SmartHome+ App ideas
Been using the Android SmartHome+ app with my outdoor camera for a year and have some suggestions. Posts like this should be out in the open for comment, not hidden on a Support team list. 1 - Detection needs to be improved. When I scan through clips I see that my wife left the house and apparently never returned. No, it wasn't a foggy day and she didn't come in through some other door. I wonder what else was not captured in video? 2 - Classification is useless. The 90% case is one person walking to the front door, perhaps with a bag. Those get classified as Person, Person and Motion, or Person and Animal. There was always a Person, always Motion and never an Animal so what's the criteria? One clip said Package when something was on the porch for over a day, and a person just walked past it. It didn't get called Person or Motion, just Package. ALL of those classifications are effectively the same as "Something was seen". 3 - File management is clumsy. For whatever reason I may have 50+ recent clips saved. I'd like to be able to select many of them and delete them all at once. Just like in File Manager: click on one and shift-click on another to select those two and everything in between and then just hit delete once. 4 - Temporary ignore. If we're going to be in the camera's view doing something I don't need 50+ clips of us doing that. I want to tell to tell the camera to stop recording for the next {variable} number of minutes - 30, 60, 90 - some selection from a list. After that timer expires, start paying attention again. 5 - Reboot. As a troubleshooting step I'd like to be able to use the app to tell the camera to reboot itself. That saves me having to get a ladder and climb into the attic to find where the camera is plugged in to power cycle it. That's my fault for installing it there, but still, it would make things easier. Other ideas for improvements?TELUS TV+ Suggestion
When browsing the guide programs that are set to record have a red circle at the end of the timeslot. This is not visible for longer programs like movies and sporting events due to the limited width of the screen. I notice the program title floats in the timeslot as you scroll left and right. Could the recording indicator also float with the title so that it's visible all the time? An alternative is to also highlight the title in red to indicate a program is set to record. This is especially important on the app as phone screens are portrait mode but it's also an issue on the browser.
