Settings › Cameras holds everything about your organization's cameras. Every page has its own address, so you can bookmark it or send it to a colleague.
The Five Tabs
Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
Overview | What needs you (a site that went offline, settings a site hasn't applied yet, a connector that is behind), every page as a card, and the latest changes. |
Sites | Your Sites — each site's Overview, Find Cameras, Cameras, Recorders, Configuration, Diagnostics and Floor Plan. Connector & Updates — the newest connector and which sites need it. Floor Plans — every site's plan. |
Cameras | All Cameras as cards with a live snapshot, or as a list with the on/off and sound switches. Open a camera for its Details and Who Can Watch. |
Groups | Your camera groups. A group switched off grants nobody anything. |
Who Can Watch | Everyone — who may watch each camera, and cameras nobody was added to. Check Access — pick a person and see every camera they can watch now, the ones they can watch only at set times, and why. |
Scheduled Access
On a camera's or a group's Who Can Watch, click the clock beside a person or a team to limit when they may watch — for example the night team every day 18:00–06:00. An end time before the start runs past midnight. Outside the window the camera simply isn't offered to them. Without a schedule a rule works all the time.
Snapshot Thumbnails
Camera cards show a still picture, taken when the card comes into view and again every minute while you're looking. A site whose connector is older than the newest release shows Update the connector to see snapshots instead — Sites › Connector & Updates has the download.
Floor Plans
Upload a picture of a site's layout under Sites › a site › Floor Plan and drag each camera onto it. A site can share one plan with Smart Devices: link the plan Smart Devices made for the same building, and cameras and devices sit on the same picture. Every change shows in Recent Changes.
Recent Changes and Undo
Changes to cameras, groups and who may watch are kept with who made them. The newest change to something can be put back with Undo. A camera's stream address or a recorder's login only records that it changed — never the address or the password.
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