Ghost Hunting from your Keyboard part 2

Setting Up Your Ghost Hunting Lab

The first step to beginning your virtual ghost hunting career is to configure Webcam Watcher to start logging the video streams from all of your favorite webcams.

First select the "Add" button to connect to a new webcam stream.

Just type the name of the webcam, the URL link, and how often you want to refresh the image.  If you're not sure how often the stream was set up to update, go to the main page of the webcam and check the posted update time.

If the webcam doesn't update more often than every 30 seconds, it wouldn't make sense to update your image every 15 seconds.  Keep the refresh rate at, or greater than, the webcam's actual update time.  If you can't find the update time, 60 seconds is a good default refresh rate.

As you add each webcam, they will show up on the left menu bar.  Double clicking each one will add them to the icon display box on the right, as shown here.

Clicking on any of the icons will display the actual webcam in the larger window to the right, with options to zoom, save the image, or make it a screensaver.  However, the real purpose of using this software is to make it automatically collect updates for you.  If you click the box next to "AutoSave New Pictures," the Webcam Watcher will start logging updates to the "cam" folder after each update.