Y-Cam Bullet HD 1080 Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅09-05-13
Testing – Smartphone Usage & Image Quality

Y-Cam have their own smartphone app for IP cameras called Y-Cam MultiLive. Unfortunately, as many others report – this application frequently “Force closes” and we were unable to properly use this to demonstrate usage. There are however a number of different apps developed by other vendors which are available for Android/Apple devices, we chose to go with IP Cam Viewer with allows for the inclusion of numerous cameras, giving the user the ability to fully control the unit.

Below demonstrates this application when using Bullet HD 1080. We are using wireless connectivity, the image quality is good and the range of vision with this camera is also good with its wide-angle lens.


Testing Bullet HD 1080 with a 3rd party smartphone app


Bullet HD 1080 can record footage continuously, between set times or via motion detection. As its name suggests, this camera records footage at hi-def, 1920x1080 and at 30fps. This means recordings will be high resolution and very smooth.

For the purpose of motion and quality we have recorded a short clip and uploaded directly to YouTube without compressing further in a video editor.



As you can see from the footage, image quality is very good and movement is fluid at 30fps. Unfortunately the audio feedback wasn’t as impressive but video is the primary concern with a camera.

Bullet HD 1080 has impressive Infra-Red results. Recording in pitch dark surroundings prevents no difficulties with seeing objects in the view of the lens. Y-Cam have given the LEDs a 15m distance capability which is more than sufficient for small home-office environments.

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