Chris here taking a look at a security camera from a company called imolab it is
the ec4 now the ec4 here it's wireless so it runs off its own battery which is 5 200 milliamp hours
the capacity means it should go for quite a few months depends on how many events you do have
i do have our optional here solar panel that i'm going to be connecting up to this and with
that panel it keeps topping up the battery so you don't ever have to worry about charging it now it
has an ipx 66 rating so that's weatherproof means that you can place it out in the sun it can be
in the rain and it's not going to be an issue at all for this with those kind of conditions
so it has your typical passive infrared detection but you can set it up for human detection as well
so it can detect faces and the events that will come through the notifications on your phone and
it will record the clips if it sees a person so you can set up a built-in alarm with this
and it does have a microphone loudspeaker so you can have two-way communication there
and it does have an led flash and a nighttime footage mode as well as the daytime clips so what
is the quality well it's not your typical full hd that these are often selling them is just full hd
this one here supports a resolution of 2560x1440 so at 2.5 k resolution and it also has of course
application support you can save the files to the cloud which is their own service or local storage
at no additional cost there so this video is sponsored from me and i'll be going over
the unboxing i'll show you the design and the build quality of this the setup installation
the application and sample footage both daylight and night time included in the box we have the
camera of course it's nice and small and compact double-sided adhesive there for if you're going to
use it on plastics you can mount it on glass or plastics or ceramics where it's nice and smooth
the mount the mount base and screws a lan cable micro usb cable for charging it a user manual
and we have this which is an extended warranty card there for two years power supply for the
smart hub which is right here it's very small the size of it really nice and compact you see it does
have our ethernet port we've got power reset usb and an alarm button right here is we will find the
micro sd card slot and there's the speaker at the back of it the front just a status led so it is a
small compact camera it does have an ip66 weatherproof rating so it can be out on the rain
in the sun it's not going to be an issue for it at all so we have a passive infrared sensor right
here it looks like an ambient light sensor status led microphone and then a four megapixel camera
right at the top two powerful leds for your nighttime footage which i'll give you a sample of
later on in this video so this infrared sensor here the passive infrared that's going to detect
the movements record those clips but you also can set it up to be human detection too so that's when
it's going to cease it actually a person's there record the clip not for example if you've got
leaves blowing around in the wind you don't want it recording that or even passing cats or dogs or
other animals you don't want that either so it's good that you have that human mode down the bottom
there is a sync button that's to sync it up with the smart hub and under this little plastic here
well it's rubber that goes over where the micro usb port is that's to charge it of course qr code
now the battery within this is 5 200 milliamp hours now that will last for months however i
do have the optional solar panel and that means it will just go and go and go because that solar
panel as long as it's in the sun it gets enough light it will just keep topping up this battery
so you don't have to worry about ever charging that again with that solar panel here we've got
a speaker at the back so combined with that microphone you can have two-way conversations
this is the mounting point there for it too and overall good build quality and i do like
how small this is it's nice and compact and the optional imolad solar panel we have our mount here
and screws so with this it's very important that of course you have the solar panel in the sun it's
then able to top up that battery throughout the day and you never have to worry about charging it
again there is a user manual which just goes over the installation which is very straightforward and
then our panel quite a high quality panel it has an alloy frame around the outside of it long cable
here and the cable the plug on it does seal right in so there's no water going to get into that as
long as you push it in properly of course so walk through the setup now of it i've got the smart hub
connected up with the power and the lan cable of course and using the application now i need
to pair it to my account and then i need to pair up the ec4 camera to the smart hub and then now
using the app i'm connecting to the c4 camera it's very easy to do you just have to scan the qr code
on the camera and then it's going to pair it up to the smart hub now for my installation so i already
have camera set up at the front of the house and this is the side that i don't have any permanent
cameras set up so i've already got it planned out that it's just going to go on the wall here
and that way from about here is the angle that it's going to get now you can use the live preview
with the application to see exactly where you want to mount the camera where you're going to get
everything that you want of course in range of that wide lens so mounting it just up here i've
got that bracket that i'm going to install now and then the solar panel it's easy to install there's
just two mounting screws i have already drilled the holes as you can see and i've got the mounting
bracket there in place and now i just need to screw it in and then we can mount that camera
mounting bracket is now installed you simply place the camera here
and then twist it on and now using that live preview i'll make sure that that's exactly
where i want the ec4 camera to be pointing but i need to install that solar panel too
and there it is it is all set up now the red status led is flashing that means it is charging
and then our application which is called immalab home and you need to add the camera to it
then the smart hub of course you do need to create an account for this particular application so you
can see there i've got a preview of the camera i can go in and take a look now at all the different
settings so just quickly show you some of these that we can adjust so there's night
