General Settings
The General tab of Settings: starting at login and updates at the top; below them two pages, Video and Audio. Click 'Video' or 'Audio' to switch between them - the tab opens on the page you used last.
Login & Updates
'Open PanoPaper at login' starts PanoPaper whenever you log in to your Mac, with each display's camera back in place. PanoPaper then also appears among the Login Items in System Settings ▸ General, where you can turn it off as well; the checkbox always shows what is set there.
Sometimes macOS wants your approval first. Then a note says "PanoPaper needs your approval in System Settings to open at login." Click 'Open Login Items Settings…' and turn PanoPaper on there.
In the Web Edition, 'Check for updates automatically' (on by default) looks for a new version once a day and shows a dot beside the menu bar icon when there is one. See Updates. The App Store Edition has no such checkbox - the App Store updates it - so its box is titled Login.
Video
Behind windows
How the video looks while windows cover it:
- Dim - darkens the video.
- Fade - lays the color over the video; at 100% it is a plain color.
- Color - the color for Fade: the color well, or 'Pick from Wallpaper…' to click a color on your normal wallpaper.
Below the box, 'Also when no windows cover the desktop' keeps them with a clear desktop too; it is greyed while Dim and Fade are both at 0%. See Behind Windows.
Camera names
- Show camera names and keys - on a clear desktop and in Full Screen, each picture shows its camera's name and the key that switches to it, 1 to 9 - in All Cameras, on every tile. On by default; the names help where UniFi Protect does not write them into the picture.
- Show every camera along the bottom - indented under the names, and greyed while they are off. A display showing one camera lists all your cameras at the bottom of the picture, just above the Dock, with their keys: All Cameras' key first, then 1 to 9; the camera you are watching stands out, offline cameras are dimmed. On a clear desktop the list stays bright, even with Dim or Fade. Turn it off to see just the camera you are watching. On by default.
Audio
- Volume - in Full Screen (and while no windows cover the main display, with the checkbox below off).
- Behind windows - the volume while windows cover it.
- 'Also when no windows cover the desktop' (on at first) - the Behind windows volume also on an empty desktop: closing your last window does not make the camera loud. See Camera Audio.
- Output - which speakers play the camera.
- Mute - the camera's audio is off.
See Camera Audio. The shortcuts - Full Screen, Hide Cameras, Mute Audio - are in Settings ▸ Shortcuts.
