Using the app
Glossary
What's a Device
A device is anything that produces media you might want to monitor. Usually, it is a camera, but it could be a microphone or another type of media stream source.
What's a Media Event
A media event is a segment of media with information attached to it. When recording video, a new media event is generated every five minutes by default. Each media event includes details of any activity detected during that segment. When a device is set to record only activity, the generated media event contains details about what triggered the activity.
What's a Hub
A hub is a process used to control and monitor a group of devices. Usually, there is one hub per machine, but the workload may require multiple hubs per machine, such as when using multiple physical disks.
What's a Storage Area
A storage area is essentially a place where media can be stored. A storage area could be local or remote.
App Areas
Montage View
The montage view is a layout where you can see live feeds from all your devices across all hubs and machines in one place.
You can save as many layouts as you need for different devices or logical device groups.
- For example, if you have cameras at multiple physical locations, you may want to view cameras from only one location. You can do that by creating a custom layout.
Activity Review
The activity review area lets you browse all recorded activity frames within a specified time frame. This makes it easy to skim the frames and determine whether any activity warrants further investigation.
Timeline Review
The timeline review is a great way to focus on activity across many devices at once, all synchronized to the same time.
This is useful when reviewing interesting activity and you want to determine if any other devices picked anything up.
Dashboard
The dashboard is the first page you see after logging in. It gives you a high-level overview of your entire system.
That's it! Now you can set up your first device (camera, doorbell, or baby monitor) or check the docs.