Athome Camera: Remote Monitor

ichano

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About this app

- Install the "Athome Video Streamer(AVS)" application on your old phones or computers and put them at your home. Then you can use the "Athome Camera" app to watch and talk with your family anytime, anywhere. You can remotely control the AVS device to turn on the flash, switch the camera, focus, zoom, etc. You can set the AVS device to do human detection, vibration detection, privacy masking, scheduled recording, alarm sounding, upload the alarm videos to the cloud and send alarm GIF notifications to you. You will also experience time-lapse recording, timeline, group viewing and many more features. For more information, please visit: http://www.ichano.com

- Install the “Athome Escort” app on a old phone and put it in your car. Then you can use the “Athome Camera” app to locate, track and watch your car anytime and anywhere. For more information, please visit: https://www.athomewatch.com

Ratings and reviews

I have used both this app and Alfred. I can't seem to get notifications working on this app. I don't know if it's a paid feature or if there is a configuration issue. Anyway, I do appreciate that I can review recorded videos for free. However, it is annoying that videos are recorded in 30 second increments. Videos should start when motion is detected and end when motion stops. It is a chore to click on video after video. Especially when changes in ambient light are enough to trigger a record.

Update: Sometimes works, sometimes not! It worked with sending a motion detection email. Got a new phone and it doesn't send any emails for motion at all! Setup is very simple and the live and recorded video are very good and clear. I love how you can pinch and zoom live video. The motion sensitivity isn't very good. It sends notifications for any type of movement. I wish you could block part of the screen so it doesn't send an email for tree movement.

There's still plenty of room for improvement but still this is a really solid app. Super reliable, only a one time $2 for add free, good quality without paying (even better if you do pay but is subscription based), easy to use, motion activation could have less false alarms (daylight changes & auto focus). Enabling the ability to lock the focus on camera till motion activation occurs might fix that one issue. Overall highly recommended over the others I tried.

What’s new

Introducing the Sound Detection Alert feature.