Today, I’m just going to show all of you a short video of the Yi PC app. A lot of you has asked me if the Yi cameras can be accessed in the computer and the answer is yes. If you have a PC and not a mac, you can download their viewer program through their site. You can go to Yitechnology.com, click home to go to their home cameras and on the upper right menu, click on the Yi home PC app…sometimes it will get covered by the orange banner so you can x it out.
Then you will get to the download page. If you are a PC user and you are in north america or europe, you will be able to download and use this program to view your cameras. Please note that setup and change of settings can only be done on their smartphone app. So basically their PC program is mostly for viewing the cameras live or viewing recorded videos.
I already have downloaded the program and I just need to open it up. Put my email and the password that I used on my account in my smartphone and log in.
You will then see the cameras that you have on your account on the left column. Just double click them to view the live feed.
You can also add a group up to 4 cameras in a group to simultaneously view in a grid. Click on the plus sign on the live view grid. Pick the cameras that you want in a group, don’t forget to name the group and click ok. Now, the name will show up on the left column and when you double click it, it will show your cameras live feed simultaneously.
This is a good option if you want a constant live feed in a monitor. Just double click the camera to view it full screen and click again to get back to the grid view.
Only thing that I noticed that the feed is not on HD as compared to viewing each camera.
Like this one.. the feed from the group and as compared to if you pick the main camera, then this one is on HD. You can also only see the live view and not the recordings in the group view.
This one in group feed…compared to the main camera feed itself. Anyways, not a biggie. Now on the main camera feed you can listen but I don’t see any mic option so I guess you can only hear but not speak.
As to the recordings, to access them, click on the SD card icon on top and it will take you to the recording timeline where you can use the slider to look and view recorded videos just like in the phone app.
You can also click on here where a calendar will pop up and you can choose which day you want to browse recorded videos from your SD card.
As you can see, I set up my camera to only record whenever it senses motion and all these orange bars means that there are recorded videos at these times.
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