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MultiView Screens

Open the MultiView Screens dialog to define the settings of the MultiView screen for displaying multiple cameras and events.

The dialog consists of the Screens, Cameras and New Screen tabs.


Screens

The Screens tab gives an overview of all configured MultiView definitions. On this tab, you can select the default view the camera should display when opening the MultiView screen and you can delete previously configured MultiView definitions.


Store to Flash

Click on the Set button to activate your settings and to save them until the camera is rebooted.

Click on the Close button to close the dialog. While closing the dialog, the system checks the entire configuration for changes. If changes are detected, you will be asked if you would like to store the entire configuration permanently.


Cameras

Before you can select a camera in a MultiView screen, the camera needs to be defined. To do so, either enter the camera manually on the Cameras tab or let this camera search automatically for all cameras on the same subnet. Click on the Set button to add the camera to the list.

Display Options

You may select one or multiple cameras and define Display options... for the camera(s). These options become active as soon as they have been selected.

Option Description
Show selected camera images inline A 160x120 image of the selected cameras is displayed on the tab.
Hide camera images No camera images are displayed.

Actions

You may select one or multiple cameras and perform actions on them. Select an action from the list and click on the OK button.

If no cameras have been defined yet, you can choose one of the following actions:

Action Description
Add a new camera Enter the IP address of the camera you would like to add to the list in this text box.
Search for new cameras on the subnet

The camera searches the subnet for MOBOTIX cameras and displays a list of cameras.

Click on the Set button to temporarily store the cameras as camera list.


If cameras are listed, the following actions are available as well:

Action Description
Get information about the selected cameras The software version, RAM and features of the selected cameras are retrieved and displayed.
Change the host names of the selected cameras A text box is displayed for the selected cameras for you to enter a new camera name.
Remove selected cameras The selected cameras are deleted from the local camera list.
Copy configuration to the selected cameras

Select this option to copy the configuration of the local camera to other cameras. Click on the OK button to display a new dialog. You may now select which section of the configuration you would like to copy. For authentication purposes, you can either select the Use my current authentication tokens option for the local camera or you may enter the remote camera's user name and password.

Note: This feature is not available for Web and Basic models.

Notes:

New Screen

Use the New Screen tab to define new MultiView screens.

Select a screen layout and assign a unique name.

In addition, you can activate the following options:

Option Description
Default When opening the MultiView screen, the new screen is displayed.
Add softbutton Adds a new softbutton with the name of this screen to the existing softbuttons of the MultiView screen.

Configuring Image Areas of a MultiView Screen

Click on the MultiView 'MultiView' button button to display the MultiView screen.

In order to display a camera in the image area, hold the [Shift] key down and click with the mouse in the image area of your choice.

The MultiView Screens dialog is displayed. It consists of the following two parts:

Configuring an Image Area

Note: If you have not defined a camera yet, open MultiView Screens > Cameras (tab) and add a new camera or have the camera search the local subnet for additional MOBOTIX cameras.

Parameter Description
Camera

Select a camera from the list.

On Alarm

Select an action to be triggered upon an alarm:

Off The camera does not perform any action.
Highlight If an alarm occurs, the image area is highlighted using a color.
Message If an alarm occurs, you are informed in a new window which camera has triggered the alarm.
Highlight & message Combines the Highlight and Message actions.
Focus Select this setting to display a camera that normally is displayed in a small image area in the main image area when an alarm occurs. Make sure that Focus has been selected for the main image area.
Highlight & focus Combines the Highlight and Focus actions.
Message & focus Combines the Message and Focus actions.
Highl. & msg. & focus Combines the Highlight, Message and Focus actions.

No matter which action(s) you have selected, you can always activate the Auto Zoom setting. If you move the mouse over the image area, the image is enlarged.

On Click

Select an action to be triggered when clicking on the camera image:

Goto Live Image Displays the Live screen.
Goto Player Displays the Player screen.
Remote softbutton

This option allows executing a softbutton function when clicking the corresponding image area. This could mean opening an emergency procedures list or any other HTML page on a web server, for example:

In the Softbutton dropdown list, select the softbutton function that is to be executed upon clicking the image area.

If you have selected the Show all softbuttons option from the Softbutton list, the small Remote softbutton dropdown list is opened when you click on the image. Select the desired softbutton function from the list and click on OK. To close the list, click on the image again.

Notes:

  • If one of the image areas has been defined as Focus area, the remote softbutton feature will not work.
  • Open the Configure Softbuttons dialog to create new softbutton functions or to edit existing functions.

Selecting the Display Mode

Option Description
Live Image (fast)

The camera image is displayed that you have set as default image.

To set the refresh rate of your choice, modify the Refresh parameter accordingly.

Special Format (slow)

Select this option in order to display a different image than the one displayed on the Live screen. This display mode is slower than the Live Image (fast) mode.

Set the Refresh parameter and select the camera lens to be displayed by means of the Sensor parameter.

Note: This option is not available for Web and Basic models.
event

Select this option to display the latest event images in the image area.

Number 0 is the latest event image.

Focus

A Focus image area allows displaying all screens configured for the same image area in a rotating manner.

The Focus image area should have 640x480 pixels while the camera images are displayed in the small image areas (320x240 pixels) on the left.

Set the desired display duration by selecting a value for the Focus Period parameter.

Image URL

Use this option to display any image that can be called using a valid URL. This is a very good method to show images from any network camera that is accessible via a URL.

You can set the Refresh and the URL options for this parameter.


Konfiguration sichern

Klicken Sie auf Setzen, um die Einstellungen zu aktivieren und bis zum nächsten Neustart der Kamera zu sichern.

Beenden Sie den Dialog durch Klick auf Schließen. Hierbei wird geprüft, ob Änderungen der Gesamtkonfiguration vorliegen. Ist dies der Fall, werden Sie gefragt, ob die Gesamtkonfiguration dauerhaft gesichert werden soll.

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