Amcrest View Pro for iPad Hack 3.31.0202 + Redeem Codes

I really want to like this ipad app, but it does has some flaws compared to some other apps offered. #1- when going back into the app on a "cold start" the app simply does not pull up the last view unlike it's little brother app for iphone, i always have to re-select my view, you would think favorite view would just pull up, it does not, #2 please give us a dark view, lose the blue, again this app should be closer to the iphone app, the blue is just too much, #3 full screen view, please allow it to have the tools disappear when not touching the ipad, many of us use our ipads as a monitor, it is just strange the instructions say this is possible but the controls remain, lastly the playback is clunky and live streaming with multiple cams has a nasty delay, I am sure this can be optimized, with a few fixes this could be the best security app for ipads. Having tested over 20 to date, this app can be great.

I’ve had these cameras for over 2 years and my networking/technical knowledge is well above average for a non-professional. You will not be happy with this product if your experience is even half as bad as mine—and most other customers have had a far worse experience than I have. You will never be able to rely on the app to function. The updates are infrequent and only serve to undo the workarounds that every customer was forced to build to get the app working after the last update. Just google “Amcrest login time out”. you’ll see how long this problem has existed (through many app updates across every device platform and operating system for years) and amcrest’s utter failure to fix it. Their recommended fixes are obvious troubleshooting measures that don’t work and most everybody has tried before taking the time to post a review (like force close the app then reopen it, or restart your router). One of my favorites was recommending everybody with the app restore their devices to factory settings then unplugging all the cameras and reinstalling the app before plugging them back in, and it was coupled with a warning that any and all passwords and information stored on the device will be lost. Hilarious right? Not quite as funny as the fact I paid for the cameras. Would have been better to set fire to $100 and then buy a different camera system—I’d have cameras that work and a funny story, and woulda saved a few dollars in the process.

You know this company does not have an IT team when it developed 10 different apps instead of one. Each one is just slightly different and a complete waste of time. Need help and try to call? Have fun spending 10+ minutes waiting for someone with the hold message on a glitching repeat. It’s a 5 second message on constant, glitching repeat. It was the most miserable experience of my life. Trying to get your camera from your iPad to your iPhone? You need a computer and you need to download 3 MORE DIFFERENT SOFTWARES to do it, and it’s still not guaranteed to work. This is the worst security design I could ever work with. Literally, if the person who gave me a set of cameras did not pass away (and thus being one of the last gifts ever received from the,) I would throw it all away bc it’s just not worth it. The system is not secure and so poorly designed. This must be the most weak and hackable security system I have ever seen.
There’s ZERO option on any app or any of the three computer softwares I wanted to download to upgrade so I can feel safe leaving my home and know everything is being recorded. Absolutely worst experience ever.

This app works well with Apple's iPhone, iOS 11+. However, it fails to send alerts to my Apple iPad 2 also using iOS 11+. It stopped working several months ago. When I open a camera on the iPad I can see what it is aimed at; I can change its view, etc. But the app fails to forward alerts. I deleted and reinstalled the app to no avail. I’ve spoken to Amcrest customer service twice. After redoing steps already done I’m told someone will call me back. No one does. Very frustrating. Any help would be appreciated.

Amcrest has a h265 .dav video file converter for windows, it would be helpful if there were an app for iPad Pro that would do the same. I am not able to do anything with the .dav file except to view it within the Amcrest pro app. iOS will not even recognize the file. You cannot even convert it so that it can be shared. Update; I discovered the iPhone app records video in mpg4 which is recognized on an iPad. To record and view video you need to use the iPhone app on the pad…..which makes no sense. You should be able to choose between the two formats or it should just default to mpg4.

This app is so horribly designed I don’t even know where to start. It’s really a shame because Amcrest’s 4K camera hardware is pretty good. But without a proper iOS UX, all of that goes to waste. None of this UI makes any sense. The icons are largely inappropriate for standard functions. Standard iOS controls are not used properly. There are misspellings and bad grammar throughout. If you run this app on multiple devices, you have to reconfigure everything. Important concepts are not explained, like how to get rid of that stupid “IPC” text overlaid on your feeds. And perhaps worst of all: It is impossible to get live views displayed at the proper native 16:9 aspect ratio. Scaling and stretching images without providing that as an option is absolutely insulting. All in all, Amcrest needs to fire this Amateur Hour app development team.

I'm a 38 y.o. female who can't even figure out how to connect my rabbit ears to my tv and I was able to get my camera connected. Once connected it was difficult to figure out what all the settings were intended to do. There were a lot of acronyms that I didn't know what they meant. I fought the urge to just start pushing buttons. I will have to spend some time on the help pages or google to get it completely set up. So that could be improved. But that is likely an Amcrest issue rather than a web developer issue. Now here's hoping I can bust the landlord sneaking into the house.

The cameras themselves seem fairly well built but they are useless without working software to allow you to view them remotely, which it the only point of these cameras. The app will not connect to the cameras, or will lose connection and give you no way to login, and the motion alerts will stop working and there is no way to reset them. The proof that this company invests no money into its software is that the menus are full of typos! .... I have bought other cameras that are easy to set up and come with software that works flawlessly, so shop around and buy something else: check user reviews for both hardware and software before you buy.

I love the playback motion feature that when you play it it skips to the next motion and to the next. So you can go over a whole day relevant moments in minutes.
The app has some bugs though.
And would be much easier and nice to just pick the day for playback as opposed to having to set a day and time for start and a day and time for end with that limitation of 24hrs.

I don't understand why all the negative reviews. I have one camera in my house. I downloaded the app and went to device manager, add a device, then I just copied all the info in my iPhone under the device manager (hit the pencil button) and it loaded my live feed instantly. It's not dumby proof I understand but the negative reviews aren't warranted, the app works great 😃