Great app but has more potential to be greater!
I just got the system installed a couple days ago and have been playing with the app a lot ever since. One thing I noticed is that the videos on the website look a little different than the actual app and look a little more intuitive on the promo videos. The actual app is pretty good but I wish the user interface was more graphical. Like bigger buttons, easier layout and a quicker response. I know this technology is fairly new so I would expect that as time passes, the lag time for the commands will be shorter. Like I said its a great app but its not quite polished yet but it can only get better from here on.
***UPDATED REVIEW***
Ive now had Vivint for 6 months and I still love it. Just some minor tweaks to make it perfect would be to fix the lag time with the video feed. Sometimes the picture just freezes and I have to back out of the app and open it again to get a fresh video feed. It has the same issue on the iPad app. When I see my video feed on a computer monitor its perfect live video, but on the apps it lags. I use the camera to keep an eye out on my 5 month old baby and having a freezing video feed scares me because sometimes I think hes not breathing.
Also I would like the ability to selectively shut off certain motion sensors/door sensors from the app.
Please update it so that on the UI, we can scroll through the options with a swipe of the finger instead of pressing "more" to see the complete menu.
Other than that, great app!
***UPDATED REVIEW***+
Now that Ive have this system for about 9 months now, I can definitely say its much better than ADT. The app however leaves me in satisfied. Everytime I try to watch video on my camera, it freezes after a few seconds forcing me to back out of the video tab and back into it to refresh. I like how when you monitor your video on a PC/laptop the video streams live without any glitches. This would be the ideal functionality in the video tab on the app. I dont know if you have to compress the video somehow to let it be smoother on an iPhone or what but I have an iPhone 5s and an iPad 3rd generation with retina display and I have the same issues on all my devices using this app. Also the response time to the commands take forever. Please speed up response time and fix the video feed from glitchy streaming.
Thanks!
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