Using the Surveillance Viewer
This HTML5 viewer supports live video from up to nine cameras. The Surveillance Viewer component automatically populates a Camera pane with a list of all cameras in a station. You drag each camera to the pre-designed cell in the grid of your choice (
2 x 2, 3 x 3). This procedure installs a single instance of the Surveillance Viewer anywhere in the running station.
Prerequisites: Both remote and/or local cameras may be installed. You ran a discovery job to locate all cameras. You are working
in
NOTE: Only remote cameras with licenses for remote video are visible to Supervisor stations. You add remote station(s) and discover
remote cameras under the Supervisor's NiagaraNetwork.
You can also add the Playback Viewer component directly to a Px page. If you drag a Playback Viewer to a Px page, choose the Playback Viewer from the
Perform the following steps:
- In the Palette side bar, open the videoDriver palette.
- Drag the Surveillance Viewer component to the desired location (to a Property Sheet view or directly to the Nav tree) and double-click the viewer.The viewer opens.
On the left is the list of the station’s available cameras. The
Exclude Camerasproperty on the Surveillance Viewer’s Property Sheet lists the cameras that are not included in this list. - To view the excluded cameras, select the property sheet from the drop-down list in the upper right corner of the viewer or right-click Surveillance Viewer and click .
- Back in the Surveillance Viewer, configure the
Frame Rate,ResolutionandCompression.These properties affect the amount of bandwidth and picture quality of the video displayed in this view. - From the
Layoutoption list, select a pre-configured layout.The Surveillance Viewer changes to match the selected layout. - From the list, drag each camera to an occupied or unoccupied cell in the grid.
- To re-establish the grid and video connections at any time click Refresh or
. - To save the configuration, click Save or
.The app saves the configuration and opens a video connection to the selected cameras. - If a video feed is too small or appears crowded, click the maximize/minimize button (
).This refreshes the camera list and properties on the left.The system remembers the most recent state of this button (maximized or minimized).
- Click any cell in the grid to open the selected camera’s Video Playback view.
The Video Surveillance Viewer also runs in a browser and works with mobile devices.