Camera settings

Admins open a camera's settings drawer with the Settings (cog) button on the camera.

Overview

The camera's status and device info, plus a live view of its sensors and accessories. Read-only sensors (contact, temperature, motion, and so on) show their current state, and you can operate the controllable ones right here, such as turning a light on, locking a door, or arming a security system.

Sources

Manage the camera's stream sources as in adding a camera: each source's name, role (high, mid, low resolution, or snapshot), stream URLs, and options such as hot mode, preload, and mute audio (drops the audio track from that source). Each source also shows its live status, its stream URL and the codecs the camera itself sends, with profile, level and sample rate where the camera reports them, for example "H.264 · High · 5.1" or "AAC · 16 kHz".

Settings

The main configuration form, grouped into sections:

• General. Name, room, camera type, and whether the camera is disabled (also where you remove a camera). The room groups the home view and is the room the camera sits in on the floor plan. Pick one of your rooms or create one here. The delete button next to it removes the picked room: its cameras move to Default and the room leaves the floor plan. Moving a camera to another room takes it off the floor plan until you drag it into the new room there.
• Branding. Manufacturer, model, and other device details.
• Interface. Everything about how this camera is shown and played: the streaming mode and source, the playback source for recordings, the activity mode, and the display aspect ratio. For the ratio, pick a preset (16:9, 4:3, 1:1, and more) or type a custom width:height like 21:9.
• Detection. Per-camera tuning for motion, object, audio, face, license plate and sensor detection: sensitivity, confidence, timeouts, triggers and stationary-object handling, plus a snooze switch. Every section has a reset button next to its heading that puts that section back to its defaults. The confidence values the AI backends use come from here, so a change applies right away. Which object types the camera reports is set in Zones. See Detection & AI.
• Recording. Whether and how this camera is recorded: the mode, the pre-buffer, and which streams go to disk. An installed NVR plugin does the recording. See Recording.
• Notifications. What this camera pushes to your phone: the camera's own on/off switch, video in push, which sounds and sensors notify, the cooldown and the notification speed. Which detections notify you is set in Zones, on the alert zones. See Notifications.
• Autotrack. Let a PTZ camera follow detected objects automatically. See PTZ & autotrack.
• Snapshot. When the camera takes a new still image: regularly, when viewed, or only on request. See Snapshots and how they refresh.
• Zones. Draw motion, object, alert and privacy zones, and crossing lines. See Zones & privacy.
• Frame Worker. Picks the decoder hardware (CUDA, VAAPI, Quick Sync, and more) and device for this camera. Auto chooses the best available. A second decoder selection applies while the camera decodes on an assigned worker, so host and worker can use different GPUs; on Same as server the worker uses the first selection. Main stream without GPU forces detection onto the high-resolution stream on CPU-only systems, where it costs real processing power; with a hardware decoder the high-resolution stream is already analysed when something is detected, so leave it off.

Plugins

Enable plugins for this camera and choose which provides each of its sensors and accessories. This is also where you turn individual sensors on or off and adjust the settings a plugin offers per camera. See Set up sensors for the full walkthrough.