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Welcome to the Air Camera iPhone/iPad product page.

Air Camera provides a way to send the camera and sound from your iPad or iPhone to an AppleTV or another video device using either the Apple Digital AV Adapter or (analog) Apple Composite AV cable or the Apple VGA adapter.

Air Camera is ideal for uses such a baby or pet monitoring, access control monitoring, and any time when you want to display the iPhone or iPad camera output on a larger screen or an external device.

Air Camera utilizes the 'mirroring' mode of the AppleTV (version 2 or newer) in order to display on the AppleTV. This mode currently can only be initiated from outside the Air Camera app by using the IOS process control menu (accessed by double tapping the devices front panel button and then swiping to the left).

When using the wired video cables, Air Camera will automatically detect the cable and start feeding video (and audio if desired) to the cable.

NOTE: The image displayed on the attached TV will only include the video captured by the camera and NOT any of the controls on the display of the iPhone or iPad.

Watch a video of AirCamera in use with an iPad2 and an IPhone4s.

REQUIRES a camera on the device and IOS5.0 or newer.

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The iPhone4 display showing a typical image.

In the upper left you can see that the AppleTV or external video cable is connected by viewing the green indicator. This changes to yellow and says 'DISCONNECTED' when the AppleTV is not connected or there is no external video cable.

A handy indicator of a connection to a Wifi LAN is also provided (Wifi being required for AppleTV connection). The Wifi indicator also turns yellow when you are not logged into a Wifi network.

When you are relaying the camera, you can hit the blue PAUSE button to pause the output of the device (both video and sound).

When paused, the PLAY button will light up green to indicate you can tap it to continue.

On the left is the control that allows you to swap cameras (on devices so equipped) and use the front facing camera.

When using the front facing camera, the video quality is greyed out as the front camera only supports the LOW video quality (640 x 480 resolution).

The iPad display is similar to that of the iPhone.

To the right of the VIDEO QUALITY buttons is a button that allows you to stretch the 4:3 aspect ratio video supplied in the LOW QUALITY mode to fit the full width of common 16:9 aspect ratio viewing screens. NOTE: this will make round items appear oval, people will look fatter.

You can also turn on/off the audio and enable or disable the automatic white balance, automatic focus, or automatic exposure (on devices that support those modes).

Tapping the product name and version text will bring you to this support page.

To setup a connection to an AppleTV you must first enable what is called 'Air Play Mirroring' mode.

Double tap the button on the front face of the iPhone and swipe to the left. You may have to swipe a few times until you find the volume slider and the round 'AIRPLAY' button next to it (as shown here).

Tap the AIRPLAY button to call up the menu that allows you to select the AppleTV to connect with.

When you tap the AIRPLAY button on an iPhone you are given a menu as shown here.

Tap the desired APPLE-TV and then make sure the 'Mirroring' switch is turned ON.

Hit DONE and then tap the front button on the iPhone to restor the AirCamera to full screen and your video should be appearing on the AppleTV.

iPad users have a similar method to turn on the AirPlay Mirroring to an AppleTV.

After double tapping the button on the iPad front panel and swiping the lower menu to the right once or twice you will see a screen similar to what's shown at the left.

What is shown is the result of tapping the AIRPLAY button and then selecting the 'Apple TV' and making sure that the 'MIRRORING' switch is turned ON.

Once this is done, you can tap the front panel button on the iPad and the Air Camera app will return to full screen and start sending your video to the AppleTV.

Please also note: When using Air Camera your iPhone or iPad will NOT go to sleep or turn off it's local screen. This may run your battery down if used for long periods of time.

If your intended use is for an extended time period, please consider keeping the device plugged into a power source.

You must also be aware that other apps on the device, or other network traffic on your WIFI network may interfere with the smooth flow of video and audio from the device. It may be necessary in some cases to disable or close out other apps running on the device, or take steps to assure less traffic from other devices on your WIFI network.

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