Amcrest View Pro 2 4+

the app is good, and it has function smart motion like motion human or vehicle, but it doesn’t work. The all functions turned on and motion detection I can see with the monitor to connect to nvr. So I can give only 3 unfortunately.

Reducing to one star. App constantly crashes.

Original Review: View Pro 2 is marginally better than the original app. That was a pretty low bar to beat but worth mentioning. It still requires too many taps to accomplish simple tasks. For example, live view and playback are separate areas of the app. Watching live view? Back out, go to playback, select the camera, select the date, start playback. Other apps (Unifi for example) put the timeline right under the camera live view on the same screen. Those let you view live or scroll around the timeline in one place. It should be that simple. Also, the iPad app doesn’t fill the screen. It’s basically the iPhone app enlarged, but not actually formatted to correctly fit the screen ratio. Annoying, but not a deal breaker. Turning your device sideways to view a larger image resizes weird too. That said, it is better than the original View Pro. That was a one star hot mess. View Pro 2 at least functions. Amcrest cameras work great and are reasonably priced. Amcrest NVRs have been reliable for me. Their mobile app development however is still ten years behind where it should be.

This new app cannot do what the old one could which I don’t get it, isn’t the point of a new app to be better in the previous one? Not only that, but if you were using the old one for all your cameras, you actually won’t be able to use this version as it does not recognize all the cameras you might have in your system, even though it’s the same brand (amcrest). It won't accept P2P amcrest camera with serial starting with Z. It says serial not recognized.