How To’s

How To articles for home security cameras and action cams.

How to Automate Using IFTTT for Ring Video Doorbell

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The Ring Video Doorbell is an excellent home security camera made for monitoring the front of your house.  IFTTT for Ring provides a degree of automation that most owners aren’t aware of.  IFTTT is a free service that integrates devices and services such as gmail, your phone, Facebook and Pinterest.  In some cases, IFTTT integrates devices from one manufacturer with those from another manufacturer.  IFTTT is an acronym for “If This Then That”.  You can do some very cool stuff with IFTTT for Ring and this article will show you how to do it.  IFTTT isn’t owned by Ring and in fact is … Read more

How to Automate Using IFTTT for Oco Home Surveillance Cameras

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I have found that Oco Wireless Home Surveillance Cameras are some of the most easily automated cameras available today.  How do you do that?  By using a service called IFTTT.  This is a free service that facilitates integration with devices and services such as gmail, your phone, Facebook and Pinterest.  IFTTT is an acronym for “If This Then That”.  You can do some very cool stuff with IFTTT for Oco cameras.  IFTTT isn’t owned by Oco.  It is independent of the devices that are supported. This article will show you how to integrate IFTTT for Oco cameras and highlight some of the automation capabilities. … Read more

How to Setup Email on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries Camera

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We have written several tutorial and how to articles for the Amcrest HDPro and Amcrest HDSeries home security cameras.  Excellent hardware with some of the most unfriendly user software around.  You need to have some advanced IT knowledge to use these.  Tutorials on how to do a lot of stuff aren’t easy to find.  So that’s why we are writing this easy to follow tutorial on how to setup email on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries camera.  Both camera models use the same web interface so when we refer to the HDPro in this article, it also applies to the HDSeries. … Read more

How to Keep your Home Security Camera Secure

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A home security camera is a great tool for keeping an eye on your home or business.  You want to make sure that only those that have permission are the ones that are accessing your home security camera.  We provide some advice and tips on how to keep it secure. Some of our advice comes from good security practices that should be in place across your network.  Other tips come from personal experience in setting up my own home security cameras. Our intent with this article is to provide a high level overview of what you should do so that it’s … Read more

How to Eliminate False Motion Alerts on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries Camera

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You have to love the Amcrest HDPro and Amcrest HDSeries home security cameras.  Great pieces of hardware.  These cameras can do almost anything asked of it.  The trick is knowing how to get it to do something.  Today we discuss how to eliminate false motion alerts on an Amcrest HDPro or HDSeries camera.  Both camera models use the same web interface so when we refer to the HDPro in this article, it also applies to the HDSeries. First, if looking to understand how to setup motion, first setup email.  We have a detailed article on how to setup email on … Read more

How to Get the Canary Temperature Monitor to Work Properly

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I recently installed a Canary All-in-One Home Security Camera System.  Excellent video with some nice security features.  You can read our full review here.  Installation was easy however I had immediate issues with the Canary temperature, humidity and air quality monitoring to work properly.  This article will help you to get the Canary temperature and other environmental monitors to function properly. There were two issues that I ran into regarding the Canary temperature.  The first was getting an accurate reading of the temperature and that was simple to fix.  The second issue was that the Canary temperature, humidity and air … Read more

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