Very good, hope they continue to improve it

As I state in the title, Periscope Pro is a very good app. I have only two small quibbles with it: (1) that the motion-detection works ONLY on the full-frame rather than allowing the user to select a small portion of the visible frame to focus on and (2) the Dropbox-sync assumes that the user has their Dropbox folder ONLY in the root of their user folder rather than acknowledging that some users may have placed the Dropbox folder WITHIN the Documents folder (to ensure it picks up the Documents folder’s security permissions).

The second quibble re: Dropbox-sync is more minor to me because I’ll point it to a folder within my Dropbox instead.

The first quibble, though, is more significant. The field-of-view, based on where my webcam is placed covers approximately 15’ across, from edge-to-edge. In the middle of the frame is a door, which is all I would like the webcam to focus on as opposed to having it monitor motion-detection for the entire field-of-view. I know there are simple three-year-old Windows apps similar to Periscope Pro that allow the selection of a smaller segment to focus on for motion-detection, so would think the same thing should be possible here. Because I have windows opposite the area being monitored, I get a lot of false positives because of moving sunshine and sun-reflections… being able to select just a smaller subset of the full-frame for monitoring, just part of a door for example, would give me all the motion-detection region that’s truly necessary. Users should be able to decide whether they want full-frame motion-detection or just partial-frame motion-detection.

I was originally going to post this review about two months ago, a month after I purchased it, but decided against it as I would try going through their customer support instead. I filled out their form and submitted it. I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt AND the opportunity to make it right. However, sadly, I never got a reply from their customer service (and put their email domain in my email’s white-list).

Generally, this is a very good app, but these two quibbles keep it from being a truly great app. If and when they either respond or update the app with these improvements, I’ll be glad to post another review.

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