Camview

Camview shows several cameras at once in a grid.

Create a layout

1. Open Camview and select New View.
2. Give the view a name and pick a grid size, from a single camera up to 26.
3. Select Next and fill the slots: drag cameras in from the list on the right, or on a narrow screen tap the plus in a slot.

Arrange the grid

Turn on Rearrange to drag tiles around. On a computer you can also resize a tile by its bottom-right corner, with two helpers:

• Auto-arrange packs the tiles together with no gaps.
• Fit aspect ratios sizes each tile to its camera's configured aspect ratio.

On phones the cameras sit in one column, so Rearrange only changes their order, and resizing and the rearrange helpers aren't available there. A view itself is saved to your account. The arrangement is kept in the browser you made it in, and phones and computers keep their own.

Fit the picture to the card

In Rearrange, the Picture in the card button offers four choices:

• Keep aspect ratio (default) and Fit inside show the whole picture, with black bars where the shapes differ.
• Crop to fit fills the card and cuts off the edges.
• Stretch to fit fills the card and distorts the picture.

The choice is saved with the view, so it follows your account to every device, and it applies to live and to playback. Expanding a tile, fullscreen and zoom always show the whole picture again. The button is on computers only, but a view keeps the fit you picked there when you open it on a phone.

Control all cameras at once

A floating control in the corner acts on every camera in the view together:

• Fullscreen the whole grid.
• Mute or unmute all.
• Two-way talk to all cameras at once.
• Switch the streaming mode for all.
• Set the activity mode for all (Always On, Standby, Activity).
• Change the resolution for all.
• Turn the detection markers on or off.

What a camera is seeing

While a camera detects something its tile glows, and small icons name what was found: motion, person, vehicle, face, plate and the rest. Detections in the floating control switches both off for the whole view. The choice is saved with your account.

Focus one camera

Click a tile to expand it to the full view, click it again to go back to the grid. Views with a single camera stay as they are.

The fullscreen button in a tile's control bar shows that camera alone. There the dots in the control bar also offer Shortcuts and a Timeline for this camera. If you play back recordings there, the other cameras pick up the same point in time when you leave fullscreen.

Playback across the grid

Open the timeline to scrub through recordings for the whole view at the same time, with playback kept in sync across every camera. See Timeline & playback.

Performance

Camview streams each camera at its low resolution so a full grid stays smooth. A single view holds up to 26 cameras. Give your cameras a low-resolution source.