ContaCam : Free Video Surveillance software for Windows 10

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Security is everybody concerned, and most of us use security or CCTV cameras in shops, homes, etc. ContaCam is free video surveillance and ‘live camera’ software for Windows computers that can be used with any camera attached to PC / laptop or network cameras. With this freeware tool’s help, you can easily monitor places where you cannot be present physically. ContaCam is very user-friendly software and monitors the sites through WebCam. It comes with various features and privacy settings.

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Just download the ContaCam and install it on PC. Open this freeware app from the desktop shortcut. Once it is running, go to the Capture menu and then select the camera for which you want to start surveillance.

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In a new window, you can see a live stream from the camera. You can take a snapshot manually or record audio and video.

Most of the things can be customized through their settings. You can open up ‘Camera Basic Settings’ for configuring a few basic settings. Under this, you can choose how you want to use your camera. There are four options, ‘Movement Detection Surveillance’ (in this option, you can do recording 24 hrs), ‘Snapshots with History,’ ‘Snapshots without History,’ and ‘Manual Record.’

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Under Basic Settings, you can give your camera a name and customize the web interface corresponding to it.

Next, you can choose the video file format in which the recordings will be saved, and there are two of them available: MP4 and AVI. You can choose the file save duration from one day to unlimited days after specific time saved videos will be deleted automatically. You can adjust the hard disk size limitation in percentage and also the camera folder size limit. In case the free disk space becomes low or the camera folder size is reached, the older recordings will be automatically deleted.

Finally, coming to the Email settings. ContaCam has an inbuilt feature of email alerts when a motion occurs or any malfunction in the camera. Just configure your email, and you will receive a notification if something goes wrong.

Now moving to its advanced settings allows us to control everything about the video source, including the camera. You can set frame rate, brightness, hue, saturation, contrast, sharpness, video compression quality, audio source to record the voices, etc. It also comes with a scheduler that lets you automate the recording and surveillance process.

contacam-advanced-settingsUnder the Snapshots tab, you can choose the time interval between snapshots and set the quality. You can schedule snapshots and can be automatically uploaded using FTP.

snapshotYou can enable movement detection from the last tab. You can set the detection parameters and choose detection sensitivity, and then you can set detection limits, and again, you can schedule detection as well.

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“On Detection commands”– one motion is detected, it will be executed. It can start recording a short and long video, send emails with those videos attached, upload them to an FTP server or run a CMD command.

The video streaming from the camera can also be accessed from a browser by typing the address provided by ContaCam, from both the local area network and the internet.

ContaCam is a great tool with a set of features that makes it the best surveillance software. Since its access is allowed from the internet, you can use surveillance from anywhere in this world. You can download ContaCam from here.

 

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