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Admin Console

The admin console is Crumb's web interface, served directly by the server at /admin. It is a full management console, not just a viewer: everything from first-run setup through day-to-day live viewing, playback, camera management, and user administration happens here, and it's also the most production-ready of Crumb's clients today.

What it covers​

  • Live view. A multi-camera wall with saveable, per-device layouts: carousels, an auto-hotspot tile that follows recent motion, PTZ tiles, clocks, and web panes, alongside individual camera tiles with on-video PTZ, focus, and iris control where a camera supports it.
  • Playback. A frame-level, scrubbable timeline per camera, jump to the next or previous motion event, and digital zoom into a clip without needing camera-side PTZ.
  • Clips and export. Review motion events as a filmstrip, then build a batch export list across a review session and export it as MP4 or an encrypted archive.
  • Cameras. Discovery, adding, editing, grouping, and stream testing. See Cameras & Streams.
  • Recording and storage. Policies, groups, size caps, and storage tiers. See Recording & Storage.
  • Motion tuning. Per-camera detector choice, exclusion zones drawn directly on the live image. See Motion & Detection.
  • Users and security. Custom roles with per-camera and per-group access grants, so a limited account can be restricted to specific cameras, or to live view only.
  • Server and streaming settings. The address native clients use to reach live video, hardware decode selection, and other console-side settings that override environment defaults. See Server settings.
  • Notifications. Channels, rules, and quiet hours. See Notifications.
  • Health panels. Per-policy storage usage, decode status (requested versus actually active hardware backend per camera), and system alerts for conditions like a disconnected camera, low disk, or a stale backup.

Getting to it​

Open http://<server-host>:8080/admin in any browser (or the HTTPS port if you've set up TLS). On a fresh install, this is also where the first-run wizard runs.