Hi everyone. Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here. In this video, I'm going to
demonstrate the remote security camera viewing using the iPhone app that comes
with our new Viewtron surveillance systems. I'm using my home security
camera system which consists right now of four cameras - three HD over coax cable
cameras (ones with BNC connectors) and one network IP camera that I've installed on
my front door. Those four cameras are connected to a Viewtron hybrid
surveillance DVR and the iPhone app works great. Let's take a look, First, the
iPhone app is upright and running in portrait mode. After, I will show you the
camera view in landscape mode. This is the live four camera view. I'm going to
double tap on camera one to switch to the single camera view. Next, I'm going
to tap each of the camera channels to switch to the view of that particular
camera. I'm currently using four security cameras to monitor the exterior of my
home. One at my front door, two for the driveway, and one for the backyard. By
tapping on the film reel icon on the bottom of the screen, I switch the app
from the live video view to recorded video playback mode. I can use the
timeline scrubber and day selector on the bottom of the screen to switch to the
day and time that I want to playback video from. Please note that the video
resolution is lower when the app runs in portrait mode. You will see the higher
definition video when I switch to landscape mode in a minute.
During recorded video playback, I can switch the playback view to the other
security cameras on the system by swiping the playback screen left or
right. I am now swiping the playback screen to
the right to advance the view to the next camera.
Next, let's take a look at the live security camera view with the iPhone app
in landscape display mode. I'm going to go through the same process of switching
from the multiple camera view to the single camera view. Then changing the
display to each of the four security cameras at my house.
Right now I am swiping the iPhone screen from right to left to advance the
display to the next camera
The bottom navigation icons can be revealed and hidden by tapping on the screen.
Last, I'll perform the recorded video playback in the app. To be clear the
iPhone app is connected to my Viewtron DVR and playing back the recorded video
surveillance footage from the DVRs hard drive.
You can clearly notice here the higher definition video when the app is
displayed in landscape mode.
I'm going to play with the timeline scrubber a bit here being that we
finally have some people in view of the camera.
And again to switch between the camera views during playback you can swipe left
or right on the screen.
Here's a summary and some additional information about the iPhone app for Viewtron.
First off: in addition to be able to connect to DVRs (like you saw in
the video) and NVRs, it can also connect directly to Viewtron IP cameras. So, some
customers don't want to use a DVR or NVR. They just want a standalone IP camera
or a few IP cameras for Live View. The app can connect directly to Viewtron IP
cameras. As you saw, it supports a really nice live security camera view as well
as the ability to play back recorded video from the DVRs hard drive, or if I
would have had a SD card in that IP camera at my front door, it could query
the SD card directly on an IP camera for a video playback as well. It works in
portrait and landscape mode as you saw. And it can display either a single
camera view or multiple security camera view in both a live view and recorded
video playback modes. There are a few things that I didn't demonstrate in the video but I
wanted to mention. It supports multiple devices or locations. So, if
you're a business owner and you have a system at your business or maybe you
have multiple locations - you have a system at each of your businesses and
maybe you have a system at your house, you can bring all those systems into the
app and switch between between the different locations. So it supports
multiple locations. It supports remote audio. So, some of the IP
cameras that we sell have built-in audio mics and we also have add-on Audio mics
for our BNC cameras. It supports remote audio as well as two-way audio. Some
of our IP cameras you can connect external speakers to so if you want to
have two-way audio communication with a camera, that's supported as well.
And then last, it supports push notifications for alarms. So let's say you
want to set up motion recording on a certain camera and get a push
notification in the app when there's motion detected. Or if you hook up an
external alarm sensor to a DVR or to an IP camera - like a magnetic
door sensor or a passive infrared motion sensor. That can be used to trigger an
alarm on the DVR or IP camera and in turn send a push notification to the app.
If you want to learn more about the Viewtron iPhone app you can visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/viewtron-iphone
Thank you for watching!