Once a connection with the camera is established, MonitorCam will start streaming the video, which is shown in the window on the left hand side. The camera can be controlled by the buttons shown on the right hand side of the screen, just below the camera status indicator. The pause and resume buttons are used to toggle on and off the video capture from the web camera. Below it is the 'Detect' button which toggles on and off motion detection. By default, MonitorCam starts with motion detection enabled. The next two buttons, 'Video settings' and 'Properties', will activate dialog boxes for changing the generic video settings of the web camera, for example, the image width and height and frame rate of the camera (frames per second). The properties that are displayed and which can be amended vary from camera to camera. The 'Setup' button is used to change the settings of MonitorCam, such as the motion detection settings, alert generation and email configuration. The 'Exit' button, closes MonitorCam.