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AirBeam Pro for OSX

Heiko — Tue, 01 May 2012 08:38:24 +0000

Today we are proud to announce AirBeam Pro for OSX. With AirBeam Pro you can now do what many AirBeamer’s have been long waiting for: Share your Mac’s camera and microphone and follow it remotely in a browser or with AirBeam for iOS on your iPhone, iPad or iPod.

Besides camera sharing, AirBeam Pro brings also all other features know from the iOS App to your Mac, for example motion or audio controlled video recording in HD quality.

And last but not least we’ve added a couple of other exiting new things like Syphon integration, which allow easy integration of the video stream with other Syphon enabled Apps like VDMX or Quartz composer.

Requirements

Operating System OSX 10.7 Lion or higher.
Video capturing requires built-in or external camera.
Audio capturing requires built-in or external microphone.
Using AirBeam on iPhones, iPod or iPads requires AirBeam for iOS, which is a separate purchase available for USD 3.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies) in the iTunes AppStore

Pricing and availability

AirBeam Pro for OSX is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Video category.

AppStore link

About Appologics

Appologics is an independent iOS development studio founded in 2012. Appologics mission is to create amazing mobile Internet applications, technically advanced with perfect usability at the same time.

Integrating AirBeam with 3rd party software

Heiko — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:25:43 +0000

Tbd

Beta Testers wanted !

Heiko — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 07:48:37 +0000

Many customers of our AirBeam OSX version contacted us because they wanted to also share their Mac’s camera and watch it on their iDevices. Here it is: We’ve created AirBeam Pro for OSX, which will be released to the Mac App Store in the next weeks.
To ensure a high quality release, we are looking for beta testers that like to try out AirBeam Pro for OSX. Only requirement is that you are running OSX 10.7 Lion or later.
If you are interested, drop us a mail at support@appologics.com.

AirBeam 1.5: HD starts today

Heiko — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:20:23 +0000

Today we are announcing AirBeam 1.5, a major update that takes full advantage of the new iPad’s high-resolution display by enabling video surveillance in High Definition 720p quality. AirBeam is an universal app for iOS and OSX that streams live video and audio from the built-in cameras of iPhones, iPads and iPods to other iDevices or Macs. Beside introducing HD quality, the upgrade also significantly enhances the video quality and frame rate on devices with lower resolution screens.

But not only owners of the new iPad will benefit from the upgrade: Our new HD video codec significantly improves the video quality and frame rates also on devices with lower resolution screens.

Requirements

Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Video capturing requires built-in camera (iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad2)
HD video option only available with the back camera of iPhone 4(s), iPad 2 or the new iPad.
Audio capturing requires built-in microphone (iPhone 3, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad, iPad2) or external microphone (iPod 3g)
Requires iOS 4.2 or later
Universal Application

Pricing and availability

AirBeam 1.5 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photo & Video category.

AppStore link

About Appologics

Appologics is an independent iOS development studio founded in 2010 by experienced iOS developer Heiko Straulino. Appologics mission is to create amazing mobile Internet applications, technically advanced with perfect usability at the same time.

Now available: AirBeam 1.4

Heiko — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:16:16 +0000

We are proud to announce AirBeam 1.4, a major feature update that not only our windows users will love: Now you can watch the AirBeam video stream with any browser on any platform.

Besides the new web interface, AirBeam 1.4 introduces many other new features:

Dark screen & code lock: AirBeam now can turn off the screen while video surveillance is active to hide that AirBeam is running on your iDevice. An optional lock code prevents others from accessing the App while running.
Autofocus control: You can now enable or disable the autofocus on the camera device.
Automatic port mapping: Many users wanted to watch their AirBeam camera from anywhere in the Internet. So far this required troublesome manual router configuration. AirBeam 1.4 now does all router configuration automatically for WiFi routers that support UPNP or NAT PMP
Compatibility with 3rd party surveillance software: AirBeam now offers a standard MJPEG video stream that can easily be integrated with many 3rd party video surveillance solutions such as Synologies surveillance station, SecuritySpy, etc. More details on this are available in the AirBeam FAQ pages

Requirements

Video capturing requires built-in camera (iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad2)
Audio capturing requires built-in microphone (iPhone 3, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad, iPad2) or external microphone (iPod 3g)
iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
Requires iOS 4.2 or later
Universal Application
5.9 MB

Pricing and availability

AirBeam 1.4 is available for USD 3.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies) worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Photography category.
AppStore link

About Appologics

AirBeam 1.3 adds audio

Heiko — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:23:21 +0000

We are proud to announce AirBeam 1.3, a major feature update that now adds also audio streaming to our unique iOS based video surveillance solution. AirBeam is an universal app for iOS that streams video and with the update now also audio in amazing quality between any number of iDevices on a WiFi or 3G network. With AirBeam each device can be used either as a surveillance camera or as a remote monitor. AirBeam can run simultaneously on any number of devices, enabling flexible multi-camera and multi-monitor configurations.
AirBeam’s new audio streaming comes with four different audio codecs. For example 44kHz PCM offers CD quality audio on a WiFi network while efficient AAC encoding provides low bit rates for audio surveillance over a 3G connection.

