Smart home products have been relatively popular in recent years, and people's acceptance of them is much higher than before. The convenience brought by the development of science and technology is naturally self-evident, and it also improves people's quality of life. Among them, the electronic cat's eye in the smart home not only has the function of traditional cat's eye, but also comes with many new functions that can escort the safety of the family. Today we will experience a super cat's eye x1 produced by Wondershare's brand Spotted Cat.
Before this, Spotted Cat has launched a full range of IoT home security solutions composed of a variety of IoT fingerprint locks, IoT cat eyes and various IoT sensor products, and can build a variety of application scenarios according to the product portfolio, which can be regarded as a leading brand in the industry. The spotted cat super cat eye x1 that has just been listed is much cheaper than the previous product price, only 499 yuan, and the set of products with the spotted cat Internet of Things smart door lock is only 1999 yuan, which is about the same as the price of some brands of a fingerprint lock. But it is much more powerful in terms of functionality. First of all, I would like to thank you for providing this review product with the Fan Trial Platform and Spotted Cat Technology. Let's take a look at this product out of the box.
【Unboxing】
The outer box of the Spotted Cat Super Cat Eye x1 is pure white, and the front of the plastic box is only stamped with the brand logo of the Spotted Cat in silver.
The sides of the box are also printed with hot silver, with icons and text pointing out the main functional features of this product. This product can be controlled by mobile phone, support remote call, video intercom, infrared night vision with non-visible light, with motion detection function, long stay in front of the door can trigger the alarm, can WeChat reminder, can support face recognition.
The other side of the box is printed with the words "IoT Cat's Eye" on the long side, and a label on the back with product name model and manufacturer information, as well as a QR code for downloading the app and WeChat service account. This product has two colors of obsidian gray and red bronze, and this review is obsidian gray.
The first thing you see is three copies of the printed material, one is the installation precautions, one is the quick operation guide, and the other is the user manual. Underneath is a layer of black sponge that prevents the product from wearing and bumping.
Take out three copies of the print and the protective sponge, and you can see the main machine and the outside machine embedded in the white blister catto, both of which are wrapped in a white frosted bag.
Take out the main machine inside the door and the outside machine, take out the blister card holder, and you can take out the other related accessories at the bottom of the box. In the package, there is a main machine inside the door, a sub-machine outside the door, a steel sheet bracket, a doorbell reminder sticker, a total of 6 fixed screws of three lengths, and a 1-meter-long micro USB charging cable. Chargers can be purchased separately as an option, but considering that there are basically idle 5v chargers, it is generally not available for purchase.
Because the thickness of the various doors is different, the Spotted Cat Super Cat Eye x1 is equipped with three lengths of fixing screws, and there is also a card pin in the screw packaging plastic bag, which is used to reset the hole of the host when restoring the factory settings inside the door. The doorbell tip is made of plastic with 3m film on the back that can be attached directly to the door.
The steel sheet bracket has two bumps above, which can be inserted into the groove inside the door as the upper support point, and the two flat bumps below and the two NdFeB strong magnets of the main machine inside the door are fixed. The bracket is printed with an up arrow for the upper part, the lower two holes are screw fixing holes, and then the square long hole below is the outside of the main machine row line through the hole.
The included charging cable is a micro USB port with a length of 1 meter.
The main unit inside the door is 10 cm high, 13.5 cm wide, 1.7 cm thick, the screen size is 4.3 inches, and the screen material is tft LCD screen. In the upper left corner of the screen, there is the English logo of spotted cats, and the bottom of the screen is the only circular operation button of the host in the door. The outer ring of the button is a decorative circle with a metallic luster, and on the button is the logo of the spotted cat.
The back of the main machine inside the door is made of black plastic, and the rest of the outer frame of the machine is made of zinc alloy. The long groove above is a hanging hole for the host bracket, and there is a brushed metal label in the middle of the back, which prints information such as the product name model, charging voltage current and wifi frequency. A white label in the lower right corner is printed with the product serial number and mac address. There is a black lid underneath, which is the slot where the external machine cable connects to the main unit inside the door. The bottom two strips are the NdFeB strong magnets used to absorb the steel sheet bracket.
The zinc alloy of the main frame of the main frame inside the door has been sprayed, and the edges have been cut and treated. In the lower left part is a combination of reset button hole and microphone pickup hole.
The lower row of six small holes on the right is the trumpet hole.
The lower left corner of the main room inside the door is the micro USB charging interface, the door inside the host built-in a 4000mah lithium battery, in the normal state of use can be used for nearly half a year, charging is also very convenient, about two and a half hours can be fully charged. Some people may ask, does charging require the main unit to be removed? In fact, it is not needed, and it can be quickly filled with a main machine inside the door with a charging treasure placed on the door. Immediately to the right is the tf memory card slot. Spotted Cat Super Cat Eye x1 supports cloud storage, as well as local storage.
Open the lid of the cable slot to see the cable interface slot, plug in the cable and then fasten the lid to prevent the cable from loosening.
The door machine is a combination of the cat's eye camera and the doorbell, and in the middle of the circular appearance is a large area of doorbell buttons. The buttons are levitating, surrounded by a white aperture that illuminates a breathing aura during motion detection or other trigger conditions, and the doorbell buttons are as beautiful as suspended. Above the button is a 140-degree viewing angle of 2 million pixel high-definition camera, the right side is composed of four special infrared night vision lights composed of sensorless night vision system, at night will not emit a dark red light like other infrared cameras. At the very bottom is a human-sensing sensor that triggers motion detection when someone passes by, notifies the owner and records the video.
