Adding a Profile Image to a Total Connect 2.0 Account

hey DL wires I'm George from alarm grid today I'm going to be showing you guys how to add a profile image to your total Kinect 2.0 account so profile image and a location image are completely different profile images are for the actual users on total connects the location images are for the locations that you may have so if you have multiple locations your house your business multiple businesses vacation home guess homes anything like that you may have multiple images in your Total Connect account so we have a video for location images as well but today we're gonna be doing the video for the profile images now first thing I'm gonna do I'm actually working with my iPad today so let me go ahead and get this set up for you guys so I'm gonna be showing you guys how to add a profile image through the web search through the website and through the app now they're both basically the same steps however it might look a little different on the app and some people maybe may get confused so I want to make sure I touch everything alright so to start off using the website I open up a browser I actually already have my Total Connect logged in but I'm gonna start fresh for you guys right so the first thing you need to do is go to the website the website is called Total Connect to comm so total connect to comm as you see my Auto populates in there so I'll just hit go you enter in your user name next you enter in your password which you guys can't see mine so let me go and enter it in once you've entered in the password all you do is sign in you can have it remember you so that you don't have to enter in it enter it in next time it automatically logs you in sync manually alright so right now i'm on my vista 21ip location the first thing i'm gonna do i'm gonna show you guys how to change the profile image so to change my profile image you'll see a little person icon in the left hand corner this is the menu bar this is how you navigate through the different tabs in the actual app so I'm gonna hit the little person icon we're sets profile it's gonna take me to my profile name then from there you see the little ad with the camera icon right above my first name you're just gonna hit that icon and it should bring up the option if you're on a web browser it'll say if you want to drag the photo I'm doing this on my iPad so I don't have the same features that you would on a computer or laptop but you can drag the photo from any of your folders now the thing with the photo that you're using it can only be in four different formats jpg JP e g0 gifts o jpg gif or pink alright PNG so you're gonna go ahead make sure it's also less than 10 megabytes that's the maximum the file size can be if you guys try using a bigger file size it will not work so make sure you guys are using file size that's less than 10 megabytes all right so after you verified your image you can go ahead and select photo I'm doing mine on a tablet so you can see it actually it asked me if I want to take a photo or if you want to go to your photo library so for you guys it might be some some folders and on your computer you're gonna go to camera or a roll and I'll just click on my picture now from here it's gonna give you the option to crop which is a little dark grey square with the two arrows in opposite direction so I'm gonna go ahead and maximize this so that it reaches all the edges and then you can play around let's say if I made it smaller if you hold the center you can move it around but I'm gonna go ahead and maximize to do the whole picture I'm gonna hit OK once you change the image just hit save now right there I'm changing my personal profile image if you have other users in here as well and you want to change their images or add images to them that way you they can have their own personalized stuff you can go actually go ahead and go into users so instead of the profile you go to the users icon which is the little it's the two people and you go to all location users and you'll see here I actually have image added for Frank Longo I can go ahead and click on his profile again and same concept you can change the image you can leave it as is whatever you want to do if you have specific photos you want to add for someone you can do that as well so once I'm here I'm just gonna hit cancel I just wanted to show you guys how to do that so this is through the web browser I'm gonna show you guys how to do it through the app now so I'm gonna back out of my web browser and I'm gonna open up my Total Connect 2.0 account it automatically logs me in as you can see my Total Connect account since I'm on an iPad it automatically flips the view to side view if you're doing this on your phone you'll probably have a vertical view saw my iPad is switched it to or horizontal if you're on your iPhones or Android phones it'll probably keep it vertical if you if it does go horizontal on your iPad it actually shows you the menu bar in the bottom left-hand corner if you're doing this on your phone you'll actually see a little hamburger sign on the top left it's three horizontal lines that are above each other and that's your menu button so if you click on that button it'll bring up the same icons that I have here at the bottom of my menu you're gonna hit my profile and my pictures probably already added in there since I did it through the website and you see it's already there but again just to show you guys how it's done through the app you go to change select photo photo library when you're doing these things you may also need to give it permission to for instance let me hit cancel real quick when you do select photo if you do take a photo you're probably gonna need to give total Kinect 2.0 access to your camera and if you do photo library you're probably gonna need to give Total Connect access to your camera roll all right after you do that just hit your camera roll again I'm just gonna select my image so you guys can see it's basically the same thing I did on the website you crop the image you hit OK you hit save yes and then after that you are done and again same concept for the users you can go into you users tab you can add a user you can change the picture for Frank or for whatever users you have and that's pretty much it if you guys have any questions about how to add images how to crop them the file size how to compress anything like that feel free to email us at support at alarm grid comm if you guys like the video make sure you hit thumbs up make sure you subscribe to your YouTube channel and enable notifications so whenever we upload new content you guys get notified I'm George and I'll see you guys next time