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Friday, November 21, 2003
 
Linksys WVC11B WiFi Internet Video Camera

I've been messing around with one of these Linksys WVC11B WiFi Wireless Internet video cameras this week. Although the features on it are pretty slick I'm finding that the video quality just doesn't cut it at all. Or rather the quality is average but its the brightness control on the camera that just plain sucks. It seems to have to require absolutely ideal lighting conditions in order to show decent video whatsoever. It has an option to let it automatically set the brightness level and I've also gone in and manually played around with the levels without any luck whatsoever. With the camera pointing outside somewhere and selecting the absolute lowest brightness level its still way to light to really get any decent video and with the camera indoors under normal (not even low lighting conditions) and setting the brightness to its highest level its way too dark. I wonder if its a matter of allowing more than 64 levels of brightness to select. Might be time to get the GPL code and mess around with it but thats more messing than I'm interested in doing at this point.

Its also missing a couple things that the VEO has namely pan/tilt and audio.

 
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