Foscam US
- Pan/Tilt control supported for all compatible models.
- Two-way audio support on most models.
- Brightness/contrast settings adjustable via the app.
- Take snapshots of your live video feed.
Category : Video Players & Editors
Reviews (23)
I tried the all to see if it was different then the ShenZhen one. It is - its not as useful. Its *prettier*, but its been stripped down or "streamlined" in a way that's made it cleaner at the expense of utility. If for no other reason then the ShenZhen app can scan your network for cameras instead of you having to know the IPs or assign DNS names to them before hand, the other app is better.
I only tried this "US" version because the international one doesn't work with Lollipop. The functionality on this version is very limited, and it seems to connect at about 1 frame per second. Also, the video feed is in a tiny box at the top of your phone. There is no landscape/full-screen mode. The international app wasn't great, but this one is terrible.
Update: It stopped working. I can now only see a screenshot on the listing page and get "Error" when trying to view the stream. This happened without changing anything on the camera, network, or phone. I've now tried updating the firmware of the camera to no avail. -- Wouldn't work at first for some reason. I think restarting the camera may have fixed it - not sure. Now works great and has all the functionality I require. One feature request would be to allow video while landscape and a full screen video option.
The fact that I wished I had just sprung for the DropCam instead aside... this app is pretty crappy. Foscam seems to do most things half-assed. This app is no different. Doesn't work half the time and doesn't do much when it does.
This was a great app until the lollipop upgrade. Now it's worthless. It errors out when I try to watch the streaming video, every single time. I posted to Foscam's technical support board, but others have as well, without any response from Foscam. Very unfortunate.
Insanely user unfriendly setup. Impossible to use PTZ controls because they're right on top of each other. I could only use them with a stylus, and even then they're just not well mapped to the touch screen. Most camera settings are missing. IR on/off doesn't work.
doesn't work. I have another app installed on our ipad that works perfectly fine. this will not load camera, though I can see a curent still of image when I open app.
Whoever developed this app should hang their heads in shame. This is the 2nd device I've tried to connect to my 2 foscams on and the second device it's utterly failed to connect on. Utter pish and a waste of my time. Avoid this app at all costs.
App crashes on launch. Tried on multiple devices, same result. I have to wonder how this got of out QA. Probably because it wasn't QA'd in the first place. Really very disappointed.
Can only thumbnail, error when I try to access camera and control. Same fault my wife's HTC , but works ok on Samsung.
I'm connected but it won't go full screen. It works on my iPad but not on my galaxy s5. Had to get another app to operate it on my phone
My wife can't use it with her nexus 6. My S4 just updated to lollipop and it too has stopped working.
Pretty good app. Everything works but I cant get the presets camera postions move the camera. If they would fix I would give it 5 stars.
This app won't connect, even the pre loaded demo camera fails. With the other official foscam app getting a horrible update my hope was this app by the US team might work. Sadly it doesn't.
Nothing works. Foscam has a lot of work to do on this app. Let us know when it's working correctly.
Camera & app don't work with audio. Even on PC, can barely hear anything with the PC volume cranked as high as possible. Similarly, audio at the camera is barely audible.
App doesn't work with Lollipop. They dont even bother to update this app. And the other app is reporting to Baidu. Piece of cr@p.
IP Cam FI8919W. None of the Foscam application I'm able to view it thru my cell phone. It's supposed to be able to view it anywhere but no.
The only thing that works is pan/tilt. The video plays about 1 frame every 5 seconds. The audio does nothing.
Cannot see the camera bigger. Can see it small but when I double tap it it gives me an error.
The ui looks great. Easy to use. Good job on that. However every time I open the camera it says Error. Thumbnail in list view seems to load cam fine. Would be 5 stars if I could use it. Please fix.
Unable to pan/tilt and I stopped at that point and uninstalled. Use IP Cam Viewer instead.
I've been happily using this app for a long time now, but recently I decided to upgrade the firmware on my cams. Since then this application is not able to connect to my devices. The worst for me is that the firmwares were downloaded on Foscam US website (says a lot about testing,isn't). My conclusion is that this app is working fine with original firmwares and I strongly discourage you to update firmware if you still want to use this app.