The MultiView screen provides a way of grouping several cameras in different patterns or shows one camera with its latest events.
Hold your mouse over the elements of the user interface to see the bubble help. Click on the element to go to the description.
Name |
Element |
Description |
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Camera Model |
Displays the model of the MOBOTIX camera. |
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Camera Name |
Shows the camera name as set in the Quick Installation wizard or in the Ethernet Interface dialog in the Camera name field. |
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MultiView Screen Name |
Displays the name of the current MultiView as set in the MultiView Screens dialog. |
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Open Help |
Opens the online help for the current screen or dialog. If no help page is available, the Table of Contents page will be displayed. |
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Camera Information |
Displays information on the hardware, software and the most important settings of the camera. |
Name |
Element |
Description |
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Live |
The Live screen of the MOBOTIX camera displays the current images of the camera. Use the dropdown menus to access certain functions of the image controls and the camera administration or open the Setup Menu to see links to all image and event control dialogs. The Admin Menu (password-protected) contains all dialogs for configuring the camera. See also |
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Player |
Use the Player screen to view and download the events stored in the internal or the external image storage of the camera. See also |
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MultiView |
Use the MultiView screen to combine several cameras in different patterns and to assign special functions (highlighting, focus on alarm, ...) for the individual cameras. |
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Guest |
The Guest screen allows viewing the camera's live image, setting the frame rate within the preset limits and accessing the Live screen by clicking on the Menu link at the bottom of the page. See also |
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PDA |
The PDA screen displays the camera's current image for low-resolution devices (PDAs and smartphones). If you would like to see a list of events on your PDA and download event images, open the PDA Event List. See also |
Name |
Element |
Description |
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Stop / Restart |
Use these buttons to stop or restart the display of images from all cameras shown on this MultiView screen. |
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Select MultiView screen |
Select the desired MultiView screen from the pulldown list. |
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Define new screen |
Click on this link to define a new MultiView screen. |
Name |
Element |
Description |
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Softbuttons |
The softbuttons at the left-hand side of the screen execute certain functions, most of which can be used by users with User level access. If you have administrative access to the camera, you can assign new functions to existing softbuttons by [Shift]-clicking the desired softbutton. |
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Admin Menu |
Opens the Administration menu of the MOBOTIX camera, allowing you to change the most important system settings. You need a user name and password of an
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Setup Menu |
Opens the Setup menu with its dialogs for changing the image and event settings. |
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Arm & Record |
This wizard arms the camera, activates event recording, the camera microphone, the MxPEG video codec, one Video Motion Detection window, the User Click event, the visual alarm and opens the MultiView screen of the camera. |
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Audio on |
This Wizard activates the camera microphone and the audio output on the computer (only when using Internet Explorer on Windows computers). |
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MxPEG on (MxPEG on) |
This softbutton activates the MxPEG video codec, which guarantees fast transmission of video and audio data while using as little bandwidth as possible. |
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MxPEG off (MxPEG off) |
This softbutton deactivates the MxPEG video codec in order to produce JPEG images with the best possible quality. This is the preferred setting for webcam applications. |
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Open Door |
This softbutton triggers the door opener (door station only). |
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Light ON/OFF |
This softbutton button turns the lights on or off (door station only). |
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UC Event ("User Click") |
This softbutton triggers the User Click (UC) event. |
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LEDs Blink |
This softbutton will prompt the camera to blink with its camera LEDs for five seconds. |
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Play Sound (on camera speaker) |
This softbutton plays back a sound on the camera speaker. For additional information on recording and using your own audio messages, see the Manage Audio Messages help page. |
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Play Last Event |
Plays back the last event recorded by the camera. |
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Event List |
Click on this button to display the Event List dialog. This dialog displays a list with the last 20 events with the corresponding navigation links. Click on one event link to show the corresponding event image in the player or select a date and time to list the events of that point in time. |
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Multiwatcher |
The Multiwatcher displays the live/event images of this and other MOBOTIX cameras by means of a "proxy camera". This means that only one camera needs to be accessible from outside of the network and this camera allows you to see live images and event lists of this and other cameras within the network. |
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Use these buttons to control the digital zoom and the panning functions for moving the visible area within a zoomed image:
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Display mode buttons |
These buttons control specific image features of hemispheric cameras and are thus only available on these models:
See also |
Name |
Element |
Description |
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Image Area |
The image area shows the images of one or more cameras, as defined in the Configure MultiView Screens dialog. In addition, you may choose from the following options:
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Changes to the MultiView screen that you performed in the MultiView Screens dialog or by [Shift]-clicking one of the image areas will only be valid until the next reboot of the camera. If you have administrative access to the camera, you should store the current configuration into flash memory.