Hey guys,
I purchased this and will receive it next week. It looks like a fairly new product that has its own app. I was just wondering if Sighthound would (or could) support this?
The product can be found here on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010FW ... ge_o01_s00
Thanks,
Brandon
Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
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sgeorgens - Posts: 4
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
Brandon,
I would be very interested to hear what you think once you receive this light/camera. I've actually been keeping an eye out on this myself and have one location where I think it would work well. However, wasn't sure if we would be able to capture the video stream (example, is it continuous or only when triggered?), and not sure I like it not having any infrared for the camera. If it is possible to grab the video and not deal with their cloud storage, that would be great to incorporate into my SightHound system. I didn't even realize it was offered on Amazon, interesting. Please let me know how it goes when you get the camera.
Scott
I would be very interested to hear what you think once you receive this light/camera. I've actually been keeping an eye out on this myself and have one location where I think it would work well. However, wasn't sure if we would be able to capture the video stream (example, is it continuous or only when triggered?), and not sure I like it not having any infrared for the camera. If it is possible to grab the video and not deal with their cloud storage, that would be great to incorporate into my SightHound system. I didn't even realize it was offered on Amazon, interesting. Please let me know how it goes when you get the camera.
Scott
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harmer007 - Posts: 23
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
Yes...please share Brandon how it works for you and if it works with sighthound.
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bwood15 - Posts: 19
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
Scott,
Unfortunately I never got an answer from anyone on the forums if the Kuna could somehow work with SH. Maybe once it is out for a while, someone can answer that question - I would certainly love to be able to use it with SH so I don't have to dig my phone out, open the app, wait for it to load, and then see who is at the door (as well as have a copy of the footage on my local hard drive).. I did not realize when I bought it that you had to pay for a subscription ($10 a month to store videos to the cloud for 7 days each or $5 for 2 hours), but then again, much of everything seems to be going that way now days.
As for the light itself, it has much potential, but I will still consider the software to be in beta. They have no tech support number but I have found them to be very responsive and friendly with email. I believe this is an American product with support located here in the States as well, so that means a lot. The light itself is VERY well made, looks great, and was easy to install, but I had problems from the get go in getting the app to work with both ios AND android - different issues on both - and there is no Windows or Mac support
Once tech support helped via detailed email instructions, things ironed out.
There are issues I'm still having that I'm hoping are addressed in future firmware updates, such as false positives when it thinks someone is at the door (nothing new for most SH users!). Also, the compression codec they are using seems to favor bigger files as it seems my dsl has trouble playing it back (faster connections may have no problems). The two way audio communication would be awesome (the speaker quality is clear and pristine) if it didn't have such a horrible 15-45 second (!) delay - that makes it absolutely USELESS for this purpose! I've also set the light to turn off at dawn and on again at dusk but it's been staying on regardless. The tech support response with anything like this is to turn it off, wait 10-30 seconds and then turn it back on. Fortunately, I have an indoor wall switch I can do that with, but since there is no reset switch on the unit, others with direct power are just out of luck without flipping the breaker I suppose. Also, as with my IP cameras, WHO wants to keep having to reset this stuff, especially when it's vital to your home or business security?
So that's my take as of now. Again, as an early adopter, I'm curious to see if they'll stand by their product and continue to improve upon it. Time will tell.
Brandon
Unfortunately I never got an answer from anyone on the forums if the Kuna could somehow work with SH. Maybe once it is out for a while, someone can answer that question - I would certainly love to be able to use it with SH so I don't have to dig my phone out, open the app, wait for it to load, and then see who is at the door (as well as have a copy of the footage on my local hard drive).. I did not realize when I bought it that you had to pay for a subscription ($10 a month to store videos to the cloud for 7 days each or $5 for 2 hours), but then again, much of everything seems to be going that way now days.
