installation or furnishings.

The package list also explains the convenience of Mijia products. In addition to the host, the matching accessories also include power adapter, power cord, instructions, and expansion screw kit. This product is more flexible than other products. The practical use of expansion screws is that the products can be wall mounted, flip mounted, or placed on the front.

Details

It is mainly white. The lens part adopts frosting and piano paint baking process. Dume design, round body, two layers of structure, small size, size and weight: 115 * 78 * 78mm, 239g. No matter where it is placed in the home, it is not obvious, and Dume's appearance design also makes the home more nimble.

The painting process part is the soul of this product -- the lens. Although the resolution is only 720P, it can be fully satisfied when used in general home scenes. 360 ° pan tilt panoramic detection has greatly improved the monitoring coverage area. Mijia smart camera uses dual motor pan tilt, which can rotate freely up and down, left and right, with a horizontal viewing angle of 360 ° and a vertical viewing angle of 115 °; Minimize dead angle shooting and realize panoramic monitoring.

The honeycomb holes regularly arranged on the back are the sound holes of Mijia intelligent camera, with high fidelity voice output. Whether in alarm or voice chat, the sound is loud enough, clear enough and free of noise interference. At the same time, it also ensures heat dissipation when the host is running; In terms of craftsmanship, it is made with great ingenuity, without any burr feeling, and the overall feel is excellent.

Below the lens is the Micro SD memory card interface, which is officially given to support 32G storage at most. The small round hole is the microphone input port. The voice input of the two-way voice function is the reception here. It can be flexibly turned up and down, which can hide the memory card interface well without affecting the overall aesthetic feeling. With the cute mouth, which is more like a cartoon character, the appearance and appearance can be more accurate.

The bottom is the power interface and reset key. The power interface adopts mainstream 5V-2A input and is compatible with other Android phone power cables; Press the key with moderate force and fast rebound. All adopt the minimalist style.

The bottom rotary buckle design is also one of the highlights of Mijia's smart camera PTZ version this time. The rotary installation is convenient and fast. With the help of the base, another rotary base is equipped, and then the expansion screw kit is combined. It is very simple to install upside down in every corner of the home. Compared with similar products that can only be placed in the front, users have more choices.

Clustered among similar products, Mijia's smart camera PTZ version is far superior to others in terms of appearance and volume, and stands out.

Experience

When it comes to APP, we have to say that Mijia has a strong ecological chain of smart home, with everything from travel to home. This is the direction of real smart home. Although other enterprises are also doing it, I give Xiaomi full marks for the integration strength. Download and install through QR code or search Mijia, then click Add Device on the top right corner of the home page and select the corresponding product model.

When adding a device, the APP operation instructions are detailed enough, and there are four steps to connect: connect the power supply - listen to the connection waiting, click Next - enter the WiFi password - scan the QR code; Except that 5G network does not support it, as long as the password is entered correctly, the success rate is almost 100%; In fact, more and more routers are dual band, and 5G interference is less. If 5G can be solved in the next step, it will be more perfect.

After the successful addition of the device, the APP guidance operation is very detailed when the device is first used. In addition to the addition of guidance, the operation explanation on other interfaces is very detailed, which is one of the reasons why the author likes Mijia products. The main interface can be divided into three modules: video viewing area, PTZ direction adjustment area, and the lowest multi-function operation area such as photographing, recording, and voice. The layout is reasonable and the operation is simple.

The wide-angle lens supports an angle of 100.4 °. In the full screen mode, you can also zoom the view angle by pinching two fingers. Sliding up, down, left, right can adjust the lens angle more. The large wide-angle camera adds a pan tilt, and there is no dead angle monitoring. It is really safe. From the perspective of the picture, 720P resolution is really not very clear, but it is fully satisfied when used in scenes with small home area; The picture is slightly distorted, and the overall imaging is OK.

The product settings are more colorful, which proves once again that Mijia attaches great importance to the user experience, whether the wide-angle mode is turned on, the indicator light status, and the infrared night vision mode are extremely fine, and the serious image distortion can also be repaired through camera calibration. Considered everything comprehensively, and handled the details very carefully.

The hard target of intelligent monitoring equipment is 24-hour continuous video monitoring, so the image output effect in night vision is particularly important. The author purposely compares with other two devices with night vision effect. At the same distance and under the same ambient light, the output image of Xiaoyi night vision version is the worst, and Mijia smart camera PTZ version is in the middle, The price difference is really difficult to compare with the screen output of Apollo 1080P, but at the same price, it is much better than the small ant.

Meet the 5V-2A rated working current input, and it is also a good choice to use a mobile power supply for traffic flow monitoring. Of course, it is impossible to see the license plate clearly with 720P resolution at this distance, and simple traffic flow monitoring is OK.

Summary

Advantages: Compared with similar products, Mijia's smart camera PTZ version has great advantages in terms of image output and appearance design, and it is simple to operate as a whole. It supports cloud storage, local storage, mobile phone storage and other flexible and variable storage methods. Moreover, large wide-angle+PTZ allows monitoring coverage without dead angle, and home monitoring is more comprehensive.

Disadvantages: The smoothness of PTZ switching is slightly lacking. In the same network environment, the smoothness of another product is completely OK. The PTZ version of Mijia intelligent camera always has delays and jams.

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