Gallery

Cloud Services Gallery Lifecycle

There are many phases in the lifecycle of a photoSentinel Cloud Services Gallery: Test, Capture, Review and Archive.\* This article will assist you in understanding each phase, and how to move between them.

Using the Gallery

View, filter, compare, and share a feed's photos in the Buildcam Gallery — Timeline and Grid views, Livestream, Livelapse, and downloads.

Why Did My Camera Take an Unexpected Photo After Config Changes?

If your controller is on APEX firmware, in rare instances your camera may take an additional photo that doesn’t seem to match the capture schedule on the feed’s Schedule tab.

How to Add Watermarks to Images

You can set a watermark and timestamp to appear on a feed's gallery photos and latest-photo link, commonly used to apply branding.

How to Get a photoSentinel API Key

You can generate a photoSentinel API key any time from your Profile in Buildcam, to use with the photoSentinel Utilities app or your own integrations.

Integrations and the photoSentinel API

You can get a photoSentinel API key any time from Buildcam, to use with the photoSentinel Utilities app or for integrations with your own software.

photoSentinel Utilities Guide

photoSentinel Utilities is an advanced tool for expert users. Support for this application has ended, and it is no longer available for download.

Create a Link to the Latest Photo

Generate a URL for a feed that always displays its latest photo — useful for embedding a frequently-updated image on a website.