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Displays Settings

The Displays tab of Settings shows one display at a time: a live preview of its camera on the left, its settings on the right.

Choosing a display

With more than one display, the buttons at the top name them, left to right as they are arranged in System Settings. Click one to see it. The tab opens on the display you looked at last.

Camera and quality

Next to the preview are the display's name and resolution, and a box with:

• Camera - the camera the display shows, from the same cameras as the menu bar panel; Your Wallpaper, at the top, turns the camera off. All Cameras shows every camera at once, in a grid (offered once you have two or more cameras); with two or more NVRs signed in, All NVR Cameras shows just that NVR's, for an NVR with two or more cameras. Unavailable camera means its NVR is not signed in right now.
• Quality - High, Medium or Low, with the resolution each has for this camera. See Stream quality.

With All Cameras, Quality offers High (the default) or Automatic. High streams every camera at its best. Automatic uses the smallest stream that fills each tile and shows in brackets what that is right now - for example Automatic (Medium) for six cameras on a large display. Below it, Pictures: Fill each tile fills the grid edge to edge, trimming each picture's sides a little, while Show whole pictures shows every picture complete, with your wallpaper around it (black in Full Screen). The preview then shows the grid live, as the wallpaper does, on black. Drag inside a picture to choose which part of it shows in its tile - useful with Fill each tile, which shows a slice of each camera; a 360° camera turns instead. Double-click a picture to reset it. This place belongs to the grid: the camera's own view, when it is shown alone, stays as it is. The grid does not zoom. See All Cameras.

In the Web Edition, a note below the box reminds you that the camera is for the Space on this display right now - each Space keeps its own - while the quality applies to all of them.

In the free version, the preview shows “UNLICENSED” across the picture, just like the wallpaper. See The free version.

The live preview

The preview has the display's shape and shows exactly what the wallpaper shows. A still picture fills in until the live video arrives. It runs only while this tab is showing.

It is also a viewfinder: scroll, pinch or double-click to zoom in, and drag to look around - the wallpaper follows. The line under the preview says what you can do with the camera shown. See Zooming and Looking Around.

360° cameras

For a 360° camera, the box has more:

• View - Flattened, a natural view of part of the room, or Fisheye, the round picture as the camera sends it.
• 'Slowly look around' - the flattened view turns once around the room every minute; on a wall, it sweeps from side to side.
• 'Smooth turning (60 fps)' - on Mac laptops only: turn it off to save battery.

See 360° Cameras.

PTZ cameras

For a PTZ camera, the box has Presets: its 'Go To' menu sends the camera Home or to one of its presets. The preview zooms it digitally, like any camera; if your account may move the camera, holding Option turns and zooms the camera itself, and a note reminds you that this changes the picture for everyone, recordings included; if not, a note says so. See PTZ Cameras.