Desktop Tips

Scope

This page is dedicated to the Desktop version of zmNinja and tips & tricks

Keyboard bindings

The desktop version supports keyboard bindings as follows: Global:

Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + F -> toggle full screen
Cmd/Ctrl + Alt + D -> open debug window

Live Monitor View (single view, not montage):

Arrow Left  -> move to previous monitor
Arrow Right -> move to next monitor
Esc         -> remove live view
P           -> toggle PTZ

PTZ Operations to move (PTZ should be toggled to on first):

Q W E  -> UpLeft, Up, UpRight
A S D  -> Left, Home,Right
Z X C  -> DownLeft, Down, DownRight

Event Footage View:

Arrow Left  -> move to previous event
Arrow Right -> move to next event
Enter       -> play the event if in snapshot mode (shows red play button)
Esc         -> remove event footage view

Timeline:

Arrow Up    -> Zoom In
Arrow Down  -> Zoom Out
Arrow Left  -> Pan Left
Arrow Right -> Pan Right
Esc         -> Fit timeline back to view (reset)
A           -> Previous Day
D           -> Next Day

Command Line parameters

The following command line parameters are supported:

--path=<dir>  - starts zmNinja and stores user profile information to that directory. This allows you to switch between
                different user settings.

--fs          - starts zmNinja in full screen mode