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The ancient rule “My home is my cas­tle” becomes not only more rel­e­vant, but also dif­fi­cult to imple­ment over time. This is espe­cial­ly acute for the inhab­i­tants of pri­vate hous­es. Before you press the but­ton to open the lock, you need to see who came and only then make a deci­sion.

Mod­ern video inter­coms are nec­es­sar­i­ly equipped with a call­ing pan­el with a video cam­era and a micro­phone, which suc­cess­ful­ly cope with the task of iden­ti­fy­ing a vis­i­tor. Not only that, they have acquired a con­nec­tion to Wi-Fi and smart home sys­tems, mak­ing it even more dif­fi­cult for unwant­ed guests to get inside the home. A high-qual­i­ty video inter­com is grad­u­al­ly becom­ing an essen­tial ele­ment of secu­ri­ty.

Editor’s Choice

W‑714-FHD (7)

The min­i­mum deliv­ery set includes a van­dal-proof out­door unit and an indoor unit with a Full HD mon­i­tor with a res­o­lu­tion of 1980x1024 pix­els. It is pos­si­ble to con­nect two out­door units with ana­log or AHD cam­eras with a res­o­lu­tion of 2 megapix­els, as well as five mon­i­tors and secu­ri­ty sen­sors asso­ci­at­ed with cam­eras.

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The gad­get is equipped with infrared illu­mi­na­tion, record­ing with sound starts imme­di­ate­ly after press­ing the call but­ton, but you can also set up record­ing by trig­ger­ing a motion sen­sor. On a mem­o­ry card with a capac­i­ty of 128 giga­bytes, 100 hours of video are record­ed. The sit­u­a­tion in front of the cam­eras can be seen at any time by press­ing the but­ton on the indoor unit.

Technical specifications

Indoor unit dimen­sions	225x150x22 mm
Dis­play Diag­o­nal	7 inch­es
Cam­era angle	120 degrees

Pros and cons

Qual­i­ty build, ver­sa­til­i­ty

Con­fus­ing instruc­tions for con­nect­ing wires, no con­nec­tion to a smart­phone

Top 10 best video intercoms for a private home in 2022 according to KP

1. CTV CTV-DP1704MD

The video inter­com kit for a pri­vate house includes a van­dal-proof out­door pan­el, an inter­nal col­or TFT LCD mon­i­tor with a res­o­lu­tion of 1024 × 600 pix­els and con­trols and a relay for an electro­mechan­i­cal lock pow­ered by 30 V and a cur­rent of 3 A.

The device is equipped with a motion sen­sor, infrared illu­mi­na­tion and inter­nal mem­o­ry for 189 pho­tos. The first pic­ture is tak­en auto­mat­i­cal­ly when you press the exter­nal call but­ton, the next in man­u­al mode dur­ing a call.

To record videos, you need to install a microSD-card Class10 flash card with a capac­i­ty of up to 32 GB into the inter­com. With­out it, video record­ing is not sup­port­ed. Two out­door units can be con­nect­ed to one indoor unit, for exam­ple, at the door plus at the entrance gate. Oper­at­ing tem­per­a­ture range from ‑30 to +50°C.

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The best video eyes

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2. Eplutus EP-4407

The gad­get kit includes an anti-van­dal out­door pan­el in a met­al case and a com­pact indoor unit. Bright col­or mon­i­tor has a res­o­lu­tion of 720x288 pix­els. Press­ing the but­ton turns on the review of what is hap­pen­ing in front of the door. The device is equipped with infrared illu­mi­na­tion, oper­at­ing at a dis­tance of up to 3 meters.

It is pos­si­ble to con­nect two out­door units with cam­eras and remote­ly open an elec­tro­mag­net­ic or electro­mechan­i­cal lock on the door by press­ing a but­ton on the indoor unit. The oper­at­ing tem­per­a­ture range of the call­ing unit is from ‑40 to +50°C. The device is sup­plied with brack­ets and cable nec­es­sary for mount­ing on a ver­ti­cal sur­face.

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3. Slinex SQ-04M

The com­pact device is equipped with touch but­tons, a motion sen­sor and infrared illu­mi­na­tion for the cam­era. It is pos­si­ble to con­nect two call units and two cam­eras, but only one chan­nel is mon­i­tored for motion. The design has an inter­nal mem­o­ry for 100 pho­tos and sup­ports microSD cards up to 32 GB. The record­ing dura­tion is 12 sec­onds, the com­mu­ni­ca­tion is half-duplex, that is, sep­a­rate recep­tion and response.

