Detections Settings
The Detections tab of Settings: whether PanoPaper tells you when a camera sees someone, and how. See Detections.
Detections
- 'Enable Motion Detection' - turns detections on or off. Off, PanoPaper doesn't listen for them at all.
- Detect - 'People' (a face counts as a person), 'Animals' and 'Motion' - motion that a camera without an NVR reports itself; turn it off if swaying trees or passing cars set it off too often. When the camera can't detect people or animals itself, PanoPaper still looks for them whenever it sees motion, and tells you about those. See Should 'Motion' be on?
- 'Show an outline around detections' - frames around the people and animals on the wallpaper.
- 'Keep detecting while cameras are hidden' - off at first. With it off, Hide Cameras stops detection altogether, so nothing is noticed while your cameras are hidden. Turn it on and PanoPaper keeps looking: a detection still reaches you at the top of the screen, as a chime, and in Notification Center. Click the detection and that camera opens in Full Screen; close it and your cameras are hidden again.
Should 'Motion' be on?
Usually not. 'Motion' only matters for cameras without an NVR - UniFi cameras report people and animals themselves.
- Leave it off for most cameras. Whenever a camera reports motion, PanoPaper looks at its video and tells you only about the people and animals it finds. Rain, swaying trees, flags and passing boats stay quiet.
- Turn it on if you want to hear about everything that moves, not only people and animals - for example a camera on a gate or a door where any movement matters, or at night, when someone may be too dark or too far away for PanoPaper to recognize. Expect more alerts: each time the camera reports motion, at most every 30 seconds per camera.
With 'Motion' on, the alert comes as soon as the camera reports motion, as "Motion". Once PanoPaper sees who it is, the detection at the top of the screen changes to "Person" or "Animal".
Cameras
A checkbox for each camera, all on at first; turn off the ones you don't want to hear about. Beside each, under Available detections, what it is set to detect in UniFi Protect - to be told about animals on a camera, turn on its animal detection there. A camera without smart detection can't be chosen. For a camera without an NVR, this is what its own events report - set them in its maker's app. A camera you disabled, or whose NVR you disabled, is greyed and marked Disabled: it has no detections until you enable it again, and its checkbox stays as you left it.
Notifications
- 'Show at top of screen' - the detection overlay, which names what was seen and where.
- 'Show in Notification Center' - a macOS notification for each detection, with the camera's picture. Off at first; the first time you turn it on, macOS asks for permission. See In Notification Center.
- 'Play a chime' - the soft chime; the slider below sets how loud it is (you hear it as you let go).
- 'Run a shortcut' - in the Web Edition, runs the shortcut you choose beside it for each detection, with the camera's picture as its input. See When someone is detected.
Click a detection at the top of the screen or in Notification Center, or press your Full Screen shortcut while it shows at the top of the screen, to watch that camera in Full Screen. With your cameras hidden, that one camera shows for as long as you watch it, and they are hidden again when you close it.
