View Historical Footage

The Verkada Command history player allows you to review recorded video footage from your cameras. By default, Command selects the highest quality footage available to play. While this is ideal in most situations, there are instances where viewing in standard quality makes sense (when bandwidth utilization is a concern). It is possible to configure the history player to only display SQ video.

View historical footage

View history in Command

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In Verkada Command, go to All Products > Cameras.

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Select a camera and click History.

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(Optional) Click to change the date and time you want to view.

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Select the segment of footage you want to view.

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Hover over the playback screen to see footage.

a. Use your scroll wheel (or trackpad) to scroll and move the footage forward or backward. b. Hover over a timeline and click and drag to move the footage forward or backward.

View only SQ footage

To view historical footage, the camera streams footage to Command, then it is delivered to your viewing device. Playback covering motion is in HQ, while times with no motion are in SQ.

Viewing history in SQ instead of HQ reduces the amount of bandwidth utilized on the network. How much the bandwidth utilization will vary is dependent on camera model. When watching multiple cameras at the same time or playing back footage at 2x, 3x, or 8x speeds, lower bandwidth networks can be saturated by the high data rate of HQ footage. In this instance, playing footage in SQ will result in less buffering and a better user experience.

Determine required bandwidth

You can determine the amount of bandwidth required for playback with this formula:

HQ or SQ bitrate * playback speed * number of cameras being viewed = Total bandwidth requirement

Learn more about bandwidth requirements by camera model. When you view multiple cameras, at once, it increases bandwidth requirements on the network linearly.

Video player menu controls

Understand local vs cloud streaming

To know whether you are streaming historical footage over the local network or the cloud, you can refer to the icon next to the camera name in the top left of the player:

• Local streaming:

  
• Cloud streaming:

  

Review people motion events

To quickly fast forward or backward through all of your available footage:

If you want to quickly jump to the next or previous people motion event (marked by blue bars), you can click the blue arrows at the edges of the timeline.

Manage events in timeline

Events related to the camera in the Command interface are marked on the player timeline with red dots.

Supported event types

The following event types are currently supported within the History player:

• Person of Interest

• License Plate of Interest

• Door Forced Open

• Door Held Open

• Keycard Denied

• Vape Index

• Archive Clips

Expand a preview of an event

When the playhead comes close to a red dot, a preview of the event appears at the bottom right of the video feed.

To expand this preview, simply click the preview once. Once expanded, click the event’s title to go to the dedicated event page, where you can search for additional results.

View sections of archived footage

You can also view sections of previously archived footage on the timeline. These archived segments are highlighted with a yellow line on the player timeline.

Click the archive preview to go to the beginning or end of the archive.

Download or share an archive

Open the archive page to share or download an archive.

Hide event markers and previews

If necessary, you can choose to hide event markers and previews:

Click the Settings icon to de-select the corresponding events in the player.

Search a live feed in mobile app

In the mobile app, you initiate a search from a live feed and scrub back in time which is slightly different than the browser experience. The smooth and simple scrubbing method elegantly complements the touchscreen capabilities of the mobile device while permitting easy navigation between real-time and historical viewing.

Scrub history

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