Besides audio streaming, AirBeam 1.3 introduces many other new features:

Audio detection: Similar to the already supported motion detection for video, audio detection can trigger alarms or recordings to produce a compact track containing only the relevant events of a surveillance session.
Torch control: When using an iPhone4 as camera device the built-in torch can be remotely turned on and off to illuminate the scene.
Stealth mode: For audio surveillance, the device can now be completely locked so that one can’t notice the monitoring is active.
Export to camera roll: Recordings can now be exported to your device’s camera roll.
iOS5 compatibility

Requirements

Video capturing requires built-in camera (iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad2)
Audio capturing requires built-in microphone (iPhone 3, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad, iPad2) or external microphone (iPod 3g)
iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad
Requires iOS 4.2 or later
Universal Application
3.1 MB

Pricing and availability

AirBeam 1.3 is available for USD 3.99 (or equivalent amount in other currencies) worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Photography category.
AppStore link

About Appologics

AirBeam for Mac is out !

Heiko — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:12:48 +0000

We are proud to announce the release of AirBeam for Mac, the desktop counterpart to our high quality iOS based video surveillance solution. AirBeam for iOS is an universal app for iPhone, iPod and iPad and streams live camera video in high resolution and with up to 30 frames per second between iPhones, iPods and iPads.

AirBeam for Mac now turns also the desktop into a powerful video monitoring center with countless applications: From serious video surveillance and screencasting over a video babyphone up to using iDevices as a first person view onboard camera in remote control toys.

AirBeam for Mac supports all the features known from the iOS application like for example video recording and motion detection. On top of that it supports viewing multiple cameras in parallel and makes use of latest MacOS Lion technologies – like flicking through fullscreen views of multiple cameras. The great news for all AirBeam users on iOS: AirBeam for Mac is available in the Mac App Store for free.

Requirements

* Requires MacOS 10.6.6 or later
* Requires AirBeam for iOS installed on one or more iOS devices
* 2.2 MB

Pricing and availability

AirBeam for Mac 1.0 is free and available worldwide exclusively through the Mac App Store in the Photography category.
AppStore link

About Appologics

How to AirBeam via cellular

Heiko — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:08:14 +0000

One of the most frequently asked questions about AirBeam is how to setup a WiFi router to allow monitoring the cameras at home from anywhere in the Internet – including a cellular connection. This guide shows you step by step how to setup your WiFi router appropriately. As there are hundreds of different WiFi routers out there, steps might be slightly different. However, the general principle remains the same. If you have suggestions / feedback to this guide, let us know.

Step 1: Create a DynDNS account

If you haven’t got configured Dynamic DNS for your router yet, first create an account with a Dynamic DNS provider. This will allow to reach your camera via a fixed host name instead of having to always look up the public IP address of your router. Free DynDNS accounts are provided for example by http://no-ip.com.

When you’ve signed up, create a new host and choose a hostname (must be globally unique) as you like and select a postfix, e.g. “no-ip.org”. This will be the hostname you will later use to connect to you camera device. If you register with no-ip.com, it looks like this:

Step 2: Configure your router to use the DynDNS account you just created.

Log into the routers configuration web page with a browser.
Go to the DynDNS settings page. Depending on your router model it might be called DDNS or something similar.
Enable the DDNS Service. Enter the user name and password you’ve provided when creating the DynDNS account in Step 1. Provide the full hostname you’ve selected in the first step, e.g. “myhostname.no-ip.org”.
Apply the settings. Usually the router will prompt if the settings were successfully activated.

Step 3: Test if your DynDNS setup works

Open up a terminal window (Mac, Linux) or command line (Windows) and “ping” your newly created public hostname by entering the following command:

ping myhostname.no-ip.org

If there’s a reply, great – your WiFi router now has a public hostname that can be reached from the Internet.

If not, review step 1 & 2 carefully again.

Step 4: Configure port forwarding

Look up the IP address of your camera device on AirBeam’s setting page
Go again to your WiFi router setup page, now select a tab called “Virtual Servers” on most router models.
Choose two empty rows and create the following two entries:

First entry (needed to access camera remotely via AirBeam app):

LAN IP Address must be the address of your camera device you have looked up
Set protocol type to TCP
Set LAN port to 8123
Choose an unused public port freely, let’s say 8200 (may not be used in other rows)

Second entry (needed to access camera remotely via a browser):

LAN IP Address must be the address of your camera device you have looked up
Set protocol type to TCP
Set LAN port to 80
Choose another unused public port, let’s say 8201 (may not be used in other rows)

If you want to expose a second camera, enter additional rows with the IP addresses of the second camera. Of course the public ports needs to be different from the first camera.

