WebCam Monitor can use the secondary microphone from another device to record audio. An inexpensive microphone connected to the microphone jack will record the audio in your room. Connect the microphone to your PC and launch WebCam Monitor. If you have already added your USB camera, then right click on the camera preview and select the Edit camera option. On the Edit camera dialog, you will see this audio control: [image: audio-control.png] All recording devices on your PC will be listed in the Audio Device dropdown. Select the device you would like to record from and click on the play button to listen to the audio. Choose the microphone you have connected to the PC. Click the OK button to save the settings. When you start recording, both audio and video will be recorded.

You can easily adjust the video recording duration in WebCam Monitor from the Video Recording Settings. To set the recording duration, click on the ‘Configure’ button for the video recording action from Quick access. [image: WCMpost5539.jpg] Select a higher value from the drop down list. The highest value available is 60 seconds. [image: WCMpost5539_1.jpg] Turn on monitoring for motion again. Now, recording will continue until there is no motion detected for a period of 60 seconds.

WebCam Monitor places a date-time label on photos to show the exact time when the image was captured. You can remove the date and time label if you don’t need it. Right click on the camera preview and select the ‘Edit Camera’ option. On the labels tab, uncheck the ‘Date and Time Stamp’ option and click the OK button. [image: WCMpost5527_1.jpg] From the Quick Access select the ‘Take Photos’ action and click on the ‘Start Monitoring’ button. You can run the take photo action on motion detection or at regular intervals. The new photos captured will not contain the date-time label.

To configure the IP address and broadcast port number in WebCam Monitor, use the 'Broadcast' tab on the Edit Camera dialog. When you start broadcasting your USB camera video, a broadcast url will be displayed on screen. You can use this URL to view the broadcast stream on another computer. You can watch the broadcast video from any machine that has an internet connection. Windows Media Player or VLC player is required to view the stream. You can set the number of allowed viewers, the maximum is 5. [image: ConfigureBroadcasting.png]

You can use WebCam Monitor's scheduler to automatically begin broadcasting during work hours. Add your webcam in the software and click on the ‘Scheduler’ icon on the tool bar. Select the broadcasting action, and select your camera. You can add a daily or weekly schedule as needed. Enter the start date and time and the number of hours to run the broadcasting action. For example, Monday through Friday, start time 9 AM and run the schedule for 8 hours. The schedule will run at the set time and broadcasting will be turned on for the selected camera. [image: WCMpost5500.jpg]

This can be easily done using the regular interval monitoring in WebCam Monitor. Add your USB camera in WebCam Monitor and select regular interval monitoring from the Quick Access. Set the interval to 1 minute. Select the ‘Take Photo’ action and click on the configure button to open Photo Settings. Next, set the number of photos you want to capture to 10. Finally, start the monitoring to capture photos at the regular interval of 1 minute. [image: Photo_Settings.png]

You can launch WebCam Monitor when Windows starts and use a schedule to start the recording action. Go to General settings and select the option to launch WebCam Monitor with Windows startup. Next, add a schedule to perform Video Recording and select the ‘On Application Launch’ schedule type. Specify the number of hours to run the schedule. When you start your PC, WebCam Monitor will be launched and the schedule will start the video recording action. [image: AddSchedule.png]

Yes, you can rename the file using the FTP Upload Settings in WebCam Monitor before the transfer. Select Upload Status option from View menu. Click on 'Configure Upload Settings' button and select upload photo option. Click on the 'Rename photo files to' checkbox and enter the file name in the text box. You can overwrite the existing file or append date-time or a sequence number to the file name during uploading. Appending date and time will save all the files on the FTP server. With sequence number, only the newest image files will be saved. [image: ftp-upload-settings.png]

Yes, you can watch all your webcams simultaneously in WebCam Monitor. If you have already added all your webcams, you can right click on each camera preview and detach the camera. After this, right click on the detached window and select the ‘Always on Top’ option. Resize the detached window and place it anywhere on the screen. Repeat these steps for each webcam. [image: detached_preview.png]

You can configure WebCam Monitor to maximize on motion detection. From General settings select the option to maximize the application when motion is detected and the application is minimized. You can also detach the webcam preview windows and minimize it. On motion detection the detached windows will be brought to focus on top of other running applications. [image: General_Settings.png]

