Sighthound Video

I installed it on my iPhone and iPad and updated the server version to 7.0.12 on y Mac-mini. What a difference it made ! The speed is increased 10 fold and stability appears perfect so far.

Back in 2017, Sighthound was is a good choice for setting up your own IP camera security on a Mac. The AI-based image recognition is impressive. However after several years of inadequate software updates and poor support, i’ve abandoned it in favor of other similar apps like SecuritySpy, which offer similar features but is much less expensive and seems to be much better supported as a software product. Reliability is particularly important for IP cam software - I don’t think the Sighthound folks understand this - they are more interested in fancy AI vs reliably triggering and recording events without glitches or gaps.

The app is crashing on an iPhone XS with 13.6. I upgraded to 14.6 and the app is still crashing when I try to see the rules.

After latest update notifications no longer work. Make the app useless.

Thanks for update! Like the trend. Keep going!

Never works, cameras won’t stay connected! When it does connect, blowing dust particles in the infrared set the camera off even though the software is supposed to be so good it detects only people in the area. Shadows from curtains blowing from heat registers set it off, headlights in the yard set alarms off, reflections etc... what I’m getting at here is the software DOESN’T WORK! and the latest update 3 weeks ago now, Sighthound acknowledges is bad and they’re supposedly working to fix it. But until they do, they’re software now DOESN’T DO ANY NOTIFICATIONS AT ALL! What good is surveillance or home security cameras if the software doesn’t notify you!!???

Ever since the new update I don’t get any type of notification. The reason I use the app is for my phone to notify me when someone comes on my property. Being a SAHM, feeling safe is extremely important and not getting alerts is infuriating.

Last week’s update is a downgrade. In Landscape I can only see 4 cameras in landscape. The images super pixelated. The iPad audio bugs persists from the last version (audio is always camera 1). I finally have enough reason to switch everything to unifi...

The design of the old app wasn’t the issue, it was it’s lack of basic security camera app features. Now we get a superficial facelift that is still missing the features that users have been requesting for years. Why is the app limited to only playing back events that match rules? Why can’t I scrub my entire recorded timeline? Why is there a lack of Picture in Picture support when it has been available on the iPad since iOS 9? Why can’t videos or snapshot be saved to the camera roll? Why can’t I set the size of the windows in grid view? Why can’t I configure the resolution of the camera previews in grid view? So far the only 2 new features that I’v been able to find are support for dark mode, although you can’t manually override it, and support for split screen. The developers should be embarrassed by this release. Catch up or get left behind. I’m looking for other options.

With the glacial release cycles “usual improvements” sound a bit exaggerated.