But works well enough

I put the microphone outside on a small antenna tower at my house. I plugged it into my computer and streamed it so I can listen to outdoor sounds from within my house. It's almost surreal to put headphones on and listen to the frogs and insects sing at night, in the comfort of your air-conditioned and non-mosquito-harboring house! I've had it on 24 hours a day for weeks and it works great, rain or shine. It comes with a power injector of sorts that you should definitely keep out of the rain, but the microphone end is fine exposed to the weather. The wire is quite long, so you can remotely mount it somewhere and keep the electrical connections inside your house. The sound quality is excellent, but in a rain storm you can definitely hear the rain hitting the microphone directly. My solution was to put it in a sock, which muffles the direct drop impact somewhat. Ultimately I probably should put it in some sort of loose fiber mesh. For the price it's a decent product that holds up well.

C'est bien. Merci beaucoup.

Edit: So I had started the return process, when I was contacted by seller for troubleshooting. Turns out, issue was testing the INSIDE. So fully extended the cord to where I was placing the mic, outside near front entrance - and the sound came thru great - mic is sensitive. I had my friend slowly walk around my yard speaking in a calm medium volume voice and the mic picked up well, testing into night around 2100h, when its very quiet out. So I've edited my original review below, to 4*.To make this a 5* product, mounting screws and a windscreen for the mic should be included.RegardsOriginal: So I plunged on 2 of these for an existing SVAT security system (11149). Both arrived today (very quickly). Removed first one from packaging and plugged into my system to test it out.Getting HORRIBLE feedback! That awful high-pitched squeak noise similar to holding mic near speakers. Tried moving to other areas of the house to see if it would reduce the feedback and no luck. So I opened the 2nd mic I bought and plugged that one in and no feedback. Wasnt the "clearest" sound (produced some echoing [test- test test]) but was much better that the other one they sent me. Not sure if I got a lemon or what. Price point was pretty good for these but may explore other options.Bit of a let down.

Product was fantastic until a couple of days ago. Suddenly stopped working and unable to resolve the issue. Messeges seller, no response. Had to bin the item and look for a better one

Tonton contacted me after I had returned my original order that was defective. I had simply returned my item and moved on, they sought me out. They wanted to make sure they tried everything to make me satisfied, and sent me a new mic.After arrival, I spent the time unhooking the mic I was using, and plugging in the new one that Tonton sent me. It is not high quality, but considering the price, it is mid range. I still prefer my other mic over the Tonton mic, but the Tonton mic will work fine as a backup, or perhaps in another system in another location. It is worth holding onto, and I will definitely be using it. A person can be heard on the road, while the mic is installed under my soffit.It is important to remember that this is not a high priced, top of the line mic. Nor is it low quality or poor. It is mid range in quality, but lower in price.All in all, I would recommend this to someone who needs a mic, but is on a budget.

Me gustó que no genera ruido (llámese hum) y que es para exteriores.

