GetMyPOV F 4+

Control another smartphone by driving it to perform video capturing and transmission

GetMyPOV F is an app for iPhone.
It allows a smartphone to transmit the output of its cameras to another smartphone running the app, letting it to control the way the transmission takes place.
The video streaming can occur in both the directions, even at the same time.
The app can operate either inside the local Wi-Fi network or through the Internet (in this case a public-IP router is needed).

The receiving device in addition to following the scene can save specific frames or record the entire video streaming.


The receiver can "control" the remote side about which camera (front/back) to use, whether to use the flash light, which capture-format among those provided by the cameras hardware, the fine tuning of the portion of the video capturing surface used for processing and forwarding (Zoom control), the suspension of the whole camera activity. The app can either run relying on automatic discovering of partners within the local network or addressing them by well known network address and port.
By using automatic discovering of the partner and inside the local network, also the rate of use of frames to process and the activation/deactivation of the motion detection are controllable features.
In the above circumstances also the 'new' activation of the "recording on place" is another controllable feature. Recording occurs indeed locally on the transmitter and moreover the access to the transmitter file system (remote desktop) is possible allowing to directly view the recordings or to download the files, or even to delete them.

And what is expected to be highly attractive is the access to the remote desktop joined to the viewing of the alive scene, making possible to view, at the same time, what the remote device is seeing and what it has previously recorded !

The app can browse the local network to compose a list of the video streaming providers and can use this list to switch to each of the items, performing on it all the mentioned interactions.

The app stores all the video files resulted from recording in the form of frames collections, where each frame is identified by a native progressive number, and keeps them in its private area. Every file is named with the respective date-time of start of writing.

Info about input and output are then always available. The receiving side is informed with a complete status description of the remote side including the battery charge status and the storage space availability.

Recording of the incoming streaming can be tuned by picking up only a percentage of the received frames so that to slow down the rate of grow of the storage space occupation and can be set to segment files basing on a maximum size specified by the user.

Energy saving can be obtained by reduce the rate of frames coming from the camera that are processed for forwarding. Local recording depends on this rate setting.

Every frames collection can be viewed at a later time, by means of an internal viewer that is very reach in terms of navigation options and capabilities for inspecting details.

Every frames collection can be used to build a final mp4 file, becoming this way sharable with the external world.

The main panel of the app is transparent (it lets the user see the scene) and designed with a very essential graphic user interface: it is divided in context sections that allow agile viewing of the got video streaming (the superimposed commands panel can be removed, leaving the scene to be fully watched).

Both remote side of the app and the local one work together to keep (by default) the observed scene always oriented as the human horizon, in order to make the understanding of "what happens" an easy matter, in every situation.

The app has a set of hard coded configurations (modes) that helps adapting the app to the different cases of use and is multilingual.