Start and stop a manual patrolling session

You can start a PTZ camera patrolling session manually if, for example, the rule-based patrolling doesn’t screen an area of a room properly or there is no defined rule-based patrolling.

To start a manual patrolling session, your user must have a higher PTZ priority than the user or rule that's currently controlling the camera.

1. Select the view item with the PTZ camera that should start patrolling.

2. On the camera toolbar, select PTZ to open the PTZ menu.

3. Below the Manage PTZ presets entry, find the patrolling profiles configured for this camera.

4. Select the wanted patrolling profile.

   On the PTZ menu, all users can see that a patrolling profile is running when it has a checkmark .

5. To stop the manual patrolling, select the profile again.

   The XProtect VMS resumes the camera’s regular patrolling, and the camera is again available to other users.