I use my IP cameras with a Network Video Recorder to watch my backyard wildlife. One camera, a Sunba 405 did not have a microphone so I purchased the Tonto to be able to hear as well as watch. I installed and tested the Tonto microphone onto the Sunba 405 PTZ camera and along the way also tried 2 other microphones because I was unhappy with the quality of the audio and I thought the microphone was to blame so I tried different mics. We use the microphones is to listen to backyard sounds from the birds and other wildlife through several backyard cameras all managed through a Network Video Recorder and displayed on a TV. We can select any camera and hear the audio through the TV. We were unhappy with the quality of the audio provided by the microphone but soon found the microphone was not the problem. After much testing, we discovered the IP camera was the issue, greatly limiting the audio bandwidth of the external microphones. all 3 of the microphones were decent performers with the Tonto perhaps being the lowest performer but still good (the 3 were MicroSeven, USA Sales, and Tonton). Read on for our test results.The Good:-- EASY INSTALL: The Sunba 405 camera came audio-ready with an audio RCA connector and a power connector on a dongle to attach to the microphone. The microphone was just "plug and play" plugged right into the camera. Also, the body of the microphone has a mounting hole to attach to a surface.-- NICE KIT & GOOD VALUE: The kit with the long cables and adapters are a very good value and allows one to locate the microphone where it can provide the best audio results.-- SOUND SENSITIVE: The mic picked up quiet high-frequency sounds. For example, I have ultrasonic mole repellers stakes in the ground that give off a high-frequency chirp every 60 seconds. The chirp is very quiet to the naked ear and the mic pics those up easily.-- EASY TO HEAR NATURES SOUNDS: I could hear doves, birds chirping, hummingbirds squawking at other hummingbirds and owls at night-- MISTAKENLY BLAMED THE MIC FOR POOR FIDELITY: I measured the audio bandwidth of the Sunba camera-external mic system and after much testing using special audio analysis software and a special test microphone came to the conclusion that the IP camera was causing the poor audio fidelity, NOT THE MICROPHONE! The camera cut off audio bandwidth at about 4KHz while the microphone bandwidth extends well past 12 Mhz. See the attached plot showing the narrow camera bandwidth and the much larger microphone bandwidth. The IP camera digitizes the analog audio from the microphone and this particular Sunba 405 camera uses a low sampling rate resulting in very poor fidelity when it's recreated and you listen to the audio. The bandwidth through the camera provides an audio quality more like an old dial-up analog princess phone. The microphone performance by itself, while by no means Hi-Fidelity is very functional and provides plenty of reasonable bandwidth to 9KHz and beyond to get good quality audio....... IP Cameras don't really discuss their audio quality as they do low sampling resulting in poor audio as I discovered with the Sunba IP camera.-- THE 3rd BEST OF THREE MICS: I tried 3 different mics during my adventure to improve the IP camera's audio and all were also reasonable performers but the Tonto had the lesser performance but still plenty good to provide good audio should you have a camera that can pass on quality audio and the long cable kit makes it a good value.Conclusion: The Tonto microphone performs well on its own with bandwidth out to 20 Khz and very reasonable levels out to 9 KHz. If you feel your audio is not up to par, look at the camera first as the likely limitation.

I bought this Microphone to place at the very far end of my yard, before I could only see if anyone was coming into my yard but now I can hear them coming and hear what they are saying!!! A few times I caught 2 of the same people on my cameras, had no idea what or why but now with this mic. I heard them actually scoping out my place and when they`d be back. I am a police officer so I was able to get prepared for when they came back and arrested them.

Little disappointed with this product. Lots of static and doesn't pick up voices very well. Too bad there wasn't a better product.

I thought this worked well! I put it out front on my porch to hear people coming up because I’m at the far end of my house now I hear whenever someone comes up and the quality it’s great! Can hear it clearly I’m happy with this purchase

Good

I cannot believe how well these microphones work these microphones really pick up everything I live above a barber shop the customers like to come outside and have a smoke wow they're standing on the sidewalk believe it or not I can hear their conversation I also have another microphone at the back of the building once again I'm picking up people's voices from their cars or even when they're just passing through I can hear them walking through especially like on a rainy day I can also hear dog's paws walking on the ground that click click noise now you do pick up a lot of wind noise but that is very easy to solve what you do is you hook an equalizer up and then you can fit out some of the wind noise and bring up the voices the conversation and then you can actually hear the conversation , these microphones can pick up long distance so I would spread these microphones out from each other because you do not want to overlap like I said these microphones work very well and it's a good idea to spread them out give them good distance between each other and you would notice they work amazing and a little tip about the equalizer. I also have another microphone inside my living room check this out there is a button on your app that you can push and when you push you can talk into it and the person who's inside the place can hear you speaking to them and also they can talk back to you like if you were talking on a telephone , very amazing microphones the whole system is very amazing the cameras the microphones well worth the money.