Anyone know if vistacam allows motion to be used as a trigger

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I was thinking of putting one of these at my front window facing my door to trigger the porch lights on with motion and take a snapshot followed by an email notification with image attached.

Can I do this with this camera?

thanks

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This could be possible using a plugin, but such a plugin doesn’t exist yet.

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Funny that the product description of the vista cam says it support motion based email notification.

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You can do this using a motion sensor + light switch + vistacam.

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I can’t seem to get my VistaCam motion sensor to send me an email either. I feel like it was misrepresented because the general instructions are not accurate and there are no clear instructions about motion-trigger emails, which for me is key to watching a vacant vacation home. Anyone got an answer how I can get my VistaCam to send me an email on motion trigger?

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First you must enable Motion Detection (Administration → Event → Motion Detection). The UI works only on Internet Explorer, because it uses ActiveX. Then go to E-Mail and set up the Primary SMTP Server and E-Mail Setup. Finally go to Event Trigger, check Motion Detection and E-mail.

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Thank you - feels like I am almost there. Using IE was part of the problem.
New problem: when inserting my email information for the alert, camera asks for SMTP login name and SMTP password. Based on instructions in Gmail, here I am I inserting my SMTP server address (smtp.gmail.com) and choosing “SMTP Authentication”. For SMTP LOGIN NAME I am inserting my gmail login name (powejr@gmail.com) and password (9 characters) BUT when I hit “save” the password gets changed to something else that is shorter (6 characters) - seems like the system is somehow overriding what I put in?
Thank you very much for your help
John Power

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John - it does the same for me (enter a 10 character pwd that is represented as 6 dots), but it still works.

MCVFLORIN - will the new vista cams be able to be used as a controllable motion sensor (arm/disarm) like is able to be done with the FOSCAM units?

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@wlaurent

All the VistaCams can be used like this. There was a bug in an older plugin version that didn’t allow the motion sensor to be armed/disarmed, but it has been fixed. I’ll try to publish the plugin in the MiOS Marketplace this week.