Hawking HomeRemote Pro HRPC2 Wireless Video Camera with Night Vision

The HRPC2 HomeRemote Pro Wireless Video Camera with Night Vision lets you add live streaming video to your HomeRemote Pro System. The HRPC2 is an advanced camera that allows you to view live video from the HomeRemote Pro web browser interface or from your cell phone using Cell-Link. Unlike standard internet cameras that require complicated router configurations, the HRPC2 features true plug and play installation. Simply plug the camera into one of your router’s local ports, log on to the HomeRemote Pro website and enter the product key of the camera. Adding live streaming video has never been easier. The HomeRemote Pro Video Camera a powerful 16 channel video recording software, advanced 2 window motion detection with FTP, email, Flash Storage triggered recordings and Wi-Fi capabilities for 802.11b/g wireless installations. Features include high quality, live video at up to 30 frames per second, plug and play installation, and live video viewing on the internet or your internet enabled cell phone (Pro-Level subscription required)

User Ratings and Reviews

1 Star Hawking Homeremote Pro and Camera HRPC2 a mistake to buy
Hawking HomeRemote Pro HRPC2 Wireless Video Camera with Night Vision

Hawking HRPG1 HomeRemote Pro Control and Remote Monitoring Internet Gateway (White)

I bought the Hawking Homeremote Pro kit and a Hawking Homeremote Pro Camera with Nightvision (HRPC2) as a starter Kit for my first home automation project. What a dissapointment! What was supposed to be the ultimate Home automation solution turned out to be a nightmare. The software for the Homeremote Pro is forcing you to make a 10$ a month subscrption to a useless Web-service with a not responding email hotline and phone hotline so terrible you voluntarily hang up by yourself. The camera picture doesn’t show on the web-site and the settings to activate the camera via internet by yourself are blocked to force you using the web-service (which doesn’t work). Same with the Homeremote Pro Controler. Again the biggest dissapointment I had in software and hardware since years. I trapped into these products by looking for Z-wave Modules and my recommendation for the Z-wave community is banning Hawking products from there sites.

1 Star Worst Product Ever Purchased
The hardest part of this review will be keeping it short when so many things are wrong with this product. I purchased a camera, a gateway, a wall plug module, and a motion detector. It was a 4 evening of fighting with the setup to get everything partially working. Then after two days everything quit working. I have to completely reconfigure all products. Then once again after a couple of days, I had the same problem. I spent more time reconfiguring only to have it happen a third time. Camera could not be found, the motion detector did not work and the web based software could not see the gateway.

During the time that the system was working, it was only partially working. Features like the motion detection of the camera and actions by the web based software was supposed to send me Email if an event was triggered. That never happened. Tech support was useless. Night time tech support takes you to a 3rd party tech support that can solve no problems and tells you that you have to call during the day. I call daytime and asked a simple question about what a field in the camera setup called “Split By” was supposed to do and they could not answer that and told me to send in email. And as you might guess my email was never answered. The only other answer I got from daytime tech was the server was having software problem wait until Monday. Well it did start working on Monday for 2 days.

So here are my complaints:

Bad Tech Support,

Server Software has problems,

Documentation is too brief.

All product that I purchased were unreliable,

Once configured, things will quit working and when you try to correct everything quits working.

Not all features would work at anytime.

I have quit, I am no longer trying to make these product work.

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