EvoCam - 3.6.6

Evocam is excellent and I've been using it for years. But if you need technical assistance, forget it. Lately, I've been having a problem and emailed them for some help. It's been more than a week and I have not heard from them yet. Great software, but lousy technical support. Any alternatives to evocam?

I'm really happy with EvoCam. I liked the fifteen days trial with all features available.

I've bought it and already used its motion detection feature to solve some office mysteries. (Like who was stealing candy from my candy bowl!)

Fabulous.

Just started using with my 20 inch Intel Core Duo iMac, great software, works perfectly. Support and info is very helpful on website. With in 2 days I had this all working through a router and dynamic ip cable modem setup with all the documentation I found on website and with software. Best of all it is Universal now in version 3.6. Would highly recommend this software, real bargain for the price of $25.

Russ Jacobson
Illinois State Geological Survey
Champaign IL

EvoCam is a solid program, and for that reason I continue to use it. However, it does have its share of quirks and here are a few I have noticed.

When I have EvoCam set to refresh every five seconds, to save images over SFTP and as a .mov file on the local network, EvoCam does OK for the first day or so. However, as time goes on, EvoCam sometimes degrades to the point where it is taking pictures as infrequently once every 40 seconds (extreme, usually closer to once every 12-20 seconds). This happens when the dedicated computer (15" Pb 1.25 GHz) is doing nothing but running EvoCam.

Another quirk is EvoCam's startup behavior. If I start EvoCam directly from the Finder, EvoCam opens up blank. That is to be expected. However, if I double-click on a saved EvoCam document EvoCam will open two copies of the document neither of them with the name of the originally saved document. Quitting EvoCam and double-clicking the document opens up an addition copy of the document (three). This number increases every time EvoCam is quit and the file is double-clicked until I manually close each duplicate document.

This leads to the third and perhaps most frustrating quirk. Trying to close a document in EvoCam calls forth a sheet which gives the user the option to "Hide", "Save", or "Discard" the file. This is infuriating because if I want to hide the document I will use the OS command to do so. If I want to save the document, I also will use the OS to do so. However, EvoCam seems not to know that the document it has cloned in RAM is a copy of an already saved document. What's up with that?

I also own a copy of the old but venerable Oculus which is much better behaved in terms of user-interaction. EvoCam certainly has its strengths, but it needs some work in terms of user interface. It also is a bit sluggish to gain and lose focus when switching between programs.

I purchased evocam and was quite happy with it's ease of use and options. I had two cameras and the second a linksys wireless G wasn't supported. I emailed the developer expecting to either hear nothing or no help. Instead Nick responded right away. He asked for access to my camera and said he'd have a look. Well, sure enough after a week he'd reversed engineered the firmware and found options I don't think linksys knows are there and voila had a new version of the software that worked with my linksys. The built in webserver works easy as can be and it's a great program to build a camera array around.