Sharing from Yoics.com

1. Select the “gear” icon next to the device you want to share.
2. Select the “+” to expand the sharing controls.
3. Select what type of sharing you’d like to provide & enter Yoics ID or email into the “invite” box.  Then click the ’share” button.
   • View (only allows friend to view content)
   • Change (allows friend to change content, note: must be supported by device)
   • Guest (guest access, drop-down menu specifies duration etc.  PRO only)
4. Shows who the device is shared to (by email address), and allows you to remove (delete) them from sharing.  By default your email address is shown.

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So you’ve got a web-cam and you’d love to create a daily time-lapse video.  With Yoics, it couldn’t be easier.

If you haven’t already done so, download and install the latest version of Yoics for Windows.

You can either have the wizard setup your camera for you, or you can manually configure it by selecting Web/IP Cam:

Time-lapse

The Time-lapse setting allows you to create a daily video of your camera’s view, independent of events.   Images are captured every-minute then assembled into a video clip at the end of the day.

1. Click to enable time-lapse creation.
2. Click and adjust the time settings if you want to only create a time-lapse during a particular time of the day.

Like other video, the daily time-lapse will be uploaded to YouTube and a notification will be sent out (Twitter, email) if you’ve setup Yoics that way.

Instantly publish to YouTube

Yoics allows you to automatically publish your captured events on YouTube.   Simply enter in your YouTube credentials and video clips will be uploaded based on the criteria that you’ve selected.

1. Enable YouTube publishing
2. Only publish your daily summary (default)
3. Store motion events in your private YouTube (requires Yoics Pro)

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Whether it’s your initial setup or if you want to change your configuration, you start by selecting “Web/IP Camera” on the Yoics application.

Selecting that will bring up the general setup page.

1. Select the webcamera on your machine that you would like to use with Yoics.  Select Change, if the default device is not what you want.
   • Check “Enable motion detection” if you would like to use the surveillance features
   • Alias:  Give your camera any name that you’d like
   • Select the folder where you’d like video to be stored.
2. If you want to get to the Advance settings, select Change Settings.”
3. To remove a camera, select this buttom.
4. If you would like to monitor more than one camera, use this option to add it (Pro feature only).
5. Yoics will detect all video sources, if you would like the application to ignore particular ones (e.g. 1394 firewire port) you can select that here.

General settings

Selecting the “Chang Settings” will bring up the advanced setup pages.

1. Enter in the street location of your camera (optional).  This data will be useful if you like your camera to appear in maps mash-ups etc.
2. Select the rate per second that you’d like to capture events & what size (resolution) that you’d like to use.

Motion detection

1. Select to enable motion detection for your webcam.  This will record a video clip based on your specified parameters each time motion is detected.
   • Motion sensitivity: Select how much activity should trigger a recording.
   • Minimum Motion Clip Length:  Specify how long an event should be before recording (=motion+dead time).
   • Maximum Motion Clip Length: Sets an upper bound on the clip length
   • Local Motion Storage Limit:  How much room you want to have for video clips.
   • Motion Event End Dead Time:  How much time after an event that the program should wait, before stopping recording.
   • Maximum number of days to retain:  How many days to keep the video.
2. Motion area:  Use your mouse to select an area to detect motion, all other areas will be ignored.
3. This uses your hard disk storage most efficiently, where once it’s used up, it will start deleting  older video clips.
4. Selecting this will enable the creation of a daily summary, comprised of a time-lapse of your day’s events.

Time-lapse

The Time-lapse setting allows you to create a daily video of your camera’s view, independent of events.   Images are captured every-minute then assembled into a video clip at the end of the day.

1. Click to enable time-lapse creation.
2. Click and adjust the time settings if you want to only create a time-lapse during a particular time of the day.

Like other video, the daily time-lapse will be uploaded to YouTube and a notification will be sent out (Twitter, email) if you’ve setup Yoics that way.

Web Publishing (Yoics Pro accounts only)

Coming soon.

Notification

Notification specifies when/how you’d like to be notified if your webcam captures an event.

