Video Management

Live View

View the camera's live video and adjust image settings.

• Zoom in: Use fingers to zoom in on the image.
• Corridor mode: Tap the icon in the top right corner to vertically magnify the image to full screen. Corridor mode is suitable for narrow scenarios and requires you enable rotation in Image Rotation.
• Mute/unmute: Sound is muted by default. Tap the icon to turn on the speaker, and tap again to mute the sound.
• Full screen: Tap the icon in the bottom right corner to play video in full screen. Tap the icon in the top left corner to exit full screen.
• Snapshot: Tap the icon to capture the current image and save it to your mobile phone's album.
• Record: Tap the icon to start video recording, and tap again to stop recording.
• Video quality: Tap the icon to switch image quality, including high, medium, and low.
• Two-way audio: Tap the icon to start audio intercom with the device.
• Today's Alarm: Tap Today's Alarm to view alarms reported by the device on the current day. You can scroll up or down as necessary if there are many alarms.
• Image settings: Tap Image to configure image parameters.
  • Brightness: Adjust the level of lightness and darkness of the image.
  • Saturation: Adjust the intensity and purity of colors in the image.
  • Contrast: Adjust the ratio of brightness between the brightest and darkest at the same point on the screen.
  • Image rotation: Mirror the image, including normal, vertical, horizontal, 180 degrees, 90 degrees clockwise, and 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
  • 2D DNR (2D digital noise reduction): It is a noise reduction technique applied within each frame of image. The technique involves averaging the values of a pixel with its surrounding pixels to reduce noise. However, this process may lead to some loss of details in the image.
  • 3D DNR (3D digital noise reduction): It is a noise reduction technique applied between frames of image. By comparing adjacent frames, it identifies the positions of noise pixels and applies control to reduce the impact, resulting in a cleaner and more detailed image display.
  • Sharpness: Adjust the clarity of the image plane and sharpness of image edges.
• PTZ (for PTZ cameras only): Tap PTZ to open the PTZ control panel, and then press and hold the arrows to rotate the PTZ camera.
  • Zoom: Adjust the zoom ratio of the lens by tapping + or -.
  • Focus: Adjust the focus of the lens by tapping + or -.
  • Add preset: Tap the icon to add a preset.
  • Manage presets:
    • Go to a preset: Tap Preset. On the pop-up preset list, choose the desired preset, and then tap Go to Preset. The camera will rotate to the specified preset.
    • Manage preset: Tap Preset, tap the icon on the right, tap the presets to delete, and then tap the icon to delete the presets.
  • Patrol: The camera can go to the configured preset positions one by one in order within the set patrol time. The length of time that the camera stays at a preset is configurable.
    1. Tap the icon to enable or disable patrol. When enabled, the camera will patrol in accordance with the preset order, patrol time, and stay time.
    2. Set a patrol time, which can be full-day or a specific time period. Only within the patrol time will the camera conducts patrol.
    3. Preset Pause Time (s): Set the length of time that the camera will stay at a preset before going to the next.
  • Alarm output: Tap Alarm Output. After alarm output is enabled, if the camera triggers an alarm, the external alarm output device connected to the camera will also trigger an alarm.
  • Playback: Tap to play recordings. See Playback.
  • Device configuration: Tap the icon in the top right corner to configure devices. See Device Configuration.

Playback

Search and play recordings of a device.

• Pause/resume: Tap the pause button in the floating toolbar to pause the video, tap the button again to resume.
• Zoom in: Use fingers to zoom in on the image.
• Corridor mode: Tap the icon in the top right corner to vertically magnify the image to fill the entire screen. Corridor mode is suitable for narrow scenarios and requires you enable rotation in Image Rotation.
• Mute/unmute: Sound is muted by default. Tap the icon to turn on the speaker, and tap again to mute the sound.
• Full screen: Tap the icon in the bottom right corner to play video in full screen. Tap the icon in the top left corner to exit full screen.
• Snapshot: Tap the icon to capture the current image and save it to your mobile phone's album.
• Record: Tap the icon to start video recording, and tap again to stop recording.
• Video quality: Tap the icon to switch image quality, including high and low.
• Back to live view: Tap Live to view live video.