180 Degree Camera: Remote Video Playback from iPhone App

Watch this video to see how-to remotely play back 180 degree camera video surveillance footage from the Viewtron mobile app for iPhone and Android. The Viewtron IP-180-4 is hard wired to a PoE port on a 16 channel Viewtron NVR with network cable. I was remotely accessing the Viewtron NVR installed at CCTV Camera Pros warehouse using the Viewtron iPhone app. This was done while I was on vacation in Colorado.


180 IP Camera w/ Human Detection AI Software

180 Degree IP camera with Human Detetion AI software

When you access the recorded video playback function on the mobile app, there is a timeline displayed. Object detection events from the AI software are annotated in yellow. We have an intrusion zone setup in front of the front door at CCTV Camera Pros office. When a person or vehicle is detected in the intrusion zone, the Viewtron NVR annotates the event so that all of them can be located and played back quickly. In the above screenshot, you can see that the continuous 24/7 video recording is annotated in orange and all of the AI object detection events are annotated in yellow on the timeline.

The user interface is the same on the iPhone app and Android app.


180 Security Camera: Wall Mount & Ceiling Mount

180 degree security camera

The base mount that is included with this 180 degree security camera supports ceiling mount and wall mount installations. The lock nut on the side of the mount make it very easy to adjust the horizontal angle of view.


180 Degree Camera Outdoor Installation

180 degree camera outdoor

Here is the Viewtron IP-180-4 installed outside of CCTV Camera Pros office. Please note that we use that old 8×8 electrical junction box mainly because we are constantly switching out the cameras that we test at that location. That is why there are additional mounting holes drilled into it and it does not look so nice. You can see the optional white Viewtron junction box in between the 180 camera and the gray junction box. Most of the time that is what will be used for an outdoor installation like this one.

180 IP camera outdoor

Here is another angle of the Viewtron 180 IP camera outdoor installation at our office. Please note that we have this camera installed about 14 feet high. If you want to use this camera’s facial recognition software, you must mount the camera much lower. But for a wide overview, this installation height is very good. This angle gives you a better view of the optional camera junction box that is available. This camera is IP67 weather-poof rated. It is by far the best 180 degree outdoor security camera that we supply.


Spotlight Camera: Built-in White LEDs

180 security camera with spotlight

This 180 IP camera has built-in white light LEDs that act as spotlights. The spotlight camera function can be configured to automatically turn on when light levels are low or when an intrusion detection or line crossing detection event occurs. The Viewtron IP-180-4 is also a AI security camera. It has built-in AI software that supports human detection and vehicle detection.

You can create intrusion zones (polygon shapes) or line crossing zones so that when a person and / or car is detected intruding or crossing a line, an alarm event is notated. In addition to triggering the spotlight, AI events can also trigger video surveillance recording, snapshot images, pre-recording audio warning messages or alarm sounds, and external devices via the alarm relay output port. You can learn more about Viewtron AI security cameras here.


Audio Surveillance, Alarm Warning, 2-Way Audio

180 security Camera 2-way audio

The Viewtron IP-180-4 has a built in audio microphone and speaker. The speaker can be used to automatically or manually play a warning message or sound an alarm. The mic can be used to record audio surveillance or for 2-way communication from the mobile app for iPhone and Android.


Viewtron IP Camera NVR

IP Camera NVR

In the video, the Viewtron 180 camera was connected to a Viewtron IP camera NVR. The camera is hard wired to one of the PoE ports on the back of the NVR.


AI Security Camera Video Demos

AI security camera demo videos

Check out this page to see additional AI security camera video demos.


Have Questions / Need Help?

If you have any questions, please contact mike@cctvcamerapros.net.


Video Transcript

Here is a text transcript of the video at the top of this page.

This is the Viewtron IP-180-4. It’s a 180 degree security camera. In this video I’m going to access the one installed at CCTV Camera Pro’s office from remotely over the Internet using the mobile app for iPhone. The mobile app for Android works exactly the same. Here’s the live 180 security camera view from the mobile app for iPhone. And look at that nice ultra wide angle of view. It’s actually can view 120ft in each direction on this particular installation. So now I’m entering video playback mode and then I’m going to select the main stream so I can view it in the higher definition mode.

And then if I tap on the screen again, I’m going to select the date, I’m going to select yesterday and then I’m going to tap on the screen again to enable the timeline. And I can pinch and spread with my fingers to adjust the size of that timeline. And you’ll notice the continuous recording is annotated in orange and then all of the AI options object detection events are annotated in yellow. This 180 security camera is also an AI security camera. So it can detect humans and cars. And we have an intrusion zone set up in front of our warehouse to detect vehicles and people as they enter the area of our plaza. So this was James showing up for work on Friday morning. I’m just going to pause it here to show you that you can digitally zoom in the mobile app for iPhone and Android.

You can digitally zoom in and out by pinching and spreading your fingers on the screen. And that digital zoom works in the live security camera view as well as the recorded video surveillance view that we’re in right now. And I’m going to scroll over to the other AI event that occurred around this time. And this was Jack showing up for work. And this time I’ll leave the video playing and I’ll show you the digital zoom while the video surveillance footage is actually playing back.

So I was just accessing that Viewtron one a security camera from remotely over the Internet. As you can see from the scenery behind me, I’m obviously not in South Florida right now. I’m actually on vacation up in the mountains of Colorado. And the Internet access up here is actually not that great. But as you could see, even with limited Internet access, the remote view of that 180 camera worked great from the Viewtron mobile app for iPhone and Android. I want to mention a couple other things about that camera before we wrap up. So it’s actually a 180 IP camera. It has built in power over Ethernet and that one is hardwired to a Viewtron nvr.

It’s connected to one of the POE ports on the back of the Viewtron NVR at the office using Cat-6 network cable. So as I mentioned, that’s an AI security camera, so it can detect people and vehicles and actually it could do face recognition as well in addition to the 4K video surveillance. So this is an important point. When you’re accessing from remotely over the Internet from the mobile app, the video is scaled down so that live view and that recorded video playback demo that you just saw, that’s not the full potential of this camera. That’s scaled down to like 720p or 1080p over the remote view. But that camera is recording at 4K resolution on the Viewtron NVR. So the video playback on the Viewtron NVR is actually way better than what you just saw from the mobile app. In addition to the video surveillance footage, that camera also has a built in microphone and speaker.

So the microphone can be used for audio surveillance and the speaker can be used to sound alarms and for two way communication from the mobile app. Guys, I’m going to make a bunch of videos with this. This is actually the best outdoor 180 security camera that I’ve ever tested. I think this is going to do wonderful for home, business, and government applications. The team at CCTV Camera Pros can do custom quotes and include one or more of these cameras along with our regular non-180 AI cameras and our license plate recognition cameras. We do custom quotes for customers all over the country and all over the world every day. And we can configure these things however you need. If you want to learn more about this Viewtron 180 security camera, please visit www.viewtron.com/180.

Thank you for watching.