Site Navigation: Clients: Configuring Matrix

With Matrix, you can send video from any camera on a network operating your system to Matrix-recipients. A Matrix recipient is a computer that can display Matrix-triggered video. There are two kinds of Matrix recipients:

  • computers running a dedicated Matrix application
  • computers running XProtect Smart Client

To see a list of Matrix recipients configured in the Management Client, expand Client in the Site Navigation pane, then select Matrix. A list of Matrix configurations is displayed in the Properties pane.

Each Matrix recipient, regardless whether it is a computer with the Matrix Monitor or the XProtect Smart Client, must be configured to receive Matrix-triggered video. For more information, see XProtect Smart Wall (explained) and XProtect Smart Client (explained).

Add Matrix recipients

To add an existing Matrix recipient, for example an existing Matrix Monitor or XProtect Smart Client installation, through the Management Client:

  1. Expand Clients, then select Matrix.
  2. Right-click Matrix Configurations and select Add Matrix.
  3. Fill out the fields in the Add Matrix dialog box.
    1. In the Address field enter the IP address or the host name of the required Matrix recipient.
    2. In the Port field enter the port number used by the Matrix recipient installation. You can find the port number and password in this way: For a Matrix Monitor application, go to the Matrix MonitorConfiguration dialog box. For XProtect Smart Client, the user manual for XProtect Smart Client..
  4. Click OK.

You can now use the Matrix recipient in rules.

Your system does not verify that the specified port number or password is correct or that the specified port number, password, or type corresponds with the actual Matrix recipient. Make sure that you enter the correct information.

Define rules sending video to Matrix-recipients

To send video to Matrix-recipients you must include the Matrix recipient in a rule that triggers the video transmission to the related Matrix-recipient. To do so:

  1. In the Site Navigation pane, expand Rules and Events > Rules. Right-click Rules to open the Manage Rule wizard. In the first step, select a rule type and in the second step, a condition.
  2. In Manage Rule's step 3 (Step 3: Actions) select the Set Matrix to view <devices> action.
  3. Click the Matrix link in the initial rule description.
  4. In the Select Matrix Configuration dialog box, select the relevant Matrix-recipient, and click OK.
  5. Click the devices link in the initial rule description, and select from which cameras you would like to send video to the Matrix-recipient, then click OK to confirm your selection.
  6. Click Finish if the rule is complete or define if required additional actions and/or a stop action.

If you delete a Matrix-recipient, any rule that includes the Matrix-recipient stops working.

Send the same video to several XProtect Smart Client views

If the Matrix-recipient is XProtect Smart Client, you can send the same video to Matrix positions in several of XProtect Smart Client’s views, provided the views' Matrix positions share the same port number and password:

  1. In XProtect Smart Client, create the relevant views and Matrix positions that share the same port number and password.
  2. In the Management Client, add the relevant XProtect Smart Client as a Matrix-recipient.
  3. You may include the Matrix-recipient in a rule.