quick way to see something from two minutes ago via iOS app

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Curious what people do if they want to quickly see something (on the app) from a specific camera that happened just a few minutes ago (assuming there are no alerts/events detected). Am I missing something obvious or do you really need to go into the clips section and then scroll to find?
 
If no alert, I simply open the playback, choose that camera, scroll with my finger to the approx time. It takes less than a minute.

I'm not aware of an app or software that can read my mind yet.
 
bigredfish said:
If no alert, I simply open the playback, choose that camera, scroll with my finger to the approx time. It takes less than a minute.

I'm not aware of an app or software that can read my mind yet.
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That would require that the camera in question is set to record all the time would it not?
 
bigredfish said:
If no alert, I simply open the playback, choose that camera, scroll with my finger to the approx time. It takes less than a minute.

I'm not aware of an app or software that can read my mind yet.
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I didn't know you converted to BI ;) (this is the BI subforum LOL).

But yeah it is a simple scroll/slide whether it is the BI app or UI3 or the console.

But my neighbors Empiretech NVR has an instant replay option to immediately playback the last several minutes, but I find it quicker to manually scroll.
 
I'm not asking for mind-reading, just good app design. On my Wyze camera I touch 'view playback' and press the 'go back 30 seconds' button a few times as needed. That takes 'less than 3 seconds' rather than 'less than a minute'.

And on BI if there hasn't been an alert recently, like beyond the (in my case) 2-hour clip length, it's even more painful to get back to 2 minutes in the past.

At any rate, sounds like the answer is to keep doing what I've been doing.
 
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I recently emailed Ken about related issues.
Here are his replies (italics).

#1. Rather than have the App’s arrow buttons advance to Alerts (in the clip playback view), I’d find it far more useful if the buttons behaved like my cable TV remote. That is, the forward button advances 30 seconds, and the back button goes back 15 seconds. I’d use the slider to get near the frame of interest before using the arrow buttons.

I do like some (cable) TV interfaces as well, and will definitely review that for the next major release.​

#2. Does a HTTP command exist to stream video in a browser for a camera starting N milliseconds ago?

I do indeed want to add methods for this ... will be coming before too long.​
 
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jaydeel said:
I recently emailed Ken about related issues.
Here are his replies (italics).

#1. Rather than have the App’s arrow buttons advance to Alerts (in the clip playback view), I’d find it far more useful if the buttons behaved like my cable TV remote. That is, the forward button advances 30 seconds, and the back button goes back 15 seconds. I’d use the slider to get near the frame of interest before using the arrow buttons.

I do like some (cable) TV interfaces as well, and will definitely review that for the next major release.​

#2. Does a HTTP command exist to stream video in a browser for a camera starting N milliseconds ago?

I do indeed want to add methods for this ... will be coming before too long.​
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Cool, thanks for letting me know that at least something is in the works!
It's just very common, at least around my house, to have someone (cough*wife*cough) say "what was that noise". So being able to quickly see what happened 30 seconds ago is something I think I'd use constantly.
 
I figure if I didn't get an alert for it, it wasn't close enough to my house to be an issue LOL
 
RROONNBB said:
Curious what people do if they want to quickly see something (on the app) from a specific camera that happened just a few minutes ago (assuming there are no alerts/events detected). Am I missing something obvious or do you really need to go into the clips section and then scroll to find?
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I open the BI app,
and tap/select a live view of a camera,
then I tap on the calendar icon ( upper right)
it shows only recents from that camera.
then I can use the slider bar to go back up to about 20 minutes.
quicker than seeing " ALL recents"
But I have my important cams on CodeProject AI so my " recent alerts" are filtered from excessive motion.
View attachment ScreenRecording_12-12-2024 12-21-59_1.MP4
 
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RROONNBB said:
Yeah but do you have alerts going off all night or do you silence them?
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If someone is that close to my house in the middle of the night, I want to be notified while they are still outside!

I have spent a lot of time with positioning and not trying to do too much with one camera that I get no false triggers, so if it alerts me, it means someone is where they shouldn't be.

But my overview cams will trigger but not alert, so IF I hear something, I can at least open up the app and look at what triggered the cameras that were not alerting me.
 
I don't have any notifications popping up/ going on my phone, because I drive commercially until 12:30 AM.
my street is pretty quiet, Not much to be alerted about. I do a quick review when i get home on the BI machine.
 
Flintstone61 said:
I open the BI app,
and tap/select a live view of a camera,
then I tap on the calendar icon ( upper right)
it shows only recents from that camera.
quicker than seeing " ALL recents"
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Yeah that's often what I do, particularly if I know where the sound came from.
Still, an easy way to instantly scroll back to some arbitrary recent point in time for all the cameras I'm looking at would be extra slick...
 
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RROONNBB said:
Curious what people do if they want to quickly see something (on the app) from a specific camera that happened just a few minutes ago (assuming there are no alerts/events detected). Am I missing something obvious or do you really need to go into the clips section and then scroll to find?
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One solution... Include a UI3 URL like the following in a Pushover notification
http://192.168.1.3:8600/ui3.htm?cam=DW1&timeline=-120000

Learn more here.
 
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