DLAN LIVECAM SOFTWARE

Although devolo ships the unit with a software CD i strongly recommend heading over to their official support page to download the latest version of their dLAN LiveCam software.

Once you launch the software it will ask you to enter the ID and Password for your LiveCam which can be found at the bottom sticker.

From the main menu there are 4 options available so you can check the live feed from the camera, enter the settings menu, reduce the screen width of the software and add more dLAN LiveCam models (if you have more installed).

The settings menu allows you to take a snapshot and use it as the main menu picture, change the ID and password of the unit (since the default ones are way too long), set the camera orientation (although this is clearly an indoor model), set the IR LEDs manually or leave it to the sensor to decide, improve the contrast when NV mode is on, rotate the image input and finally you can also reset the settings to the factory ones.

Since this is an indoor camera model i decided to use my living room as an example (the distance between the dLAN LiveCam and the window is 4.6 meters) and so we took three snapshots, one with all the lights on, one with just some light coming from the outside and one without a single ray of light in the room. As you can see although the NV mode is quite good i can't say the same for the normal mode since color reproduction was far off. Also the 640x480 resolution prevents this camera from being used by professionals although i really doubt devolo had them in mind when designing the dLAN LiveCam.