Default Camera Display Group

Stevesreed

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.

Stevesreed

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.

Ben

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).

Stevesreed

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.