iSpy Motion Detector Recorder 4+

Ridculously large files and no sensitivity controls on motion detection

I bought this on a lark to check out my sleeping patterns, but a 17 second recording test resulted in a 158MB file at the medium video setting (320x240 H.264) and the low audio setting (32 kbps AAC). That is absolutely ridculous!

Also there is no sensitivity control on the motion detection. There is something called a "video delay", but adjusting that seemed to have no affect on how sensitive the motion detection was.

Based on what I saw now, this app is not ready for prime time and needs a bunch of work.

Nice app, motion detector, but files are ENORMOUS

The app interface is very nice, easy to setup the triggers, works well as advertised.

However, the files are way TOO BIG. An 18 seconds clip consumed 167 MB on disk with iSpyRecorder, whereas the same clip in Quicktime (File -> New Movie Recording) took only 3.6 MB, at higher quality. The app is useful only for very very short clips. For what I need (monitor and record my dog's activity), I finally used QuickTime, which gives 46x smaller files with better quality videos.

To me, the app really needs to compress and improve the quality of the video files to be useful.

Developer Response ,

These issues have been addressed in the latest version.

bad

Unlike the PC version there is no option to manually change the save location. This basically negates the whole purpose of even using ispy because all the files are saved to the attached hardware and if a theft occurs will most likely be stolen along with it. Would not recommend until they patch this function into the mac version.