Millet Intelligent Socket/camera experience

Millet in October 10 quietly released the Millet Intelligent Remote Control center, Millet intelligent sockets, small ant smart camera and Yeelight smart lights, of which the first two from millet personally copied knives, and then two is the millet eco-chain products.

Millet intelligent sockets and small ant Smart camera has begun to test, the two products first time came to the office of intellectual things, smelly cat has experienced some, now to give you talk about experience feeling.

Millet new out of these smart hardware in the industry caused some controversy and discussion, see how the bottom millet is defined, and what aspects of the differentiation.

Small ant smart camera to go minimalist style, color selection of the more black and white color. Adjustable pitch angle, not support rotation, 110° wide angle.

This camera does not have infrared LED lights, so it does not support night vision monitoring, in the light of the environment, the image automatically switch to black and white mode, but in the case of all Black can not capture the image.

Fuselage (bracket) and camera

The core camera part is integrated in the camera head, lens, horn, Micro SD card slot, Power interface. If these interfaces and hardware devices are integrated into a semicircle device with a diameter not exceeding 6cm, the overall structure is compact. In the use process, the heat control is more ideal.

Small ant camera is a wireless network operating in the intelligent products, can take the highest resolution 720p/20fps (1280*720 pixel) video, image sharpness is affected by network bandwidth, from the app control interface can choose different definition mode, network bandwidth over 4M can choose High-definition image. From the video screenshot, the image sharpness to meet the visual HD standard, weak light under the screen dim.

On the left is the microSD card, built-in a 8GB capacity, the next is the Micro USB power supply port.

The yellow light indicates waiting for the connection. What if there is no router app in the phone? Scanning instructions in the two-dimensional code, download "Millet smart Home", wireless settings. P.s. However, app only supports Android. At present, the app online version of the Millet Intelligent Home system only supports the Android system, you use the patients with iOS heavy usage, and the recruitment is not indicated that only applies to the Android system.

The camera will give voice prompts: "Waiting for Connection", "Connecting", "successful Connection". Then enter the Wi-Fi password on the phone. The visual should be 2.4Ghz wireless broadcast way to enter the Wi-Fi password.

Connection successful, display blue light.

Home Smart cameras support voice to make and detect alarms seem to have become standard, in this respect, the small ants will be these two functions, as long as the volume of the phone turned on, you can hear each other's voice, if you want to talk to the family, long press the voice button, the camera end will be issued a burst of beep, after the two-way speech to speak.

App interface, you can look through the history video through the timeline. Hold down the microphone icon to talk to the people in the room. The screen can be double finger zoom, analog digital zoom effect.

Wi-Fi socket: with USB charging port

Small volume intelligent socket is the advantage, support USB and Power Jack, power Jack for the new GB 5, open the key with the USB interface in the side, pure white design, simple and clear.

Millet Intelligent Socket box size like ring ornaments box, more compact. The outer packing white main color is clean and simple, the back is a variety of parameters.

Millet Intelligent Socket Connection steps and small ant Smart Camera is the same, the premise is must have millet router, previously registered millet account can be directly added equipment, in the initial connection, it is also recommended long press the key to restore the factory settings.

Three Forks, two forks mix, the top is the LED, the input is Three forks, the maximum support 10A current, could not afford air-conditioning. And the side has the switch button and to the handset charging USB output Port 5V 1 A, this intelligent socket maximum load is 10A, the input voltage is 180v~250v between, the output voltage: AC 180V~250V,DC 5V; The implementation of GB gb2099.1-2008 standards and gb1002-2008, the product operating temperature between the 0~40℃. And the network of intelligent sockets similar to the camera, the connection after the successful display of blue light.

Millet Intelligent Socket small 62*55*33mm, round-shaped design. This smart socket in the normal plug, and do not feel a lot of volume, but smelly cat found two use defects. On the one hand, because of the millet intelligent socket on the side of the key and USB interface, so if inserted in the dual-row socket to pay attention to the direction, inserted in the next row is easy to block the key, USB interface can not be used.

Power socket and USB jack can be controlled separately, "alarm clock" icon can be set timer switch, simple and intuitive operation.

Pros & Cons:

Small Ant Intelligence Camera

Advantages：

1, the fuselage small, thin, stent and lens can be split, this is very good oh.

2, 111° super Wide angle, this is the current home camera single lens, fixed the focus of a larger visual range of products.

3, the actual use, the gift of 8GB memory card can meet 3-5 days of monitoring requirements.

4, mobile phone can also observe real-time monitoring screen, timely receive the alarm, but also with the camera two-way calls.

Insufficient：

1, no iOS version of the app, this is the same as the Millet bracelet app, Apple users can not use.

2, Alarm function optimization, not only support message push, follow-up can support a single video screenshot, more specific alarm content.

3, the camera base is thought to be double-sided adhesive structure, the result is not. Smelly cat suggested whether can be designed as double-sided adhesive, not only can be placed, but also can be hoisting.

4, the camera can increase the infrared night vision function.

Second, millet intelligent sockets

Advantages：

1, support power Jack and USB Jack, the two switches can be independently controlled by the app.

2, millet this outlet price 39 yuan, the price is more appropriate.

3, 220V socket power loss will not affect the phone charge.

4, hope in the second generation machine to add children's shock-proof function.

Insufficient：

1, the volume can continue to simplify the reduction, affecting the normal use of the power supply side.

2, 5v1a output is a bit low, you can increase the current to 2 A, or can be adaptive output.

3, intelligent scenario mode for the current use of less, mainly control the power switch.

Summary：

And before the release of the product, millet propaganda slogan "Quweicunzhen" can also see that the company hinted at the current market "smart home" of the company most of the introduction of marginal products, and this millet smart camera, smart sockets, smart lights will be near the mainstream of smart home products.

The millet camera looks no different from other smart cameras. But the difference lies in the ecology. Millet needs to first promote a new hardware-millet router to the user's home, and then to build a hardware and software as one of the ecosystem, all the ideas are based on "If this device uses a millet certified chip."

For this set of smart home products, is also considered a smart home of millet test water, and smart home is a complete and rich product line, and millet router as a real home Internet portal, very important. Millet home itself is exploratory things, to promote the millet router into the family is the real benefit.