1. General settings
   • Minimum Clip Length:  Set the minimum length clip for which you want to be notified
   • Include motion images:  Include a thumbnail in your notification
2. Email notification
   • Set the interval for which you’d like to receive an email notification.
3. Twitter notification
   • You can have a Tweet automatically sent out for either your daily summary (default) or all of your events.

On-line storage (YouTube)

Yoics allows you to automatically publish your captured events on YouTube.   Simply enter in your YouTube credentials and video clips will be uploaded based on the criteria that you’ve selected.

1. Enable YouTube publishing
2. Only publish your daily summary (default)
3. Store motion events in your private YouTube (requires Yoics Pro)

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Overview

The Yoics Remote Access gadget adds the device list into Gmail (iGoogle and Google Desktop).  Once installed you can access any of your Yoics configured computer, folder or devices, with a click of a mouse.  Just click on device hyperlink and a new browser tab or window will be opened up with the device.

Getting started

To begin, you’ll need to have some Yoics configured devices.  If you want to be able to remote desktop or remote access your computer’s folders, you can set it up for free by downloading Yoics for Windows or Yoics for Mac.  Yoics is also available for Linux, the Drobo network attached storage product and network cameras for Lorex and Astak.

Gadget url

In order to add the Yoics Gadget to Gmail, you’ll first need to enable Google Labs.

1. Select “settigns”
2. Select “Labs”

1. Enable “Add any gadget by URL”

1. Select “Gadget”
2. Enter the following url:  http://www.yoics.com/gadgets/YoicsBetaGadget.xml
3. Click “Add”

That’s it.  You’ll see the Yoics gadget added.  Simply enter in your Yoics user ID (or email address) and password.

Accessing your devices

• Clicking on the blue Yoics icon will open up a new browser window or tab with your device.
• To share a device, click on the share icon next to the device.
• To see the access log of a device, just click on the log icon.
• Clicking on the green Yoics icon will show your friends devices.

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Drobo File Explorer

If you want to enable File upload capability, you’ll need to enter a password.  To change the password, just select ’set password.’  The default value is “password”

1. Select “Set Password”
2. Enter old password (default is “password”)
3. Enter in your new password
4. Select “set”

My WebCam

If you want to delete motion detected events, you’ll need to enter a password.   The default password is “password.”  There is currently no way to change the default password.

Remote VNC access

If you have version 2.6.086 or later of Yoics for Windows, it features UltraVNC as the remote desktop server.  When you access that desktop remotely, it will ask for a password.  The default password is “password”

To change the password, look in the system tray for the WinVNC icon, right-click with your mouse and select, Admin properties.

From there you can enter in a new password.

Note:  it may take several minutes for the password to update.

For more information on the various configuration options for UltraVNC, please visit UltraVNC .

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Once you’ve loaded Yoics, your Mac is instantly transformed into your own personal web-accessible resource. Remote desktop into your machine from any web-connected browser, access any of your files or folders from anywhere, or even view your iSight camera. And with the powerful Now! proxy, you can make any TCP service into a web accessible server.

So if you’re ready, download away.

Installation

Installation is pretty easy, just download, unpack and put where ever you’d like – such as the Applications folder.

Yoics makes your Mac into your own personal web-server, and to do so use a custom flavor of Apache, so the first time you run Yoics expect to see this message.

Once it’s loaded, you’re Mac will be transformed into a virtual web-server, making it into a great web-resource for you, your friends and family.

Getting started

Once installation is complete, you’ll see the login box. If you already have a yoics account, just use those credentials to start the application.

If you are new to Yoics, just select the “Create New Account” right below the “login bar,” to bring up the new account creation dialog .

Once you’ve logged in, you’ll see the Yoics desktop. It works and operates a lot like an instant messaging application, so the next step is to populate your “buddy list” with your devices.

Remote desktop

Configuring remote desktop allows you to be able to remote command your Mac from any web browser, and it’s as easy to setup as 1-2-3.

1. Select Remote desktop

2. Give your machine a name

Then just click the check the box to finish setup.