Step 5: Test if manual connection works

Start up AirBeam on your camera device and switch it to camera mode.
Start up AirBeam on your monitor device. On the monitor tab, hit the “connect manually” button in the lower right corner. If both devices are on the same WiFi, the camera probably shows up already, but that doesn’t disturb the test.
Enter your public hostname from step 1 and the public port you have chosen in step 4, separated by a colon.
For example: myhostname.no-ip.org:8200
Hit the connect button. If the setup worked, the camera should show up in the monitor window (a second time if both devices discovered each other already automatically).
Test your second port forwarding with a browser by entering the URL: http://myhostname.no-ip.org:8201

Step 6: Optimize AirBeam’s settings for a cellular connection

To optimize AirBeam for use over a 3G connection, you should finally adjust a few settings.

Audio codec: By default AirBeam uses high bit rate PCM for audio streaming. For 3G you should choose a lower bit rate codec like AAC or IMA4 in AirBeam’s audio settings.
Video frame rate: It is recommended to set the video frame rate to 5 frames per seconds – otherwise AirBeam will automatically reduce image resolution and quality to sustain higher frame rates over a 3G connection.
Video resolution: Medium or low resolution settings is recommended. High resolution requires more bandwidth than offered by a 3G connection.

Congrats ! Setup completed. You can now connect an AirBeam monitor with to your camera device on your WiFi at home from anywhere where you have Internet connectivity.

AirBeam 1.2 is out !

Heiko — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 07:31:21 +0000

We are proud to announce the release of AirBeam 1.2, a major feature update to our high quality iOS video monitoring solution. AirBeam is an universal app for iPhone, iPod and iPad and streams high resolution video in realtime with up to 30 frames per second between multiple iDevices. With AirBeam each device can be used either as a surveillance camera or as a remote monitor. AirBeam can run simultaneously on any number of devices, supporting flexible multi-camera and multi-monitor configurations.

Just one month after previous release, AirBeam 1.2 introduces numerous new features:

Motion detection to automatically trigger video recordings.
This can be used to create a compact single video track which contains only the relevant events taking place during a monitoring session. Additionally the motion detection can trigger visual and acoustic alarms on the remote monitor.
Monitoring via a cellular connection.
Now monitor devices can connect to camera devices not only via WiFi, but also via a 3G cellular connection. Take a look what happens at your home from anywhere.
Support for an iPhone 3G as camera device – as wished by many of our customers still having a spare one of these.

Device requirements

Camera mode requires built-in camera (iPhone 3G, 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad2)
Universal app compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
Requires iOS 4.2.1 or later

Pricing and availability

AirBeam 1.2 is $3.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Photography category.
AppStore link

Resources

Appologic’s homepage
Demo video
Press kit incl. screenshots

About Appologics

AirBeam 1.1 released

Heiko — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 15:04:54 +0000

We are proud to announce the release of AirBeam 1.1, a major feature update to our high quality iOS video surveillance solution. AirBeam is an universal app for iPhone, iPod and iPad and streams high resolution video with up to 30 frames per second between multiple iDevices on a WiFi network. With AirBeam each device can be used either as a surveillance camera or as a remote monitor. AirBeam can run simultaneously on any number of devices, enabling flexible multi-camera and multi-monitor configurations.

With AirBeam 1.0 released just a month ago, AirBeam 1.1 introduces numerous new features:

Adaptive video encoding now continuously measures the quality of the WiFi connection and dynamically adapts the bitrate of the video stream. The result is a tremendous improvement of video quality and framerate.
Password protection allows to protect camera devices with a password to prevent unauthorized access in open WiFi environments.
Adjustable video buffering further smoothens video playback and allows adjustable latency for e.g. audio lipsync.
Screen off on camera devices reduces battery consumption and allows longer run times.
Mac readiness makes AirBeam ready for monitoring on MacOS computers. The MacOS app is currently in beta state and will be released on the Mac AppStore soon.

Device requirements

Universal app compatible with iPhone , iPod, iPad.
Requires iOS 4.2.1 or later.
Camera mode requires build in camera (iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod 4G, iPad2)

Pricing and availability

AirBeam is available for 3.99 USD at the Apple App Store.
AppStore link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airbeam/id428767956?mt=8

Resources

Home page: http://appologics.com
Demo video: http://youtu.be/ctlktk_BNNg
Press kit (incl. screenshots): http://appologics.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/presskit.zip

About Appologics

Contact information

Heiko Straulino, founder & developer

Email: Heiko.Straulino@appologics.com