vision settings wide dynamic range can be adjusted battery warning and i've got 100 better at the
moment because with the solar panel that every time it drops down a little it's just going to
be topped up of course by that panel and i don't ever have to worry about that battery running out
now apparently it will last for months if you don't get the solar panel it's still going to go
for quite some time before you do need to charge it up home monitoring so this one's important if
you are going to be setting it up like an alarm if you want to you can do that you can set up the
detection zones so when it sees a human it will then sound the alarm to warm people it's going
to send you a notification record the clip too as well and there are different detection modes that
you can set up with that the clip length can be adjusted to here and the longer of course the more
battery it's going to use up so you can tweak that to your own liking there which is pretty
good so rest is straightforward now if you want to see those clips that when it sends you the
alert you do have to go in through the settings here then to the sd card video because i haven't
set up their cloud service it's a paid service a monthly payment you can have all these files
saved to their cloud server and you've always got it even if someone was to for example i don't know
steal the hub and steal the camera you'd still have that footage saved so you can see where it
was so these events have been recorded i'll just bring up one of them here and to show you a quick
preview that was when i was setting up the camera so there it is that's the footage and someone was
walking past before that triggered it but i've got it set to 60 seconds there that i want the
clip length to be now getting out of that you would normally see the alerts and previews here
if you do sign up for that cloud service that it's that's where it's going to all be available
right there and if i go into the camera now so just click back on to where it was before
oh this is the easiest way to do it you can then go over to the live preview which i'll
load up now so it takes only just a few seconds to get into it which is great it is very quick
other security cameras i've tested out can be slow they can even take like a minute to get into them
so the preview resolution is right here standard definition hd or 2.5 k so it's 2560 by 1440
is the resolution which i prefer to keep and you can see that you can turn on the led light
you can record a clip take a snapshot and listen to sound there and even communicate
or turn the alarm on imagine you saw someone just over here you can turn that alarm on
and onto our sample footage now so you can see it's got a wide angle of field of view that fits
in everything here from almost my entrance right down to the end so that is really good and the
resolution here we're looking at 2560 by 1440p so much better than full hd and the audio you're
listening to that's the inbuilt microphone so with that microphone and the loudspeaker it has you can
have two-way conversations imagine that a delivery driver comes to your house and they're in front of
the house where you have the camera set up then you can communicate with that person there so it
is rather handy it's got that feature let's move on now and take a look at our low light footage
with the led that it has built into it you can see that i'm well lit clear and this area too
now this is the color night vision mode which is on by default you can change it in the settings
but i do prefer to leave it like it is and i think for night time quality this is now
10 pm at the moment this is not bad at all for a camera of this price and category
so there we go that is the ec4 pretty much everything you need to know about it
so very easy to set up it's just two screws with the mount base and then you simply slot it on
and you can use the live preview to make sure you line it up to wherever you want that camera to be
now it doesn't have to just be used outdoors of course you could set it up for example in a room
like this you can set up wherever you want indoors is going to be fine and there's no problem with
this being outdoors if it's rained on that is not going to be an issue with the ipx66 that it does
have so the range of it is the only limiting factor really where you install it and around
here i've found that it's fine i get coverage all around the yard around the garden here to
the smart hub which is the base station that it's connecting up to that is the only limitation you
have with installation now if you do opt to get the solar panel i do recommend this for
basically just install it forget about leave it that's what's great about it that my battery
life hasn't actually dropped down because during the day it's being topped up by that solar panel
and then once it's full the battery it's actually looks like to me it's running off just the solar
panel not even touching that battery because the status led is on that it's fully charged
and i have 100 battery so it's great just install it forget about it there completely
now with the application is quite a basic app but it has all the settings we do need you can adjust
the sensitivity of the passive infrared detection and you've got the human detection you can set
up the clip length and that will affect of course the battery life so you can put it on auto so it's
just when there's movement it sees a person there it's going to record and as soon as that person's
off the camera it will then stop recording so that saves a bit on battery or you can set it to a
one minute clip which is pretty standard for these types of security cameras that i i do cover
the other good things about it well i do like the fact that it's got that 1440p resolution
and not your typical hd or full hd of other brands out there so you do get
quite a few details more than full hd with the higher resolution it is your typical security
camera footage and that means that it's only about 20 frames per second and it's quite compressed but
that's normal to save on the file size they're all like that okay when it comes to the footage there
you got the powerful dual led lights on there helps light it up color vision intercom with this
too so the mic and then the speaker you can have a conversation with someone else so it's quite a
fully featured little security camera here and the build quality of it is excellent it's good and i
haven't had any disconnection issues or problems in my time now testing and using it so there we go
that is the ec4 pretty much all you need to know about it thank you so much for watching this video