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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 Security view brings everything together: a glance at every camera, your locks, garage doors, electric gates, 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.
The Security view is for monitoring. To lock a door, open a gate, or close a garage door, use the accessory on your floorplan.

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Open the Security view

Tap the “Security” button at the bottom of your floorplan. You can open it from any floor.

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What you’ll see

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Recent activity

The Security 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. Tap any sensor in the feed to see its full history. Motion sensors, contact sensors, smart locks, electric gates and garage doors are detected automatically and added to the activity feed. There’s nothing to configure.
On Homey, sensors with “Exclude from Zone Activity” enabled in the official Homey app are also excluded from Zendo’s activity feed. Turn off “Exclude from Zone Activity” in Homey to see them in Zendo.

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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.

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Control accessories from the camera view

While watching a camera (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.

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When you’ll use it

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At home

A noise in the night

You wake up to a sound and want to know if anything’s wrong. Tap “Security”, and you’ll instantly see where movement was detected and when, across the whole house. No need to walk room to room.

Is this a real alarm?

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.

Where's the dog?

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.

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At a commercial property

After-hours check-in

You get a notification overnight. Open Security 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.

Tracking movement without full camera coverage

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.

Respond from the live stream

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.

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Restrict access

With Family Sharing (Access Control), you choose who can see and manage your security devices, so the right people have the right access. At home, you might hide cameras and locks from kids or guests. At a commercial property, you might hide them from visitors and non‑admin staff.