Y-cam Knight Review
May 18, 2010 by Wes
Filed under IP Cameras, Y-cam
Y-cam Knight Features
- Infrared night vision
- Easy to get set up
- High-quality video and sound
- Emails alerts on motion detection
- Compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux
- MPEG-4 Compression
Y Cam Knight Overview
Keeping your property secure is of the utmost importance, and few devices are better than IP cameras for surveillance of the things you own. If you’re looking for an IP camera that can keep an eye out on your property both day and night, the Y-Cam Knight is well worth considering. It’s totally wireless, easy to set up, and takes advantage of its 30 LEDs to provide crisp black and white images in the lowest of light conditions.
Full of Features
The features of this camera aren’t just gimmicks, but can make a practical difference in your security. For example, you can set up the Y-Cam Knight to send you email alerts whenever motion is detected on screen. In the old days of having security personnel watching the monitors, you could never be sure they hadn’t fallen asleep at the control panel. This takes the possibility for human error out of the equation, and you’ll be able to sleep easy knowing you be instantly notified of any disturbance.
High Quality Day and Night Image
The features of the Y-Cam Knight SD are great, but what about the quality of the image itself? In this field, this is still an impressive camera. The resolution of the image produced by the Y-Cam Knight is a crisp 640×480 pixels, so the image will come through clearly and accurately if those on camera ever need to be identified. Also important is the frame rate of a camera, and the Y-Cam Knight films at 30 frames per second.
You might be worried that if you have hours of footage in this high-quality range, keeping enough disk space handy might become a problem. This won’t be the case, however, since the Y-Cam software is equipped with MPEG-4 compression, not commonly used with a lot of IP cameras, that stores your video files at a much smaller size, without sacrificing the quality of the image itself.
Where you do you think you would like to view your security footage? In the office? At home? On the train? All options are possible with this camera. In fact, anywhere you can get an internet connection and a web browser will be suitable for watching live streaming footage of the camera. This means that whether you’re running a Mac or PC, or even if you want to view the footage from a mobile phone, you’ll have the technology in your hands to do just that.
If you need staff or security personnel to view footage, that won’t be a problem. The Y-Cam Knight allows up to 16 simultaneous viewers, each with their own encrypted password for secure, reliable access.





I bought two ycam knights for my cottage and they work great! Mac friendly.