Meural Canvas 2 (ii) Review - with Installation and Setup
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In today’s video, I’ll be unboxing, setting up and reviewing the Meural Canvas 2 by Netgear. The Meural Canvas 2 is a dedicated digital display frame to display art, artistic photography and even just regular photos. The Meural Canvas ii is currently available in two sizes: 16 x 24 (with a screen size of 21.5 inches diagonally) and 19 x 29 (with a screen size of 27 inches). It also comes in four different frame finishes: black, white, dark wood and light wood. I’m going to be looking at the 21.5 inch version with a Black frame. Now it’s important to remember when picking the right size of Canvas ii, that the sizes Netgear specifies for the device are the overall size of the frame. For example, my Meural Canvas ii measures 16 inch by 24 overall and the screen size is 21.5 inches. The Meural Canvas ii is also less than 2inches deep when mounted to a wall- not obtrusively bulky or thick. Let’s first get the device out of the box and set it up. Once you open the box up you’ll first find a card that reminds you that you need to get the Meural app for your device. We’ll get to that soon. Next, you’ll see the Meural Canvas ii which is wrapped and sandwiched between two foam end caps. You want to get it out of the box and unwrap it. We will get back to it in a moment. Once you remove all the other cardboard supports, you’ll see a small box which contains quite a few important items, like some useless legal documentation, the power cable, the wall anchors, the mounting plate with with a built-in level and a pad that you can use to lean the device against.Now lets start prepping the Meural Canvas 2 for setup.You want to first place the unit, face down, on a table or sturdy surface. It’s advisable to place the thin rectangular piece of packing foam on the table before placing the unit face down on the table. This protects the frame from getting scratched up. Next, you’re going to need to get hold of a small flat screwdriver, a butter knife will also work, in case you don’t have a screwdriver. Press and hold the tab on the compartment on the back of the unit and gently pry it upwards with your screwdriver or butter knife. Remove the compartment and set it aside. Removing the cover reveals a power jack and an ethernet jack, in case you don’t want to use wifi to connect to the device. Now plug the power connector into the power jack and route the cable through the slot in the middle. Now route the power adapter through the hole in the center of the compartment cover. Put the compartment cover back in and press down till it snaps into place. You now want to lean the Canvas 2 against a wall, plug the power adapter into a wall outlet and then power the device up to test it, before we wall mount it. To power the device up, there is power button on the bottom left hand edge of the frame. As you look for that power button, you’ll notice that there’s an SD card slot and micro usb port in a compartment, right next to the power button. More about the SD card slot in a second. Once the Meural Canvas 2 powers up, and goes through it’s boot sequence, it’ll display this message that asks you to download the Meural app. That’s all the testing we need to do for now.