Review on Foscam FI8918W Wireless Camera Viewing by Vishal Geske

Great for home surveillance with a few simple settings: In the alarm service settings, enable the motion detection feature and check the "Send email on alarm" box. If you don't need alarms all the time, review your schedule and set everything up, then delete the times you don't want alarms. Next in the email service settings: I recommend creating a NEW and dedicated GMAIL account - it's free and you'll get MANY alerts depending on where you place it and how much traffic that area gets. For Gmail with settings: SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.comSMTP Port: 587Transport Layer Security: STARTTLSAuthentication Required: CheckedSMTP User: <Enter ONLY the part of your email address before @Gmail.com here>SMTP Password : <enter password> [Don't press TEST yet] I read that sometimes it clears some kind of cache or something, so press "Submit" first and then "Test". I bought BlueIris but had problems when the IP address was cyclic. I finally figured out how to assign an IP address in my router, but the method above doesn't require any of that. Just note that if the camera is monitoring a high-traffic area, you can periodically delete all messages in GMAIL. Account to simplify monitoring.