Security Monitor Pro allows you to take photos from all added cameras simultaneously. To configure these settings:- 1.First add all your cameras. 2.Right click on camera preview, select Edit Camera option. On the Actions tab, select At regular intervals of 'N' second option. Enter required time interval between two alerts. The minimum value for time interval is 15 seconds. 3.Now, look for 'Select actions to perform' section and select Take Photo action and click Configure button. Set the number of photos to capture and interval between the two photos. Similarly, do this setting for other cameras [image: Photo_Settings.png] 4.Click on the Monitor icon from the toolbar. Select all cameras and click Start Monitoring button. This way photos will be taken from all cameras and will be saved in media folder on your computer. You can change the folder location from Settings option.

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Security Monitor Pro allows you to continuously record videos. To perform continuous recording, add your cameras and click on the Record icon from toolbar. Select all cameras on Video Recording dialog and click Start Recording button. [image: VideoRecording.png] You can also perform continuous recording using the Schedule. Click on the Scheduler icon from the toolbar. Select your cameras and choose Video Recording option. Then select schedule type as Daily. Now, select date and time from which you want to start recording. Set Run for option to 23:59 hh:mm. Repeat after every: 1 day(s). Expire date and time is optional. If you don't specify it the schedule will continue to run each day.

In Security Monitor Pro you can easily set the number of hours to run the motion detection monitoring. You have to add a Daily schedule to perform monitoring for required time. Follow the steps to create a daily schedule : Add your IP camera and select actions to perform on the Actions tab. If you have an IP camera added, then go to Edit Camera >> Actions tab and select the actions. To configure a schedule, click on the Scheduler icon from the toolbar. [image: scheduler.png] By default Monitoring actions option is selected. Choose the schedule type as Daily. [image: add_schedule.png] Select the date and time to start motion detection monitoring. Enter the number of hours to monitor and set Repeat after every 7 days. Click Ok button to save the settings. For example: If you have to run the daily schedule on every Sunday from [15-Nov-15], then select the corresponding date, time say 12:00, Run for say 4:00 hours and Repeat after every 7 days. Similarly, add a schedule for each day of the week with a different start time and number of hours to run the schedule. The schedule will run for the specified number of hours and motion detection monitoring will be performed.

You can easily configure Security Monitor Pro to receive photos from your IP cameras on your schedule. Here are the steps: Add your IP camera and go to Edit Camera >> Actions tab Select 'At regular intervals' and enter 40 minutes [image: ConfigureAlerts.png] Select 'Take Photo' action. Click on 'Configure' button to set the number of photos you want to take. You can take a maximum of 60 photos. [image: takePhoto.png] Next, select 'Email notifications' enter all the details, make sure to send a test email, then click OK. Select 'Upload Media Files' and enter the details for the FTP account, save it and click OK. Now, just add a 'Weekly' schedule by clicking on 'Scheduler' icon on tool bar. [image: Schedular.png] Select the option 'Monitoring Actions selected in camera settings', then select the cameras for which you want to run the schedule. Select all the days except Saturday and Sunday, enter start date and time and the number of hours to run a schedule, for example 9AM start and run for 8 hours. When the schedule launches, monitoring actions will be performed at regular intervals of 40 minutes. You will receive an email every 40 minutes with a photo. The number of photos which you have set earlier will be uploaded to the FTP account every 40 minutes.

Security Monitor Pro supports text overlays, time stamps, and graphic overlays on your video. You can place a graphic logo on both the preview and recording. Please see this page for details: https://www.deskshare.com/help/smp/adding-labels.aspx

Security Monitor Pro allows you to monitor remotely with the help of email notifications. Whenever an alert is triggered, either on motion detection or at regular intervals, Security Monitor Pro immediately sends an email to specified email addresses. While configuring the Email Notifications action, use comma (“,”) in the ‘To’ field on Email Notification Settings dialog to separate multiple email addresses. [image: EmailNotificationSettings.png] Whenever an alert is triggered, email alerts will be sent to all specified addresses.

System failures can occur for a variety of reasons, but that should not affect your entire security system. To protect against this scenario you can use Security Monitor Pro in a Multiple-Station Surveillance System. Please refer this article for more information on building a multiple station system: https://www.deskshare.com/resources/articles/smp_MultiplePCs_Backup.aspx

Security Monitor Pro can FTP photos to your webpage and provide a live view of your cameras. To configure FTP Settings, click FTP Upload >> Configure upload options: [image: FTPServerSettings.png] Next, configure your upload settings from Add Camera >> Actions >> Upload Media files. Rename the file on upload and overwrite so the filename always has the latest image. [image: FTPUploadBehavior.png] Here is a sample HTML and Javascript page that will show a updated camera image every 30 seconds: <html> <head> <title>Sample Security Monitor Pro Camera Photo Page</title> </head> <body> <img src="Desk1.jpg" width="320" height="240" border="1" name="refresh"> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> <!-- var t = 10 // interval in seconds function Start() { document.images["refresh"].src = document.images["refresh"].src+"?"+Math.random() setTimeout("Start()", t*1000) } Start(); // --> </script> </body> </html> Change the value of t to the number of seconds between image updates. Try using a refresh interval that allows enough time for the image to be captured and sent by FTP to your web server. Finally, you can display multiple cameras by adding multiple images on the page.

