iSpy uses your webcams and microphones to detect and record movement or sound and provides security, surveillance, monitoring and alerting services. Any media that is captured is compressed to flash video and made available, securely over the web. iSpy can be setup to run on multiple computers simultaneously.
iSpy is free, open-source software, so if you want it to do anything else, please download the source code and customize it to your requirements.
Features:
- Embed the iSpy Viewer in your own website
- Control PTZ enabled IP cameras
- Listen to and monitor remote microphones live over the network
- Pair video and audio sources for capturing movies with sound
- Upload to YouTube - auto upload captured content or one-click upload in the web view
- Command line access (integrate with home automation)
- Remote Commands (execute over the web or via mobile devices)
- Desktop capturing
- Access and control your cameras and microphones using your mobile device (iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7)
- Connect and monitor as many security cameras and microphones as you like.
- Import and export object lists to share with colleagues.
- Install iSpy Server and publish your webcam to other instances of iSpy, over your network and to the web
- Detect, highlight, track and record movement
- Record video and audio on demand (and via the web)
- Detect loitering
- Face detection alert mode (*NEW)
- Connect multiple computers in a group and manage over the web
- Customise movement detection areas on your cameras
- Detect and record sound
- FTP frames from your camera to a remote server
- Save frames from your camera to a local directory and browse them through ispyconnect
- Send an email or SMS/ MMS/ Twitter alert when movement or sound is detected
- Send an email or SMS alert when movement or sound is not detected (monitor machinery or staff activity)*
- Receive email movement alerts with attached frame grab images from your webcams
- Periodically receive image grabs via email from your webcams
- Connect to any device, even webcams attached to other computers with JPEG, MJPEG, IP Cam, webcam and AVI file support
- Watch live and recorded media over the web (through this website and over your local network) and also via mobile devices (iphone/ android/ windows phone 7)
- Access and control iSpy remotely
- Password protect iSpy and hide it in the System Tray
- Schedule sound and video capturing to start and stop automatically
- Time-lapse record from any camera
- Motion track and count moving objects
- Add an unlimited number of floor plans
- View floor plans online with realtime movement/ sound alerts
- Automatic license plate recognition (ALPR, CPR, LPR or LAPI)
- HSL (Colour filtering) on Motion Detection - for fire/smoke/thermal imaging and tree/ shadow removal
- PTZ auto tracking moving objects
- Integration with MediaPortal - view and control your ispy servers with HTPCs
- Connect multiple instances of iSpy and iSpy server running on different computers to this website and view all aggregated media online
Requires: Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5.
What's New in version 4.0.3.0:
- Fixed auto restart for cameras (interrupted sources) - ispy will now try to reconnect automatically every 10 seconds.
- Added reconnect interval for all video source types
- Added resize video option for all video source types
- Fixed language issues for double-byte languages not displaying some drop-downs properly
- Improved webservice wrapper code
- Added FFMPEG option for IP camera wizard
- Added Maximise on alert option (maximises camera in window, not application)
- Added specify local saving grab filename - you can use a static name or a date-replaced name.
- Added Arrange option to view menu, you can now dock the media list to left, right or bottom of the main screen.
- Added date/ duration view to the saved media previews.
- Fixes for the way VLC connects and disconnects from video sources (prevented some dead-lock cases)
(4/5) Review valid as of May 25, 2013
