Introduction
When setting up your cameras, you will see a dropdown allowing you to select "Monitor" or "Record":
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Monitor Mode: Monitors the health of your camera and allows viewing live in reduced quality/frame-rate
Record Mode: Records & monitors the health of your camera and allows viewing live in full quality/frame-rate
Monitor Mode
The major advantage to the monitor mode is you can monitor 10x as many devices as your TetherBox can record:
E.g. TetherBox Pico with a 10 channel limit can monitor 100 cameras.
Your TetherBox will use a combination of:
Pinging the device
Using the device's API to check health status (where supported)
Requesting a stream from the camera every minute
Should TetherX detect any issues, those will be added to the Integrator Report as well emailed to the integrators / admins set up to receive health notifications.
Monitor mode will also allow you to view the live view from these camera at reduced frame-rate.
Record Mode
Record mode is an extension of Monitor mode. You will get all of the benefits of Monitor mode, with the addition:
The camera will be recorded by TetherX locally and/or to the cloud
TetherX will create time-lapse and "best image" snapshots for events
TetherX will perform internal foreground / background analysis to generate events
TetherX will monitor the camera's analytics events (optional)
TetherX will create a URL that can be used in a control room to monitor the camera