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History Player Search

Use search within the history player for faster and more intuitive investigations

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History Player Search allows users to quickly locate individuals across multiple cameras to create a timeline of their movements. This eliminates the need to scrub footage manually and offers a seamless and efficient way to track persons of interest.


Search for people

Face search needs to be enabled on a camera to use this feature. For optimal accuracy, ensure faces are visible. Obstructions like hats and masks may affect detection quality. See User Guide for People Analytics for best practice guidelines.

  1. In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

  2. Select a camera and click History.

    Note: You can also access history player search using face search, attribute search, or AI-powered search.

  3. Open the history player to the date and time you want to review.

  4. Pause the history player once the individual is visible.

  5. All detected individuals in the frame are automatically highlighted.

    Note: The highlights will only appear if your cursor is on the video feed.

  6. Drag your cursor over the highlighted person to view their trajectory and movement within the camera’s frame.

  7. Click the highlighted individual to generate a timeline of their sightings and associated footage.

  8. Click any thumbnail in the timeline to play the footage in the history player. You can archive the clip, share it with stakeholders, or add it to an incident report.

  9. Click to modify the date and time range.

  10. Click to sort the order of the timeline.

  11. Click save a person as Persons of Interest (POI).

    1. Enter a name.

    2. (Optional) Add tags.

    3. Click Create.


Disable history player search

  1. In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

  2. Select a camera and click History.

    Note: You can also access history player search using face search, attribute search, or AI-powered search.

  3. Open the history player to the date and time you want to review.

  4. Click , and uncheck History Player Search.


Considerations

  • All Verkada camera models support History Player Search, except for the D30, D40, D50, D80, CD22, CD22-E and CM22 models.

  • This feature is not currently supported in multi-camera playback.

  • This feature is not currently supported on mobile (web & app).


Need more help? Contact Verkada Support.

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