HomeCam for HomeKit 4+

Works well

I purchased this for the Apple TV support, and this works very well. Although the layout on the TV seems a bit restricted. I have 3 circle2 cams that when viewed on the TV they all line up in a horizontal row that means small previews and wasted screen space. To have the layout auto adjust to use more screen space and bigger previews depending on the amount of cams would make this app near perfect. Even the ability to manually change the layout would be good.

On the phone the app works well. Sometimes not all cams display a ‘live’ view, but that’s probably down to my network and not the app, but at times the preview says it’s not live (2h ago) when the actual feed is in fact live which can a bit confusing.

The watch app works as expected, maybe a little slow to connect but that’s probably the cams fault, not the app.

All in all a good app and worth the money.

Developer Response ,

Hi,

Thanks for the kind review.

I’d love for you to reach out to me via support and describe the layout solution that would help you if you are willing?

- Aaron

Better than HomeKit for Cameras

Honestly an amazing app. I would like to see some watch complications, but I can’t be picky otherwise so it’s still a solid 5 stars from me.

It loads faster than HomeKit even though it loads multiple streams, brings them all live at once, lets them mute/unmute accordingly.

It also shows way more detail including the temperature and humidity of the rooms the cameras are in (where applicable) meaning I don’t have to back out of the camera and up to the top like I do in the official Home app to see if the temperature is ok in my sons room.

In terms of improvement, I would love to see the temperatures on the main multi feed when opening the app without having to go into an individual feed, maybe in the lower left corner (or configurable would be even better).

Watch complications as mentioned before for quick access and also modern widgets (I’m aware they won’t be as useful as the old one in terms of being able to show live streams) that simply allow quick access to individual cameras would also be fantastic to multiple camera users like myself!

great app

very simple, does the job well. Only request would be support for earlier versions of iOS, i.e 9, as using old iPads as cctv monitor. Homekit and my native cctv camera video app support iOS9 so don’t know if any technical reason why this app requires 11. I suspect many would find this app perfect to dust off unused of iPads if some effort put into backwards compatibility.

Developer Response ,

Sadly we can't support iOS9 as Apple only added cameras for HomeKit in iOS10. And as most devices that can run iOS10 run iOS11 we decided to embrace the newest version from Apple as a way to future proof.