Managing Video Walls

1. Select Video Walls from the navigation bar on the left, then Add Video Wall. 

Note: You will be prompted to name the wall.

2. Once created, you will enter edit mode:

3. Add cameras:

• Select the dropdown menus for the listed locations.
• Click on the camera thumbnail you want to add to the video wall.
• Cameras with a blue checkmark in the lower right of their thumbnail image are added.

Note: You can only add a camera once per video wall.

4. Position the cameras:

• Once a camera is added, the right side of the screen will display a preview of the video wall. 
• Drag and drop cameras to change where they appear within the layout.

5. Configure:

The top bar contains multiple settings for this video wall. A description of what each button does is provided below:

• Labels: Default Off. When toggled on, the device name and/or the device location will be permanently shown on the video wall cameras.
  
• Performance: A dropdown menu containing settings that can be adjusted to improve performance, including: 
  • HD or SD: For best performance, SD (standard definition) is recommended. SD will only apply to cameras connected over WAN unless in Realtime streaming is toggled On.
  • Performance Mode: Default Off. Disables non-essential player functionality for increased performance in large video walls, or long-running video displays.
  • LAN Only: Default Off. Restrict all cameras to LAN connections only. If the camera is not available over LAN, this will prevent you from streaming from the camera.
  • Realtime Streaming: Default Off. For optimal performance and to create a smooth viewing experience, video walls have a short delay of ~6 seconds.  When toggled on, sets the streaming delay to less than 1 second. 
    
    Note: This may result in choppy playback for computers lacking sufficient processing power. 

• Visible to others: Default Off. When toggled On, it allows other users to see this video wall.
• Editable by others: Default Off. When toggled On, it allows other users to edit this video wall.
• Rotate Default: Default None. Allows you to set how to rotate cameras in your video wall.
  • Interval: Selecting this rotation option will rotate cameras based on a specific duration
  • Motion: Selecting this rotation option will rotate cameras based on captured motion.

Note: You must have more cameras than layout selection to be able to use this. 

• Layout Default: Default 4. You can select up to a 4x4 grid (16 cameras) max on desktop.
• <- or ->: These arrows allows you to cycle through the remaining cameras that are not shown on the video wall but are selected to display on the wall.
• Full Screen: Allows you to view the video wall in full screen mode. 

6. Save:

• Once you have configured the video wall to your liking, click "Save" and this preset wall will be saved for you and everyone else for fast access. 

Note: If another user tries to access this wall, but does not have access to all cameras (see role-based access for more info), they will only be able to view the cameras they have access to. If they do not have permission to any of the cameras, the entire video wall will not be displayed.

Note: All organizations contain an "All cameras" video wall which cannot be edited. Like the above, they will only see cameras they have access to.