360° Cameras
A 360° camera, such as the UniFi AI 360 or G6 Pro 360, sees the whole room through a fisheye lens: its picture is a round, curved view of everything around it. PanoPaper shows it flattened - like an ordinary camera standing in the room, with straight lines straight, that you can turn to look anywhere the camera sees. It does so wherever the camera is mounted: on the ceiling, on a desk or on a wall.
Flattened or fisheye
In Settings ▸ Displays, a 360° camera has a View pop-up:
- Flattened (the default) - a natural view of part of the room.
- Fisheye - the round picture as the camera sends it, whole at first, with your wallpaper around it (black in Full Screen). Zoom in to fill more of the display - you decide how much of the circle's top and bottom is cut off - and drag to choose which part shows - see Zooming and Looking Around.
Looking around
In the flattened view, the Displays preview turns the view instead of moving a picture:
- Drag to look around; the room follows the pointer.
- Scroll, pinch, or the Zoom In / Zoom Out buttons zoom in and out, up to 8 times.
- Double-click turns to that spot and zooms in on it.
- The Widest View button (or 0) zooms all the way out, still looking the same way.
- With the preview selected, the arrow keys look around and + / - zoom.
At its widest, the view is as wide as the one UniFi Protect shows. On a clear desktop, the same keys turn the wallpaper directly - see Desktop Keys.
Slowly look around
Turn on 'Slowly look around' and the view turns once around the room every minute, by itself - for a camera on a wall, it sweeps from side to side and back once a minute. When you move the view, it waits, and carries on from there three seconds after you let go. The wallpaper and the preview always show the same view.
Smooth turning
On a desktop Mac, the slow turn is always drawn at 60 frames per second, for a perfectly smooth motion. On a Mac laptop, 'Smooth turning (60 fps)' under 'Slowly look around' makes that a choice: it is on by default, and turning it off halves the frames drawn while turning, to save battery. Behind windows, a turning view is drawn at 30 frames per second with smooth turning, or 15 without.
On the ceiling, a desk or a wall
PanoPaper reads how the camera is mounted from its settings in UniFi Protect, and flattens its picture to match:
- Ceiling - the view looks around the room below the horizon, from the horizon all the way down. It starts with the horizon along the top edge.
- Desk - the view looks around the room above the horizon, from the horizon all the way up. It starts with the horizon along the bottom edge.
- Wall - the view looks into the half of the room in front of the wall, as far to the sides, up and down as the lens sees. It starts looking straight out.
If the mount is wrong in UniFi Protect, correct it there. A camera on a wall should send its picture the right way up; if it is upside down, turn it over with the camera's flip settings in UniFi Protect.
Remembered for each camera
The view, where it looks, how far it is zoomed, and whether it slowly looks around are kept for each camera on each display - in the Web Edition, on each Space.
