Monitors🔗

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This tab displays all monitors connected to the computer. Select monitors if you want Eocortex Client to use them.

If multiple monitors are connected to the computer, one of the monitors can be used as an Alarm monitor or Overview monitor.

Warning

The same monitor cannot be both alarm and overview monitor at the same time.

When clicking Show monitors' numbers button on the monitors, their numbers are displayed.

Alarm monitor

The Alarm monitor displays cameras in the state of Alarm.

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Overview monitor

The Overview monitor is used to view any camera in full screen mode on a separate monitor.

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Viewing a camera is performed as follows:

  • double-clicking in the cell of the main or alarm monitor;

  • clicking on the button Full screen mode in the cell or in the context menu of the camera on the main monitor;

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  • using the context menu of the Overview monitor.

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Note

Opening a camera on the overview monitor is available both from the grid of real-time cells or from the archive.

Note

If a camera is opened on the Overview monitor from the archive cell, the video will continue from the moment when the transition was made.

To open the alarm monitor cells on the overview monitor, it is required to select the Settings /win-client/img/ico-settings.png item in the control panel, then the Workstation settings /win-client/img/ico-app-settings.png sub-item, then go to the Sheduled Guard mode tab and enable the Allow full-screen mode in the alarm monitor option.

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Note

Opening the Alarm monitor cells on the Overview Monitor is possible if more than one camera is open on the Alarm monitor.

Start view

Start view allows to set the start view for each monitor when the Eocortex Client application is opened.

Note

By default, the last view is used as the start view for each monitor.

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Warning

For the alarm and overview monitors, the start view setting is not available.

The starting view can be selected by double-clicking from the drop-down tree of views or by entering a part or the full name of the view in the input field. It is also possible to use the filter by views and automatic shiftings and by their belonging to the Client, Server and Favorite views folders.

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