Our Verdict
Whether you require to beef up your base surety , relieve a few bucks on a baby monitor , or just pretend you ’re James Bond , Appologics UG’sAirBeam Pro(Mac App Store contact ) supply an cheap , muscular way to turn your survive Macs , iPads , and iPhones into a sophisticated home plate certificate system .
After a simple-minded installation , AirBeam Pro begin looking for AirBeam - enable photographic camera on your Wi - Fi web . It wo n’t work with third - political party camera , but if you ’ve purchased and installed separate copies of AirBeam for your iPhone or iPad , or have AirBeam running on other networked Macs , the programme will find them and begin displaying crisp real - prison term telecasting stream . you could also make your own Mac a photographic camera , and broadcast that video to AirBeam on your portable gimmick , or to anyone on your local net via a Web connection connect to your Mac ’s local IP address . ( There ’s a separate gratis Mac node for just watching streams from other twist . ) AirBeam even supports Motrr’sGalileomotorized climb for iPhones , permit you pan out and tilt distant cameras .
Optional password aegis prevents prying eye from glint at your camera . AirBeam ’s question - trailing feature of speech will — after a short delay — initiate put down anything that move in the tv camera ’s path . you may even set up email alarm any time one of those videos gets triggered . need to get a unspoiled aspect or spook intruders ? Turn on your iPhone ’s flash beam with a unmarried click . And if you take to monitor your rest home from another connection , AirBeam can enable embrasure map on routers that support Universal Plug & Play or Apple ’s NAT communications protocol .
It ’s a ignominy that Appologics offer up no free camera - only or viewer - only guest for iOS equipment . And the sentiment of turning your iGadgets into surveillance tools quickly get flighty . But AirBeam makes the whole operation simple , in force , and undeniably nerveless .
This review is part of Macworld’sGemFest 2014 . Every weekday from July until September , the Macworld faculty will habituate the Mac Gems web log to shortly cover up a standout free , low - cost , or large - value computer programme . you could reckon a listing of this year ’s apps , updated daily , on our handy GemFest chart , and you could visit the Mac Gems homepage for past Mac Gems reviews .
