Videorecorder — Recordings & Playback

Browsing Recordings

1. Use the Date picker to select a day.
2. Recordings for that day appear in the left panel. Alarms () and video clips () are listed by timestamp.
3. Click a recording to play it in the video panel.

Controls Bar

When playing a recording, the controls bar appears below the video:

Control	What It Does
▶ Play forward	Plays the recording forward.
◀ Play backward	Plays the recording in reverse.
⏸ Pause	Freezes playback.
Normal speed	Returns play speed to 1×.
Record	Records from the live camera feed.
HD toggle	Switches between standard and high-definition quality.
Snapshot	Captures the current frame as a still image (saved to downloads).
LIVE	Switches to the real-time camera feed.

Live Mode

When you click LIVE, the controls change to a live control bar:

• REC — start/stop recording the live feed manually.
• Snapshot — capture a still from the live stream.
• HD — toggle quality.
• ⏸ Pause — freeze the live image temporarily.
• ▶ Continue — resume the live feed after pausing.
• ← Back — switch back to the recorded feed.

Timeline Explorer

Below the controls bar, the timeline shows a visual representation of when recordings exist. "Squares" or "dots" appear at timestamps where events were recorded — click them to jump to that point. The From and To time fields let you set the visible time range.

Camera Setup

At the bottom of the Recordings panel, click Setup cameras to open the camera configuration page. Cameras are not added by manually entering stream URLs — the Abilis discovers them automatically through Automation > Discovery, where they appear as Rvs (Remote Video Surveillance) devices. Once a camera is bound in Discovery, it appears here for configuration (enable/disable, recording parameters, storage allocation, alarm triggers, etc.).

See How-To: Add and configure an IP camera for the full step-by-step walkthrough.