User name and password authentication ……………………………….……12Ĭhapter 4. This was definitely at odds with company’s commitment to security and privacy, so I won’t be buying more security cameras from them.
#Dericam setup email install#
Finally, the last time I checked for a firmware update for the camera, the company’s website (a Chinese company) tried to install malware on my desktop computer. You have to open each recording to see if it’s the one you want. Also, there is no way to preview the video recordings (a preview timeline) to select the time period of interest. For all intents and purposes, placing the app in the background is like closing it. When brnging the app back to foreground, it has to reconnect to the camera. The main problem with the app is that it does not maintain a connection to the camera when the app is running in the background.
It does a good job of controlling camera functions.
To reconnect, it has to be shut off and re-powered. The camera works well except that it sometimes loses the WiFi connection, which might be due to the strength of the WiFi signal at the camera’s location. I’ve had a Dericam video camera and the Dericam app for 3 to 4 years. I will continue to use this app because of that reliability but if a newer app with the newer features I mentioned before comes along and proves to be as reliable as this dericam app I will certainly use it. I will say that even with these “problems” the app is very reliable and has almost always worked when I needed it to whereas other newer apps with more bells and whistles have sometimes been unreliable. Oddly, this is not the case with still pictures, you can share them normally.
#Dericam setup email download#
So you are technically able to download and view a clip on your phone but you are not able to share it in any way, it is stuck on your phone only. The dericam app does not allow this because although it does allow you to download a clip, it hides it somewhere in some obscure folder you can never find and only plays back through the dericam app itself. Also other apps allow you to download clips to your phone’s photo album so you can text or email the clip to someone else. I have now added some newer cameras alongside by dericam cameras and with these new cameras and the apps that came with them I had no idea all the nice features I was missing! It seems most new cameras and apps include a “timeline” that can be easily scrolled through to a certain time or motion event recorded on the sd card whereas the dericam app records to the sd card in blocks of time that you must pick to watch one at a time. I have used this app for years with my Dericam cameras.