Hubble Connect for VerveCam

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About this app

Key Features:-

• Video recording support up to QHD (2.5K) resolution@30fps

• Time-lapse photo (2secs / 3secs / 5secs / 10secs / 30secs / 60secs)

• Loop recording (5mins / 10mins / 20mins / 30mins / 60mins)

• Photo/Video sharing through social media Facebook / Twitter

• 4MP photo capturing

• Sleek, hands-free, wearable design with a wide range of mounting options

• 1080p Live streaming via Youtube

Ratings and reviews

Wish I could say I've seen a lot of worse apps. But no, this is really terrible. So, let's start from the beginning. The Vervecam+ is an awesome, hockey-puck sized camera. Somewhat small, in my tests it has recorded about ~1h30m of video in its highest (~2.5K) resolution, and only stopped recording because my microsd card had run out of space (I put in a 16GB card, but the camera only supports up to 32GB the manual says). It also comes with a lot of accessories, from a lanyard to carry around on your neck to a waterproof case that would rival a GoPro. The app, however, is horrendous. I feel like the developers would like me to commit to an obscene act with myself whenever I open it. If they sent me a pound of glitter on the mail that would explode on my face when I opened it while it played an audio file insulting me I would feel less offended. This is how bad this app is. The button controls on the Vervecam+ are somewhate intuitive. The power button, when held, turns the camera on or off, and if you press it you can change from video to photos to livestream (I didn't even try this last one). The shutter button either takes a picture or starts and stops recording. Very good. But the good part stops here You may connect to the camera with either Bluetooth or Wifi. But the app first connects to the Camera via Bluetooth, and then asks you to set your smartphone wifi network to the camera access point. For me, after I connected to the wifi access point, it kept asking if I wanted to pair on Bluetooth, which I would love to, but it never works, instead it keeps me waiting like I got nothing better to do. Whenever you give up and connect to it via wifi only, it opens a clunky menu, with user interface colours that on my smartphone (Moto Z3 play, Android 9) were a dark font with dark background. It shows options for the video resolution+fps, slow motion, white balance and WDR (I would think it is HDR, but was never able to turn it on and see for myself). You can change modes to photo or timelapse or looping video. Or you could, if this horrible app actually worked. Whenever I try to set up anything, and set it to record through the app, it does nothing. Whenever I set the camera to record with the buttons as the app is worse than useless, it starts recording at the highest resolution. What grinds my gears is: I want to record Full HD (1920x1080) at 60fps, always, but I am not able to set any defaults. The options menu would let you format the microsd card. But pay attention to the "would" part: you may click it, but it never does anything. So, all in all, this hardware seems well-engineered, but the app is probably one of the most disgusting cesspools of incompetence I have ever had the unpleasant feeling of being forced to use. I am offended by this level of low-quality amateur attempt to do something marginally useful. Until then, I have uninstalled this and I will be using only the camera as a standalone gadget and copying the files to my PC via the USB cable because even though it is somewhat primitive in use, it feels less of a pain than using this. Having said all that, how can the developers possibly improve this? - Do not depend only on the app. Allow for some configuration on the SD card. I own a chinese wi-fi sd adapter that, if it finds a configuration file (.ini format) on its root, it sets configuration from that. If not, then sets to the hardware defaults. It would not force people to have an android phone to set the camera up. - Make up your mind about bluetooth or wifi. Either one or the other. - Allow for a web interface configuration. It is sure to support any embeddable http server with any rudimentary interface that would be less worse than this.

As I understood it, the app was designed to control camera settings and to actually remote control the camera. It does nothing of these and if I attempt to look at videos and pictures taken, the app stopps service entirely. My firmware was updated on day one, and I simply can't control the cam by using the app. Can't even switch between loop recording and time lapse. Sad. The camera itself works for me, but the one my husband uses is set to time lapse and guess what? We can't switch that off.

With the last update now I'm able to connect successfully to the cam without errors, so that's an improvement on previous version (also my phone's been recently updated to android Pie, it's a Samsung S8+) However, there are still some issues I'm experiencing, mainly because it asks me to update cam's firmware before using it, when I do so the app crashes. Apart from that, I'm now able to view pictures and videos, but can't save 'em to my phone. 'Cause of the firmware I guess?

What's new

General Bug Fixes