Cameras And Live View

In The Demo: The Webcam

The Demo’s Live view uses the browser’s webcam. Choose Webcam, allow the camera, and faces are recognised as you watch. Frames are analysed and discarded.

In Prod: Add A Camera

1. Open Settings, Cameras and choose Add a camera.
2. Name: shown in Live view, events and webhooks.
3. RTSP address: rtsp:// or rtsps://, with the user name and password if the camera needs them. The address is stored encrypted and the password is never shown again.
4. Save. Recognition starts at once, whether or not anyone watches.

Optionally draw zones: only faces inside them are analysed, which saves work on busy scenes.

Watch Live Video

Live view shows each camera with the tracked faces marked and people’s names next to them. The video runs only while someone watches it. It needs the media server of the Compose install (see Install) and UDP port 8000 open to the browsers.

Events

Every recognition becomes an event: the person’s ID or unknown, the score, the camera and the time. Read them:

• live, over the WebSocket GET /v2/events;
• stored, with GET /v2/events/history?uid=&camera_id=&since=&until= (kept 90 days by default);
• pushed to your system by webhooks (Prod), signed with your webhook secret.

Events never hold a photo or a face template.