Yawcam is an excellent webcam streaming and security application. It is easy to set up and use, and has a wide range of features to customize your security and streaming settings. The motion detection feature is especially useful for monitoring your home or office. The ability to assign passwords to protect the content from unwanted access is also a great feature. Overall, Yawcam is a great choice for anyone looking for an easy to use, secure webcam streaming and security application.
Yawcam is intended to stream your camera’s signal via HTTP and FTP. The tool lets you share the captured video by providing others with the cam’s IP. The recipient can then adjust such parameters as video quality, the number of frames per second and scale. The broadcast signal is available not only on the local network but also to other remote users, but this requires configuring port forwarding on your router. Your being worried about unauthorized people accessing your video streaming is logical, that is why it is good to know that it can be protected by a password.
The program can be used for surveillance purposes. In this respect, it is possible to activate motion detection. Luckily, you can avoid false alarms by adjusting its sensitivity and tolerance levels as well as defining the monitored area. When a motion event is detected, the tool can save video or images to file, upload them to an FTP site, send an email to a given address, run an executable file or play an alarm sound.
Yawcam’s interface is not difficult to use; yet, in my opinion, it is not very attractive. It does not look very modern and it is frequently required to switch between windows.
In fewer words, Yawcam can solve some of the problems related to streaming video over a network and using a camera for surveillance. Other features of this tool include scheduling broadcasts to start automatically. Likewise, it lets you text and image overlays for the signal. The product is free to use but donations are encouraged.
v0.5 [Feb 1, 2016]
- Fixed problem with repeated images when device wakes up after sleep.
- Fixed extravars text overlay for empty files.
- Fixed correct action on cancel button for IP camera settings.
- Fixed the broken limit function for motion detection actions.
- Fixed performance problem when the Motion Event list is very long.
- Fixed possible memory leak when previewing Motion Events.
- Fixed window position when previewing Motion Events.
- Fixed image width/height ratio in Motion Events' mini preview.
- Fixed e-mail smtp port number problem in SSL mode.
- Fixed the 2GB file size limit for "Images to Movie".
- Fixed broken page preview.
- Fixed compatibility issues with Java 9.
- Added default URL if version check fails.
- Added auto sensitivity/tolerance for motion detection.
- Added new algorithm for motion detection.
- Added max filter for motion detection.
- Added noise filter for motion detection.
- Added popup menu with image size for motion detection.
- Added video recorder for motion detection.
- Added auto delete for motion detection's event list.
- Added option to show Preview Window without borders.
- Added functionality to move Preview Window with mouse dragging.
- Added support for running multiple instances of Yawcam.
- Improved JPEG encoding performance.
- Removed the Java Applet.
- Updated language files.
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