A smart device for communicating with one or more cameras, the smart device comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the smart device to: establish a connection between the smart device and one or more cameras configured to communicate with the smart device, each of the one or more cameras configured to operate in an initial mode; identify the initial mode of each of the one or more cameras; store each identified initial mode; for each camera of a portion of the one or more cameras, change the mode of the camera from the initial mode of the camera to a second mode; determine to revert the mode of each camera in the portion of the one or more cameras to the initial mode of the camera; retrieve the stored initial mode of each camera in the portion of the one or more cameras; and for each camera of the portion of the one or more cameras, change the mode of the camera to the retrieved initial mode of the camera.