How To’s

How To articles for home security cameras and action cams.

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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