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LOREX Live Connect Wireless Skype Home Surveillance Review
[October 25, 2011]

LOREX Live Connect Wireless Skype Home Surveillance Review


Originally posted on VoIP & Gadgets Blog, here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/lorex-live-connect-wireless-skype-home-surveillance-review.asp.

The LOREX Technology Live Connect LW2031 Series is a cool Skype-powered home surveillance system sporting night vision (via IR LEDs) and full color H.264 video. It can be used both for home surveillance, but also as a baby monitor due to its night vision and its portable handheld monitor sporting a color 2.4" LCD. It seemed like an interesting Skype product so I had LOREX send me a LW2031 to review.

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Installation
Installing this was pretty straightforward. Two of the three devices - camera & handheld monitor use mini-USB power adapters, which are included. The gateway device uses a 5V AC adapter, which is also included. They ship the rechargeable batteries in the camera and the handheld monitor partially charged, so I only needed to hook up power to the gateway initially. I also connected the included Ethernet cable. I powered on the handheld device and in seconds I was able to see the video feed from the camera, which ships already "paired" to the gateway. You can pair up to 4 cameras. Local viewing on handheld monitor supports up to 4 cameras in auto-sequence mode (one camera at a time) or selectable single camera viewing. In just two minutes I had everything out of the box and working.

Hooking up Skype
The only thing that might trip up potential buyers is that they need to have two Skype usernames. One personal one and an additional Skype username to assign to the LOREX Live Connect system. Fortunately, their instructions are very good and the Getting Started single sheet spells this out very clearly. The next part of the Getting Started guide is to launch to the web interface of the gateway. It's actually pretty simple since it leverage UPnP. All you have to do it click Start, Computer, Network, then under Other Devices I was able to see "LOREX Gateway". Then you simple double-click which opens the IP address into your default browser.lorex-live-connect-web-admin.jpg
                                                 LOREX Web Admin Interface

The web interface asked for a timezone and then asked if I had a Skype name. I already have test Skype accounts, but I was curious what the "user experience" was for users without multiple Skype usernames, so I selectd the option for no Skype username. It then allowed me to register a new Skype username without having to leave this interface, go to www.skype.com and register there. Definitely a nice touch to make it as easy as possible.



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