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Motion Detection or Timed Emails, DropBox or FTP Upload
The camera refers to motion detection as an “alarm”. In the camera’s “Task
Management” menu you can select what you want the camera to do once
there is an alarm or once a certain time period has elapsed.
Task 1 “
Email alarm sending
” allows you to set up the details of your email
server account and have the camera send you an email with an attached JPEG
snapshot. This means the camera can alert you on your cell phone with a
picture when it detects motion. You can also set it up to send you pictures
automatically every few minutes, or have the camera upload these files to
DropBox or an FTP server with tasks 2, 3, and 4 respectively.
One thing to keep in mind when sending pictures to cell phones is that without
an unlimited data plan you might incur charges by your cell phone carrier for
each picture, and that wrong settings for sensitivity or motion detection area
can result in lots of extra emails or DropBox uploads. So we suggest testing it
with your phone connected to your Wifi first, before you incur data charges.
The factory default setting for motion detection is a single motion detection
window covering the entire visible area. The “
Motion Detection
” menu allows
you to designate up to 4 separate windows with individually adjustable
sensitivity, however you should keep this menu at default settings until you
are more familiar with the more basic setup steps.
Please note that this “
Motion Detection
” menu is entirely optional and is
generally not used unless you have very specific requirements to treat motion
on some parts of the screen different from other parts. Please see Appendix C
for further details on this menu.
The much more important part of the motion detection setup is in the “
Task
Management
” menu, specifically the task 1 “
Email alarm sending
”
For automatic emailing you will need both an outgoing email server and one
or more receiving email addresses. For the outgoing server we strongly
recommend to sign up for a new free Gmail account to be used just by the
camera for sending emails. Since that account needs specific settings, it should
be separate from your regular email account where you would receive emails.
Following is an example of a proper configuration for using Gmail as the
outbound server. This can be used send email to any receiving email address
such as Yahoo, Hotmail, Outlook, or others.
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