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Giveaway of the day — ImWatcher 1.3
ImWatcher 1.3 was available as a giveaway on November 10, 2016!
ImWatcher is a video surveillance system with support for multiple web cameras and IP-cameras. It can monitor and record from many cameras simultaneously, and preview multiple cameras in a single window. Each camera has its own individual monitoring and recording settings. When motion is detected, it can record a video or take snapshots.
ImWatcher can use AMD Video Coding Engine (VCE), NVidia NVENC, Intel QuickSync to accelerate encoding video into H.264/AVC format.
With ImWatcher You Can Monitor:
- Office buildings after hours for security.
- Retail store to discourage theft.
- Pets when you're away.
- The activity near your home, boat or other property with motion activated recording.
- Your child or babysitter, transforming your webcam into a nanny camera.
ImWatcher supports almost any web camera. Also, it supports IP cameras with either MJPEG or .h264 streams via HTTP and RTSP protocols
System Requirements:
Windows Vista/ 7/ 8/ 10
Publisher:
High Motion SoftwareHomepage:
http://www.highmotionsoftware.com/products/imwatcherFile Size:
24.2 MB
Price:
$39.95
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Word of warning. For whatever reason the installation force-ably closed *all* of my programs I had open, including all tray programs, as if the computer was about to reboot. But instead then reopened my web browser that it just closed WITHOUT WARNING! I did not appreciate that and immediately used Safe Mode and System Restore to rid of this thing. Hopefully nobody else has this happen to them...
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"Alternatively you can get a personal download link via email." Does not work for this software today either.
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Just to update my comment - i found that the IP info you must enter for password-protected IP cams is listed as a grayed-out entry in the box before you enter your cam's IP info : You must enter it like this :
http://(user name):(password)@(ip address):(port)/(path)
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how do i remove myself from this email list? all i see is a subscribe button
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got it
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I have found no way possible to add password or user settings to access a protected IP Cam - surely no one would setup a camera these days with open access ?
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Frank Corrigan, did you see a hint in address field?
http://:@:/
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Frank Corrigan,
http://[User name]:[Password]@[IP address]:[Port]/[Path]
You can type something like this:
http://admin:12345@192.168.1.1:80/live
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Frank Corrigan, the username and password should be passed with the address.
The address will be like http://username:password@IP-address/path
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Oleg, Thanks for the info - i must not have seen your comment and found out after trying several things .
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Terrible. No problem installing and activating. I have lots of ip cam viewers and recorders on multiple platforms. Wasn't able to add any of my ip cams using the ips or a url. Program crashed. Then I allowed it to report its error that even crashed. Uninstalled. Waste of time
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Brainfart, how do I register this?
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THE MONDO, To enter the Activation сode go to About-->Activate
You have to install and activate it before the Giveaway offer for the software is over.
Terms and conditions
Please note that the software you download and install
during the Giveaway period comes with the following important limitations:
1) No free technical support
2) No free upgrades to future versions
3) Strictly non-commercial usage
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Unfortunately, have been unable to find any help whatsoever within this program.
When setting up an IP camera could somebody please tell me what the Path refers to at the end when trying to enter the address.
Quite regularly this site will not show that XP is supported even when it is, this is happening far too regularly for it to be an error but it appears to be deliberate. Personally I find this unacceptable.
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McGregor, I have finally managed to get it to connect to my bog simple dlink cameras. The path part at the end that works for me is:
/video.cgi?resolution=VGA
which is what I use for Ispy. Be sure to use the login and password and the port (usually 80 or 88)
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The Watcher,
Thank you your help is much appreciated.
Have not found IP cameras that easy to set up so you would think that a help file will be included with programs of this type.
As a developer I wouldn't release a program without some help file, if people finally easy-to-use then sales will be much higher.
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It will not let me write the code into the activation box. Manually or copy and paste.?
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Frank,
You're probably doing the same as I did, trying to paste into the large box below.
Use the small box above.
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McGregor, Thanks, that worked. :-)
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McGregor,
Thank you for your tip and for your always trying to be helpful.
Cheers,
consuella
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consuella,
Thank you kindly for your comment.
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Could anyone who has used paid Blue Iris describe how it differs in basic features compared to ImWatcher (or ISpy which has been mentioned)? Does ImWatcher (or ISpy) software work with all Foscam, Swann, Q-See, and Trendnet camera models?
I like Blue Iris, but on Win10 it uses 70% CPU on a 3.5 GHz i7 with 2 dozen cameras and motion detection is only on half of them. The exact same setup on WinXP used 60% CPU. I was hoping to find something to run on another PC that can monitor the same cameras without motion detection (or without video capture for that matter) if it doesn't hog so much CPU. I once tried Blue Iris on a G3258 processor. It crashed/hung every time with 2 dozen cameras. An i7 barely makes it.
Will either ImWatcher or ISpy do what I want?
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Can't record.
How do you fix the codec error?
using a logitec webcam on windows 10.
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Luc, right click on camera in the list-> Properties... in the CAMERA_NAME Properties window there're 2 small tabs down below choose Actions tab then under Codecs try choosing different one
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Luc, you can look at the first screenshot at this page btw..
