Cam Groups
a. Specify up to 4 cam groups of up to 4 cams each
b. Swipe between groups
c. View groups in full screen Landscape
d. Live view and Event recordings (last ~24 hrs rolling)
Timeline (Multi-cam)
a. View Events from a Cam group indexed on a horizontal Timeline
b. Scroll and drop Timeline cursor on an indexed Event to view it
c. Watch a semi-automated playback of Events of 4 cams across time
My Day Show (Single-cam)
a. Each cam’s Events Indexed horizontally by tag (Person, Pet, Package, etc)
b. Filter by Person & Package
c. Watch an automated ‘time lapse’ of Event thumbnails
d. Browse Event thumbnails manually by swiping left & right
e. Tap an Event icon to access Full Event Timeline
Full Event Timeline (Single-cam)
a. Each cam’s Events Indexed horizontally by tag (Person, Pet, Package, etc)
b. Filter by Person & Package
c. Watch an automated show of full Event videos (single speed)
d. Thumbnail Show: automated ‘time lapse’ of Event thumbnails (3-speeds)
e. Tap a Thumbnail icon to access its full video on Timeline
Events limited to last ~24 hrs (rolling)
The above is based on Disarm Mode
I haven’t ever taken the time to explore any of the top-row mode buttons. I’ve tried the landscape mode for a 4-camera view but haven’t found that to be any better than using camera groups (I prefer groups).
I guess My Day Show has replaced what used to be Thumbnail Show (and still is in the v2.50x app), and that’s how I happened to capture video of porch piracy once. Looking at a newer app iteration, I see that it appears to be the same destination whether one gets there from Events or Monitoring.
Mostly what I’ve tended to use Monitoring for is the Multi-Camera Timeline, which makes it easy to scroll multiple camera views and find out when certain events happened, though I’ll often just go to Events and filter for what I’m seeking.
I’m wondering if there’s any intent to better integrate the components over time or if they’re going to remain more discrete utilities, each with their own features and drawbacks.
A notification links to the full Event in the Event list - could it display the Event in the multi-view timeline, instead?
Actually, even that’s not true. When I view a linked Notification it shows me the corresponding full Event, but it’s not really in the Event list: I can’t swipe forward or back to the next video in the list. I have to back out, Events tab, find the Event and its time neighbors manually in the list (which may need to be re-filtered first!)
I’ve noticed that, too. It’s something else I’ve tried. It’d be cool if the particular event that you deep-link-tap into from a notification “knew” its place in the timeline and would let you swipe forward and backward, because that seems like an intuitive thing that other users would try, as well. I guess maybe it would need some context—like…what filters might’ve been applied, so how is it supposed to “know” what is previous or next?—but it seems like one way around that would be just to default to events in the timeline for whatever camera is showing that particular event and generating that particular notification (i.e., you’d swipe forward and back only for events captured by the camera that initiated the notification you tapped from).
Indeed! This would be cool, though:
In my case, my first 4-camera group that I have on the Monitoring tab is cameras that face out from the front of the house, so if I tapped a notification from one of those and it took me to the Multi-Camera Timeline instead of a discrete single-camera event, then that could provide more context for a particular incident.
Gave it to @carverofchoice for a while for concision (that said a lot.) Now you because you extended the topic with examples. @ssummerlin next because he’s checking it out. Etc.
I s’pose that’s another check in the “pro” column. If I noticed that before you mentioned it, I hadn’t really registered it, but I don’t mind the overlays in group view; I actually like seeing my camera labels. There’s definitely something to be said about the cleaner group look in Monitoring, though. Good call.
Yeah, the flexibility, the ease of rearranging groups to suit a temporary need (while maintaining your base cam group configuration on the Favorites tab) is useful. Plus you get the Events context of those four cams in multi-view.
Full Screen Landscape (Live)
In Monitor:
Double-tap a single cam when displaying four landscape and it goes to full screen. Double-tap again and it shrinks back to the foursome.
In a standard Group:
Double-tap a single cam when displaying four landscape and it goes to fullscreen. Double-tap again and it ZOOMS in. Double-tap again and it ZOOMS out.
I don’t use it much, and I guess I can see the point of having those controls as individual camera overlays in a regular group, but why stop there? Why not allow, for instance, the spotlight icon for Cam OG or Cam v4, as well? I guess somebody had to draw a line.
It’d be nice to be able to eliminate those overlays in groups, though.
That’s one thing I like about Monitoring, as well: I don’t have to change my established groups if I want to see a different 4-camera view. That makes me wonder when this is going to happen:
I don’t have a pressing need for it, but it’s something I’ve wanted to do with cameras, lighting products, and plugs for some time.
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