Vcam by QNAP 4+

This app regularly shuts-down/crashes (on an iPad Mini 2 with iOS 9.1), so that kind of defeats the whole point of using it as a reliable surveillance camera (the purpose of this app), even temporarily or for special situations.

Add to that the fact that, on an iPad a great 5MP camera, this app only sends a 640x480 image (that’s 0.3MP), so very low resolution. There is also no motion detection of any kind in the app or the QNAP Surveillance Station, so aside from low-res live viewing, you can only manually record. And as for live viewing, on an Intel dual-core NAS/NVR, with a wired 1GB network from the NAS/NVR to my iMac (and fast full strength WiFi from the iPad), all with lots of power/resources/bandwidth to spare, there is a delay/lag of about 3.5 secs before you see it on the screen (QVR Client). And as this review is about this app, I’ll leave out the excessive bugs/problems with the QNAP Surveillance Station software, even though it is a necessary part of this whole system.

This app is very vague in what it does. The English is broken and filled with spelling mistakes. Why would qnap publish an app this bad is beyond me.