Amcrest View Pro 2 4+

The view of the app is very modern. The app itself is pretty easy to use. But if you have an iPhone, the motion events will not show up on your apps event list unless you physically click on each push notification your phone receives. This is an extreme flaw in my opinion, because if I have 10 events & want to see them all, I can’t just look through my events list in the app. I have to click on each notification my phone received, and view them individually. Please fix this!

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.

Most of it works good. I have 2 PTZ cameras and this app or any of their apps do not allow you to make a PTZ set point. Instead you have to access the camera with a computer and then figure out how to do it. Please add this feature.