Webservier Live view UI: Customization of Tabs titles?

caseyd
caseyd
edited October 2021 in SecuritySpy
hey folks,

I run a little kiosk thing with a Pi & an HP Slate21 ( old gear ) in small room off an entrance.

The Slate serves as a touchscreen for the Pi.

The Pi in turn watches the site's SSpy server.

I like to have separate tabs for the cameras. On may just slip into the small room and touch the tab on the screen to bring it to the foreground.

As we have it now the tabs are all labeled 'Live' - which makes a sense.

I would like to know if anyone has an approach for customizing the tab label based on the camera selection. Even the first few characters of the configured camera name would help.

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  • Ben
    Ben
    This blog post should be useful for you: Customising SecuritySpy’s Web Interface.

    What you could do is save a particular HTML "live" page that shows a camera, and then rename this with the camera name and put it in SecuritySpy's Web folder. Modify the title or any other elements on this page as required. Then open this page in a web browser tab on the Pi.

    I'm hoping that background tabs will be suspended, so that they don't all pull in feeds even when not displaying?
  • caseyd
    caseyd
    Ben that worked quite well, thank you.

    I also experimented with the Continuous Recording bit we talked about at the beginning of fire season here, and added a dirt-simple control for kicking on recording to the per-camera pages.

    I'll admit that the background tabs are not suspended; keeping everything 'hot' so there is as little current-image delay as possible when jumping to a tab. this does exercise the browsers' memory management :)

  • Ben
    Ben
    Great to hear it's working well.

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