DW Spectrum Mobile User Reviews

DW Spectrum Mobile
DW Spectrum Mobile
Kaltec Electronics, INC

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  • Terrible

    Playback of footage is always lagging and so slow that I can’t even watch footage on this app. It takes about 10 seconds for one second of footage to go by. Most of the time when I open the app, it says that my cameras are unreachable. I have to close the app and reopen. Absolutely worthless unless you are just looking to view live still footage and you’re not in any hurry to see what’s going on at your property.
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  • Nice, but with one MASSIVE problem.

    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.
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  • Help stopped getting push notifications

    Can not see notification previews after app update signed back into cloud still not working????
  • Great app - very easy to use

    This app works really well. It’s awesome to be able to switch between multiple systems with a single login. Searching through videos is easy and responsive as long as the system you are connecting to has a fast internet upload speed. So much better than some of the other systems I have used in the past like Exacq, Milestone, and Hikvision. There is definitely some room for improvement, but overall Spectrum is fantastic.
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  • Good app, but shuts my iPhone 14 Pro down

    We just installed a $52k camera system in our facility, and have been using the DW desktop program for a few weeks without issue.

    The phone app, on the other hand, will literally shut my iPhone 14 Pro Max down if I try to use smart motion search. Completely crashes my phone within 1 second of attempting to use the smart motion search feature.
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  • Ok

    Can you get rid of the connect anyway screen on login? Dismissing it once should be enough.

    Can you add an option to show cameras like a slideshow?
  • The App is broken … again

    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.
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  • New update won’t stay logged in

    I just updated to the newest version and now I have to login to the cloud account almost every time I have to open the app. Where before once I logged in it stay logged in.
  • Now app logs out for you. Worthless in an emergency.

    Now app logs out for you. Worthless in an emergency.

    Had such great promise. Now app is worthless.
  • Sites drop off for no reason

    Is there a limit as to how many servers can be saved? Seems like if I connect to a new site, one of my existing servers disappears. App only likes to save four or five servers at once.

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