How to Watch Your Cameras

You need the View Cameras permission, and access to at least one camera (see Who Can Watch a Camera).

Open a camera

Click Cameras at the top of the screen. The menu lists your Saved layouts, then camera groups, then cameras on their own; a dot shows whether each camera is online. Choose any of them and it opens in a camera window, which you can move, resize, dock or make full screen like any other window. Open viewer opens an empty window to fill yourself.

Watch several at once

• Tile layout chooses the grid: Automatic (just big enough for the cameras in the window), Single camera, 2 × 2, 3 × 3, 4 × 4, 1 large + 5 small or 1 large + 7 small.
• Add camera puts another camera in the next free tile. Drag tiles to rearrange them.
• Click a tile to select it. Double-click it, or use its expand button, to make it fill the window at full quality; press Esc to go back to the grid.

Tiles play each camera's smaller stream so a location's internet connection isn't overwhelmed; the camera that fills the window plays at full quality.

Sound

Only the selected camera is ever heard, and only if its sound is switched on. Choose how:

• Automatic (the default) — hear the selected camera while this window is in front.
• Sound on — always hear the selected camera.
• Muted — no sound from any camera.

Save a layout

When the cameras are arranged the way you like, click Save layout and give it a name. It appears under Saved layouts in the Cameras menu. Opening a saved layout and changing it lets you save the changes to it, or Save as new.

Layouts are your own; other people don't see them.

Full screen

Make a camera window full screen and a list of your layouts, groups and cameras appears beside it, so you can switch between them without leaving the full-screen view. New viewer starts another.

Good to know

A camera window you minimize, or hide behind another full-screen window, stops its video until you bring it back, so it doesn't use the location's connection while nobody is looking.