Use Monitoring to watch live and recorded video, arrange cameras into a layout, and save that layout for later.
Create a layout
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Open Sites, or open All and use the sites list.
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Drag a site or a camera into the viewing area, or double-click it. Dragging or double-clicking a site adds that site’s cameras.
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Select Layouts to open Choose layout. Pick a frame arrangement from Average, Highlighted, Vertical, or Others.
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Drag a camera window to change its position in the layout.
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Select Create Layout. This stays unavailable until at least one camera is in the view.
Create Layout opens a dialog. It does not save immediately.
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Description |
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Layout name |
Required name for the saved layout. |
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Status |
Who can open the layout. Private or Public when the layout is not shared with auditors. Site Tree when Auditor Shareable Layout is selected. The status cannot be changed while that checkbox is selected. |
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Auditor Shareable Layout |
Shares the layout with Auditor users who can access the site. Available only when every camera in the layout belongs to the same site. If the cameras come from more than one site, the checkbox is unavailable. The hint reads: “All cameras must be from the same site to be shareable to auditors.” |
When you add more than one camera and they all belong to the same site, Auditor Shareable Layout starts selected. A single camera starts with the checkbox cleared, so the layout is Private until you change it.
Select Submit to save. On success, a message confirms that the layout was created. Select Cancel to close the dialog without saving.
Auditor users do not see Auditor Shareable Layout. A layout they create is Private.
Who can see a layout
Saved layouts appear in the Layouts list, under Private and Public.
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Private layouts can be opened only by the user who created them.
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Public layouts that are not tied to one site are listed under Cross-Site. Other users in the company can open them. Auditor users cannot.
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Layouts with Auditor Shareable Layout selected are listed under the site name inside Public. Users in the company can open them. An Auditor user can open one only when they have access to that site.
Live and playback
The header has Live and Playback.
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Live shows the current camera stream.
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Playback shows recorded video and the shared timeline.
Fullscreen in the header expands the viewing area. When more than one camera is in the view, Clear All removes them from the current view. It does not delete a saved layout.
Single camera
Click a camera once to select it. The selected camera shows a border and its action buttons.
Double-click the video to open that camera on its own. Select Back to layout to return to the multi-camera view.
Camera controls
These buttons appear on the selected camera, or on the camera in single view.
In Live:
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Mute and Unmute turn the camera’s audio off and on.
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Dewarping turns fisheye correction on or off.
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Snapshot saves a still image of the current frame.
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PTZ (pan, tilt, and zoom) is available when your account is allowed to use PTZ and the camera supports it.
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For Homaxi cameras, Warning Light and Alarm turn those outputs on or off.
In Playback:
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Snapshot saves a still image of the current frame.
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Create Clip saves a portion of the recording. Enter a clip title, the incident time, and how much time to include before and after it. Save to Archive stores the clip. Save and Export stores it and prepares a download.
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SD Card Backup recovers video from the camera’s memory card.
Timeline
The timeline appears in Playback. It is shared across the cameras in the current view.
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Scroll the mouse wheel over the left half of the timeline to change the time scale.
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Scroll the mouse wheel over the right half to move through the recording. While the wheel is moving, preview images are shown. When you stop, the recording loads for playback.
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Click and drag the timeline left or right to move through the recording.
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Recorded events are marked on the timeline. Hover over a mark to preview a snapshot.
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Use the date control on the timeline to jump to a date and time.
Increase the timeline scale before dragging if you need finer movement.
SD card backup
SD Card Backup is available in Playback for the selected camera. The camera must have an SD card and recording turned on. Use it to recover video that was stored on the card but is missing from cloud storage, for example after a network failure.
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Find the gap in the cloud recording.
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Select the SD card icon.
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Set Start Time, End Time, and Speed, then select Start New Backup.
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Message |
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Start Time must be before End Time |
Start Time must be before End Time |
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Start Time must be within the past month and not in the future |
Start Time must be within the last one month and not in the future |
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End Time must not be in the future |
End Time must be not in the future |
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The selected range must be 1 hour or less |
The maximum backup length is 1 hour |
Speed is a whole number from 1 to 8. A higher speed recovers the interval faster and uses more network bandwidth.
You can close the dialog after the backup starts. Select the SD card icon again to check the status. Status values include ready, pending, In Progress..., done, and error. When the status is done, the recovered video appears on the timeline.
Select Cancel Backup to stop a backup that is still running. Select Reset to clear the backup state in this dialog.
Multi-camera view
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Open Layouts and select a saved layout.
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The cameras open together in the saved arrangement.
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Use Live or Playback for the whole layout. In Playback, every camera follows the same timeline.
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Click a camera to select it. Double-click it to open single-camera view, then select Back to layout to return.