Praetorian Guard 4+

For serious security I would not recommend this app. It is impossible to shut the gates quickly if they are held open on a schedule. The video playback is clumsy, there is no transport to view clips properly and no obvious way of uploading the clips should they be needed by the police etc.. Overall very amateurish.

All the apps by this company (Wi-Fi predator etc) are aweful. Not only do they not function they are graphically horrible and unintuitive. Today after 5 years I finally tore my AES intercom off my gate and replaced with Hikvision Intercom. It is by far way superior in every way. Better technology, support, usability, functionality. I have 3 neighbours with signs on their AES intercoms saying “don’t ring doorbell - out of use” Spoke to AES way to many times over the years and never got anything productive back. iPhone apps not developed in over 4 years.

All these apps look like they were written as a school project. Please take some design elements for an iPhone app. A page full of graphics with no exploration what each is is poor.

You can’t even access the cameras of an AES product apart from through there app. So you can’t add it to your home automation. You can also not trigger gate openings using API etc.

Here is an honest statement I’m not writing as an exaggeration “In the 5 years of owning an AES intercom, despite having perfect internet connection, I have not had one communication with a visitor that I would say was successful” The majority is the visitor leaving before I got the notification and got the app to connect.

Then if I did catch them the communication was poor both in quality and speed.

I got to the point I would leave my gate in pedestrian mode each day so visitors could just walk in.

This app has not been functioning for several months now on my and my spouses devices. The problem is that no notification pushes through to phones as it did when initially installed. It sounds minor, but it has meant that many visitors to our home has turned away, believing nobody is in. I have to say the the picture quality and microphone isn’t great either. I have a Ring camera fixed 4-5 metres away, focused on the gate and it is streets better.
Trying to find a solution is frustrating and inconclusive as the problem persists and there has been no aftermarket care.
DON’T BUY THIS PRODUCT!