3. Accessing your desktop

When you’re away from your machine, you can access your computer one of two ways, either through the desktop or via yoics.com. In either case, just double click the “name” you gave your desktop to start the viewer.

Once you’ve clicked on the desktop name, you’ll see the RealVNC logo (the viewer that we build in) and a dialog box asking if you approve the connection. Just hit OK.

That’s it. A window with your remote desktop should appear and you can use your keyboard and mouse, just as if you were right there in front of the machine.

Folder sharing

Sharing folder via Yoics is straight forward & once you’ve setup a folder via Yoics, you’ve transformed it into your own mini-Apache server, so not only can you remote access it from any browser, but you can customize it to your hearts content.

1. Select Folders

2. Select the folder & the style

Yoics provides three styles that you can setup your folders with:

• File Explorer: This looks much like a Finder file view

• Photo Galley: This is great for Photos and even auto-formats for the iPhone.

• Web Template: This is fully customizable, if you know HTML or PHP, go crazy.

iSight

Of course your iSight is available via Yoics as well. Just select the Web Cam button and configure your iSight for remote viewing. We’ll be adding a surveillance software solution soon, so stay tuned.

• Turn on iSight Camera: click this to enable remote viewing
• Port: TCP port to use with iSight (unless advanced user, leave as default)
• Alias: Give your camera a preferred name.
• Message: A caption to show up on the camera image.
• Ramdisk: location to store temporary data.

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Yoics instantly transforms any webCam into your own personal surveillance system. Now whether its your cat, dog or even annoying neighbor, bingo you cat catch it all onto your hard disk. Featuring motion detection & of course remote viewing and sharing, right from your iPhone, Yoics turns your webCam into a perfect iPhone accessory.

Using the Set Up Wizard

For this tutorial, we’re presuming that you already have Yoics installed on your machine. If not, just go to Yoics for Windows to get that done.

The setup wizard will automatically setup your webCam for you & by far that’s the easiest way to go. To access the setup wizard, select Tools>Setup Wizard to access the set up wizard.

Click My Web Cam and hit the <Setup Now> button

The setup wizard will automatically setup your webCam.

Manually setting up your web cam

If you prefer to set up you web cam manually, just click on the web cam icon on the Yoics desktop application, which will bring up the configuration screen.

Web Cam configuration screen

(1) Click here to select your web cam. If you only have one, it will be auto checked for you. (technically the surveillance application only supports one camera, but rumor has it that you can have multiple. don’t say we didn’t warn you if you do it, and it eats up all your CPU cycles though.)

(2) Selecting here enabled motion detection. With this feature enabled, you will only store the footage where motion is detected.

(3) Alias. The default alias will be My Webcam. To change it, simply enter a new alias and this is what will show up on your device list (e.g. mywebcam).

(4) Select or create a folder where all your footage will be stored.

After inputting all your web cam information click <OK> to register the device. Once you have received a confirmation that the registration is complete, you are ready to access or share your web cam.

Your webcam will show up on your device list & you can double-click to view it via your browser, or you can login to yoics.com – to view it remotely from anywhere.

View from any web browser

go to www.yoics.com and enter in your credentials

The top viewer is your live Web Cam view with stored events listed in sequential order.

To delete store events

Simply check the stored event and hit the <delete> button. You will be prompted to enter a password, enter the default password which is "password" We will be upgrading this feature soon, so that you can change and modify your own personal password.

View from your iPhone

View stored events

Share with friends

With Yoics, sharing your camera (or any Yoics device) is as easy as 1-2-3.

Just select the device that you want to share & click on the sharing icon. Enter in the Yoics ID (or email address) of the person that you want to share with (whoever you are sharing with needs to also be registered with Yoics), and click ADD. Once a device has been shared, it will show up on their device list – with a note that it’s shared to them from you.

If you have a falling out with that friend, no worries, just select them & remove them from your share. Needless to say, much easier than asking for a new IP address.

