Suggested Settings

The Motion settings can be adjusted easily with a little bit of trial and error to find the optimum settings in all situations.

IDEAL situations are those in which motion and light changes are rare. This would probably be an indoor room where the lighting levels are constant. Settings for this might have the Motion Threshold set between 5 and 15 and the Sensitivity set in the middle. Ignore Sever Motion could still be on to ignore lights being turned on and off.

A DIFFICULT situation for motion detection would be one where there are varied types of light changes and movement for the whole motion area. An example of this would be an outdoor area on a windy or partially cloudy day where wind is blowing and the light is changing constantly because of cloud shadows and tree branches and tree shadows moving with the wind. For this type of situation, you would:

• Raise the Motion Threshold ( to about 50 )
• Raise the Sensitivity ( to about 70% )
• Turn on Ignore Severe Motion so that small light changes register between 0 and 50 and severe changes are ignored at 100%.
• Set the Check for motion every setting to 1 second or higher.

A person or vehicle moving in the motion area will still be detected when the motion percent registers between 50 and 99 percent.

Recorded Videos

Recorded videos are recorded as AVI files. The files can be compressed using an installed compressor in the Recording settings.

Play Back Blurry or Fuzzy?

The default Video compression used is the Microsoft Video 1 codec. Better quality or better compression for small file size can be achieved by downloading and installing other codecs. A recommended free codec is the Divx codec which can be downloaded at http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/. After installing a codec it will show up in the Video Compressors dialog and you can select it.
If you install and use a new video codec on the computer hosting INetAlertView Home, you must also install that codec on any remote computers that will be accessing (viewing) these recorded AVI video files.

Play Back Speed Wrong?

If the playback speed of the recorded video is not normal speed (too fast or too slow), adjust the Frames Per Second setting on the Recording settings tab value higher or lower to match the speed of the camera. Some older USB cams are very slow and may need to be set at 2-3 FPS, while video capture cards are faster (27-30 FPS).

Remote Viewing

Viewing LIVE video or RECORDED videos from a remote location can be done easily using either of the following methods.

Using INetAlertView Remote

INetAlertView Remote is a FREE companion program to INetAlertView Home that allows you to view your webcam's live video over the internet. More importantly, it can alert you INSTANTLY when motion is detected and show you the live video of the event. It also has several remote control features for controlling INetAlertView Home over the internet while you are away from your home or business. It can be downloaded from the Download Page.

Using A Web Browser

If you are at a place where you don't have INetAlertView Remote on a computer, you can still view the the live video using a Java enabled web browser by typing in a URL which consists of your home computer's IP address and the port number that INetAlertView Home broadcasts on. An example would be

http://204.245.34.53:8080/index.htm

where 204.245.34.53 is the IP address and 8080 is the broadcast port number setting in INetAlertView Home.

Likewise, you can access your recorded videos log remotely using a URL too.

http://204.245.34.53:8080/VideoLog.htm

This will display a web page of thumbnails linked to recorded video files.

These URLs will only work if the Broadcast button is turned on in INetAlertView Home.

It is recommended that you set a password in the Broadcast settings tab of INetAlertView Home for remote viewing so that others using the same computer will not have free access to your webcam and recorded videos.

Gray Screen Problem

If you have a gray screen instead of live video in either a web browser or using INetAlertView Remote, it means your web browser is not Java Enabled. Go HERE to learn how to install either Microsoft Java or Sun Java

Also make sure Java is enabled on your web browser. To do this for InternetExplorer, go to Tools - Internet Options - Advanced - Microsoft VM. Make sure all Java and JIT settings are selected. If you don't see Microsoft VM here, you can get it from a Windows update HERE.

Video Stopped Problem (VISTA & IE7)

If you have a locked up video the first time you try to view the video remotely through INetAlertView Remote, or a web browser, and you have Explorer 7 (IE7) installed on the remote computer, you will need to download and install (and reboot) the older Microsoft Java Virtual Machine (VM) HERE. This is because IE7 has put newer (and unreasonable imo) limitations on Java Applets which INetAlertView uses to serve the video remotely.