I have decided to break my review up into sections as I would like to cover a few things as I think they are the most important.
I like that the encoders come with everything you need in order to get you started, it comes with an HDMI cable, Ethernet cable, power cord, and an owner’s manual.
Setup is easy, it is almost plug n’ play
There are three connections that you need to make to the back of the encoder which is the power source, Ethernet cable and the HDMI cable.
Wait a few seconds and you can then go to the encoders default IP address which is http://192.16 8.1.120 and the default username is admin and the password is 12345.
The admin interface
• The admin interface is easy to use and navigate through and it is not cluttered.
The live feeds
I already have one so I decided to purchase another one simply because of this feature and that is I am able to broadcast this live either internally or I can set it up to broadcast using Facebook or YouTube.
If you choose to broadcast internally all you have to do is simply go to the encoders IP on an iPad or Apple computer and enter this IP i.e. http://192.168.1.120/hls/0.m3u8, for window’s users open VLC Player and enter the IP in.
I love this as I have IPTV and I have added the encoder’s IP http://192.168.1.120/hls/0.m3u8 to my playlist so I can watch anything like movies, TV shows from YouTube, ect
 
Live feeds to YouTube and Facebook:
For YouTube and Facebook you will receive a stream URL i.e. rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2 followed by a randomly generated key that will consist of letters, numbers and dashes i.e. a12b-c0d4-572e-fgh2-ijkl. (This may vary in length and after the string URL you need to add a forward slash at the end then enter the randomly generated key so the URL and stream key look like this i.e. rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/a12b-c0d4-572e-fgh2-ijkl. The key may also vary in length.
To you live stream, log into your encoder then click on settings, then click on network, then click on RTMP, and change and enter the following:
• Channel: Chose main stream or sub-stream
• Enable: True
• Push mode: Complex
• Push URL: i.e. rtmp://a.rtmp.youtube.com/live2/a12b-c0d4-572e-fgh2-ijkl
• Press save
On Facebook or on YouTube you may have to wait a few seconds for either social media site to successfully communicate with your encoder once they have successfully communicated then you’re ready to go live.
Pros, neutrals and cons:
Pros:
• You don’t have to broadcast do YouTube, Facebook or any other third-party site; you can broadcast internally by using the encoder’s URL.
• You can record directly to the encoder if you have a micro SD card; if you don’t you’ll need to purchase one separately.
• The encoder supports a search function that allows you to search for a recording and you can download it to your computer.
• The recording is .MP4
• If you need to do a factory reset just press the rec button down for a few seconds, and default username and password is also attached to the encoder.
• The admin interface is pretty easy to navigate through
• You can add text on screen, just use letters A through Z, numbers zero through nine and some special characters such as like the dollar sign, at symbol, the hash-tag or pound symbol, ect (Emojis are not supported)
• You can add a custom image, JPEG only
• You can increase the size, font color of the text including the time.
• Typically when you purchase a product receiving support can be a pain in the a** however if there’s ever an issue that occurs, if you send them a message through Facebook messenger, they will respond to you very promptly or the next business day which that is absolutely fantastic.
Neutrals:
• To some people this may be a negative thing and to some people just may be a positive thing so I’m classifying this just as being neutral. If there was an update issued it will not automatically update you’ll need to manually update it yourself and updating is pretty easy. Personally I like having control over if the device is going to do an automatic update so I can decide whether I want to or not or if I have a second one or third one I can do an update to one to see how it works so if the update is a successful it won’t affect my others.
Cons:
• It’s a bit disappointing that it only supports JPEG’s, would be nice if it’s supported other image formats like .png, .gif, .bmp
• When uploading an image, you are restricted to a certain size, would be nice if it was no size restrictions like L x W.
Conclusion
I’m overall very pleased with this encoder especially for the price as I have seen other encoders that pretty much do the same thing but twice as much and even up into the thousands.
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