The MultiView Screen of the MOBOTIX Camera

Displays the model of the MOBOTIX camera.

Shows the camera name as set in the Quick Installation wizard or in the Ethernet Interface dialog in the Camera name field.

Displays the name of the current multi view as set in the MultiView Screens dialog.

Opens the online help for the current screen or dialog. If no help page is available, the Help page will be displayed.

Displays information on the hardware, software and the most important settings of the camera.

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.

Use the Player screen to view and download the events stored in the internal or the external image storage of the camera.

Use the MultiView screen to combine several cameras in different patterns and to assign special functions (highlighting, focus on alarm, ...) for the individual cameras.

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.

The PDA screen displays the camera's current image for low-resolution devices (PDAs/MDAs and mobile phones).

If you would like to see a list of events on your PDA and download event images, open the PDA Event List.

Use these buttons to stop or restart the display of images from all cameras shown on this MultiView screen.

Select the desired MultiView screen from the pulldown list.

Click on this link to define a new MultiView screen.

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 may assign new functions to existing softbuttons by [Shift]-clicking the desired softbutton.

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 admins user group (Users and Passwords dialog) to access this menu.

Opens the Setup menu with its dialogs for changing the image and event settings.

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.

This Wizard activates the camera microphone and the audio output on the computer (only when using Internet Explorer on Windows computers).

This softbutton activates the MxPEG video codec, which guarantees fast transmission of video and audio data while using as little bandwidth as possible.

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.

This softbutton triggers the door opener (door station only).

This softbutton button turns the lights on or off (door station only).

This softbutton triggers the User Click (UC) event.

This softbutton will prompt the camera to blink with its camera LEDs for five seconds.

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.

Plays back the last event recorded by the camera.

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.

The Multiwatcher displays the live/event images of this and other MOBOTIX cameras via 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.

Use these buttons to control the digital zoom and the panning functions for moving the visible area within a zoomed image:

1x Zoom

Switches the digital zoom off and returns to the regular camera view. This setting will deactivate the Center Pan.

Zoom +

Increases the zoom level (i.e. enlarges the size of the displayed objects). From zoom level [1.1x] on, clicking in the image will move the visible image area within the full image.

Zoom -

Reduces the zoom level (i.e. reduces the size of the displayed objects).

Center Pan

Moves the visible image area to the center of the full image, if zoom level [1.1x] or higher has been activated.

Set Default View

Sets the current image area and the current zoom level as default view. If Exposure Windows are used to control exposure, the window's current position will also be saved.

Load Default View

Loads the image area and the zoom level that had been saved using the Set Default View button.

Note: If you would like to load the default view you just saved using Set Default View and any exposure windows even after the next reboot, make sure that you store the current configuration in the flash memory.

These buttons control specific image features of hemispheric cameras and are thus only available on these models:

Normal Image

Switches to the standard display mode that allows zooming and panning.

Panorama Image

Switches to the Panorama display mode.

Surround Image

Switches to the Surround display mode.

Auto Move on

Activates the N/E/S/W auto mode (Ceiling and Floor mounting types), which automatically moves to the North, East, South and West views, or the Surround Clockwise auto mode (Wall mounting type), which moves to the views defined by Set Focus consecutively.

Auto Move off

Deactivates the auto mode.

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:

• [Shift]-click on one of the image areas to open the Configure MultiView Image Area dialog for this area.
• Clicking one of the image areas will open the camera, provided that it actually is a MOBOTIX camera.