Security Monitor Pro allows you to start recording on multiple cameras at the same time. Here's how: Click on the 'Record' icon from the tool bar. [image: Record.png] When you see the "Video Recording" dialog, press "CTRL + A" to select all cameras. [image: VideoRecording.png] Click on the "Start Recording" button and recording will be started for all cameras.

You can increase the playback speed in Security Monitor Pro. Follow these steps: Click on the 'Media Analyzer' icon on the tool bar [image: MediaAnalyzerIcon.png] You will see all your video recordings in media analyzer. Now click on 'Playback Settings' icon on preview control. [image: MediaAnalyzercontrols.png] Change the playback speed using the slider control. [image: PlaybackSpeed.png] Finally, click on the Play button and your file will be played at the speed you have set. You can slow down or increase the playback speed as you wish.

Security Monitor Pro allows you to place the time stamp anywhere on the camera preview. You can adjust the position of the time stamp from the Labels tab. Follow these steps to reposition the time stamp: Go to Edit Camera >> Labels tab. Select the time stamp label and drag it to the position you want. [image: edit_camera_labels.png] Your new recordings will have the time at the position you selected.

Yes, you can run external software using Security Monitor Pro. You can send command line parameters to the selected program. For instance, you may want to launch Internet Explorer and pass the URL of a website as a parameter. To send a parameter to your external software, enter your parameter in the Parameter field in the Launch Program Settings dialog. [image: LaunchProgramSettings.png] When motion is detected your program will run and the parameter will be passed to your external software.

Security Monitor Pro is compatible with almost every email server. Please check your entries for the SMTP server, your username and password to make sure they are entered correctly. SSL security will not work with port 25. If you have to use port 25, you can try no security. If you would like to use SSL security to send your email, change the port number to 465. Make sure you set security to SSL (not TLS). SSL encrypted SMTP uses port 465.

If your camera loses connection, Security Monitor Pro will continuously retry the connection until the camera is back online. Monitoring will automatically restart for that camera as soon as the connection is restored.

When you have many cameras looking at an area from different angles it can sometimes be difficult to tell which camera you are viewing or recording. There is a simple solution to this problem - you can add on screen labels so it is easy to identify what you are looking at. Edit your camera, then select Labels. Check the box for Text Caption, and add your camera location here. For Example: Backyard south view, Front yard driveway, etc. See this image for reference: [image: edit_camera_labels.png]

Yes, you can store your image files on a network folder instead of the local drive. Start Security Monitor Pro and go in the General Settings. Under the 'Media file options', enter the network folder path in the path control and click OK. Your image files will be saved on the network folder. Here is a illustration: [image: Generalsettings.png]

Security Monitor Pro supports all standard mail servers. When you are sending a test email, make sure you have entered the connection details correctly. Looking at your error message, it appears you have not selected the correct security settings from the Connection Security drop down on the Email Notification Settings window. Choose the TLS option from the Connection Security drop down and the issue should be fixed. [image: EmailNotificationSettings.png]

Security Monitor Pro will record to your local hard drive or network drive. There are 2 ways to limit the amount of space used. First, you can automatically delete recordings over a certain number of days old, or delete files before your hard drive is full. Click on Tools > Application Settings and configure the 'Auto Delete oldest files if space is less than' or 'Auto delete files older than' or you can configure both. [image: Generalsettings.png]

There are couple of possibilities why the FTP upload is not occurring on your PC. First, please check your FTP server settings. I would like you to test if you are connecting to your FTP account. For this, enter your IP address/domain name, username and password. Then click on 'Test FTP Connection' button. If the details are correct, connection will be successful. [image: FTPServerSettings.png] Next, make sure you have selected "Upload Photos to my Website" from FTP Upload settings. To make this configuration follow the path: Go to Edit Camera>> Actions>> Configure Upload Media Files. [image: FTPUploadBehavior.png] Now check that the FTP upload is enabled. From View Menu>> Upload Status. You can enable or disable the FTP upload using "Disable/Enable" button. [image: FTPUploadStatus.png] Finally, make sure you have started monitoring. Files will only be captured and uploaded when monitoring is turned on and motion is detected.