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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