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Yoics is the (almost) instant way to make just about anything you have connected to the Internet into your own personal web-site. Yoics Photos allows you to take any folder of pictures and make it viewable from any web-browser, even the one on your iPhone. Want to share them with friends? No problem, just like any web resource, Yoics photo folders are easy to share with any of your on-line friends.

Setup Wizard

The easiest way to configure your digital pictures for web access is through the setup wizard. The wizard will start the first time you run Yoics and is available anytime by going to >> Tools, Setup Wizard.

Just make sure the third option is selected, and the Wizard will automatically configure your computer for web photo viewing.

Yoics Manual Photo configuration

If you would like to select a particular folder for photo viewing (it can be a sub folder of My Pictures), you can easily do so through manual setup. Please go to the Manual Yoics Photo Folder configuration tutorial.

Accessing via the web

Go to yoics.com and login using your yoics credentials.

Once logged in:

1. On the left hand side is your device list, just look for the name of the Yoics Photo folder (default is My Pictures). Once you’ve located it, just click on it like you would any hyperlink.
2. Your Pictures will show up on the right hand side just as if they were on a Photo site, except in this case the Photo site is your very own computer.

iPhone Access

Accessing via the Desktop

Like all other Yoics devices, simply double-click on the device & a window with you Yoics Photo folder will be launched in a browser window.

WebDav access

In addition to viewing in browser mode, if you access via the Yoics desktop you can also choose to use our File Explorer mode, by right clicking on any Yoics folder and selecting the Open in File Explorer. The picture folder is opened up in the native operating system folder system allowing drag & drop access to/from the folder.

Sharing

All Yoics folders are shareable either through web viewing or webDav for full drag & drop access. Visit the Sharing tutorial to learn how. If you want to share access to your folder, simply right click any Yoics folder and select "Share with Friends" and simply add their email address or designated Yoics ID.

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The Aviosys 9100a is a four-port, Ethernet based video surveillance solution. The product has an enthusiastic user base, with an active Yahoogroup community.  As a development test vehicle, Yoics produced a custom “Yoics enabled” version of 9100a firmware.  Unlike the standard 9100a firmware, the Yoics version supports round-robin mode, Firefox and Safari browsers and even features an iPhone ready interface.

Download

NOTE:  The Yoics 9100a firmware was developed as a test vehicle and although regularly updated is neither an official Yoics nor Aviosys product.

Download version 2.47

Overview

The Yoics 9100a Firmware includes a few nice enhancements over the standard 9100a firmware.  Simply clicking on either the camera image or the icons above, will bring up single camera view.  While in four camera view, all four images are regularly updated in true-round robin mode.  Clicking on “legacy interface” will bring up the AVIOSYS interface.

iPhone view

With version 2.46 and above, the Yoics firmware also includes autodetection for iPhone browsers & delivers a specific iPhone interface.

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TVersity

TVersity is a great Media Server that is available for free download , that transforms any Windows computer into a full fledged media server and allows playback via just about any networked device. Learn more at TVersity.com

How it works

• Add your home and internet media to TVersity
• Organize it, tag it and create playlists
• Access it from your TV and mobile devices

Attention: TVersity is free for HOME and NON-COMMERCIAL USE. Please contact the company for a commercial license.

Adding Yoics

When combined with Yoics, TVersity also becomes easily remote accessible, without requiring any complex network configuration (such as port forwarding on your router).

If you haven’t done so already, download and install Yoics for Windows .

Open Now Proxy configuration menu

Enter information

1. Give it a name (any name that you want)
   
2. Select TVersity, which will automatically configure Yoics for you.
3. Port 41952 (default) will be automatically selected. If you are using an alternative port, modify this port to that selection.
4. Select ADD
5. Select OK

Remote accessing

There are two ways to Internet access your TVersity Server, either using the Yoics desktop or by logging in to yoics.com. If you are using the desktop, just double click on the name of your TVersity server, and if you’ve logged in to yoics.com (via a browser on a computer or a handheld, like an iPhone) just simply click once, like you would with any hyperlink.

Once you’ve accessed TVersity server, you’ll see their familiar interface & you can operate that as usual.

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