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

Works okay but needs an update for rotating the screen. Going full screen makes it jump back to the video selection screen. Can't transfer VIP services anymore. It says can't transfer to the original device, but I'm transferring it to a secondary device so I don't know what's going on with that. The original device is long gone.

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.

This is a great app in many ways. There's two major drawbacks. The first is that they charge per camera. A per app charge I could live with much more comfortably. The second is the CPU usage which was 70% while running in the background. That's simply a deal breaker. They need to get the CPU usage under 10% before I'll consider this app again.

What's new

Smart Flash feature updated.