You will need to install NetCat for windows and VLC for windows. This is little hacky and hard to understand but there is no way to harm the computer at all. But you will get only images not audio/video. If you have a real FTP server, it will be working. Now when it detect any motions, the Camera will try to upload to the computer. These are all settings on Foscam Camera side. This number is something you can tweak later. 'Upload interval (seconds)' can be bigger than 60.'Upload image on Alarm' should be checked.'Motion Detection Alarmed' should be checked.'Alarm Service Settings' looks like this: But at the time FTP connection is requested, VLC is launched and VLC start recording video streaming data directly from Foscam Camera.On the FTP server side, it ignores whatever is sent from Foscam Camera.When any motions are detected Foscam Camera try to connect to FTP server and upload image files.So I am recording video streaming data when the FTP connection is requested, while the actual image uploading from the camera will be ignored. But it doesn't have any ways to upload video streaming data. The idea was that my Foscam Camera can upload image files onto FTP server when motion is detected. I don't think neither of them are big deal but I started implementing my idea for fun. This way, the WiFi bandwidth is saved and CPU power that were supposed to be spent on image processing is saved. So it made me thinking that when IP camera detect any motions, it can let my computer know that the recording has to start. Today I found that my IP Camera ( Foscam FI8910W Wireless IP Camera) has motion detection feature already in it. It was about 7.3MByte per minute, which is 122KByte/sec. Because the motion detection happens on the computer side not on the camera side, the computer must download all the video data from the IP camera via WiFi. It had been working very well and I was enjoying it a lot.Ī little problem was that this software has to be running 24/7 and all of the video data must be streamed from IP camera to the computer that iSpy is running even when there is no motions are detected. Although it has several features, the features I was using was recording video/audio when motion is detected. ISpy is a cool open source software that records surveillance video. *Edit ( Aug/18/2014 ): I made a C/C++ program that stores the stream video from Foscam IP camera with libvlc.

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