The new D-Link Omna is available at the price of 200 dollars. This is a fine security camera, and delivers prompt motion alerts and stores activity locally on a microSD card.
Moreover, the new D-Link Omna is also considered to be the first camera that has the ability to work with Apple’s smart home platform, known as HomeKit.
Of course, this integration is a good thing for the iOS 10 software, but Apple’s smart home platform still has far fewer integrations than other competitors on the market, for example Amazon Alexa.
With the new D-Link Omna, customers will be able to set up automations within Apple’s Home app that link the motion inside the security camera. Unfortunately, customers will not benefit from a large number of features here.
So, the downside is that the new D-Link Omna has several limitations. It is not something revolutionary for users to have the ability to see Omna camera’s live feed from Apple’s Home app.
Several security camera apps on the market offer this kind of possibility. Of course, not from Apple’s HomeKit app, but from their own apps.
We must say that the new D-Link Omna is considered to be more like a niche camera, one that only shines for HomeKit adapters who don’t mind waiting for better integrations.
Let’s try to find out more about the new D-Link Omna. This security camera comes with a light silver-gray finish and a tall cylindrical design. Customers will have access to a microSD card slot situated on the bottom.
To be added that the new D-Link Omna supports up to a 128GB microSD card, which is not included into the box. This means that people will have to buy their own microSD. However, it is a good thing to know that this camera can go up to such big external memory.
Overall, the new D-Link Omna is a fine looking camera, but the company’s hardware choices don’t make it very attractive.
The new D-Link Omna also has some serious competitors on the market. We are talking about the Nest Cam Indoor.
This camera has an extremely thoughtful layout. The Nest Cam comes with a durable and flexible magnetic base that rotates with ease. Moreover, people will be able to separate the camera from its base for a more permanent wall-mount installation.
So, this means that Nest’s design is very useful and offers more usability compared with the new D-Link Omna.
To be added that compared with the Nest Cam Outdoor, D-Link’s new camera design is much less modular. This means that it doesn’t come with a flexible base, and people don’t have the option of mounting the camera to a wall.
This is a huge minus, especially because there are several security cams on the market that offer this kind of design possibility.
However, people will be able to put the new D-Link Omna on a flat surface, which is better than nothing.
In the end, we must say that aside from the camera’s 1080p high-definition video streaming resolution, this new camera also offers a 180-degree field of view. This feature is probably the new D-Link Omna’s best-selling point.