Security Monitor Pro shows different color codes to indicate the status of the schedules. There are four color codes used: Black, Green, Orange and Gray. Black: Indicates a schedule is active and is waiting for its next run to execute or the schedule is completed. [color=green]Green[/color]: Shows a schedule is currently running.  [color=orange]Orange[/color]: This color signifies that a schedule is expired and will not run again. [color=olive]Grey[/color]: This color mark shows that a schedule is in disabled state. [image: Schedular.png]

In Security Monitor Pro, the red border indicates that there is motion detected on the camera. This will help to easily find which camera has detected motion if there are multiple cameras previewing. To prevent highlighting of camera, click Manage cameras >> Select Camera >> Edit Camera. On Actions tab, click on Motion settings button and uncheck the 'Highlight camera border in red color' option. Now, when motion is detected, the camera preview window will not be highlighted in red color. [image: SMPpost4939.jpg]

Security Monitor Pro provides five options for broadcast profile. While selecting a broadcast profile make sure that your network bandwidth is greater than the bit rate you select in the profile. [image: SMPpost4926.jpg] If you are broadcasting the video from all the IP cameras then the total bandwidth used will be the sum of the bit rate used by each camera for broadcast profile. For more information on broadcast profile refer this link: https://www.deskshare.com/help/smp/select-broadcast-profile.aspx

With Security Monitor Pro you can configure a schedule to start and stop camera actions automatically. To add a schedule, click on the 'Scheduler' icon from the tool bar. On Add Schedule dialog, select 'Broadcasting' Action and 'Daily' schedule. Now provide start date-time and the duration to broadcast the live video for the selected camera. The schedule will run for the specified time and the live preview of the camera will be broadcasted. [image: SMPpost4906.jpg]

In Security Monitor Pro, you can set a time interval between sending email alerts. On menu bar, click Camera >> Manage Cameras. Select the camera and click Edit Camera. From Actions tab, click on 'Configure' button for email notification action. Select the time interval to wait for the next email to be sent from the drop down list under 'Customize E-mail' section. This will reduce the load on your Inbox. [image: SMPpost4894.jpg] On motion detection, an email will be sent and then the application will wait for N minutes and will send an Email only if motion is detected after N minutes. N is the number of minutes you have selected to wait after sending email.

Using Security Monitor Pro, cameras can be scheduled to start monitoring or recording action when you turn on your PC. On File menu, click Tools >> Application Settings. In General settings, select 'When windows start, launch Security Monitor Pro in:' option. This will invoke the application every time the PC starts. [image: Generalsettings.png] Next, click on the 'Scheduler' icon from the tool bar. On Add schedule, select the cameras for which you want perform schedules actions, then select 'Video Recording' from actions to perform section. At the end, configure 'On Application Launch' schedule by selecting the start date and time period (as 6 hours) to run the schedule. [image: SMPpost4880_1.jpg] When Windows starts, Security Monitor Pro will be launched and video recording action will start for the selected cameras.

Security Monitor Pro can trigger actions on motion detection and transfers the recorded media files to your FTP server. To configure these settings, open Manage Cameras from the tool bar. Select the camera you would like to create actions for and click Edit Camera button. On Actions tab, select and configure Video Recording, Take Photos and Upload Media Files actions. [image: SMPpost4870.jpg] To delete media files after uploading, click the Configure button for Upload media files action, then select the option 'After uploading, delete media files from this PC'. [image: SMPpost4870_1.jpg] Now you are ready to start monitoring for motion. Select 'Monitor' from the tool bar. When motion is detected, video and photo will be captured, uploaded to FTP server and deleted from PC. [image: SMPpost4870_2.jpg]

Security Monitor Pro keeps track of all important incidents in the form of event logs for each camera. To save Event log for specific camera, select the respective camera from the 'Show Event Log For' drop down from the Event log view, all the log entries for specific camera will be listed. Now click on the Save button, this will create separate log file for the selected camera. [image: SMPpost4859.jpg]

In Security Monitor Pro, you can add a label in the form of text, date and time or image to the camera preview. By default, application adds the current date and time to all video recordings and photos. Adding a logo is same as placing a watermark. To include watermark, select Manage Camera from the tool bar, then choose the camera and click Edit Camera. [image: SMPpost4846.jpg] On Labels tab, click Add Image button and choose a picture file using Browse button. The selected image will be shown in the Preview area. With the help of the 'Image Transparency' option you can adjust the visibility of underlying objects. [image: SMPpost4846_1.jpg] To remove the Timestamp from camera preview, uncheck the Date and Time Stamp option. When the images are uploaded, you will have the watermarked logo on the images.

In Security Monitor Pro, you can view and preserve cameras across multiple monitors using the 'Full Preview' mode. First arrange and logically group camera previews by selecting camera layouts. Click Camera Layout icon from the Toolbar and select the desired layout. Now select Full Preview icon from the Toolbar to view cameras on multiple monitors. This mode hides toolbar and menu bar and only the camera preview area will be visible. To preserve this setting for the next PC launch, you need to select 'Launch Security Monitor Pro in Full Preview when Windows starts' option from Tools on menu bar >> Application Settings >> General. [image: Generalsettings.png] Next time when you start your PC, Security Monitor Pro will be launched in full preview mode with camera layouts displayed across multiple monitors.

Security Monitor Pro allows you to add same cameras on different PCs without manually configuring each camera again. You can backup the camera settings on your local drive or external drive and restore it from any computer. Click File >> Export Cameras on the PC from where you want to take backup of cameras. Enter file name and the folder location to save the backup file. Select the cameras you want to export and click OK button. All your cameras with configured settings will be saved to the specified folder. [image: export_Camera.png] Now, on another PC, click File >> Import Cameras to restore the cameras from a backup file. Specify the folder location where backup file is present. After selecting a backup file, click Next button to restore cameras with configured settings. [image: Import_cameras.png] This way you can view same cameras on multiple PCs without manually adding each camera.

You can easily configure Security Monitor Pro to receive e-mail alerts on multiple accounts during specific times of day. To configure these settings, click Manage camera icon from the toolbar. Select camera for which you want to receive alerts. Click Edit Camera button. On the Actions tab, select Email Notifications action and enter multiple email addresses in 'To' field using a comma to separate them. [image: EmailNotificationSettings.png] To receive email alerts at specific times of the day, click on the Scheduler icon from toolbar. Select both cameras and Daily schedule type. Enter start date and time and number of hours to run the schedule. Set Repeat after every option to 1 day and click OK to save these settings. The schedule will run every day and start monitoring actions. You will receive email notifications on both email addresses for a specified number of hours.

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