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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Lifehacker’s Kevin Purdy reviews the Yoics Google Gadget.

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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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Advanced Yoics configuration

The Yoics NOW proxy is an advanced feature of the Yoics desktop. With NOW, you make any networked service or device on your network into a internet remote accessible and shareable device, all without needing complex router configuration OR needing to introduce security vulnerabilities to your network.

Getting started

NOTE: The Yoics NOW proxy is recommended for ADVANCED users only. Although we don’t expect any horrific consequences of trying it out, we recommend you know a bit about networking before trying it out.

To bring up the NOW Proxy configuration, select
>> Services
>>>Now Proxy…

Configuration menu

1. Proxy list. This is a list of all devices that are enabled by Yoics on the computer you are curently using. The list includes both Proxy devices and standard configured Yoics devices.
   • Alias: This list the name that you’ve given the device.
   • Type: Shows what type of device (folder, VNC, etc.)
   • Address: Shows the internal (local) IP address that this device is configured for.
   • Port: Shows what TCP port that the device is operating on.
   • State: Shows the current state of the device.
     • Enabled: Active and available
     • Disabled: Configured but turned off (not available)
     • Reserved: A pre-configured Yoics device (e.g. folder) which cannot be modified from the Yoics Now menu.
2. Delete: You can select any non-reserved device from the list and delete it here. This will only delete it from Yoics.
3. Change: This brings up the change dialog, allowing you to change the values for the local IP address and the Port. This is typically used if your router recycled and your local IP values were reset.
4. Preview: Selecting a devcie on the list and clicking the Preview button, will bring up the browser and show you what you’ll see if you remote view the device.
5. Common name: This is where you enter a name for a new proxy device that you would like to configure.
6. Service type: This is where you select what type of device you are configuring.
   • HTTP: Select this if you are configuring something with a web-interface, such as a router, for remote access.
   • HTTPS: This is for something with a standard web-interface, over a secure connection.
   • TCP: This is used for any generic TCP communication protocol.
   • TELNET: This is for a Telnet server.
   • Subversion: This is to allow configuration to a Subversion server.
   • VNC: This is a pre-configured setting for VNC servers.
   • Printer: This is used to make a network printer remote accessible via Yoics.
   • RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol): This is a pre-configured setting for Microsoft Remote Desktop access to a machine (requires XP Pro, Vista Business or above on the server end).
   • TVersity: This is a pre-configured setting for the popular TVersity Media Server.
7. Select this box if the service that you are making accessible via Yoics is running on the same computer as Yoics.
8. If the service is NOT running on the same computer, enter the local IP address of the service OR device that you are making accessible via Yoics. Note: Yoics NOW proxy only works with devices or services on the same network as the computer running Yoics. The sub-network address range will be automatically loaded here.
9. Enter the port of that the service that you are making available uses. For any pre-configured Yoics setting, this will be automatically entered for you.
10. Once you’ve made all the entries, select “ADD” to add it to your proxy list.
11. Clicking OK will register the device you just configured with yoics.com
12. Cancel if you changed your mind about setting something up.

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OK, so you love your Mac, but wouldn’t it be great if it was a server too?  Or maybe you’ve got a Mac Book, no reason you shouldn’t be able to serve up files or photos to friends, even if you’re on-line at Starbucks right?

The latest version of Yoics for Mac is just about ready, but we’re so excited about it we decided to make it available as a public Alpha, so if you want to instantly transform your Mac into an Internet appliance now you can.

Because it’s Alpha, expect that there will be issues, but Tom our main-Mac-man, assures us that it’s pretty good, and that any feedback we get will get implemented ASAP.  If you do have some questions, feel free to comment here, post on the public Mac page on our forum , or you can send us an email at “macsupport [at] yoics [dot] com.”

Download the most recent pre-release here:

Overview

The Internet is all about easy access and sharing. Unfortunately even with high-speed broadband connectivity, your computers and networking equipment are hardly web friendly resources. Until now!

Yoics is a powerful network solution that transforms any computer or network attached device instantly into an easily accessible and shareable internet resource.

The Yoics desktop looks and works a lot like an instant messenger application, except instead of a device list, you get a list of devices . These devices can be yours or ones that have been shared to you. With the Yoics desktop you can make any data, service or even device on your network accessible to you from anywhere on the Internet.

During initial setup, you’ll have the option to use our setup wizard to auto configure your Mac for remote desktop, folder sharing, photo sharing and web-cam sharing.

Yoics also provides custom configuration, so that advanced users can configure just about any data, service or device to be accessible and shareable remotely.  We’ve got a separate page for advanced setup .

Yoics Web folders

Once you configure a folder with Yoics, it becomes instantly Internet accessible and shareable either via a web browser or a webDav folder.

The real neat thing about Yoics folders are that they are actually Apache servers on their own.  So if you’ve got some web-skills, select “web template” when you create your Yoics folders – and you can fully customize them to your hearts content.

Yoics Photos

File view is just one of the options that you have with Yoics Folders. If you have a folder with digital pictures, just configure it with Yoics Photos, and you instantly have a personal photo site, viewable and shareable across the internet.

Remote desktop

Sometimes accessing files or folders just isn’t enough, especially if you’re providing computer support for a less than savvy computer user that you know. Yoics features a pre-configured remote desktop server, so remotely managing computers with your keyboard and mouse is as easy as a double-mouse click.  So you can access remote machines without requiring complex virtual private network (VPN) or router configuration.

Yoics surveillance

Have an iSight or other webcam? With Yoics, now you can instantly “see” your camera from any browser, even the one on your iPhone. The motion detection/surveillance storage isn’t turned on yet for this Alpha version, but stay tuned, for your own personal web surveillance solution.

Yoics NOW proxy

Files and remote desktop are undoubtedly the two most popular things that people want access to. But lets face it, there are thousands of other network devices and services that would be awesome to have remote access into, and with Yoics NOW it’s immediately possible. Want to print to your network printer from vacation? No problem. Want to get to your router’s configuration screen without having to open a hole in your firewall? Easy. Whether it’s a dedicated network device or a TCP/IP service running on your machine, Yoics NOW allows you to transform it into a remote accessible and shareable internet resource.

Here you see MyTunesRSS , a media server, configured to work with Yoics.

iPhone access

At Yoics we’re big fans of the iPhone, so as you might imagine, most of our stuff works great when viewed from its browser.

System requirements

• PPC G4, G5 or Intel Core Duo processor
• ac OS X version 10.4.5 or later
• 512 MB RAM
• 80 MB HD space
• DSL or Cable High Speed networking at 384Kbps or higher
• Additional resources are required for systems sharing more than 5 active Yoics services.
• Systems sharing greater than 10 services will require premium computer systems and high speed network connections.

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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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Yawcam , Yet Another Web Cam, is a nice program that is available for free download . Using the Yoics NOW! proxy built into the desktop, you can configure it for remote Internet viewing, without the need to configure your router for port forwarding.

Configure Yawcam for streaming

Open the Yoics NOW! configuration menu

Add a configuration for YawCam

1. Give it a name, e.g. YawCam
2. Select HTTP, since you will be viewing YawCam via a browser.
3. Port 8081 is the default port for YawCam’s streaming data. If you configured YawCam to use a different port, enter that here.
4. Select "Add."
5. Select "OK."

To Internet access your web-cam, either load the Yoics desktop onto the remote machine & double click on YawCam, or login to yoics.com and do the same.

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