iPhone/iPad App?

[ambleside]

The iPhone/iPad app is referenced a couple of different times in the docs but I cannot find it on the iTunes store..Can you post the iTunes link?

[ryan]

Oops, it looks like you've found a bug in our documentation. I'm sorry for any confusion but we don't currently have an iPhone or iPad app.

[Guest]

You guys have been talking about the app being "high on your priority list" for almost a year now. Any updates on this front?

[classicshotokan]

this would be the killer app that makes VD go viral.

[Tummy]

What would you want to use the app for?

I have LogMeIn installed on the computer Vitamin D is running on which lets me do a remote desktop session to turn it on and off, edit the rules etc.

I also have Vitamin D save a copy of the video clip when there is an alert to my dropbox which I can access via the dropbox app from my iPhone/iPad.

[classicshotokan]

I'm hacking together a solution using gmail, an app called boxcar, and my cell provider's email-sms gateway. Boxcar is a push notification app that doesn't use much battery because it uses native push daemons which are running on the iphone anyway, doesn't drain the battery as much as pushing email. If you're on ATT, the email-sms gateway is: [email protected]

Have vdv send all emails to gmail.
Have gmail filter the mail twice

First, have gmail forward the email to boxcar
Second, have gmail forward the email to your email-sms gateway

What happens is this: When vdv is triggered it sends email to the gmail account. Gmail forwards the email to boxcar which makes your phone alarm almost immediately (or not, it can be quiet). It also forwards to your sms gateway, which provides you with a text message that includes a pic from the camera.

You're probably wondering why I don't just have vdv send email directly to the sms system. I don't because the ATT email-sms gateway is often so pathetically slow as to be completely useless. I've gotten sms messages from vdv that were 2 days old! I also have my iphone's mail app set to use the same gmail account, so if boxcar's jangling but sms is silent, I can easily check the mail. The messages might not arrive via text, but gmail has them.

Another quirk is using two filters instead of just having one filter with two recipients. I'm leery of spam filters, so I prefer to send two individual emails.

Why not just use boxcar? Because it doesn't forward the pic or any body text. I just use it to backup the sometimes slow sms gateway.

gmail has a limit of 500 emails sent per day. If you're using smtp.google.com make sure it's a different account or you'll hit the limit quick.

[albyspace]

I also have Vitamin D save a copy of the video clip when there is an alert to my dropbox which I can access via the dropbox app from my iPhone/iPad.

That would be just what I need!
If I didn't misunderstood you managed to export a clip to dropbox when the rule triggers the program.
Can I ask you how did you do it?

Thanks

[classicshotokan]

Somewhere in Vdv there are configuration options for where.

start at the main vdv window. Be in Monitor view.

Click on a camera. Then click on the rules symbols (next to the checkbox). A window should open called "rule editor." You'll see "my computer" and "options" button next to it. Click "options." A new window will open. Click "move video."

At this point you see a window with the current path to the videos. You might want to go there now and save any videos you want to save.

You can edit-in the path to your dropbox folder. Since videos are large files you probably don't want to move all your archived video to dropbox, so choose the "delete videos" option.