“How Do I…” Make LIVE camera feeds pop-up on my screens?

Call it bookmarks/page flips/favorites, I don’t care it’s an awesome feature that has long been awaited. That’s right we can finally program our live camera feeds to pop up on a touch screen or tv based on program triggers. Can I get an Amen out there?

The wonderful world of 2.0 has lots of goodies, and this is top on my list. Obviously the first step is to call your dealer and see what you may need to update to 2.0.
Next we need to learn about “bookmarks/page flips/favorites”. By using the on screen GUI you can create a bookmark to any page on the gui. This will allow you to jump straight to this page either by 2 presses on the gui or 2 lines of programming if it’s a tv and one line if it’s a touch screen.

For this write up we will focus on the touchscreen. Navigate to a page you want quick access to. In my case I chose my front door camera. Once you get to that page find the star and select it. It’s at the bottom right on the touch screens and top left of the TV GUI.

This will pull up a page of your bookmarks and custom buttons. Right now you probably only have custom buttons showing, but thats about to change.

Select add, and another screen appears asking for you to title it and select an icon.

Once you have settled on those choices select save. Now you will see that the bookmark is on the favorite page with your custom buttons folder. Now close out on everything and go back to the main C4 GUI. Select the star button which pulls up your bookmarks, then select your newly created bookmark. It instantly takes you to that screen.

Now for the best part, how to program it to automatically pop-up to that screen if a doorbell is rung or a driveway sensor detects a car. In composer on the device event side select what you want to trigger the sensor. In my case I’m going to front door bell and select when pressed. On the device actions side I will scroll down to my 7 inch touch screen since that is where my bookmark is. At the bottom right, go to where it says bookmark. Then you can pick the one you want, in my case front door cam. Move this line of code to the middle. There you go that’s it.

If you want to do this for the TV. Use the TV GUI and create a bookmark for it. Currently you have to create a bookmark for each touch screen and controller. Then in programming you will want to make that navigator your video source for whatever room you want it displayed on. Then on the right side of composer select the controller and do exactly what I did with the 7 inch touch screen.

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