EN.Omnicast Live Viewer User Guide.book

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OMNICAST 4.8
LIVE VIEWER
USER GUIDE
This document explains how to use the Omnicast
Live Viewer application
GENETEC
OMNICAST 4.8 LIVE VIEWER USER GUIDE
Omnicast 4.8 Live Viewer User Guide
Document number: EN.100.003-V4.8.B(1)
Updated: September 14, 2011
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OMNICAST 4.8 LIVE VIEWER USER GUIDE
Table of Contents
This document explains how to use the Omnicast Live Viewer application
Section 1 Preface
Information about this document and what is new
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Intended audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Purpose and scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Document structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . xii
Where to find more information . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
About Omnicast documentation . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
About Omnicast plugin manuals . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
How to provide feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . xiv
Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
What's new in Omnicast 4.8? . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
New features in the Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Axis T8310 Video Surveillance Control Board system . . . . . . . . xvi
Event Monitoring by entity type . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Network options accessibility . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Technical Support information . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Section 2 Live Viewer Overview
Instruction on how to start and exit the Live Viewer followed by a tour of its workspace
About Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Access to Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Connecting to Omnicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Standard logon procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Using Windows credentials . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Preconfigured logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Supervised logon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Application control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Connection status . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Logon/Logoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
CPU gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Video gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Volume control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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Popup messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Missed notification log . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Exiting Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Normal exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
From Full Screen Video mode . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Live viewer workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Workspace elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Main menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Main toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Viewing pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Camera pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Tool pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Analog monitor pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Message pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Customizing your workspace . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Live Viewer menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
View menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Camera Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Layouts menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Custom menu items . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Help menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 3 Basic Operations
Introduction to the basic operations of the Live Viewer to get you started quickly
Viewing a camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
How to view a camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Drag-and-drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Double-click . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Using the keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Finding a camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Local search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Global search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Viewing tile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Border highlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tile controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Camera controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Tile background . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recording. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Recording modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
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Recording status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Record button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Adding bookmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Controlling dome cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Dome cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the PTZ controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Using the PTZ toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Using the joystick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the PC keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Digital zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Using the digital zoom controls . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Using the PC keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tile contextual menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Selecting the viewing quality . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Selecting the metadata overlays . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Changing the state of output relays . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Viewing a camera sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
What is a camera sequence? . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
How to view a camera sequence . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Finding a camera sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Controlling the camera sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Camera sequence controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Pausing a camera sequence . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Controlling individual cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Viewing a map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
What is a map? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
How to view a map . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Finding a map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Controlling the map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Map controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Limitation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Viewing on analog monitors . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Where to find analog monitors . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Viewing cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing camera sequences . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Full screen operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Full screen mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Show/hide the window panes . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Full screen video mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
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Controlling the application . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Using multiple screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Assigning PC displays to the Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . 43
Video wall configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 4 Alarm Management
Instruction on how to handle alarms in the Live Viewer and how to trigger alarms
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
What is an alarm? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
What constitutes an alarm?. . . . . . . . . . . . 46
What triggers alarms? . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
How do I get notified? . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
What are my options when I receive an alarm? . . . . . . . . . 46
Receiving alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Alarm notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Alarm bell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Alarm warning message . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Armed tiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Alarm list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Viewing alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Alarm display tile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Alarm controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Controlling individual alarm elements . . . . . . . . . . 50
Alarm display modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Simple mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Salvo mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Block mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Handling alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Acknowledging an alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Default acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Alternate acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Custom acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Other handling options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Auto forward . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Snooze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Pausing an alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
View alarm procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
View alarm history . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
View alarms on analog monitors . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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Triggering new alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Predefined alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Trigger predefined alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Contextual alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Trigger contextual alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Alarm playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Replay a past alarm . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 5 Advanced Features
Instruction on how to use the advanced features and how to customize the Live Viewer
Advanced dome controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
PTZ commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
On-screen menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Specific commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Modify preset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Record pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Auxiliary switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
PTZ locking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Lock PTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Unlock PTZ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Camera blocking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Feature presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
How it works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Blocking cameras . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Accessing the dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Dialog description . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Camera blocking rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rule #1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rule #2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rule #3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Rule #4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Event monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Event list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Using the event list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Viewing the video associated to a camera event . . . . . . . . . 70
Event filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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Instant replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Launching instant replay . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Playback cursor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Background color . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Event markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Time range markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Playback commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Status panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Controlling the playback . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Controlling the playback speed . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Bookmark commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Save, Print, and Export . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Other commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Local recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Purpose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Scope of local recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Using local recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Start/stop local recording . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Configuring local recording . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Keyboard Commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Controlling the viewing pane . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Controlling the layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Tile configuration panel . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Selecting cameras and tiles by IDs. . . . . . . . . . . 81
Controlling the selected entity . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Special Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Opening dialogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Switching focus . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
PTZ or Digital Zoom commands . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Advanced PTZ controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Instant replay controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Using macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
What is a macro? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Executing macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Using hot macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
What are hot macros? . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Configuring hot macros . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Using plugins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
What is a plugin? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Plugin types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
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Using the Remote Live Viewer plugin . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Viewer layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Viewing pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Monitor ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Viewing tile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Tile pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Viewer layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Layout selection tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Layout management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Using predefined layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Layout controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Changing the tile pattern . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Running the guard tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Changing the layout configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Display management . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Tile display memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Layer 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Layer 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Layer 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Layer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Double-click vs. Drag-and-drop . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Customizing the Live Viewer . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Options dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
General options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
User login dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Guard tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Instant Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Network options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Network card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Connection type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Default viewing stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Audio options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Sound bites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Audio volume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Alarm options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
On new alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Snooze time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Visual options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Information displayed in the viewing pane . . . . . . . . . . 105
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Tile toolbar commands . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
User interaction options . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
System messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
On application exit . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Snapshots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Peripheral options (Joystick) . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Active joystick . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Axis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Peripheral options (Keyboard) . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Keyboard protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Keyboard address . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
COM port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Automatic detection. . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Display options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Video options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Selecting PC displays . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Video wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Local recording options. . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Record path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Archive files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Disk minimum free space . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Remote access options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
Date and time options . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Device time zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Time zone abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Glossary
Explains the terminology used in this user guide
Index
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