Lacking necessary features
For live video, it's fine. For playback, not so much. There's no time stamp or scrubbing option on video, which means if you want to check video from 6pm to 8pm, it will take you two hours to go thru it. Even if you caught something you were looking for, you have no idea what time it actually occurred.
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Dreadful UI, crashes frequently
This app does the basic job of showing the live feed from the cameras... and that's about it for the positives.
The user interface is atrocious. It look me ages to work out how to add my cameras (the first step being to realise that many of the app's features are only available in portrait orientation). Even with the documentation from Lilin's website it is not obvious how to configure things properly. The cameras and app claim to support the Apple Push Notification Service, but I have not been able to work out how to get it to do anything (despite the cameras sending SMTP, ftp, and http alerts as intended).
The aspect ratio of the live videos changes depending on whether they are being shown tiled or full-screen. Weirdly, the tiled version looks roughly right, but in portrait orientation the video is in letterbox format: compressed vertically with black bars top and bottom. This is completely unnecessary and annoying.
The app also crashes frequently. In particular, trying to view any of the recordings from the cameras' SD cards always causes the app to quit.
Lilin cameras are expensive, so I would have expected a far more polished app than this.
The user interface is atrocious. It look me ages to work out how to add my cameras (the first step being to realise that many of the app's features are only available in portrait orientation). Even with the documentation from Lilin's website it is not obvious how to configure things properly. The cameras and app claim to support the Apple Push Notification Service, but I have not been able to work out how to get it to do anything (despite the cameras sending SMTP, ftp, and http alerts as intended).
The aspect ratio of the live videos changes depending on whether they are being shown tiled or full-screen. Weirdly, the tiled version looks roughly right, but in portrait orientation the video is in letterbox format: compressed vertically with black bars top and bottom. This is completely unnecessary and annoying.
The app also crashes frequently. In particular, trying to view any of the recordings from the cameras' SD cards always causes the app to quit.
Lilin cameras are expensive, so I would have expected a far more polished app than this.
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Notifications do not work
I do not receive any notifications of alarm events (motion) and have not received any reply to emails to tech support. Alarm event log is sporadic therefore unreliable. This app needs some serious work. Very disappointed with entire Lilin system
Needs a lot of work and needs to be simplified
Spent a lot of money on top of the range cameras and the app they designed is extremely poor and the user interface needs a lot of work.
Could be fantastic if they sorted crash issues!
Crashes constantly when trying to switch between groups so it's pretty useless now!
Does the job, but...
Does the job of viewing the cameras when on the LAN WiFi and remotely too....
But it just crashes all the time. If you swipe left or right to a different NVR setup too quickly or too many times = CRASH.
Also when swiping left and right it sometimes carries over the images from the previous page to the next.
This would be a great simple app (all that's needed) but it's just unreliable at the moment.
Sorry guys
But it just crashes all the time. If you swipe left or right to a different NVR setup too quickly or too many times = CRASH.
Also when swiping left and right it sometimes carries over the images from the previous page to the next.
This would be a great simple app (all that's needed) but it's just unreliable at the moment.
Sorry guys
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