Spotter Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts to use with Spotter. All keyboard shortcuts are always available when using Spotter unless otherwise noted.
Spotter keyboard shortcuts
Overview of all shortcuts.
Windows
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+N | New Window |
Alt+F4 | Close current Window |
Ctrl+Alt+F4 | Exit Spotter |
Ctrl+Alt+F5 | Log off Spotter |
Ctrl+Alt+L | Lock Spotter |
Alarms
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
F5 | Focuses to first alarm |
Enter | Opens the alarm in alarm view tab |
Space | Acknowledges the focused alarm |
Ctrl+Alt+A | Show/Hide Alarm list |
Dialogs
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Enter | Same as clicking OK-button in a dialog. If focus is on other button when Enter key is pressed, then the other button's action is executed instead. |
Show/hide components
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
F1 | Show help plugin (if it exists). |
Alt+F1 | Show About window. |
F2 | Reset layout: Set main window to normal state (not maximized). 100% zoom. Show profile window, time panel and time slider. Close export panel in time slider. Focus is not in any component. |
F3 | Show settings window |
Ctrl+F3 | Show control device settings window |
Shift+F3 | Show number mappings settings window |
F4 | Opens the "Open media" dialog |
Ctrl+F5 | Show / hide alarm window |
Ctrl+F6 | Show / hide profile window |
Ctrl+F8 | Show / hide time panel |
Ctrl+Alt+C | Toggle between playback panel UI modes. |
Ctrl+Alt+T | Toggle between timeline panel UI modes. |
Ctrl+Alt+D | Show / hide device tree. |
Esc | Close export panel on non full screen window |
Shift+Ctrl+E | Show / hide description panel |
Moving focus
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Tab | Move focus to next element within container component |
Shift+Tab | Move focus to previous element within container component |
F5 | Move focus to first active alarm in alarm list. If no active alarm, move focus to first alarm in list. If alarm window is hidden, show it first |
F6 | Move focus to first item in profile tree. If device tree window is hidden, show it first |
Alt+F6 | Move focus to next item in profile tree. |
Alt+Shift+F6 | Move focus to previous item in profile tree. |
F7 | Move focus to first camera in current tab |
F8 | Move focus to time panel. If time panel is collapsed, open it first |
Full-screen window
The following shortcuts work in a full-screen window.
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
F1 | Open help plugin (if it exists) |
F2 | Reset layout |
F8 | Move focus to time panel |
Ctrl+F8 | Show /hide time panel |
Tab | Move focus to next control (next camera in tab) |
Shift+Tab | Move focus to previous control (previous camera in tab) |
Ctrl+P | Print video image |
Ctrl+S | Save video image |
Ctrl+Shift+D | Duplicate video view |
Ctrl+Shift+Alt+D | Duplicate video view and set it to mixed playback mode |
Ctrl+Tab | Select next tab |
Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Select previous tab |
Ctrl+T | Create new camera tab. When new camera is created, move focus to first item in device tree (to make it easier to add new cameras). |
Ctrl+Shift+W | Close current tab |
Esc or F11 | Restore from full screen to normal state |
Ctrl+D | Date selection |
Ctrl+G | Time selection |
Ctrl+E | Activity selection |
Ctrl+Right | Set playback time +30 seconds |
Ctrl+Left | Set playback time -30 seconds |
Ctrl+Shift+Right | Set playback time +5 minutes |
Ctrl+Shift+Left | Set playback time -5 minutes |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left | Set playback time -1 hour |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right | Set playback time +1 hour |
Ctrl+Shift+Y | Set playback time +1 day |
Ctrl+Y | Set playback time -1 day |
Ctrl+Enter | Set to current time |
Ctrl+Space | Pause playback |
Shift+Left | Decrease playback speed |
Shift+Right | Increase playback speed |
Ctrl+0...Ctrl+9 | Camera selection |
Ctrl+W | Close selected camera |
Alt+F6 | Replace selected grid item with next profile folder item |
Alt+Shift+F6 | Replace selected grid item with previous profile folder item |
Ctrl+Shift+Z | Replace selected grid item with last opened item |
Alt+Enter | Maximize selected camera |
Ctrl+Alt+1 | Play forward on speed 1fps. |
Ctrl+Alt+2 | Play forward on speed 0.1x. |
Ctrl+Alt+3 | Play forward on speed 0.5x. |
Ctrl+Alt+4 | Play forward on speed 1x. |
Ctrl+Alt+5 | Play forward on speed 2x. |
Ctrl+Alt+6 | Play forward on speed 4x. |
Ctrl+Alt+7 | Play forward on speed 8x. |
Ctrl+Alt+8 | Play forward on speed 16x. |
Ctrl+Alt+9 | Play forward on speed 32x. |
Ctrl+Alt+0 | Play backward on speed 64x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1 | Play backward on speed 1fps. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+2 | Play backward on speed 0.1x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+3 | Play backward on speed 0.5x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+4 | Play backward on speed 1x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+5 | Play backward on speed 2x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+6 | Play backward on speed 4x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+7 | Play backward on speed 8x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+8 | Play backward on speed 16x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+9 | Play backward on speed 32x. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+0 | Play backward on speed 64x. |
Ctrl+Shift+M | Toggle selected video mixed mode. |
Tabs
Shortcuts | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+Tab | Select next tab. If currently selected tab is last tab, select first tab in the window. Addition (+) tab is not selected. |
Ctrl+Shift+Tab | Select previous tab. If currently selected tab is first tab, select last tab in the window. Addition (+) tab is not selected. |
Ctrl+T | Create new camera tab. When new camera is created, move focus to first item in device tree (to make it easier to add new cameras). |
