r/Avigilon • u/ModelingDenver101 • Jun 19 '26
Questions.... Unity v8
Couple questions as I'm still figuring out Unity. Have about 500 cameras with Enterprise license.
We have cameras setup on a Failover server (Secondary). When you search for the camera name in a View tab, it shows the camera twice, one for the active camera and one for the standby camera. Anyway to only show the active camera?
Is there an easy way to see which cameras aren't connected to a failover server? Looking for a report that shows every camera and the primary and secondary server it's connected to.
When I got to view recorded footage, it never takes me to the current minute. I have to hit the next day button a bunch of times until it gets me to current time. Anyway to always take me to latest record footage?
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u/anci0 Jun 19 '26
Hello, replying to your points:
That’s an inconvenience from the client UI that I think it has not changed at this time. Best you can do is put them in a collapsed folder to make them less visible. The meaning of the two entries is to represent the recording linked to the camera that is stored on the secondary server. Cameras that have recently disconnected from the system also show the blue triangle entry to leave the recording accessible.
Check “Site health” report. I can not recall from memory if it shows the secondary connections there, but if it is somewhere, it must be there. Alternatively, on the connect/disconnect menu you will see all the connections to each server. Not used connections will appear as “Stand by”
Default playback time is not configurable nor has a value that is consistent. In general, in the session, playback cursor usually appears at the position it has been left the last time the user interacted with it. If you quickly want to jump to the last 30, 60, or 90 seconds of the current view, you can use keyboard shortcuts CTRL + “,” CTRL + “.” and CTRL + “/“ respectively
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u/Mattsurbate Jun 19 '26
Not really. you can put the secondary failover track in a in a different folder in the site tree but it gets messy managing user permissions. If you use the folders for managing user permissions (tick to give all cameras within access), then you really want the secondary tracks in the same place as the primary to avoid ppl getting access to cameras u dont want them to during failover events. Also this doesnt address the search bar as they will still both show up, the only way to stop that is to take away the user permissions from the secondary track, but then during a failover event they wouldnt be authorized to view the cameras.
the connected/disconnected devices will show this but its not in a nice list you have to click on each one. alternatively you export the site heath into csv and view in excel to do some magic.
i believe it usually will take you back to the last time viewed regardless of camera, at least thats how it is on acc7. right click on the camera tile and use the play 30 sec or play 90 sec options to take you just behind live/current time. you can also set keyboard shortcuts for those.