polterzeitgeist
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I spent a while on that subject line and still probably didn't articulate it well. I'll try another way:
I'm shopping for at least two channels worth of camera for my wife's Jetta wagon. I've looked at two-channel models, and one of the attractions of, say, the K1S is that the cameras themselves are pretty discreet. However, cable management for the CPU/screen unit isn't the cleanest. That's where wifi units are more attractive to me, especially since my wife will generally have her phone with her and will remove it from the car as a matter of course.
It looks like the field of single channel wifi cams is a little wider than for dual-channel cams, and I don't think we'll mind the cams recording independently to two cards. Further, a pair of standalone wifi cams could get us 1080p front and back for a price similar to a 1080/720 dual channel setup (although I bet 720p with good optics is fine for our use). I wonder, however, whether there's an app that gracefully handles multiple cams. It looks like most wifi cams require the phone/tablet/etc to connect to the cam's AP, and that implies that switching cams requires disconnecting from one wireless network and connecting to the other. This could be seamless or it could be a multi-step process.
On one hand (and astute readers will say "aren't you answering your own question?"), I can imagine that she'll only have the rear cam connected for live viewing, for use as a crude backup cam or rear-view supplement. In that sense my question is largely academic. However, there might be a wifi cam that works better than others in this respect (dealing with multiple cameras), so I might as well put my money toward one that does.
This note's too long already, so I'll stop here. Thanks for any advice, including feedback that I'm thinking about this all wrong. Cheers!
I'm shopping for at least two channels worth of camera for my wife's Jetta wagon. I've looked at two-channel models, and one of the attractions of, say, the K1S is that the cameras themselves are pretty discreet. However, cable management for the CPU/screen unit isn't the cleanest. That's where wifi units are more attractive to me, especially since my wife will generally have her phone with her and will remove it from the car as a matter of course.
It looks like the field of single channel wifi cams is a little wider than for dual-channel cams, and I don't think we'll mind the cams recording independently to two cards. Further, a pair of standalone wifi cams could get us 1080p front and back for a price similar to a 1080/720 dual channel setup (although I bet 720p with good optics is fine for our use). I wonder, however, whether there's an app that gracefully handles multiple cams. It looks like most wifi cams require the phone/tablet/etc to connect to the cam's AP, and that implies that switching cams requires disconnecting from one wireless network and connecting to the other. This could be seamless or it could be a multi-step process.
On one hand (and astute readers will say "aren't you answering your own question?"), I can imagine that she'll only have the rear cam connected for live viewing, for use as a crude backup cam or rear-view supplement. In that sense my question is largely academic. However, there might be a wifi cam that works better than others in this respect (dealing with multiple cameras), so I might as well put my money toward one that does.
This note's too long already, so I'll stop here. Thanks for any advice, including feedback that I'm thinking about this all wrong. Cheers!