Ctrl+Shift+T | Open tab menu |
Ctrl+Shift+W | Close current tab |
F11 | Toggle the current tab to full screen size and back. Double-clicking the right mouse button does same thing as F11. |
Esc | Restore maximized tab to normal size (when no camera is selected) |
Ctrl+Shift+C | Automatic image cropping on / off |
Ctrl+Shift+S | Automatic image stretch on / off |
Ctrl+Shift+R | Reset all camera zooms to full zoom |
Ctrl+Shift+B | Set object box on / off |
Ctrl+Shift+A | Set object tail on / off. |
Ctrl+Alt+V | Show / hide tabs. |
Profile window
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Enter (when a camera is selected) | Add camera to tab |
Enter (when a a folder is selected) | Add all cameras in the selected tab and Expand the folder |
Left (when selected folder is expanded) | Close the folder |
Left (when selected node is not expanded) | Select parent folder |
Right (when selected folder is not expanded) | Open the folder |
Up and Down | Move selection up or down. When a camera is active, the buttons for that camera are shown in the tab (that camera becomes selected) |
Playback time and speed
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+D | Open date selection panel. Select date with arrow keys and accept selection with Enter. Both Enter and Esc closes date selection panel. |
Ctrl+G | Open time selection panel. Select time with arrow keys and accept selection with Enter. When pressing a button, the panel stays open. Esc closes time selection panel. |
Ctrl+Right | Set playback time +30 seconds |
Ctrl+Left | Set playback time -30 seconds. If in realtime mode, switch to playback mode first, and set 1x speed. |
Ctrl+Shift+Right | Set playback time +5 minutes |
Ctrl+Shift+Left | Set playback time -5 minutes. If in realtime mode, switch to playback mode first, and set 1x speed. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Left | Set playback time -1 hour |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Right | Set playback time +1 hour |
Ctrl+Shif+Y | Set playback time +1 day |
Ctrl+Y | Set playback time -1 day |
Ctrl+Enter | Go to realtime mode. No action if already in realtime mode. |
Ctrl+Space | Pause / play |
Shift+Right | Increase playback/fast forward speed. No action in realtime mode. |
Shift+Left | Decrease playback/fast forward speed (when speed = 0, start play back/fast rewind). If in realtime mode, switch to playback mode and start playback at 0.5x speed. |
Ctrl+Alt+Right or Ctrl+Alt+P | Display next video frame in playback mode |
Ctrl+Alt+Left or Ctrl+Alt+O | Display previous video frame in playback mode |
Ctrl+Alt+[number key 1..0] | Control different play forward speeds. |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[number key 1..0] | Control different play backward speeds. |
Misc
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+L | Open layout folder in Spotter tree. |
Ctrl+E | Open activity list menu and use arrow keys to select the activity and enter confirm the selection. Esc key closes the selection. Tab key closes the menu and selects the next control. |
Ctrl+Up | Load previous layout (same order as in layout menu) |
Ctrl+Down | Load next layout (same order as in layout menu) |
Ctrl+Alt+B | Create quick bookmark |
Ctrl+B | Open bookmarks folder in Spotter device tree |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M | Write to log detailed information about memory usage |
Ctrl+M | New layout |
Numbad number +Numbad x | Load layout with this number (layout numbering configured under: Layouts – Layout numbering) |
Item selection in a tab
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 | Set focus to n:th item in tab (0=10th) |
Tab | Next item (if the tab has keyboard focus) |
Shift+Tab | Previous item (if the tab has keyboard focus) |
Ctrl+Shift+N | Next item |
Ctrl+Shift+P | Previous item |
Esc | Remove item selection |
PTZ camera control
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Arrow buttons | Moving the camera left, right, up, down (also intermediate directions) Long press increases the moving speed |
Page up | Zoom out |
Page down | Zoom in |
Home | Full unzoom |
End | Full zoom |
Double enter | Maximize camera and take PTZ control for selected camera shortcut number. |
Ctrl+H | Go to PTZ home position or start home tour. |
Ctrl+Shift+H | Run all current profile dome cameras to home position.
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I/O control
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Arrow buttons | Change focus between action button, content popup button and close button when focus in component panel |
Space | Performs default action when item is selected from the profile tree |
Camera tour
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
F12 | Toggle camera tour start and pause state |
Ctrl+F12 | Steps to next camera tour view |
Ctrl+Shift+F12 | Steps to previous camera tour view |
Camera view
Shortcut | Shortcut |
|---|---|
Alt+C | Toggle selected views automatic crop on / off |
Alt+R | Reset selected views digital zoom |
Camera window settings
Shortcut | Shortcut |
Ctrl+W | Close current camera |
Alt+Enter | Maximize current camera view |
Double enter | Maximize/minimize current camera view (if camera is open) |
Esc | Restore maximized tab to normal size (when no camera is selected) |
Ctrl+P | Print image |
Ctrl+S | Save image |
Ctrl+Shift+D | Create duplicated camera view |
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+D | Create duplicated camera view and put it to mixed playback mode. |
Numeronäppäimistön numero + Enter | Add camera with given shortcut number |
Numeronäppäimistön numero + plus-näppäin | Activate monitor/window with given monitor number |
Numeronäppäimistön numero + miinus-näppäin | Close camera with given shortcut number |
Export time
Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
Alt+I | Zoom to export time period. |
Alt+Y | Go to export start time. |
Alt+U | Go to export end time. |
Alt+Ctrl+Y | Set current time to export start time. |
Alt+Ctrl+U | Set current time to export end time. |