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Been waiting months. I checked on 20th and did not see this for £30! damnit

Try plugging into USB 2 rather than 3. That seems to resolve problems some users face, including me!

Was waiting for this to come down again - missed it. Will have to wait until next time now looks like it comes down fairly often though.

Bought this last year for this price based on reviews and the Zeiss name, used it once then my daughter quit college in Canada and that was that . The reviews I saw were branded Zeiss for the optics but the one I got wasn't. Not sure what difference there is between Zeiss and non Zeiss but that's a name you'd want on a webcam lens.

It's a known issue on the Mac Mini.

seems like your device sucks, it works fine on everything else. I used it on iMac

I have a Logitech C920, however it really doesn't work well on my Mac Mini. The microphone feeds back and makes wow and flutter noises. This is a known fault and I've tried to fix it by upping the sampling rate in Audio Midi control panel but it still persists. So for me on an Apple this camera sucks. I need a seperate microphone at extra expense to make it work properly.

Cheers OP for the heads up, this is a great webcam (y) If you are not sure which model to get this C920 (which is the best value from my view) or the newer C922 here is a great YouTube review from the talented Justin Brown ::

:/ (shock)

lol - it's a secret

Picked this up for 20 odd quid last year, good quality camera, quite long time to adjust to light changes, but very decent for the price. Havent tried streaming games yet but have thought about it, any ideas on how to get myself started? Cheers

What's your YouTube channel name?

Whatever you say. I am going to be multi millionaire and drive a Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, all from that AdSense monaaayyyyyy

Effectively the same as pointing at a premiereship footballer and saying - there you go Little Johnny, you can earn millions playing football too. Lot of people wasting their lives trying to be youtube stars. Good hobby though, teaches public speaking and builds confidence. Don't expect to be a millionaire :)

The 920 is better as a webcam imho. This is for use with other software. The big difference is a wider lens. It also uses different software. They also say this is not built for recording and taking pictures (Not that many would use those options) The 920 is a much better option for normal use. It is also far cheaper when on offer (around £30)

Shame the c920 was only £28 for one day. HOT though

R11 has arrived and I can confirm it is 4GB RAM :)

That hasn't arrived yet. Coming separately for some reason. The EAN code on Very site I googled though and on other sites it is 4GB so should be ok I reckon, if not going back.

And the R11, Is it the 4GB version? I power washed my R13 and it updated to the latest firmware with added security.

R13 arrived today from Very and really impressed. God quality feel to it and perfectly fast enough for my daughter for homework and surfing the net etc. Had to update firmware first to allow Google Play Store.

Thanks, can't believe I missed that. The touchscreen has got to be better suited to a Chromebook, best cancel my order (embarrassed)

if anyone has bought this and would like to sell it I will take it for £35 if that's OK, you'd be doing me a huge favour thanks

Looking at your photos.I would say this would be like comparing B/W CRT on your phone to 4K with B20

Watching this countdown trying to convince myself I really don't need this, knowing that I'm going to buy it anyway, in the last minute (excited)

I'm tempted to buy one, should work fine in a cupboard, Oh sorry, study.

Voted hot . But I use mobile to do video chat . Can this be better than mobile front selfie camera ?

This is a great webcam. It is worth this price but sells for cheaper. If you can't wait and need one I'd suggest getting it as it's the best one.

Your words look nice.

If they externally designed it well you would presume it was internally also designed well?

I agree - wait until Black Friday. I also picked one up last year for half price and will get another one this year for my work PC if they are down again. There is also a newer C922 out for not much more. Hopefully this will also get a price slash or at least make Amazon sell off the 920 for even less C920 vs C922

It looks nice.

Currently it's just a case of putting a few files on an SD card. That gives root telnet access and blocks the software from communicating out whilst still having the RTSP server. Check out the github page, I've updated a few bits and @djwillis has done some great work which will soon be merged.

