WebCam Monitor can send emails with a photo taken from your webcam hourly. Go to the Edit camera dialog, then select the ‘Actions’ tab and select ‘At regular intervals’ option. Set the time interval to 60 minutes. [image: atregularIntervals.png] Select the ‘Email Notifications’ action. Enter the details on the E-mail Notification Settings dialog. [image: Email_Notification_Settings.png] Next, start monitoring. Every hour email will be sent to the specified Email address. Suggestion - add a schedule to start the monitoring action when WebCam Monitor starts up.

A watermark or image logo will not affect the motion detection if you keep a high transparency level. WebCam Monitor allows you to adjust the transparency level for watermark image labels and logos. Go to the Edit camera dialog and then to the Labels tab. Click on the ‘Add Image’ button and choose the image you want. Check the ‘Image Transparency’ checkbox and adjust the transparency level. [image: AddWatermarkImage.png] If you are below a 60% transparency level, motion will not be detected behind the image or logo.

You can do this using the regular interval monitoring option in WebCam Monitor. From Quick access, select the ‘At regular intervals of:’ option and put the time at 60 or 90 minutes. If you want to capture only a single photo every hour then click on the ‘Configure’ button for the ‘Take Photo’ action and put value ‘1’ in both the numeric text boxes. [image: Photo_Settings.png] Using the regular interval option allows you to increase the time interval between pictures or any other action you choose.

In WebCam Monitor by default the date and time label is shown on camera preview. This label can be removed if not required. From Add/Edit camera dialog go to Labels tab. [image: AddLabels.png] Select the date-time label shown on camera preview, right click on it and select Delete option. Or just uncheck the ‘Date and Time Stamp’ check box and click OK. The label will be removed from camera preview.

Yes, you can choose to upload only videos from WebCam Monitor. By default both video recordings and photos are uploaded. From the upload settings dialog, select the ‘Backup my videos to an FTP account’ option from the drop down under ‘Upload Options’ section. [image: ftp-upload-settings.png] Now, only videos will be uploaded to your FTP server. Photos will be captured but will not be uploaded.

Yes, you can rotate your camera preview in WebCam Monitor. From the Add/Edit camera, select the ‘Rotate video by:’ option and put the value of 180. [image: add-webcam.png] Now, the camera preview will be rotated by 180 degrees in the Preview section. It should appear right side up for a ceiling mount.

Yes, WebCam Monitor allows you to change the broadcast video quality. You can adjust it from ‘Broadcast’ tab on Add/Edit camera dialog. [image: ConfigureBroadcasting.png] You can change the broadcast video size, and by choosing higher settings for the Broadcast profile you can increase the quality of the broadcast video. Read more about broadcast profiles here: https://www.deskshare.com/help/wcm/SelectBroacastingProfile.aspx

Yes, WebCam Monitor allows you to set the recording duration after last motion trigger event. You can do this by clicking on ‘Configure’ button on Actions tab for Video recording. [image: OnmotionDetection.png] You will see the following window, where you can adjust the duration by selecting a value from the drop down: [image: Video_Recording_Settings.png] For more information about video recording settings see this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/wcm/video-recording.aspx

Yes, you can do this using WebCam Monitor. You can receive a photo taken from the webcam by email or it can be uploaded to an FTP server. You have to select ‘At regular intervals of ’ option on the Actions tab and set the value to 60 Minutes. [image: atregularIntervals.png] Next, select Take Photo, Email Notifications and Upload Media Files option. Once you do this, just add a schedule with monitoring action to perform during the daytime. You can add daily, weekly or monthly schedule. [image: AddSchedule.png]

Using WebCam Monitor you can upload videos and photos taken from your webcam to a FTP server. To upload photos to a FTP server, add your webcam in WebCam Monitor. Select ‘Take Photo’ and ‘Upload Media Files’ options on the Actions tab. To upload files to a FTP server, you need to create FTP account profile and enter details like FTP address, username, password and port. After creating the FTP profile you will see a ‘FTP Upload Settings’ dialog. Choose ‘Upload photos to my website’option from the drop down under ‘Upload Options’ section. [image: ftp-upload-settings.png] Finally, choose ‘Append date and time while uploading’ option. This will maintain all your images at the FTP location and will add the date-time to the file name.