It is easy to configure email notifications with photos in WebCam Monitor. Add your webcam or edit existing webcam and select the regular interval option from the Quick Access. By default the interval value is set for 5 minutes. Select the email notification action and fill in the details on the email settings dialog. Test the settings by clicking the test button to send an email. To complete the configuration, add a schedule to run the monitoring action during the day time hours. You can add a daily or weekly schedule. [image: Email_Notification_Settings.png]

You can use the broadcast feature in WebCam Monitor to broadcast your USB camera feeds and watch them remotely. Before starting broadcasting make sure you have a static IP address for the PC where the camera is connected. A static IP address does not change. You can configure broadcast settings from the Edit camera dialog under the broadcast tab. Select the static IP address and port number for broadcasting. Once you finish configuring all the settings, start the broadcasting for your webcam. Use the broadcast IP address and port number to view the broadcast stream in Windows Media Player from a remote location. [image: ConfigureBroadcasting.png]

Yes, you can review captured videos by specifying a custom date range. From the Media Analyzer in WebCam Monitor, select ‘Custom Date Range’ option in the dropdown list. Enter a date range. This will show you the videos and photos captured in the specified date range. To display only the videos, uncheck the ‘Photos Taken’ check box on the Media Analyzer dialog. [image: media_anlyzer.png]

You have two options to remove previously recorded media files in WebCam Monitor. If you want to remove the files after uploading, select the checkbox ‘After uploading, delete files from this PC’ in the FTP upload settings and re-start monitoring. You will notice that the files will be deleted from local folder immediately after upload. [image: ftp-upload-settings.png] The other way you can remove recordings from the local folder is to delete them based on how old they are. From the general settings select the ‘Auto delete files older than’ option and enter the number of days. This will remove the files which are older than specified number of days. [image: General_Settings.png]

Broadcast video size can be different than the captured video size from the camera. After adding your camera in WebCam Monitor and go to the Edit camera dialog. Click on the ‘Broadcast’ tab. Select the smaller value from the ‘Broadcasting video size:’ drop down. Click on the OK button to apply the changes. Now, when you start broadcasting, the broadcast video frame size will be smaller than the captured video. [image: ConfigureBroadcasting.png]

WebCam Monitor allows you to record video from your webcam and simultaneously record audio from a different device. Here's how: Add your USB camera in WebCam Monitor. Next, connect the audio device to your PC. This can be a built in microphone or even a wireless microphone. Go to the Edit camera dialog and select your audio device from the drop down list. Click on the play button to listen to the audio. [image: audio-control.png] Click OK, and that's it. Now you will be able to record audio from the separate device along with video from your USB camera.

Yes, you can do this in WebCam Monitor. When you have the preview on the screen, go to the Edit camera dialog, then move to the ‘Mask Area’ tab. [image: Maskanarea.png] Enable masking, then add a mask on the camera preview. Mask the area which you don’t want to monitor. In your case, everything but the right side fence. Further, you can hide this mask from your camera preview by unchecking the ‘Show Mask area on camera preview’ option. Now, when you start monitoring, motion will not be detected under the masked region.

You can change the font color or background color for the time-stamp in WebCam Monitor. Go to the Edit camera dialog, move to the labels tab. Right click on the Time stamp and select the ‘Edit’ option. [image: DateTimeStamp.png] Change the font color and background color using the formatting toolbar options. Make the text bold. Click OK. This will make the date-time label much sharper.

This is an easy task with WebCam Monitor. Add two separate schedules, one for each webcam. On the add schedule dialog, select the first camera from ‘Camera Name’ list. Put the start date and time. Enter number of hours to run the schedule. [image: AddSchedule.png] Similarly, add another schedule for the other camera. Make sure you have selected the ‘Take Photo’ action on actions tab. [image: OnmotionDetection.png]

Yes, you can do this in WebCam Monitor. Use the image label to hide the area on your camera view. Go to the Edit camera window and select the Labels tab. Click on the ‘Add Image…’ button. [image: AddWatermarkImage.png] Select the image file using the ‘Browse’ button. Set the transparency level at ‘No Transparency’ i.e. 0%. Place this image label on the area of camera view which you would like to hide.