Smart Home Surveillance Picket

WardenCam360 - Home Security, Video Monitoring

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About this app

If you happen to have an old smartphone or tablet collecting dust somewhere, now you have a better option. Picket turns your spare smartphones and tablets into home surveillance cameras that you can watch while you’re away. It helps you find out if your package arrived, monitor your baby, if the kids are home from school, or find out what your dog and cat are up to.

Picket will take any Android phone or tablet running Gingerbread version 2.3 or greater and put its Internet connectivity and advanced video and audio sensors to good use. Video surveillance has never been easier. Install Picket on two phones. One is your Camera at your designated location and take the other one with you as a Viewer. Log in with the same Google account, and that’s it! You are now connected to your loved ones via WiFi or 3G/4G from anywhere in the world. With Picket's unique motion detection feature and Google Drive and Dropbox integration, you can enjoy peace of mind without keeping a constant eye on things.

Features
- Works Anywhere WiFi/3G/4G LTE
- Motion Detection & Alert (Instantaneous and Email)
- Cloud Storage (directly to your Google Drive or Dropbox)
- Scheduled Motion Detection (day and time)
- Ultra High Definition Video & Audio

MONITOR LIVE 24/7: Install Picket on your spare device and pocket phone. Sign in with any gmail account as "camera" & "viewer". Place the spare device anywhere of interest at home, in the kitchen, the garage, your office. Monitor live on the pocket phone anywhere with internet.

MOTION DETECTION: Enjoy peace of mind without keeping a constant eye on things. Picket provides automated motion detection schedule. Once a motion is detected, it starts siren alarm to scare the intruder away. Link your Google Drive and Dropbox on both the camera and viewer so that WardenCam can also upload the motion video to your cloud storage. You may even enable 24/7 recording in settings. Simple and secure!

RECEIVE ALERT: Receive an alert immediately when an intruder is detected, the kids arrive home from school, or your elderly relatives are moving about their day. Play back event recordings from the cloud storage.

TWO-WAY AUDIO: Talk while watching the live streaming. Send voice to the camera device. Prevent a negative action before it ever happens

How to test:
Simply sign in with a google account that is already on your phone. Try with your own WiFi network first. If there is still logging issues, please contact our technical [e-mail]

Upgrade:
If you like to use the app for 24/7 surveillance, please upgrade to premium version with one single payment of USD $6.99. See details in "User Guide".

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Ratings and reviews

Picket is better than Alfred: The camera doesn't run down the battery while plugged in, it saves video from about 3s before the motion, & it lets you specify the area of detection, greatly reducing false alarms. (A grid of squares can be turned on/off individually.) Camera can be zoomed. Sends a notification to the viewer in 20s (even when the viewing app isn't running) & in a few mins video is on Google drive. View in app or Web. You can also schedule when to detect motion with different hours 4 different weekdays.. Needs live video on PC rather than just on the viewer. I had some problems using a Galaxy Victory as the camera & a Galaxy S5 as the viewer. The remote zoom slider is on the viewer screen, but doesn't work. The zones 4 detection on the viewer vs. camera are flipped. The viewer to camera sound doesn't work. Took time to figure out that if the camera doesn't have an SD card & you set it to use it, it won't save anything online. Trial ends after 2 days. You can restart for 60m at a time. Trial's limited to 480p for no reason. Buy once, have at least 2 cameras & a viewer.

Given massive amount of functionaly, it would be surprising if everything worked perfectly in a free version. That said, I was able to use it quite effectively. Zoom worked very well and did not degrade the image quality (of cource, it is transmitting only 720x480 part, and I wish it could be increased to standard HD). The motion sensor that allows selecting the area using a fine grain grid and works realy well too.

this app works better in the free version that the paid one. Fix the bug and I will gladly change this review. As of now.. this app is garbage. There are many good things that I could say about the app, but I won't until the app is running as it should. For some reason my account only shows Pro version on the phone that it was purchased with. This means adds on the other devices connected to the same account. The worst is when I can't see recorded clips.. at all. (On the PAID version, mind you.)

What's new

Improve reliability and a few bug fixes