The con­trol pan­el has but­tons for view­ing the sit­u­a­tion in front of the cam­era, answer­ing an incom­ing call, open­ing an elec­tro­mag­net­ic lock. Oper­at­ing tem­per­a­ture range from ‑10 to +50°C. The max­i­mum dis­tance between the call unit and the mon­i­tor is 100 m.

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4. City LUX 7″

A mod­ern video inter­com with Wi-Fi con­nec­tion can be con­trolled remote­ly through the TUYA appli­ca­tion with sup­port for IOS, Android sys­tems. The con­trol pan­el and a pic­ture of what is hap­pen­ing in front of the cam­era are dis­played on the screen. The anti-van­dal call block is equipped with a motion sen­sor and infrared light­ing of the area in front of the door with a range of 7 meters. Shoot­ing starts imme­di­ate­ly after press­ing the call but­ton, it is pos­si­ble to set the record­ing to start when the motion sen­sor is trig­gered.

The inter­nal block has the col­or touch dis­play with a diag­o­nal of 7 inch­es. It is pos­si­ble to con­nect two call mod­ules, two video cam­eras, two intru­sion alarm sen­sors, three mon­i­tors. The device is con­nect­ed to the mul­ti-apart­ment inter­com sys­tem through addi­tion­al mod­ules that are not includ­ed in the deliv­ery.

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5. Falcon Eye KIT-Vista

The unit is con­trolled by mechan­i­cal but­tons and allows the con­nec­tion of two call­ing pan­els. Through the inter­face unit, the device can be con­nect­ed to a mul­ti-apart­ment inter­com sys­tem. The device is pow­ered by a 220 V house­hold net­work. But it is pos­si­ble to sup­ply volt­age from a 12 V back­up pow­er sup­ply, for exam­ple, an exter­nal bat­tery.

The call­ing pan­el is anti-van­dal. It is pos­si­ble to con­nect a sec­ond call­ing pan­el. The bright­ness and con­trast of the TFT LCD screen with a res­o­lu­tion of 480×272 pix­els is adjustable. The device does not have pho­to or video record­ing func­tions. Addi­tion­al cam­eras and mon­i­tors can­not be con­nect­ed.

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6.REC KiVOS 7

The indoor unit of this mod­el is not mount­ed on the wall, it can be moved from place to place. And the sig­nal from the call unit is trans­mit­ted wire­less­ly over a dis­tance of up to 120 m. In stand­by mode, the entire set is able to work for 8 hours thanks to built-in bat­ter­ies with a capac­i­ty of up to 4000 mAh.

A sig­nal is also trans­mit­ted through the radio chan­nel to open the lock with elec­tric con­trol. The cam­corder is equipped with infrared illu­mi­na­tion and auto­mat­i­cal­ly starts record­ing when the motion sen­sor is trig­gered or the call but­ton is pressed. Mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion 640x480 pix­els. For record­ing, a microSD card up to 4 GB is used.

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Video inter­coms for an apart­ment

Door peep­holes are no longer a guar­an­tee of home secu­ri­ty

7.HDcom W‑105

The main fea­ture of this mod­el is a large mon­i­tor with a res­o­lu­tion of 1024x600 pix­els. The image is trans­mit­ted to it from the call­ing pan­el in an anti-van­dal hous­ing. The cam­era is equipped with an infrared illu­mi­na­tor and turns on when a motion sen­sor is trig­gered in the field of view. The back­light is invis­i­ble to the eye and is switched on by a light sen­sor.

It is pos­si­ble to con­nect one more call­ing pan­el, two cam­eras and addi­tion­al mon­i­tors. On the inner pan­el there is a but­ton for open­ing the lock with elec­tro­mag­net­ic or electro­mechan­i­cal con­trol. Orig­i­nal option: the abil­i­ty to con­nect an answer­ing machine. Record­ing is car­ried out on a mem­o­ry card up to 32 GB, it is enough for 12 hours of record­ing.

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8. Marilyn & Trinity KIT HD WI-FI

The out­door pan­el in an anti-van­dal hous­ing is equipped with a Full HD video cam­era with a wide-angle lens and infrared illu­mi­na­tion. When the call but­ton is pressed or the motion sen­sor is trig­gered, record­ing starts on the mem­o­ry card in the indoor unit. Its TFT dis­play with a res­o­lu­tion of 1024×600 pix­els is housed in a slim body with a glass pan­el. An addi­tion­al call­ing pan­el, a cam­era and 5 more mon­i­tors can be con­nect­ed to the unit.

