Full Screen Layouts of Cameras - Options to change ?

Tangoblu
Tangoblu
edited October 2014 in SecuritySpy
Hi There

is it possible to have custom or more layouts when having cameras in full screen mode. i.e. a large picture of one camera then smaller ones for the other etc. My 4 cameras on full screen don't use the full real estate of the screen and literally sit as blocks floating in a black background.

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  • Ben
    Ben
    Hi - it's not possible to change the size of just one camera in full screen mode I'm afraid. SecuritySpy will configure the full screen view for optimum display, depending on the size of the screen and resolution of the cameras themselves. You can add or remove cameras by right-clicking on the screen and using the menu that pops up, or you can re-arrange the order of cameras by dragging them up and down in the Camera Status window.
  • Tangoblu
    Tangoblu
    thank you..possibly a feature to add the future. Not to reference other software's but it wold be nice to say have the main camera large and then the rest as smaller thumbs next to it for example.

    Thank you for getting back to me.

  • Ben
    Ben
    Yes, I understand it would be nice to have some more flexible full-screen display options. We'll see what we can do in a future update.
  • sgljungholm
    sgljungholm
    Is there a way in full screen mode to cycle between cameras? I am sending stream to Apple TV and would like it to change cameras every x seconds. Thanks
  • Ben
    Ben
    SecuritySpy currently doesn't have a built-in feature to cycle cameras in full screen view, however this would be relatively simple to implement using AppleScript. Are you familiar with AppleScript? View SecuritySpy as a dictionary within the Script Editor application to see what commands it supports. We could put together a script for you if you like?
  • sgljungholm
    sgljungholm
    I wrote a quick script, does a quick change from camera 1 to camera 2 then to both and back again. Would love it if this was a feature. Now I have to figure out how to have my screen saver trigger this.

    repeat
    tell application "SecuritySpy"
    enter full screen mode
    add full screen camera number 1
    remove full screen camera number 0
    delay 10
    add full screen camera number 0
    remove full screen camera number 1
    delay 10
    add full screen camera number 1
    delay 10
    end tell
    end repeat
  • Ben
    Ben
    Looks good! From what I can tell, Power Manager will allow you to activate your script after a period of inactivity.
  • Ben
    Ben
    Also Scenario seems to do this too.
  • sgljungholm
    sgljungholm
    I have done some more to get this functioning the way I want and thought I would share the results here.

    I wrote a script for each camera to activate and go full screen. Using Roomie Remote or EventScripts I can trigger the script and bring each camera to full screen. I also set up a script to turn on Airplay Mirroring so I can choose which AppleTV I want to display the cameras on.

    I am having a problem on on client machine. Full screen no longer shows the cameras but the screen saver does, any ideas?

    All Cameras Script
    tell application "SecuritySpy"
    activate
    enter full screen mode
    add full screen camera number 1
    add full screen camera number 2
    add full screen camera number 3
    end tell

    Send to AppleTV
    tell application "System Preferences"
    set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
    activate
    end tell
    delay 1
    tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
    click pop up button 1 of window 1
    click menu item "Family Room Apple TV" of menu 1 of pop up button 1 of window 1
    end tell
    end tell

    tell application "System Preferences"
    quit
    end tell

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