Works excellently, could use some more features
Just installed this app, and after nabbing a video of my sister poking into my room within a half hour, I feel safe saying it works. I’ve read reviews saying the motion detection was broken in earlier versions; if this was the case, I’m happy to say it works perfectly now, and the adjustible sensitivity is marvellous. The DropBox syncing functionality is truly amazing, and with the lowest clip resolution (which is all you really need to nab a portrait of an intruder) I’ve yet to see a test clip come in over 1MB, hardly something that you need to worry about cluttering up your DropBox. Clean it out once a month, and you’ll be fine.
A few notes/suggestions though, since there are a few areas that could use improvement:
1) There needs to be an option to disable recording when the computer is awake/unlocked. It seems pointless to store recordings of me sitting at my own computer for hours on end, since I’m fairly active at my desk and trigger the capture quite frequently.
2) In lieu or replacement of the above, perhaps an option to automatically turn it on when the computer is put to sleep.
3) DropBox users should know that if your computer is asleep, the clip won’t be uploaded to the cloud until your computer wakes up. To change this, go into System Preferences -> Energy Saver and set the Computer Sleep timer to Never (the Display Sleep can still be set). This will use more power, but it will prevent the computer from going completely to sleep and terminating network connections.
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