How to: Edit your local Aware Settings
Last modified: Monday January 22, 2024.
As an Aware Operator or Administrator, you can set your personal preferences, for example, whether your user interface uses metric or imperial measurements from
Task — Update your local settings
- Log in to your Aware video management system.
- Click the
Aware settings button in the top menu bar, marked with your username initials. - Select
Aware settings .
A dialog opens, with the following side tabs:General settings Preferences Timestamp & Measurement Currency formatting (for use with Point-of-sale integrations)Keyboard shortcuts
- From the
General settings tab:- View your user information.
- Update your location information.
- Enter/update your
Phone details. - Enable
Two factor authentication for your personal account (if not mandated by your system administrator.)
- From the
Preferences tab:- Select your preferred language.
- Choose to limit the number of cameras that can play back video at any one time. Only increase this from the default of 4 if your PC is sufficiently powerful to handle more concurrent video streams.
- Choose the
Fast playback mode , selecting eitherReduced frame rate orAll frames .Using
All frames forFast playback mode is more resource and bandwidth intense. Only use this mode if your PC is sufficiently powerful. - Select either the light or dark color theme for the Alta Aware user interface.
- Choose the
Path for video streams. Remote users with no possibility of a local connection can benefit from playback starting faster by turning off Smartpath:Smart : Aware determines the best route with minimal latency, including attempting a local connection.Direct : Aware attempts a local connection only.Relay : Aware quickly selects an available relay with a higher potential latency.
- Enable a notification sound.
- Show your interest in participating in Alta Aware surveys.
- From the
Timestamp & Measurement page:- Select your preferred measurement units, either
Metric orImperial .
This is useful, for example, when adding temperature sensors, and defining how Aware shows the readings. - Choose how timezones are displayed in Aware:
- For deployments where all cameras are in the same timezone, choose
Based on current location . - For deployments where you have sites configured in different timeszones, select
Camera Location (Defined per site) . - Alternatively,
Manually set user location . - To see additional time information in the timelines, select
Show additional time info .
- Select your preferred measurement units, either
- From the
Currency formatting (used with point-of-sale integrations) page:- Choose how currency values are displayed within the Alta Aware user interface.
This include options on how positive and negative values are shown, the decimal symbol to use, the number of digits to show after the decimal place, and options for digit grouping.
- Choose how currency values are displayed within the Alta Aware user interface.
- Select
Keyboard shortcuts to view the available Aware shortcut key combinations. - Select
Done .