Video wall
The video wall shows several cameras at once. It is built for dispatcher work: a grid of windows, live streams and a shared timeline that scrubs the archive on all of them together.
Open it from Monitor → Video wall or at /video.
The page subtitle reports the state: "9 windows · 7 of 12 cameras online".
Layout
The screen is divided into windows. Pick the layout with the buttons at the top of the page — from a single large window to a 4×4 grid. Your choice is remembered between sessions.
Assigning cameras to windows
The camera list sits in the sidebar ("Cameras · 12") with the hint "Drag a camera onto a window to set its stream."
- Find the camera in the list (it has a search field).
- Drag it onto the window you want. While dragging, the window highlights with Drop to assign.
- Release — the window starts showing that camera's stream.
An empty window is labelled No camera.
The Open camera page button on a list entry leads to the camera page.
Window state
Indicators appear in the corner of each window:
| Indicator | Meaning |
|---|---|
| LIVE | A live broadcast is playing |
| REC | Recording is running |
| ARCHIVE | Archive footage is playing rather than the live feed |
| Offline | The camera is unreachable |
With no cameras in the system: "No cameras are configured for this account."
The timeline
A shared timeline runs beneath the grid. It drives every window at once: scrubbing puts the whole wall into the archive at the chosen moment.
Controls
- Click the timeline to seek to a moment.
- Scroll over it to change the zoom. A label such as 5 min/div shows the current division size.
- Reset zoom returns to the default scale.
- Select date opens a calendar to jump to another day.
- Play / Pause control archive playback.
- Go live returns every window to Live.
The hint on the timeline reminds you: "Click to seek · scroll to zoom".
While scrubbing, the system fetches the archive segments it needs and advances to the next one automatically as playback continues. Where nothing was recorded the window shows No recording at this time; if storage is unreachable, Archive unavailable.
Quality settings
Stream resolution is set in User menu → Account → General → Video quality. Auto picks the resolution for you.
With many windows it is worth choosing a lower resolution by hand: each window is its own stream, and on a 4×4 grid the network and CPU load is sixteen times that of a single window.
The video source (Own or Frigate) is chosen in the same place, in the Video field.
Live streams are WebRTC, published per resolution. Changing quality therefore switches to a different stream rather than rescaling the picture.
Typical workflows
Build a working wall. Choose the 3×3 layout → drag the nine perimeter cameras into the windows → the layout and assignments persist to your next session.
Review an incident. Press Select date → pick the day → scrub the timeline to the moment → Play. Every window shows a synchronised view from a different camera.
Return to monitoring. Press Go live — the whole wall switches back to LIVE.