come to front and open camera video window suggestion

jniemann

Is there any way, when using the 'Come to the front and open this camera's video window' to not have the keyboard and mouse focus shifted to the video window?

I love having the video window pop up to show me action when I'm working on my computer, but it's quite annoying to have the focus of the keyboard and mouse shift to the video window when I'm working on a spreadsheet or a document.

I'd appreciate an option to pop up the video window, but not shift the keyboard and mouse focus to that window.

Ben

What you are describing is the "come to front" part of this particular action. Without this, the window could pop up behind the windows of other apps, and this would make the action ineffective.

To achieve what you want, you can create a simple AppleScript, as follows:

- Open Script Editor and create a new document.

- Enter the following text:

  tell app "SecuritySpy"
    set window "CameraName" visible true
  end tell

(of course, enter the actual name of your camera instead of CameraName above)

- Save the script to the ~/SecuritySpy/Scripts folder (which resides within your Home folder).

- In SecuritySpy, under Preferences > Cameras > Actions for this particular camera, select the script as an Action.

- Turn off the "Come to the front and open this camera's video window" option.

jniemann

The suggestion works well and does exactly what I wanted.

Thank you.