As for the light itself, it has much potential, but I will still consider the software to be in beta. They have no tech support number but I have found them to be very responsive and friendly with email. I believe this is an American product with support located here in the States as well, so that means a lot. The light itself is VERY well made, looks great, and was easy to install, but I had problems from the get go in getting the app to work with both ios AND android - different issues on both - and there is no Windows or Mac support
Once tech support helped via detailed email instructions, things ironed out.There are issues I'm still having that I'm hoping are addressed in future firmware updates, such as false positives when it thinks someone is at the door (nothing new for most SH users!). Also, the compression codec they are using seems to favor bigger files as it seems my dsl has trouble playing it back (faster connections may have no problems). The two way audio communication would be awesome (the speaker quality is clear and pristine) if it didn't have such a horrible 15-45 second (!) delay - that makes it absolutely USELESS for this purpose! I've also set the light to turn off at dawn and on again at dusk but it's been staying on regardless. The tech support response with anything like this is to turn it off, wait 10-30 seconds and then turn it back on. Fortunately, I have an indoor wall switch I can do that with, but since there is no reset switch on the unit, others with direct power are just out of luck without flipping the breaker I suppose. Also, as with my IP cameras, WHO wants to keep having to reset this stuff, especially when it's vital to your home or business security?
So that's my take as of now. Again, as an early adopter, I'm curious to see if they'll stand by their product and continue to improve upon it. Time will tell.
Brandon
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sgeorgens - Posts: 4
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
Thanks for sharing the info on what you've found so far with that Kuna unit Brandon... too bad it seems that it is still going through growing pains as a new product. I kind of had a feeling that it would be like that for this one, since it is so new, and seems to be from a small group trying to get off the ground. 
Kuna appears to be something that could have a lot of potential, but we'll have to let them grow a bit I guess. Besides the lack of IR for nighttime, I was also little worried if it was going to be one of those products that corrals you into using their cloud solution. That is a showstopper for me. One of the primary reasons I am a fan of SH is that you can do local storage if you desire, yet access remotely as well (although I believe they are still working on secure connectivity via the SH app).
If you happen to learn anything more based on your experience with your Kuna, let us know. I'm sure there might be others using SH that run across that and are interested in the same thing.
Kuna appears to be something that could have a lot of potential, but we'll have to let them grow a bit I guess. Besides the lack of IR for nighttime, I was also little worried if it was going to be one of those products that corrals you into using their cloud solution. That is a showstopper for me. One of the primary reasons I am a fan of SH is that you can do local storage if you desire, yet access remotely as well (although I believe they are still working on secure connectivity via the SH app).
If you happen to learn anything more based on your experience with your Kuna, let us know. I'm sure there might be others using SH that run across that and are interested in the same thing.
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bwood15 - Posts: 19
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
Will do Scott! I will add that the lack of IR is not a problem as I have set the light to stay on for the night. This gives it plenty (and much better) lighting than IR does anyway, so I'm happy with that. I believe it has a motion sensor if you want the light to come on that way as well.
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mchevrier - Posts: 2
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
" if it didn't have such a horrible 15-45 second (!) delay "
I agree it makes it almost useless. One question comes to mind when I read that, what is the upload speed of your Internet connection? Kuna recommends 2 Mb per camera of upload speed. Could that be the issue?
I am in the process of buying 3 of the Kuna cameras, but if that is the actual real life operation I am not going to buy it.
Michel.
I agree it makes it almost useless. One question comes to mind when I read that, what is the upload speed of your Internet connection? Kuna recommends 2 Mb per camera of upload speed. Could that be the issue?
I am in the process of buying 3 of the Kuna cameras, but if that is the actual real life operation I am not going to buy it.
Michel.
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jmc2010 - Posts: 1
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
I'm new to the forum. Saw this post and wanted to share a video i made of this light...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-FMfYy_0jg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-FMfYy_0jg
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mchevrier - Posts: 2
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Re: Kuna Home Security Light/Video Intercom Supported?
mchevrier wrote:" if it didn't have such a horrible 15-45 second (!) delay "
I agree it makes it almost useless. One question comes to mind when I read that, what is the upload speed of your Internet connection? Kuna recommends 2 Mb per camera of upload speed. Could that be the issue?
I am in the process of buying 3 of the Kuna cameras, but if that is the actual real life operation I am not going to buy it.
Michel.
I finally bought 3 cameras anyway (not so bright of me) and upgraded my Internet link to 2Mb upload (max available where I live). When I had only one camera installed it was fine, but now that I've completed the installation of all of them, it is very very long (like 45 secs) when I get a "Someone is at the door" warning before I get an image and that I can communicate with that someone. So what Kuna is saying is real. If you cannot get 2Mb per camera stay away from that, by the way nice concept, product.