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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Netgear view zone okay so I don't know what the difference between Wireless and wire free is but there are no wires I think that is the point they're trying to make wire free video monitoring system place it anywhere view it anywhere includes this others there's a variety of different kits but this particular one includes two motion cameras one base station one outdoor shell and mount for wall mounts and the batteries that you need to have them run at an estimated sort of five minutes per day depending on when they turn on from motion sensing for up to six months at a time place anywhere view any time okay I think we covered all of this already hi here we go wire free motion detection email alerts indoor use and outdoor use are all supported let's go ahead and flip over to the side they give you some examples of where you could mount it like to a tree or to a wall or two with our innovative wire free cameras you'll avoid the hassle of running ugly power cords you'll spend more time deciding where to put your cameras than you will setting them up so there's a chick with a phone and she's presumably like something good to do with monitoring security so she can see her property her family and her pets hmm that's a white girl I mean I'm not trying to you know be like that about it or anything but I don't think that's her kids they could be adopted okay so moving right along we've got a few different options software wise you can use the free option which gives you you know the camel you bought the camera so obviously of those motion detection with email alerts you can take a snapshot so no video okay for ninety-five a month to get video next we've got live video on your computer no big deal camera supported two five and fifteen from the free to premiere to elite options the base station does support fifteen cameras so the hardware is already there to support the elite option location supported one one and three so you could monitor multiple different locations digital pad and zoom you're going to have to pay for that live video on your iPad iPhone or Android got to pay for that and look at that you can securely record video to the cloud with the premiere and the elite service option it's compatible with both iOS and Android so that's a good thing and we've also got some specifications down here as well so check this out video resolution is 640 by 480 at 3 FPS okay QV g so 320 by 240 at 7 FPS so we're not talking about you know taking beautiful HD photos we're talking about like functional security motion sensing and you know that kind of good stuff physical specifications ok let's open this paper baby up and have a look to what we got going on in here so first thing we see is a quick install guide followed by another quick install guide to quick install guides because one quick install guide is not good enough forget gears customers no no they will provide multiple quick install that's for the outdoor mount and this is just sort of in general what to do on sort of one page or less there you go what do they say connect your views own system to the Internet ok install camera batteries sync bed sync cameras to the base station okay there you go hold within 12 inches and something-something install cameras register your views own system and get the fuse on mobile app that's it okay we got a general public license sure whatever ok got a day got some environmentally friendly paper packaging very nice love to see that alright you got some power adapters here so you can run these up the walls to the camera now I'm just messing with you you don't have to do that you just plug this into the base station which wirelessly communicates with up to 15 cameras so you plug that guy into your router and I have no idea what that does guess we'll find out hold on there we go power connector ok it's not labeled either we'll be back in a moment so we didn't figure it out but there's a highly amusing Amazon review of this thing that basically it's a good review overall of the unit but it says that the you manual and website make no mention they couldn't figure it out either so there you go aha reset button there's your sync button up there as well as your power internet views on status indicators and that's it that's the base station it just basically looks like that plugs into the wall nothing that complicated here we have some of the forget what this battery standards called CRA something or other it's a three volt battery so presumably there are two cells inside there and these are for the cameras themselves they're really cheap you can buy them in bulk on dealextreme I have a laser pointer that takes these batteries so I have tons of them at home already anyway wall mounts so these are your drywall screws if you wanted to wall mount to drywall these are little base station little doodads so you just kind of this must come off here somehow Oh adhesive surface there you go so you just pull that off caution adhesive may damage surface or paint so be careful may be tested in a discreet location or what I sometimes do if I'm going to stick it to something that I don't want to damage is I'll just kind of go like this on my shirt a little bit first make it sticky enough to work but not sticky enough to take the paint right off the wall when you're done so those are little mounting doodads and they're magnetized see that so you just kind of put this wherever you want then you put this guy on here and you can position it wherever you want so those are those are the cameras they're not wide-angle lenses so you do want to get them nice and up high maybe in a corner if you want to capture an entire room okay there you go got a little rubber things here so you can not lose your grip on them when you're putting them up presumably that's why okay there's your motion sensor right there there's your lens right there and there is your battery compartment right presumably yeah there all right throw a couple batteries in there no big deal I like that they're nice and light and compact I mean yeah it's only three FPS or you know whatever other complaints you might have but at least it's small and compact and you can easily scale it and add more more cameras to it should you should you want to all that that opens it up okay I didn't realize that before so then you can power it on okay just like that all right what else we got in here you throw net cable for plugging in the base station aha outdoor man very cool so this guy right here is I guess what the screws are four different screws for that so you can screw it into a tree or the side of your house or whatever else you want has a mount right here that is actually capable of rotating as much as you or as little as you want you just use this guy right here to lock it in place there you go now it won't turn very easily anymore we go ahead and tighten this guy as well so there you go point it wherever you want you just open it up with two screws here and here throw the unit inside and it should be weatherproof they operate up to I think minus fourteen degrees so for those of you who live in Toronto ah-hah sorry it never goes under minus four gene here um yeah it's probably fine especially if you keep it close enough to your house that is getting some incidental heat off of there and I mean besides the battery's wearing out faster I can't imagine there's anything in here that particularly damaged by the cold weather but feel free to let me know if I'm wrong includes a screwdriver actually for for this so includes pretty much everything you need right out of the box there you go that's everything so you got you two cameras and you can buy more you got all your mounting screws you've got I mean this is cool so it includes extras of these so you could potentially move them around if you want you can have these permanently fixed in places that are convenient and you can attach one of them outdoors should you desire to do so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the view zone from Netgear don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos