🔎 At a glance
Live View is the first page you see when you sign in to the Coram web app. It displays live video feeds from every connected camera in your organization, arranged in a grid and grouped by location. From Live View, you can monitor all of your cameras at once, filter and sort the grid to find specific feeds, and interact with individual camera tiles using hover controls.
This article covers how the Live View page is organized, how to filter and sort your camera grid, what you can do from each camera tile, and how offline cameras are displayed.
For detailed information, keep reading below.
Page layout
When you open Live View, cameras appear in a grid of live video tiles. Each tile shows the camera name in an overlay at the bottom of the feed.
Cameras are grouped under location headers (for example, "HQ (Sunnyvale)"). If your organization has cameras across multiple locations, each location appears as a separate group within the grid. The location header displays above its group of camera tiles.
A green status dot on a camera tile indicates that the camera is online and streaming.
Filtering, sorting, and searching
A filter bar runs across the top of the Live View page. Use it to narrow down which cameras appear in the grid.
Location filter. Click the Location dropdown to see all locations in your organization. Select or deselect locations to show only cameras at specific sites. The dropdown shows the total number of locations (for example, "8 Locations (All)").
Camera group filter. Click the Camera Group dropdown to filter by camera groups you have configured (for example, "Indoor," "Outdoor," "Specialty Cameras"). You can select multiple groups at once.
Sort. Click the Sort dropdown to change the order of cameras in the grid. The available options are:
Best visual fit — arranges cameras to make the best use of available screen space.
Name (A–Z) — sorts cameras alphabetically.
Name (Z–A) — sorts cameras in reverse alphabetical order.
Search. Use the search bar to find a specific camera by name. Results filter the grid in real time as you type.
Camera tile hover controls
When you hover over a camera tile, a set of controls appears on the tile. These controls let you interact with the live feed without leaving the grid.
The hover controls on each tile include:
Capture Frame — saves a still image of the current live frame to your device.
Audio — toggles audio on or off. This control only appears if the camera has a built-in microphone and audio is enabled in camera settings.
Full Screen — expands the camera feed to fill your entire screen. Press Esc to exit.
If the camera is a fisheye model, additional view mode controls appear in the top-right corner of the tile:
Four-Cut View — splits the fisheye image into four dewarped rectangular views.
Panorama — displays the fisheye image as a single wide dewarped panoramic view.
To learn more about fisheye view modes, refer to Dewarping for Fisheye Cameras.
Note: The hover controls on Live View tiles are different from the full video player toolbar that appears in Timeline View and other playback surfaces. For a complete reference of all toolbar controls and how they vary by surface, refer to Understanding the Video Player Toolbar.
Opening Timeline View from a camera
Click any camera tile in the Live View grid to open that camera's Timeline View. Timeline View lets you scrub through recorded footage, search for events, and access the full set of playback controls (including reverse playback, playback speed, sharing, archiving, and downloading).
To learn more, refer to Introduction to Timeline View.
Offline cameras
If a camera loses its connection, its tile displays a cloud icon with a line through it and the text "Camera is offline" on a black background. The camera remains visible in the grid so you can see which cameras are affected.
If one or more cameras appear offline, refer to Troubleshooting: Cameras Showing as Offline for steps to diagnose and resolve the issue.
To receive automatic email notifications when a camera goes offline, configure offline alerts in Settings → Notifications. To learn more, refer to Settings: Notifications.