Start and stop manual patrolling

Depending on your surveillance system, you can start and stop patrolling manually.

You may want to start a patrolling manually if, for example, the system patrolling does not screen an area of a room properly or there is no system patrolling. If the camera is already patrolling, you need a higher PTZ priority than the patrolling user or rule-based patrolling to be able to start a manual patrolling session.

Patrolling profiles can be created by your system administrator, other users, or yourself, if you have the necessary user rights.

Users with a higher PTZ priority than you can take control of the camera while you are running a manual patrolling. When they release the session again, the system resumes your manual patrolling.

With a sufficient PTZ priority, you can stop manual patrolling started by other users by clicking the patrolling profile, by pausing it or starting another manual patrolling. You can always stop a manual patrolling that you have started.

To start a manual patrolling:

1. In the view, select the PTZ camera that you would like to start patrolling on.
2. On the camera toolbar, click the PTZ icon to open the PTZ menu.
3. Below the Manage PTZ presets entry, you find the list of patrolling profiles configured for this camera.

   

   Example of a PTZ menu

4. Select the patrolling profile you want to start.

   While the patrolling profile is running, there is a check mark in front of it for all users. The PTZ icon turns green for you and red for all other users, so they can see that someone controls the camera.

5. To stop the manual patrolling, select the profile again.

   The system resumes its regular patrolling or the camera is made available for other users.

If the camera is available and you have the sufficient PTZ rights, you can take control of the camera, by clicking on the video within the view item or moving your joystick. You keep the control until you have not done any movements for 15 seconds. The timeout for manual control is 15 seconds by default, but your system administrator can change it.

If you want to control the camera for a longer period, select Pause patrolling from the PTZ menu.

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