Quick Start on Using Watcher

Note: You can also take a look at Quick Start on How to Connect RemoteView to Watcher

What to do after the installation of Watcher? The following are the few things you can try to give you a quick start:

1. Try the system menu. 

Please click on the round button at the top left of the window.  From there, you can choose a lot of rich functions like "Video Source" that enables you to adjust brightness, contrast and other camera settings.  "Monitor Setting" to set monitoring sensitivity, phone alert, etc. "Video Format" to let you choose video frame size, compression quality.

2. Try the Monitor function of Watcher.

Please click on the small start button right under "Monitor", the program will tell you that the monitor will start in 5 seconds. Try to move around, your motion will be detected and recorded into a log file.

3. View the recorded motion in the log window.

Please click on the "Logs" tab at  the top of the window. That will switch Watcher from Capture Mode to Log mode. In Log Mode,  there should be one or more log files. Double click on one of them and the program will start play the video which was just recorded. While it is playing, you can try to click on different buttons under the video window. You can try pause it, play it faster or slower, zoom in or zoom out.

4. Try adjusting monitoring sensitivity.

Now go back to Capture Mode by clicking on Capture Tab on the top of the window. Click on the round button at the top left of the window and choose "Monitor Setting". There are seven sensitivity levels, ranging from 1 (lowest) to 7 (highest). Choose a different sensitivity level and click on "Apply". Start monitor again, try to move yourself around to test whether Watcher can detect you.

5. Try other monitoring settings

Choose the same "Monitor Setting" menu. You can adjust some other monitor setting here. For example, you can choose a wave file to play when motion is detected. 

6. Try recording a video into a file.

Click on the start button right under "Record", you will be prompted to enter the name of the video file that is going to be produced by Watcher. Enter the file name and click 'Save', the video recording starts right away until you press "Stop" button.

7. Play the recorded video

Please click on the "Logs" tab at  the top of the window to go to the log window (Log Mode). Click on the file open icon at the left bottom of the window and choose the file just recorded. While it is playing, you can also try click around to pause it, play it faster or slower, zoom in or zoom out.

8. Listen to RemoteView 

Finally, you can try to listen to RemoteView. Click on the small start button under "Listen", enter appropriate settings and click on Apply to proceed. Please refer to quick start on how to use RemoteView to connect to Watcher. 

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Last updated 05-05-01.

Introduction

   -- Watcher QuickStart

   -- Remoteview Quickstart

Help on  Watcher

   -- Capture Mode

   -- Log Mode 

Help on Remoteview

How to Register

Troubleshooting

Tips and Tricks