 For this tech talk, instead of talking to someone, I'm going to talk about something we've talked about, this network IP camera that I just bought. I have other ones like this, but I thought I'd do a little review and talk about this one a little bit. If you enjoy my videos and would like to see more, please consider becoming a supporter over on patreon.com forward slash metalx1000. So earlier today I was walking through Sam's Club and I saw this camera here. It's a Swan Cloud HD on the box. It says it's model SW-WIFIPTX. It says that it's an HD camera of 720p resolution and I thought, hey, that looks pretty good. It said the regular price was like $180 and it was on sale for $70 or $80. And I have a camera similar to this. The camera I currently have is a Wansu W-A-N-S-V-I-E-W which is just some cheap camera I bought two years ago off of Amazon from China. I use it as a baby cam for my daughter and this looks similar and there's lots of cameras like this out there and even though it was a little more expensive, the one I have now I think I paid $50 for and this one like I said was $70 or $80. But this one was HD and also has a slot for an SD card. So I thought that looked like a good deal. So I bought it and bought it home and read through the directions and in the directions it only has directions for using an app on your phone which is odd because most of these cameras have built-in web servers that you can directly access which is what I planned on doing. And after doing a quick port scan with NMAP on it, I found that it had plenty of ports open although I could not connect any of them. I tried googling the model of this camera again SW-W-I-F-I-P-T-X and got absolutely nothing. I did find searches for the same model number without the X at the end and there was a similar looking camera but it was obviously not the same camera. Doing a little bit more searching I did find a model that looks almost well not just almost it looks identical to this one by SWAN it's called the ADS-445 SWAN-I-HD pan and tilt all in one IP network camera. So I'm assuming that that's the same camera as this just maybe they released it under a different model number for Sam's Club and again it retails for $180 and I was unable to find any help there although reading the reviews for those two cameras I realized that they got pretty bad reviews because a lot of people were having the same problems they could not get in working on their desktops at all only through tablets even though it clearly states and has pictures of laptops in the instructions and on the box. So finally I decided after you know doing some packet sniffing and port checking not getting anywhere contact company and see if they have any suggestions and the only way to connect to the camera through a web browser from a laptop or desktop and I'm assuming that the apps are doing the same is by going through their site you have to register your camera on the site and then connect through their site. Now I would say that I'm not extremely paranoid person and when I hear people you know they put little pieces of tape over the webcams on their camera and stuff because they're afraid someone might be watching them I think that's a little silly and far-fetched I mean it could happen but chances someone watching you I whatever so I'm not I'm not that paranoid but this company the Swan Company obviously is up to something first off never trust a company that requires you to install some sort of software or app for your phone or tablet to do basic tasks that your tablet or phone laptop or desktop should already be able to do there's absolutely no reason that you shouldn't be able to log into this camera and stream some images or video either through a web browser or using a media player you already have installed on your device so the fact that they're requiring you to install an app should send up red flags lots of companies really want you to install apps usually there's other ways around but to have all these ports open on this camera and have them only function through their website means that they went an extra step to make sure that you couldn't access it without going through their website and you couldn't access it without using their app on a tablet or phone I guess maybe you can go through their site site but still obviously they're wanting you to install something that's unnecessary which should set up red flags and now from a paranoid point of view you have to send all your videos and pictures and audio because there is a microphone on this through their website to and through their website which is just a little more of a red flag so no swan is a company I would not trust they're they're up to something I'm definitely going to be returning this camera never actually even saw a picture come from it so I can't comment on the quality of it but it just fails in every aspect I don't trust this company and their product is difficult to set up without jumping through hoops so as far as the swan cloud HD SW Wi Fi PTX or possibly also known as the ADS dash 445 swan I HD camera I give it zero stars if possible I do not trust this camera the fact that I can get a cheap Chinese camera for $30 less that has more functionality than it and that's $30 less at the sale price it sounds but where the regular price is $130 more no I do not recommend buying this product and if someone from swan is out there I recommend talking to your developers because what they're doing makes you look very suspicious maybe you're not up to anything but again they've done the extra step to basically invades you know people's privacy by forcing you to send your video from your house that's constantly going through your website instead allowing you to directly connect to it again that's a nice option if someone wants to use that but again not only is it you know a privacy issue it's a dud issue if their servers go down you're dependent on them and you're using this camera possibly for security what good is security if a server that you're not in control of and is where all the images are going through goes down I mean you have no control over that so as far as security it's not very good and as far as your privacy it's not very good so that's all I have to say about the swan cloud HD camera that I got at Sam's Club and so that's my little review of it don't recommend it I'm telling you right now there are cheaper cameras out there that give you more functionality and in my opinion better security and privacy so thank you for watching and I hope you found this useful and if you were thinking about buying this product I would not for any other product made by swan