You can change the brightness for your webcam from WebCam Monitor. While adding your webcam, click on ‘Camera properties’ link on add camera dialog and adjust the brightness level. [image: add-webcam.png] You can also access ‘Camera properties’ by right clicking on the camera preview or from the ‘Camera’ menu. Note that the dialog shown after clicking on ‘Camera properties’ link is specific to your particular webcam. It will be different for other webcams, but you can adjust the camera brightness from that dialog box.

Yes, you can set different date formats on each webcam in WebCam Monitor. Go to the Edit camera dialog and select the ‘Labels’ tab. Click on ‘Configure’ button, you will see the following window: [image: DateTimeStamp.png] Choose a different date format from the drop down. Repeat the same procedure for other webcam.

Yes, WebCam Monitor provides the option to upload media files. Using this option you can upload video recordings to an FTP server which you can watch from your office location. Add your webcam, go to the ‘Actions’ tab on the Edit camera dialog and select the ‘Upload Media Files’ option. [image: OnmotionDetection.png] Next, create an FTP connection profile. Enter the details like FTP address, username, password, port, etc. Once you create a connection profile, choose to upload only video recordings from the ‘FTP Upload Settings’ dialog. For more details on uploading media files please see this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/wcm/Upload-Media-Files.aspx

You can record audio from a secondary device like a microphone from WebCam Monitor. Just add your webcam in WebCam Monitor and also connect the microphone to your PC. Go to Edit camera and select the microphone which you have attached from the audio device drop down. [image: audio-control.png] Now, you can record video along with audio for your webcam.

With WebCam Monitor you have an option to maximize the application on motion detection. While you are doing your work on your PC, you can minimize Webcam Monitor and it will automatically popup and maximize on motion detection. Go to the Settings dialog, select the option ‘When application is minimized and motion is detected then maximize the application’. [image: General_Settings.png] Along with this setting you can also select Audio Alarm action if you don’t want to record videos when you are home. This will play an audio alarm in case you left your PC for a moment and a motion trigger event occurs.

Yes, you can remove the timestamp from the WebCam Monitor camera preview and video recordings. Please refer to this forum post: https://www.deskshare.com/forums/ds_postst2938_Removing-the-time-and-date-stamp-in-the-camera-preview-and-recordings.aspx

Yes, WebCam Monitor can capture photos from your webcam and upload to a FTP server. Add your camera in WebCam Monitor and set ‘Take Photo’, ‘Upload Media Files’ actions from Quick Access. Select at regular intervals option and set it for 1 minute. You will also need to create a FTP connection profile by entering all the details required to connect to FTP server such as IP address, user name, password and port. Once you configure the FTP connection profile details, you are ready for taking the photo from webcam and saving it on the FTP server. Click on the ‘Start Monitoring’ button on Quick Access, and the photo will be taken every minute and uploaded to the FTP server. For more details on FTP upload please see this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/wcm/ftp-upload.aspx

You can run WebCam Monitor in hidden mode. In hidden mode WebCam Monitor will not be visible on the screen, task bar or notification area. To toggle WebCam Monitor between hidden mode and displaying on your screen, configure the keyboard short cut keys for hidden mode from the Settings. [image: General_Settings.png] Add your webcam and set it for motion detection monitoring with recording action, then use your short cut keys to place it in hidden mode. When the roommate is in the room, WebCam Monitor will start recording in background without letting anyone know that it is recording.

Yes, you can easily set up WebCam Monitor for keeping a watch on your loved ones. In your case, I think you should use the Email notifications with motion detection. The email notification will let you know when there is any movement, and also contain a photo of the movement. Please refer to this article for more details on Email notifications with photos: https://www.deskshare.com/resources/articles/wcm_SecurityAlertGetEmailNotificationWithPhotos.aspx

Quick Access in WebCam Monitor allows you to quickly update actions to perform on motion detection or at regular intervals while monitoring. When you update any settings on quick access it gets applied to the selected camera and not for all the cameras. You can configure the settings for each camera separately. Just select the respective camera from Quick Access and update the actions as you would like. Learn more about Quick Access.