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WebCam Monitor
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Quickly
Setup Your Security and Surveillance Configuration |
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WebCam Monitor is
designed to make setting up your surveillance system
easy and effective. A typical security
configuration can require choosing among dozens of
settings, but the Auto
Configuration Wizard gets you started quickly by
providing pre-created monitoring scenarios. Software
setup can take as little as one minute using this
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You can use the Auto
Configuration Wizard as soon as you start WebCam
Monitor. Open the File menu and choose Auto
Configuration Wizard. If this is the first
time you’ve run WebCam Monitor, you’ll be asked to use the
Add Camera Wizard to add at least one camera to the
program’s list. Go ahead and add all the cameras
you plan to use at this point. You can return to
the Auto Configuration Wizard by selecting Configure Alerts
before clicking Finish. |
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If you do not need to
configure cameras, the first screen of the wizard is
just an introduction. After reading it, click the
Next
button. This takes you to the Select a Scenario
page of the wizard. The scenarios are “pre-defined
groups of settings”. By choosing one, you configure the
program for a particular situation in just one step. The five
scenarios in WebCam Monitor are: |
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Record
when motion or noise occurs |
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This scenario is intended
for a standard burglar alarm-style situation, in which
the program gathers evidence (and optionally alerts you
and sounds the alarm) if intruders are detected. |
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Video/audio recording is
turned on when triggered by motion or noise detection.
Periodic triggering (“record every five minutes”) is
turned off. Normally, other Alert settings like Take
Snap and E-mail Notification are not changed,
but you can check the Clear all other
alerts checkbox at the bottom of the window, in
which case only Video/Audio Recording will take place when
motion is detected. Scheduler and other settings
are not changed. |
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If you select this
scenario and click Next,
you’ll be asked to choose a folder to save the
recordings in, a basic file name for the recordings (the
date and time will be added to each file's name), and how many
seconds to record each time the Alert is triggered. |
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Continuously upload JPEG snaps to my FTP server |
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This scenario is used
when a record of events is needed. The program
takes still pictures (JPEG snaps) regularly and saves
them on a server, which can be anywhere. This
creates permanent, hard-to-destroy documentation of
events at the locations covered by the camera. It is also a good way to view
upload images continuously on your website. |
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Snap taking is turned on,
along with periodic alerts. (This means that motion
detection and noise detection are turned off.) All other
types of alert (video/audio recording, e-mail, playing a
sound, and launch program) are automatically turned off. Other settings are not changed. |
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If you pick this
scenario, you’ll be asked to supply the name or numeric
address of an FTP server, along with a user name and
password. |
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View my camera remotely from another PC |
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This scenario just
enables live streaming, so video from the camera (or
cameras) WebCam Monitor is previewing can be seen from
other PCs. If you use a router or firewall to connect
your network to the Internet, and you want the video to
be visible to computers outside your LAN, you may want
to read our article
Configuring Your Camera and PC for Internet Streaming. |
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You’ll be asked to pick a
bandwidth setting and how many viewers at a time may
connect to your video stream. |
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E-mail
me when motion or noise is detected |
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This scenario is similar to “Record when noise or
motion occurs”, except that instead of turning on
video/audio recording, it automatically sends e-mail. |
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You’ll be asked for one
or more addresses to notify by e-mail, and what address
the mail sent should come from. Note: if your Internet
Service Provider (ISP) blocks outgoing e-mail from your
account (as some do, especially cable modem providers),
you’ll need to click the Settings button on the final
page of the wizard, switch to the Settings tab, and
configure an Outgoing mail server. |
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Schedule camera (s) to start monitoring at a specific
time |
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Choosing this scenario
enables the scheduler. You can choose this after any of
the other scenarios has been configured and schedule it
at a specified time. Information on scheduling WebCam
Monitor is part of
this article. |
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In general, you can
select multiple scenarios. The only exception is that
“Continuously upload snaps” cannot be combined with
other scenarios. However, you can certainly combine, for
instance, “Record when motion or noise occurs” with
“View my camera remotely from another PC.” You could
even combine both with “E-mail me when motion or noise
is detected.” And you could certainly use “Schedule
camera (s) to start monitoring at a specific time” with
any of the other four, or any combination. |
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Using the Auto
Configuration Wizard, you can activate a complete
surveillance setup only seconds after installing WebCam
Monitor. |
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