Look, LukWerks works!
So a few months ago Gale Johnson, editor in chief of Locksmith Ledger, invited me into our conference room to see a demo of WiLife Inc.’s LukWerks (pronounced “look works”) Digital Video Surveillance System. Evan Tree, president of WiLife, and Mark Fredrickson, director of corporate communications, set up the system for us rather easily. In less than 15 minutes, they had four cameras in various places around our office sending live footage to their laptop on the conference room table. They then proceeded to show us how the software could manipulate the video (for viewing, recording, and editing). Everything seemed to go smoothly, except for when Tree’s cell phone had zero bars of coverage and he couldn’t show us how remote viewing worked. However, that wasn’t LukWerks’ fault and eventually we were able to see some pretty good LukWerks video on his cell.
I’ve since spoken with some security dealers about this product. You can read the article here on SIW.
-Greg
Found out the hard way that Lukwerks will not run in Windows Vista. Nothing on their website about the fact that they won’t have a compatible software release until “late spring of 2007.” So I’m posting this where I can in the hope that unlike me, anyone considering a whole new system to use with Lukwerks cameras won’t waste their time and money.
Yes the Vista thing is a huge disappointment. I also had a problem losing connection when trying to record 640 X 480 at any frame rate. If it only works even 3/4 of the time thats just not good enough (for me)