Thanks, really appreciate your input and knowledge, I'll use that script when you get round to it, thanks again! (highfive)

It is not more or less secure than most of the cheap 'mobile app needed' webcams ;). Personally, I don't feel it is secure and the sketchy p2pcam binary is bit of a mess. That said, if you are happy to lock down the hosts so it does not spam out requests all over the shop, change the root (will commit a nicer script to do that and a few other things when I get a few hours) and forgo the app in favour of using the RTSP streams you could definitely use it. Like anything in life it is a risk and balance setup. What do you want to use it for and what is the risk. As so many of these platforms share common setups and SoC's I can see an open source camera focused distribution turning up at some point once you get a critical mass of people hacking about but the lack of kernel sources and the like are a massive barrier to that.

So I should just bin this? No way to update/make secure?

https://github.com/ant-thomas/zsgx1hacks Very interesting. there is an image to record on the SD card and to make the changes you have made?. At the moment I use tinycam although it takes the image to appear, the camera is insecure and the sound does not work. tutoria youtube would be great!!

They refunded my order with no email.

As above, cancelled :(

Mine cancelled as well

order cancelled for me too. The apology is in the paypal cancellation notes

As above, my company PayPal was refunded. Not seen an apology email. We will also avoid them.

should have bought this. I put it in my basket .... never followed through (poo)

Great camera, unless something has overtaken it in the last 12 months (since I stopped paying attention) there's nothing better at this price. Minor criticism that some aren't calibrated for infinity/Far-point focus out of the box, but there's a fix. If you're not at all handy and don't like the idea of taking it apart, it's something to consider before buying. But if you have a set of small screwdrivers you can easily adjust the lens by first disassembling the camera like this. (Use a more thorough guide like this for the actual adjusting of the lens. The guy in the first vid is a bit tasty with the pliers, you only need to make a very small rotation to the lens to reach infinity focus/avoid risk of damage - and you should test it before reassembling) I found it easy to do, 10 min job, leaving no trace of anything which might affect warranty.

Don't need it but heat added

Dirty Den/Leslie Grantham all over this

Thanks OP. I bought one of these on Prime day last month for £43.99. Really good camera imo. This is the second one I've bought for work now. I work in engineering and the ability to hold something up to the camera and have it automatically focus on it, is a great feature for us. Helps us cut out a lot of emailing back and forth.

Screen quality will be shocking. Not even HD.

We'll likely about £45 it requires completely disassembling the entire laptop so can take about 1 hour

I posted a deal for one of those xps' years back. I've also got one and is ironically running very well. It's a tank. Other much newer laptops have died a death, including a 2 and a half year old XPS 15. Dell couldn't repair it (after 3 attempts) so it went back for a full refund a few weeks back.

hilarious post.

Thanks

Out of stock

No one likes Logitech lol, I see :) Still cheapest than everywhere else.

...and the Mainland China error is back again! They must have accidentally forgot to lock it down in the last release of the net code or plugin.

Has anyone managed to get the motion detection ("alarm") videos to save to SD card? Mine doesn't seem to and the quality of the online clips isn't all that great.

Reinstalled the mi home app, after originally giving up, and to my amazement, I now have a working camera. Shame I've already got myself a Fredi 1080p which I've been happy with. Will no doubt find some use for the Xiaomi though.

hmm i just updated everything and i still cant access it unless i do the ismart alarm one which is just connected straight to the camera's own wifi. Its still just sat gathering dust until i buy a pi

Something has been updated recently because I'm now able to add my camera using the QR code method and I no longer get the Mainland China error (I have the new version with the button). It seems to all be working now which is great. Does anyone know if it's possible to view motion captured videos on the Mi website somewhere? Viewing them on the phone doesn't seem to work very well.

one of the best amazon lightning deal I ever bought! Great camera/mic combo for £30. Set yourself up an alert on camelcamelcamel and good luck

Same price at currys/pcworld. Heat added as best price around, Im still holding out for that 29.99 price to come up again

Personally, there are cheaper options for this spec. Plenty of the Chuwi tablets at around £100 to £200. The Linx 10v64/12v64 both have Atom X5/4gb ram variants but you sacrifice 64gb storage but it'd still be cheaper with buying a 64gb micro sd card.

I wouldn't chance another Asus product

nothing wrong with Windows 8.1 i kept mine on it

Low res screen 1366 x 768 pixels Shows it's age by being bundled with Windows 8.1