How to look back with Site History
Scrub back through every camera on a site to see how it looked on any day and time.
Site History lets you scrub back through everything a site's cameras have captured and see the whole site at any moment in the past. It is the fastest way to answer "what did the site look like on that day?" across every camera at once. This guide shows you how to use it.
Before you start
- Site History is available to project administrators and stakeholders.
- The site's cameras need some capture history for there to be anything to look back through.
Step 1 — Open Site History
Open the project and select Site History from the project header. You see a grid of the project's cameras and a timeline scrubber.
Step 2 — Pick a day
Use the date picker to choose a day. Days with captures are marked, so you can jump straight to a day that has images.
Step 3 — Scrub through time
Drag the scrubber to move through the day. Every camera panel updates together, so you see the whole site at that moment. Use play to run through the day automatically, or the arrows to step forward and back.
Step 4 — Focus on the cameras you want
If the project has many cameras, choose which ones to show so the grid stays readable.
Done
You can move through any day of the site's history and see every camera together.
Good to know
- Every camera moves together as you scrub, so you are always looking at the same moment across the whole site.
- If a camera has no image at the exact moment you scrub to, it shows its nearest capture, so the grid stays full.
- On the web app, you can share a link to a specific day and set of cameras, so a colleague opens the same view you are looking at.
Common questions
What's the difference between Site History and the gallery? The gallery shows one camera's images in depth. Site History shows every camera on the site together at the same moment, which is better for seeing overall progress.
A camera shows an older image than the time I scrubbed to. Why? It hadn't captured at that exact moment, so Site History shows its most recent frame before that point rather than leaving a gap.