> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.myzendo.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Safety & Security

> Check on your property at a glance: cameras, locks, and recent activity in one place.

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## Intro

You're away and you want a quick check-in on your property: with Zendo, you can view your security cameras, open a live stream, and see exactly what's been happening across your home, all from one place.

The Activity & Cameras view brings everything together: a glance at every camera, your locks, garage doors, electric gates, presence sensors, door and window sensors, smoke, CO, gas and water leak sensors, and a status update of what's been happening across the property. It's a calm, focused way to see what matters, without digging through rooms.

<Note>
  The Activity & Cameras view is for monitoring. To lock a door, open a gate, or close a garage door, use the accessory on your floorplan.
</Note>

## Open the Activity & Cameras view

Tap the "Activity & Cameras" button at the bottom of your floorplan. You can open it from any floor.

## What you'll see

### Recent activity

The Activity & Cameras view opens straight to a feed of everything that's happened over the last two hours: which sensor detected activity, in which room, and when. It loads instantly, so you can see what's going on the moment you open it.

All accessories you've configured on the floorplan - presence sensors, door and window sensors, smart locks, electric gates and garage doors - automatically appear here. There's nothing extra to configure.

Accessories are grouped by room and by floor, so you can quickly see which floor and room needs attention. Tap a room to see the live status of all linked accessories and a timeline of what has happened.

### Cameras

A snapshot of each camera you've set up, refreshed periodically. Tap one to open the live stream.

To add or change cameras, see [Security Cameras](/accessories/security-camera). For smart doorbells, see [Smart Doorbells](/accessories/doorbell).

### Control accessories from the camera view

While watching a camera or doorbell (full screen or in the multi-camera tiled view), you can control nearby accessories without leaving the stream. For example: turn on the lights to improve image quality, or unlock a nearby smart lock when answering a [smart doorbell](/accessories/doorbell).

## When you'll use it

### At home

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="A noise in the night" defaultOpen="true">
    You wake up to a sound and want to know if anything's wrong. Tap "Activity & Cameras", and you'll instantly see where movement was detected and when, across the whole house. No need to walk room to room.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Is this a real alarm?" defaultOpen="true">
    The alarm goes off: the activity feed shows where the alarm started and how movement is progressing through the house, so you can tell a false alarm from a real one.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Where's the dog?" defaultOpen="true">
    Open all live camera feeds at once to spot the dog around the house. Handy when you want a full overview rather than checking one room at a time.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

### At a commercial property

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="After-hours check-in" defaultOpen="true">
    You get a notification overnight. Open Activity & Cameras to see exactly which sensor went off, where, and what's happened since: all in one place, no need to scrub through camera footage first.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Tracking movement without full camera coverage" defaultOpen="true">
    Cameras can't cover every corridor or storeroom. The activity feed lets you follow movement through motion and contact sensors, so you can understand what's happening even where cameras don't reach.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Respond from the live stream" defaultOpen="true">
    While watching a camera, switch on the lights in that area without leaving the stream. Useful for opening up in the morning, closing down at night, or reacting to something you spot on screen.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Restrict access

With [Family Sharing (Access Control)](/share/acl), you choose who can see and manage your security devices, so the right people have the right access.

### Hide cameras

Cameras are controlled **individually**. You can hide each camera from the people you choose, so some cameras stay private while others remain shared. Set this per camera, see [Security Cameras](/accessories/security-camera).

### Hide the activity feed

Each accessory follows its own [Family Sharing (Access Control)](/share/acl) settings. If you hide an accessory from someone on the floorplan, it's also hidden from the Activity & Cameras view.

To hide the entire Recent Activity section for certain people, there's a single setting that controls the whole feed:

1. Tap <MenuButton />
2. Tap "Settings"
3. Tap "Edit Floorplan"
4. Tap "Activity & Cameras" at the bottom of your floorplan
5. Tap "Manage Security Sensors"
6. Choose who can see it, then save.

### Turn off the Activity & Cameras section completely

Prefer not to have an Activity & Cameras section at all? You can hide it entirely:

* Don't add any cameras.
* Set the activity feed to "Hide from" and select everyone.

When someone can see neither cameras nor the activity feed, the "Activity & Cameras" button disappears for them, so the whole section is gone.

<Note>
  You'll still see the Activity & Cameras section while editing your floorplan, so you can change these settings whenever you need to.
</Note>