Philips Car Camera

[Coleman John]

Touse your Philips Home Safety Camera, the OS of your smartphone should be compatible with the app. The Philips Home Safety app will work on your smartphone as long as it runs either IOS version 15.0 and higher or Android 8 and higher.

Philips is proud to be a household brand trusted by millions. We take that trust very seriously and follow strict industry standards to ensure your data stays private and in your control. Some of the ways we do so include:

You can access your Philips Home Safety Camera from anywhere, as long as you have internet access. In case you want to use your camera in your new location, unpair it from the app and pair it again with the new WiFi details. Does the Philips Home Safety Camera have a battery backup? Your Philips Home Safety Camera does not contain a battery and will turn off in case of a power failure. However, as soon as the power comes back, the camera will reconnect and resume recording.

Additionally, you can download the Philips Home Safety app on multiple devices and log into the same account. This allows you to use the app seamlessly across all your devices, ensuring that you always have access.

The floodlight was recognised by ZHA and was added as a device. It has two endpoint-names: EXTENDED_COLOR_LIGHT and PROXY_BASIC. There is one manufacturer_specific cluster (0xfc01). Probably similar to a stand-alone floodlight.

The BLE advertisements emitted during setup do not conform to the BLE Connectable Advertisement example in Appendix A of Zigbee Direct Specification, Version 1.0. In particular, instead of the 16-bit UUID of the Zigbee Direct Commissioning Service (0xFFF7) it has the 16-bit UUID of Signify Netherlands B.V. (formerly Philips Lighting B.V.) (0xFE0F).

Anyways for less then 1/10 of the price I recently bought a quite similar device. Difference is only that my camera only includes white light. On the other hand it does have not one but actually two cameras, the second one with PT(no Z). My device comes without zigbee or bluetooth (both are pita and waste of time imho) but instead with wifi and ethernet. It supports onvif as well as rtsp and therefore allows 100% local control in HA!

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I've been using a Philips Brilliance 329P1 monitor as one of 2 monitors connected to an M1 Mac Mini for several months, but I hadn't tried to use the monitor's integrated webcam until today. That failed. I'd been connecting the Mini to a Lenovo ThinkVision T32p-20 monitor with a USB C-to-Display Port adapter (Mini USB-C > Apple adapter > DisplayPort cable > Lenovo Display Port). The Philips was connected to the Mini by HDMI. This worked fine for video, but not webcam or microphone.

Reading the minimalist Philips monitor manual, it seemed like I needed a 2nd connection, by USB-C, to make the Philips webcam and USB hub work. But it didn't turn out that way. I only needed to swap the Mini > HDMI cable to the Lenovo, and run a good quality USB-C cable from the Mini USB-C to the Philips USB-C input.

When I tried then to test a Microsoft Teams Classic connection, I now had the Input option (as also in System Settings > Sound > Input) of Input (microphone) via Realtek USB2.0 Audio. I tried the tests in Teams Classic and also later in Zoom and both the microphone and the camera of the Philips webcam worked fine in both apps. I tried to use the New Teams app, but my employer, whose Teams group I'm connecting to, apparently has not enabled use of New Teams.

I'm not sure but I think the USB cable I used for the Philips was included with one of the monitors. It is a red & black braided cable, and on one red connector end it says "RIITOP" and on the other side of the connector is the "10" indicator USB icon.

PSS: My USB-C connection from the Philips monitor is to a Thunderbolt port on the Mac Mini. I did not try it to a US-C port. When I was using the USB-C cable to DisplayPort adapter for the Lenovo monitor it was connected through the Mac Mini USB-C, not Thunderbolt, and that worked fine for video, but the Lenovo has no webcam.

I tried out the Philips Hue Secure Camera including stand, which you can order for 229,99 euros in the Philips Hue online shop. The price is really sporty, even compared to the smart home competition. In the last few days, I also looked at the Eve Cam for 149,95 euros and the Ring Stick Up Cam Pro Battery for 179,99 euros.

A direct comparison is really difficult, as all three cameras are in different spheres. The Eve Cam is at home in Apple HomeKit and offers support for HomeKit Secure Video, which is included for free in most iCloud plans. The Ring Stick Up Cam Pro Battery has a built-in battery and is perfectly integrated into the Amazon cosmos, but just like the Hue camera, it requires a paid subscription.

However, all three cameras have one thing in common: they record their videos in 1080p and they have an integrated microphone. I simply placed all three cameras next to each other and recorded an unedited clip:

However, I would like to focus on the Philips Hue Secure Camera at this point. One thing bothered me massively: the recorded video clips are a maximum of 15 seconds long. If something happens after 20 or 30 seconds, there is a high chance that it will not be recorded by the camera. This was particularly noticeable when there was little movement.

In my opinion, the overview in the Hue app is well done. The whole camera thing was integrated into an existing app after all. Both the live video and individual events and the camera settings can be found quickly and are sorted logically. Lights can be switched on just as easily when the camera detects movement. But I do have one wish: the security area should be included in the main navigation when a camera is installed.

Philips Hue definitely collects plus points in terms of data protection and security. Videos are automatically encrypted end-to-end and cannot be accessed by another device at any time. Other people in the household who have access to the bridge must also be enabled separately for the video function.

One thing should be clear to you before you buy: You are not getting a Smart Home camera, but a Philips Hue camera. However, the integration into the existing app and the existing installation can definitely be described as successful. The image quality is okay, but there are also many Smart Home cameras with 2K or 4K, which are certainly better in this discipline.

In terms of software development, the approach is certainly right, but some points should be improved quickly. This definitely includes the limitation to 15-second recordings, which is simply too short for many events.

The fact that all functions, especially the recording of clips, are only available with a subscription is almost common in the industry. At least 39.99 euros per year are added, but monthly subscriptions are also possible via the App Store.

What can I conclude in the end? If you are looking for a camera with a focus on Philips Hue, you will get a decent package where you do not have to deal with other companies. If, on the other hand, your focus is on the best possible smart home camera, you are probably better off with another manufacturer.

Curious how they stack up to

Nest cameras which have facial recognition and are a bit cheaper, but the app is buggy. How quickly she loading the app does video load? How is the experience scrubbing through video history? How long does it take from motion detected to receiving the alert?

In 2013, I was able to procure the use of the N Digital through a good friend. The camera, as might be expected from a camera from 2002, was a bit limited in its ISO range. It had a cool ISO 25, but only went up to 400.

I was not expecting much from such an old sensor, but found the images to be superb when mated to the 50mm f/1.4N Planar and with reasonably good light, although as always, I tried to stretch its abilities to see what I could get.

Anyway, Tocad sent the camera back to Kyocera in Japan for servicing. Guess what? It came back a couple months later, UNREPAIRABLE. I guess if the sensor is gone, you have $2000 brick as a souvenir ?

I still use Contax film cameras now and then, but would never buy a Contax N Digital unless the price was really, really good. That said, there is no denying that the Contax N Digital was a pioneering camera. It was full-frame digital before anyone even thought about full-frame digital! In working condition, when mated to those spectacular Zeiss lenses, the N Digital is capable of superb images. And with its distinction of being the very first 35mm full-frame digital, well that alone makes it a Camera Legend.

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