Baby Monitor User's Manual
Version 1.7
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General Information and Instructions for Using Baby Monitor:
- If you are working parents and missing your baby during the working days, and want to listen to his/her voice
and look at his/her face any time on a day.
- If your baby is sick, but you still have to go to work. You worry about your baby all day long.
- If you have a babysitter, but you don't trust her much.
- If you sleep in the master room and leave your baby in the baby room. You want to find out the baby is awake without visiting the baby room.
Baby Monitor solves all your problems above. Baby Monitor enables you to take picture, record audio and video
of your baby and email the files to you. and So you can enjoy your baby during the working days. Even more, Baby Monitor can play a song for your baby, and detect baby's crying. All you have to do is to mount a Android phone next to the baby crib, and position it to have a good view on your baby.
Features:
- Take a picture of your baby
- Noise Detection and Alert
- Record your baby's noise
- Video record your baby
- Play a song for your baby
There two icons placed in the application launcher. First one is used in the baby's phone
and the second one is used in the parent's phone.
Operation Option 1: Two Android Phones
Install Baby Monitor on both phones, parents use the "Parent Control Panel" to
control all activities remotely on the baby's phone.
1. Setup baby's phone
You have to setup everything except the Parent Control Panel
2. Setup parent's phone
All you have to do is setup Parent Control Panel Use Parent Control Panel
Operation Option 2: One Android Phone and one other device that can send SMS messages
Send SMS message remotely from any device to do the following:
- Send SMS message to play a song for your baby.
- Sound detection and send SMS message and E-mail to alert you when your baby is crying
- Send SMS message to record your baby's voice.
You specify how long the recording will last. Sound files will be divided into
30 second interval and emailed to you.
- Send SMS message to take pictures of your baby
The pictures will be emailed to you.
- Send SMS message to capture the video of your baby
You specify how long the recording will last. Video files will be divided into
30 second interval and emailed to you.
1. baby phone only
Baby Monitor Setup
- Setup your password
Go to Menu > Settings > Edit Password
The default password is password, you should create your own password to avoid people hacking into
your system.
- Setup your email account
Fill out the following form and save it. If you don't a Google's E-mail account, you can
create one, it is free.
- SMTP Server Name: smtp.gmail.com ( default is Google's mail server)
- Port: 465 (default port>
- Account Name:
- Password:
- E-mail Address:
- Setup Noise Alert
Go to Menu > Settings > Baby Alert Settings
- Noise Level
Adjust to higher value if the background noise is loud
- Threshold
Adjust to higher value if you received a lot of false alarm
- Minimum Time Interval between Alerts
Set the time interval between alerts, if the time between the new alert
and the previous alert
is shorter than the Minimum Time Interval, no alert will be sent.
- Notification Methods
Alert on : Turn on the noise Alert
Alert Off : Turn off the nose Alert
Send E-mail : Send alert to the email address if the check box is checked
SMS Message : Send SMS message to the number if the check box is checked
- Phone Number( send SMS to)
Enter the phone number where you want the alerts send to.
- Save
You must press "Save" button to save your new settings.
- Pick Songs
Go to Menu > Pick Songs
You must pick some songs first before you can play them to your baby.
1. Enter the directory where your songs store
2. Press the "Refresh" button.
3. Select songs by clicking the check box.
4. Click the "Save" button
Repeat 1-4 if you have songs stored in the other directories.
- Song List
Go to Menu > Song List
Song List list all songs you have added to the system. Here you can set a default song to play and
remove unwanted songs from the system.
- Parent Control Panel
This feature should be used two android phones option. Use it on the same phone works but does not
make much sense. Here we use parent's phone and baby's phone to differentiate them.
- Password
This password has to be the same as the password which is setup on the baby's phone
- Phone Number
Baby's phone number
- Duration
How long does you want the action last. This apply to audio, video and play actions
- Picture
Take a picture using the baby's phone and email it to you
- Audio
Record a audio sound file on the baby's phone and email it to you
- Video
Record a video file on the baby's phone and email it to you
- Alert
Turn the alert on the baby's phone on or off.
- Play
Play the song on the baby's phone with the name which is specified on the song's filename
- Song's filename
The song will be play on the baby's phone. If leave this blank, the default song will be play.
- Send SMS messages to your cell phone using the following format
where password is the default password, you should replace it with the new password that setup on the previous step
- To take pictures
com.monitor;photo;password
- To record audio
com.monitor;audio;duration;password
where duration is a decimal number in minutes for eg. com.monitor;audio;1.2;password
- To record video
com.monitor;video;duration;password
where duration is a decimal number in minutes for eg. com.monitor;video;0.8;password
- To play a song with specified filename
com.monitor;photo;duration;password;song' filename
where duration is a decimal number in minutes and song' filename is a partial filename,
as long as it is unique in the selected songs.
for eg.to play a song with filename 'Big Bang - Make Love.mp3' com.monitor;play;4.5;password;love
- To play a song in the default settings
com.monitor;photo;duration;password
for eg. com.monitor;play;4.5;password
- To turn on noise alert
com.monitor;alerton;password
- To turn off noise alert
com.monitor;alertoff;password