DW Spectrum Mobile

Name: DW Spectrum Mobile
Rating: 3.1 (126 reviews)
Author: Digital Watchdog

Business

Free

126 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Business
Developer

Digital Watchdog
Language

EN
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Size

139.4
MB

PLEASE NOTE THIS APPLICATION WORKS WITH DW SPECTRUM™ IPVMS SERVERS RUNNING v4.0 OR HIGHER. DW Spectrum™ IPVMS Mobile is an elegantly easy cutting-edge approach to HD surveillance, addressing the primary obstacles and limitations of managing enterprise-level HD video while offering the lowest total cost of deployment and ownership of any solution on the market. The software offers advanced search features to find the exact time you need in an instant. The software is cross-platform, and combined with quick installation and instant network mapping and discovery, you can start viewing your entire security system in minutes. The DW Spectrum™ is a perfect solution for any application that requires ease, speed, efficiency, and unprecedented image quality. Models Supported: • Blackjack Mini • Blackjack Bolt • Blackjack Cube • Blackjack P-Rack • Blackjack E-Rack • Blackjack X-Rack • MEGApix IP Cameras Features: 1. View Live and Playback video 2. Connect with DW Cloud account 3. Easy Calendar Search 4. Fast, User-Friendly, and Intuitive GUI for Setup and Operation 5. SoftTrigger 6. Dewarp fisheye camera 7. Instantaneous access to Digital Watchdog’s newest Blackjack NVR Series from anywhere in the world using either Wi-Fi or 4G/LTE connections Digital Watchdog’s Remote Surveillance App supports smart phones and tablets running the following iOS: • iOS 11.4 or higher • iPadOS 13

Ratings & Reviews

3.1

out of 5

126 Ratings

Great system, not so great app
02/13/2021

etrochez
DW Spectrum is a great system. The App is easy to use, but it lacks features. The only events you can watch in the app are motion events. There’s no way to watch bookmarks. No way to bookmark a spot in the timeline. And the stream lag is so long that using a PTZ camera is almost impossible. Even when accessing the system from the local network I experience an unacceptable delay in the stream. For comparison, when using the Hik-Connect app, there’s no lag in the stream and controlling a PTZ camera in Hil-Connect is fast and responsive. The DW Spectrum app and desktop app does send commands to the camera very fast, and I can see the camera responding quickly to the command. The issue is the stream delay.
Great system, not so great app
02/13/2021

etrochez

DW Spectrum is a great system. The App is easy to use, but it lacks features. The only events you can watch in the app are motion events. There’s no way to watch bookmarks. No way to bookmark a spot in the timeline. And the stream lag is so long that using a PTZ camera is almost impossible. Even when accessing the system from the local network I experience an unacceptable delay in the stream. For comparison, when using the Hik-Connect app, there’s no lag in the stream and controlling a PTZ camera in Hil-Connect is fast and responsive. The DW Spectrum app and desktop app does send commands to the camera very fast, and I can see the camera responding quickly to the command. The issue is the stream delay.
Question to the developers
11/24/2021

Marcin Heniborg
Great app. Thank you. I was wondering if it would be possible to add a functionality to snooze an analytics event per camera? Say the customer wanted to use the camera to sense a person in the building and send a notification. In this scenario the schedule would not work because the building is mostly unoccupied and there is no set time of the day when someone could come over. In case there was someone in the building performing work in the FOV of the camera, the customer would get multiple events depending on the parameter set for the notification interval. In case the person was in the building for 10h and the notification interval was 1/hour the customer would get 10 notifications. This can easily become an issue because the customer would start disregarding them as being significant. It would be very beneficial feature to snooze these notifications per camera. Also manual unsnoozing would be great. Please let me know if a feature like this is on the roadmap. Thank you.
Question to the developers
11/24/2021

Marcin Heniborg

Great app. Thank you. I was wondering if it would be possible to add a functionality to snooze an analytics event per camera? Say the customer wanted to use the camera to sense a person in the building and send a notification. In this scenario the schedule would not work because the building is mostly unoccupied and there is no set time of the day when someone could come over. In case there was someone in the building performing work in the FOV of the camera, the customer would get multiple events depending on the parameter set for the notification interval. In case the person was in the building for 10h and the notification interval was 1/hour the customer would get 10 notifications. This can easily become an issue because the customer would start disregarding them as being significant. It would be very beneficial feature to snooze these notifications per camera. Also manual unsnoozing would be great. Please let me know if a feature like this is on the roadmap. Thank you.
The App is broken … again
07/05/2022

xman7404
If you’re a technician or end user the issue was caused by the version 22.3 IOS update.This is getting genuinely ridiculous. Companies like mine are installing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Digital Watchdog equipment because we believe they are they best product the industry offers. Digital Watchdog on the other hand has an IOS software engineering department that forgot to go through a beta phase of development and bug test the app before pushing the update. Occasionally hiccups are understandable but this is 3 updates in a row. PLEASE, development team test the app before pushing updates because, it appears to be blissful indifference or straight up incompetence to not even check to make sure the software update didn’t kick you out every time you open the app. I cannot imagine the storm that the software devs will cause when Spectrum gets its large upgrade later this year.
The App is broken … again
07/05/2022

xman7404

If you’re a technician or end user the issue was caused by the version 22.3 IOS update.This is getting genuinely ridiculous. Companies like mine are installing hundreds of thousands of dollars of Digital Watchdog equipment because we believe they are they best product the industry offers. Digital Watchdog on the other hand has an IOS software engineering department that forgot to go through a beta phase of development and bug test the app before pushing the update. Occasionally hiccups are understandable but this is 3 updates in a row. PLEASE, development team test the app before pushing updates because, it appears to be blissful indifference or straight up incompetence to not even check to make sure the software update didn’t kick you out every time you open the app. I cannot imagine the storm that the software devs will cause when Spectrum gets its large upgrade later this year.
Nice, but with one MASSIVE problem.
05/25/2023

Interface Wiz
It’s shocking, but true, you CAN’T set PTZ camera preset positions with the app either using your iPhone, or the iPad!! I have never seen this limitation on any other system. With these cameras and NVR, you can only set your PTZ presets on your Mac. Stranger still, it will move your PTZ cameras randomly against your wishes. After many hours spent on the iPhone app as well as on the Mac I was able to prevent it from moving the PTZ cameras to random locations. Using your Mac, right click on an image, > PTZ > Manage. Uncheck all “Homes”. I would seriously consider holding off on this system until they add the ability to create PTZ presets on the iOS app. If you could set presets on the app, I would rate this 4 or 5 stars. Also, the company has no user forums like Apple does so Support can be sluggish.
Nice, but with one MASSIVE problem.
05/25/2023

Interface Wiz

It’s shocking, but true, you CAN’T set PTZ camera preset positions with the app either using your iPhone, or the iPad!! I have never seen this limitation on any other system. With these cameras and NVR, you can only set your PTZ presets on your Mac. Stranger still, it will move your PTZ cameras randomly against your wishes. After many hours spent on the iPhone app as well as on the Mac I was able to prevent it from moving the PTZ cameras to random locations. Using your Mac, right click on an image, > PTZ > Manage. Uncheck all “Homes”. I would seriously consider holding off on this system until they add the ability to create PTZ presets on the iOS app. If you could set presets on the app, I would rate this 4 or 5 stars. Also, the company has no user forums like Apple does so Support can be sluggish.