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View
Operator Guide
for Rapid Eye Multi-Media Units
K5404V9 – 12/04 – Rev. B
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ISSUE DATE REVISIONS V9 September 2004 Honeywell template V9–B December 2004 Formatting: pagination; minor edits.
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Table of Contents 1 Running View................................................................................ 1–1 1.1 Starting View ................................................................................................................................ 1–1 1.2 View Window: the Sites Tab ........................................................................................................ 1–2 1.3 Your Account Information ...........................................................
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View: Operator Guide 6.10 Alarm Station.............................................................................................................................. 6–20 6.11 Fault Relay ................................................................................................................................. 6–21 7 Clips and Stills ............................................................................. 7–1 7.1 Making and Saving a Clip............................................
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1 Running View Preparation Your Rapid Eye Multi system administrator (Multi SA) needs to prepare a Multi database before operators can run View. How to do so is explained in the Admin User Guide, part no. K5403. 1.1 Starting View Figure 1. Shortcut for View, on the Windows desktop !!!!1 To start and log on to View 1. On your Microsoft Windows desktop, do one of the following: • click Start, point or click to Programs and then Rapid Eye Multi-Media. Click Rapid Eye Multi-Media View
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View: Operator Guide User account and password Passwords can be assigned to a user account. Use of passwords is optional. How to setup passwords is explained in the Admin User Guide, part no. K5403. Fig. 2. Logging-on to a Multi system 1.2 View Window: the Sites Tab Fig. 3. On the Sites tab, Multi sites are either Multi-Media units and/or older Multi units. action tabs. The Sites tab is where you begin. See figure 3. Clicking other action tabs— Tours, Log, Clips—displays different but
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Running View 1.2.1 Selecting a Multi Site A “site” is a Multi-Media unit or Multi unit that is connected and operational. !!2 To select a site !! • After starting View, the Sites action tab and its toolbar are displayed by default. Click a “site” name listed on the tab. For lists of sites that are long, use the Quick Search. Missing site If the site is not listed, click Refresh, as explained 1.3: Your Account Information. If the site still does not appear in the list, ask your Multi S
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View: Operator Guide 1.2.3 Site Properties A site’s properties—name, location, and connection details—are controlled by a Multi SA. You can view, but not edit, a site's properties. Finding out about a site’s properties can be useful: • to check if the time zone from which images are being obtained is correctly set • to obtain a remote unit’s serial number to report a malfunction • to check the phone number on a dial-up connection, if the connection cannot be established. !!4 To display
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Running View Info: viewing your administrative information Multi View makes your Multi account’s information available. Info indicates the database file in use, its location, the name of the user account, the rights of the operator using the account, the status of alarm notification and more. !!!!6 To display the Information dialog • Click Info on the View menu. 1.4 Customizing the View Window Screen real estate: hiding the toolbar and status bar On smaller PC screens, real estate for
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View: Operator Guide 1.4.1 Sites Tab: Toolbar Reference Table 1 Sites toolbar Command Function/Session Section To use the latest Multi database: rights in user account, 1.3 sites added, modified or deleted, and so on. To display this guide in PDF format. 1.5 To display live video from the site that is selected on the 2.1.1 Sites tab. To display recorded video, stored at a site. 3.1.2 To search a site for events that are set to be silently 10.2 recorded. To search for data
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Running View Other guides Other guides by Honeywell are available after installing View software: Honeywell, Please Read This First!, K9700 ———, Multi-Media Software: Software Setup Instructions, K5401 These user guides are available in Adobe’s portable document format (PDF), on the View operator’s PC, by clicking: Start / Programs / Rapid Eye Multi-Media 6.2 / Documentation / … Web site http://www.Honeywellvideo.com Customer Support For installation questions, or for ordering an
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View: Operator Guide Please continue. 1–8
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2 Live Video Live video versus recorded video Using a Live session, you can access and monitor the video feed of many cameras at once, and even access many Multi sites, all at once. This section shows how to: • obtain live video • use cameras that can pan, tilt and zoom • end a Live session. See also recorded video. See 3: Recorded Video, starting on p. 3–1 data. See 11.1: Live Data, on p. 11–1. audio. See 8.2: Live Audio on p. 8–1 On a dial-up connection: do not use audio. Video c
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View: Operator Guide 3. Either: • a Connection dialog appears; see figure 7, below. Select a connection, then click OK. A tear-away player then appears, as in figure 8. • a tear-away player appears in the session pane and a list of streams (cameras and other data devices) is displayed; see figure 8. Fig. 7. Choosing a connection. 2.1.2 Selecting Cameras “Stream” identifies the different feeds—video, audio or data—coming through a Multi-Media unit. !!!!10 To select live video feeds
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Live Video Fig. 8. Live session: connection icons ( ) appear on the site list. Fig. 9. Live video feed, from a camera named ‘side entrance’, at a site called ‘Foucault facility, 232’. 2–3
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View: Operator Guide !!!!11 To move and size a tear-away player window • You can drag a player window from the View window. When dragged away, an asterisk is added to the title of the tear-away player’s name. !!!!12 To return a tear-away player to its session pane Click either: • . The Embed button. It appears when a tear-away player is dragged from the session window. • Embed command, on a session’s Windows menu. A player returns to the session pane. When not embedded, an asterisk