The call sig­nal is trans­mit­ted to the smart­phone via Wi-Fi. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion is car­ried out by an appli­ca­tion for iOS and Android sys­tems. The inter­nal mem­o­ry holds up to 120 pho­tos and up to five videos. Expands the stor­age capac­i­ty of a micro SD mem­o­ry card up to 128 GB.

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9 Skynet R80

The video inter­com call block is equipped with an RFID tag read­er, where you can record up to 1000 login pass­words. Image and sound from three video cam­eras are trans­mit­ted wire­less­ly. The cam­eras are includ­ed in the deliv­ery of the inno­v­a­tive unit. The anti-van­dal out­door pan­el has a touch but­ton, touch­ing it auto­mat­i­cal­ly starts a 10-sec­ond record­ing of what is hap­pen­ing in front of the cam­eras.

All of them are equipped with infrared illu­mi­na­tion of 12 LEDs. The pic­ture is dis­played on a col­or touch mon­i­tor with a res­o­lu­tion of 800x480 pix­els. There is a built-in quadra­tor, that is, a soft­ware screen divider that allows you to see the image of all cam­eras at the same time or only one.

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Video is record­ed on a microSD card up to 32 GB, designed for 48 hours of record­ing. The lock opens with the push of a but­ton. Cam­corders are equipped with 2600mAh bat­ter­ies. The same bat­tery is in the indoor unit to ensure oper­a­tion in the event of a pow­er fail­ure of 220 V.

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10. Tantos Mia

This video inter­com comes with an electro­mechan­i­cal lock ready for instal­la­tion. The anti-van­dal call block is equipped with a video cam­era and opens the lock after receiv­ing a sig­nal from the but­ton on the inter­nal mon­i­tor. You can con­nect a sec­ond call­ing pan­el, a video cam­era and a mon­i­tor.

The main fea­ture of the mod­el: the call unit can be addi­tion­al­ly equipped with a radio mod­ule for com­mu­ni­ca­tion with remote cards, with the help of which the lock is acti­vat­ed and access to the room is opened.

This fea­ture is espe­cial­ly con­ve­nient for video inter­com oper­a­tion in ware­hous­es, pro­duc­tion areas. The sev­en-inch mon­i­tor turns on after press­ing the call but­ton.

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How to choose a video intercom for a private house

First you need to choose which type of video inter­com suits you best — ana­log or dig­i­tal.

Ana­log inter­coms are more afford­able. The trans­mis­sion of audio and video sig­nals in them occurs via an ana­log cable. They are more dif­fi­cult to install than IP inter­coms. And besides, they can­not be used in a smart home sys­tem if they are not equipped with a Wi-Fi mod­ule.

You will not be able to open the door and see the image from the inter­com cam­era on your phone, in any case you will have to use the mon­i­tor. In addi­tion, ana­log inter­coms are quite com­plex and expen­sive to main­tain and repair. More often they are used for apart­ment build­ings, not pri­vate hous­es.

Dig­i­tal or IP inter­coms are more mod­ern and more expen­sive. A four-wire cable or a Wi-Fi net­work is used to trans­mit the sig­nal. This type of video inter­com is more suit­able for a pri­vate house — they are eas­i­er and cheap­er to install and main­tain. In addi­tion, they have a num­ber of oth­er advan­tages.

Dig­i­tal inter­coms pro­vide high­er pic­ture qual­i­ty. Many mod­els allow you to open the door and mon­i­tor the image from the cam­era remote­ly — from a smart­phone, tablet or even a TV. An IP inter­com can be con­nect­ed to a smart home sys­tem, but in this case it is bet­ter to use all the com­po­nents of the sys­tem from the same brand — then you can man­age them from one appli­ca­tion and set up a wider range of inter­ac­tions between all devices.

It is also impor­tant to choose which type of lock suits you best.

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• The elec­tro­mag­net­ic lock is opened using a mag­net­ic card, an elec­tro­mag­net­ic key or a numer­ic code. In the event of a pow­er out­age, it will oper­ate from back­up pow­er sources.
• An electro­mechan­i­cal lock is con­sid­ered more reli­able. From the out­side, it opens with a reg­u­lar key and does not depend on the mains. Such a cas­tle is much bet­ter suit­ed for a pri­vate house. Espe­cial­ly if you have pow­er out­ages.