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Evgeny, the problem I'm having is that the drop down only gives me one codec, (mpeg software) and it doesn't like it. I have clicked on the "..." next to it but it does not pull up anything
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The Watcher, I see..I don't know then...maybe install some codecs?
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OK, fixed the codec issue....
So far the only glitch I see is that you can't 'hide' the fact that the monitor is running. It's sitting there right on your taskbar so anyone can just come along and close the program or open it, see where the recordings are filed and close and delete the files. Not a good thing if you are monitoring for employee theft or inactivity etc... certainly not a good thing if you're using it to monitor what goes on in your office or work area when you're not there.
Also, no security/password feature to stop anyone from opening the program or shutting it down.
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Robert Maguire, try iSpy it's free, and i think i has "silent mode" or something like that, so nobody would see it running
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Robert Maguire, If you're on Windows 10 you can open it in a different virtual desktop then switch back to the first one and unless someone would switch to another desktop or look at the running processes list they wouldn't see it
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Robert Maguire, In this case it would be best to set a password to your Windows user account so that a password would be required to access the computer; this would prevent access to the computer without a password...
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Robert Maguire, thank you for the great ideas for the future ImWatcher versions :)
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Robert Maguire, you can use a free Nirsoft Utility WinLister to hide program windows. It does not show Windows 10 as supported but Win 98 to Win 8 both 32 and 64bit
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/winlister.html
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Robert Maguire & High Motion Software Devs:
You might want to look into running the app as a Windows "Service", which allows it to start automatically either at Windows startup, or when a user logs in. One method of accomplishing this is detailed here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/50786/using-srvstart-to-run-any-application-as-a-windows-service/
I don't currently have a need for today's give-away, so I have NOT tested the following suggestion with this app, but I have successfully configured MANY apps to run as a Windows service over the years, so I know it
can work well.
Running a program as a service removes its app icon from the system tray, hiding the fact that it is running from most PC users (the application's process(es) will still show up in Task Manager, though). Using this method, only users with Administrator-level permissions can change settings related to the service, preventing non-Admins from stopping the program once it is running. So if they went "snooping" and found the app was running, they would have to power to the system down to stop the app.
As for protecting the recorded video, Windows, Linux, and MAC OS all allow Admin-level users to quickly and easily restrict access to files and folders using file system (NTFS for Windows) permissions for those objects.
- Best of Luck!
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Robert Maguire,
can you tell me how you fixed it
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David Smith, put your mouse over the camera on left hand side of the screen, click right mouse button and go to properties, then actions - you can change the codec there.
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Hi GAOTD,
I did not receive an e-mail to the download link
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Hi #6,
they NEVER send an email - they have NEVER done it.
beline
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When it first starts you can choose data folders (at least I think so - cannot remember) and limit the size for them. After it's registered, and upon subsequent runs, there seems to be no way to change this. It isn't there as one of the "Options". This is not good.
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Dr JJS, open you camera settings by double clicking on it's preview in the left column. There you will find all the settings, including data folder and size limit
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Oleg, Thank you, that works.
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Eventually received the download link after an hour plus and downloaded and installed which turned out to be a complete waste of time as I can't get the software to work with my IP Cam. After entering my camera's details it simply sits saying connecting to HTTP://********************* but never does. Don't have any problems with similar software, camera usually connects without any problems. Complete waste of time and uninstalled.
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DaveC, can you please write to support@highmotionsoftware.com with the details? ImWatcher should work with any camera that provides MJPEG or .h264 stream via http or rtsp protocols.
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DaveC, Try to open that link in the browser to see if it's showing the video
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DaveC, Mine does the same thing.I setup 2 IP Cams and neither one would connect!
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Oleg, Thanks, but I'll pass. I have another application that serves me well, I was just curious to see if your application was similar/better to the one I use, sadly yours simply refuses to even find the camera and the very limited setup options make it impossible to teak the settings so that it will connect. I'll stick with what I have, it works perfectly well.
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Evgeny, Works perfectly in my browser. Thanks for the suggestion.
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It installed and ran in XP, however, did not manage to connect it to my IP camera as I only had a very quick try but could see no reason why it shouldn't.
Tried many of the programs of this type and only one have I ever managed to get to connect to my IP camera.
The one I managed to connect to is called Security Monitor Pro; the trial doesn't run out but after two hours of monitoring you have to restart.
This has never been a problem for me as I normally just looking to see if the postman has been.
It is the best IP camera program I have found in the ease of getting it set up for your camera, good in XP.
It is available from the following link:-
http://www.deskshare.com/video-surveillance-software.aspx
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Sorry, forgot to mention that todays download connects to my web cam without any problems in XP. :-)
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Download link not received in email, requested over an hour ago ... And yes I checked my spam folder.
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daveC, I see no problems with outgoing mail on our server now. You can try alternative e-mail address
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Received the reg key instantly. Installs on Windows 10 x64, works with regular web cam, works with ip cam, thanks, i like it!
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