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Personal Walls

Create static or dynamic multi-camera video walls for real-time monitoring and synchronized playback within the Coram web app.

Updated over 2 weeks ago

💡 At a Glance

Coram lets you build Personal Walls for flexible, multi-camera monitoring:

  • Custom Walls: Static grids of selected camera feeds you place manually.

  • Smart Walls: Dynamic grids that update automatically to show active cameras based on the presence of people or vehicles.

⚡ Key Tasks

Create a Custom Wall

Go to Personal Walls > Create Wall, select Custom Wall, choose a grid layout, and drag in your desired cameras.

Create a Smart Wall

Go to Personal Walls > Create Wall, select Smart Wall, then choose which cameras to include and which types of motion to track.

Enable Multi-Camera Playback

On any Custom Wall, toggle the Player switch at the top to activate synchronized playback.

Share a Personal Wall

Click the three-dots menu next to any wall, select Share, enter recipient email(s), and click Share.

Overview

The Personal Walls feature in Coram allows you to monitor multiple camera feeds in real time and review recorded footage across views. You can create static Custom Walls for persistent monitoring or Smart Walls that adapt automatically to camera activity. Both wall types support flexible layouts and multi-camera visibility.

Creating a Custom Wall

Custom walls are static grids of camera feeds that allow you to create persistent arrangements of specific views that you want to monitor.

  1. Access the Coram web app and sign in to your account.

  2. From the main navigation menu, click Personal Walls.

  3. In the top-right corner, click + Create Wall, then choose Custom Wall.

    A screenshot that shows the + Create Wall button.

    A new blank wall appears.

  4. Use the grid dropdown button ( ) to choose a layout:

    • 2x2: 4 cameras

    • 3x3: 9 cameras

    • 4x4: 16 cameras

    • 5x5: 25 cameras

    • 6x6: 36 cameras

    • Custom: 6-camera layout with one large tile

  5. Drag and drop your desired cameras into the grid.

  6. Click Done to save.

  7. To rename the wall, in the top-right corner, click Rename, type a new name, and then click Rename.

Creating a Smart Wall

Smart walls automatically update to show only active cameras based on motion or object detection, and remove inactive feeds after 1 minute of inactivity.

  1. Access the Coram web app and sign in to your account.

  2. From the main navigation menu, click Personal Walls.

  3. In the top-right corner, click + Create Wall, then choose Smart Wall.

    A screenshot that shows the + Create Wall button.

  4. In the Create Smart Wall drawer:

    • Enter a Name.

    • Choose which Cameras to include.

    • Under Only Show Cameras With, enable People and/or Vehicles, and select the activity state:

      • In Motion

      • Stationary

      • Both

  5. Click Save to create the Smart Wall.

Note: Coram automatically hides cameras after 1 minute of inactivity. Up to 36 active camera feeds are shown at once. Newly active cameras will appear in the next available tile.

Editing an Existing Wall

From the Personal Walls page, along the top of the page, select the wall you want to edit, then click Actions > Edit.

A screenshot that shows the location of the Edit button for existing walls.

Enabling Multi-Camera Playback

Custom Walls support synchronized playback to review historical footage across multiple feeds at once.

  1. On a Custom Wall, toggle the Player switch at the top.

    A screenshot that shows the Player toggle switch and the playback control bar.

  2. A playback control bar appears. Use it to scrub through footage across all feeds.

  3. Click a specific camera tile to open its individual timeline at the same point in time.

  4. Return to the wall to continue investigating other views.

Sharing a Personal Wall

You can share any Personal Wall with other users in your Coram organization.

  1. On the Personal Walls page, find the wall you want to share.

  2. Click the three-dots icon next to the wall name.

  3. Select Share, enter one or more email addresses, then click Share.

Shared users will receive their own version of the wall — any edits they make won’t affect your original.

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