Hotspots (explained)

A hotspot lets you view magnified and/or higher quality video from a selected camera in a dedicated position in a view. Hotspots are useful because you can use a low image quality and/or frame rate for cameras in the view's regular positions and a high image quality and/or frame rate for the hotspot. This saves bandwidth on your remote connections.

There are two types of hotspots:

Global hotspots, which display the selected camera regardless of whether the camera is in the main window or in a secondary display
Local hotspots, which only display the selected camera of the local display

It is a good idea to have a hotspot in one of the view's larger positions, for example, the large position in a 1+7 view: .

If a position in one of your views contains a hotspot:

When you click a camera in a view, the hotspot position updates with that camera's feed
The title bar displays the hotspot icon:

When you view live or recorded video, you can double-click a hotspot (or any other camera position in a view) to maximize it. When you do this, the video in the hotspot is displayed in full quality, regardless of your image quality selection. If you want to make sure that the selected image quality also applies when maximized, in Setup mode, in the Properties pane, select Keep when maximized.