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Default Camera Display Group

Currently SecuritySpy defaults to the All Camera Window I click on the app in the dock to bring up the videos after it auto closed the windows (or I manually closed them).

Is there a way to make a specific group the default view? Or could tell securitySpy remember the last one and always use that?

I almost always want my group layout as the live window, since it has the most important camera scaled up and does not show duplicates.

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  • edited March 2024

    Alernatively, can the auto close video option just minimize the window? That seems to reduce the cpu usage to the same level as closing it, but whatever windows was minimize is restored when clicking on the app Icon in the dock.

  • Thanks for the suggestion. This hasn't been requested before, but I can certainly understand the issue, since you primarily use the group windows rather than the All Cameras window. I'm not sure if we should add a setting for this as this may come under the category of "feature creep" (the profusion of many little-used settings that clutter the interface and make the software more confusing).

    Instead of having SecuritySpy automatically close windows, could you simply leave the group window open? Yes, it may use a bit more GPU resources than having it closed, but this shouldn't be significant.

    Or, a good option could be a simple AppleScript that you can click on instead, to open the window you want. Here's an example script:

    tell application "SecuritySpy"
    	activate
    	set window "GroupName" with visible
    end tell
    

    Copy this into Script Editor, edit it with the actual group name, save it as an Application, and add this Application to your Dock (perhaps next to SecuritySpy).

  • Thanks for the suggestion. I’ll add that script. I might be able to add a script to auto minimize the window as well.

    Leaving the window open seems to use about 2x the resources as when it minimized or closed.

    I’m not sure how much it uses once I end the screen sharing, I’ll run some tests tonight and check the cpu history.

  • I joined the forum to include an addendum that with v6.6 the All Cameras window always assumes you are using more than one cam. If you have a single camera license, the initial window on launch (or dock click) shows your lone video along with an equal sized box of nothing next to it. Thought I could get used to it but screen real estate issues quickly come into play. Apple scripting could work but decided the most elegant solution was to revert to v6.5 for now as I had no issues with the previous version.

    I completely understand and empathize with avoiding feature creep but have always wished there was a scriptless option to suppress the auto launched (or accidental dock clicked) desktop All Cameras window. I have two licenses for two locations (one is headless) and am always using VNC or the SS iOS app for one or the other. The ability to either never show or choose a very specific subset of cameras to automatically populate the initial window would be ideal and most useful for my purposes.

  • Hi @Pete_Seaver I'm not quite sure what you mean about the difference in the All Cameras window between v6.5 and v6.6 - could you please post screenshots (or send them to support@bensoftware.com) so that we can see what you are referring to? There should not be a box of nothing.

    Apple's user interface guidelines state that when the user clicks an application in the Dock, and that application is already open but with no windows visible, then that application should open its main window. This is the reason the All Cameras window opens in this case. It may be a useful feature addition in a future version of SecuritySpy to allow the user to choose which window opens in this case - we'll consider this.

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