There are two pieces of 3m film on both sides of the back of the door machine that can be fixed to the door, and there are two screw holes at the top of the cylinder at the end, and the external machine row line extends from this position to connect the main machine inside the door. The front and back of the cable are protected by black tape, and the cable plug is a double row of 30pin plugs. This Spotted Cat Super Cat's Eye x1 supports mounting gating with a diameter of 15mm-50mm and can be mounted on doors with a thickness of 35mm-110mm.
The connection looks roughly like this, first insert the cable, and then buckle the protective cover.
When connected, long press the function key, you can boot, the first opportunity to see an app download guide page, with the mobile phone scan code can download the spotted cat app, and then follow the prompts to add the cat eye device.
【Installation】
The original ordinary cat's eye, it is not very convenient to see the people outside, and I have seen that there are thieves who can remove the cat's eye from the door hole into the tool to hook the door lock, which is very unsafe.
First remove the ordinary cat's eye, this is very simple, screw it down.
Then select the screws according to the thickness of the door on the door machine, screw up the screws, and send the cable and screw end from the door hole to the door. Then tear off the outer layer of 3m tape outside the door to adjust the left and right levels, and attach the outside machine to the door.
Hang the steel sheet bracket on the screw, pull out the cable from the cable hole and adjust and tighten the screw, and then plug the overly long cable back into the door sandwich, leaving only a shorter section.
Insert the cable plug into the main machine cable slot inside the door and fasten the protective cover, the inside of the door host is hung on the two bumps above the steel sheet bracket, and then put down the neodymium magnet that allows the door host to be adsorbed to the steel plate bracket and installed firmly.
After installation, long press the function key to boot the machine, you can see the screen. When the function button is pressed or someone outside presses the doorbell, the host screen inside the door will light up to see the high-definition screen outside. When the corridor is completely dark at night, the night vision screen is also very clear.
Look at the machine outside the door again, when the hovering light is on, it is very beautiful.
There is also a row of six small holes on the left side of the door that are horn holes, and there is a microphone hole on the right side.
Finally, paste the doorbell reminder sticker, the whole installation is completed, it takes about ten minutes. One person can do it easily, so easy.
【Mobile App Function】
Without a mobile app, this product is at most an electronic cat's eye. With the mobile app to play its powerful functions. First scan the code to install the Cat's Eye app.
Then after registering and logging in, you will enter the interface of the Maoyan app, first you need to create a family, and then you will enter the interface of adding a device.
We want to select the sp-x1 product, and then display the two-dimensional code, with the camera of the door machine against the mobile phone screen scan code can be successfully added. In the interface after the successful addition, there is also a WeChat binding button below, click on a WeChat binding tutorial, first add the blob cat service account and log in to the account password just registered, you can successfully bind WeChat. After the wind blows, the WeChat spotted cat service account will push reminders.
After the successful binding, see the spotted cat x1 just pushed the latest firmware, see the new firmware optimization content is still a lot, that must be upgraded to the latest firmware version.
Click the three-bar button in the top left corner to access account and family settings related options, including personal settings, family management, room management, cloud store, service support, and about us. Among them, personal settings can modify the information related to personal accounts, and family management can share family QR codes to bind devices to relatives' mobile phones.
In the device sub-column, you can add new devices, view the cat's eye screen, take photos, videos, dialogues, and also make detailed settings for the cat's eye in the cat's eye management interface, including ring call, motion detection, alarm settings, face recognition, cat's eye voice, storage space, personality configuration, basic information and firmware upgrades, and you can also restart the device or delete the device on this page.
Among them, the ring call can set the call owner or specify which relative, and can set whether to ring the bell to illuminate the screen, as well as the length of the visitor message. Motion detection can be set to whether it is turned on or not to detect the recording time. Alarm settings can set whether to turn on the stay alarm and video recording time and disassembly alarm.
There are also face recognition, you can take the picture of the portrait to classify, such as neighbors, property, housekeeping, friends, etc., so that in the future when pushing information, it will remind such as a certain type of person to visit. Cat's eye voice is actually set up with a doorbell and alarm tone. Spotted cat x1 gives away 7 days of rolling cloud storage, and the machine can also insert tf card for local storage.
In the personality settings, you can set the screen clarity, screen brightness, local playback volume, and the call mode can choose to press and hold to speak or call mode. The intercom diacritic function is very interesting, if you don't want the other party to hear your voice, there are also three kinds of diacritics you can choose from: youth, Lori, and uncle.
After successfully binding the WeChat service account, you can view the real-time pushed reminder information from WeChat. In the log sub-column, you can view the daily reminder information by day and month, such as motion detection, pressing the doorbell, etc.
When motion detection is turned on, all people passing by the door leave a video footage. If someone is staying, a stay alarm is triggered. When someone rings the doorbell, the mobile phone will have a reminder, if the long press of the doorbell will trigger a remote call, the mobile phone will receive a reminder to ring, make a remote call. Ring the doorbell three times in a minute, there will be a voice reminder, the host is not at home, please leave a message, and then video the visitor message. Isn't it powerful? In fact, there is more powerful, if the purchase is the Internet of Things fingerprint lock and cat's eye suit, you can achieve cat's eye and door lock linkage, remote unlock, unlock photo and other ways to play.
【Summary】
This spotted cat super cat eye x1, although only 499 dollars, but the feeling is not inferior to the previous 1799 s200 pro. This x1 is actually a bit more cost-effective. The features are still powerful, but the price is much cheaper. If you can buy a fingerprint lock and a cat's eye suit, it personally feels more cost-effective. I thought it was a small cat's eye, but I didn't expect so many functions to be so strong, and the advantage of this cloud storage is that even if there is really a cockroach thief who has the courage to forcibly destroy the cat's eye, you can still see the photos and videos stored in the cloud from the app, and the cockroach thief still can't run. This product experience review ends here, personally think this product is very good, exceeded my expectations, worth recommending. Thank you all for your patience and the opportunity to see you next time.