XProtect Smart Wall (configuration)

System administrators configure your video wall in XProtect Management Client. This includes defining the:

  • General properties, such as the name of the video wall, and whether it displays status text, a title bar, or a live indicator
  • Monitors that the video wall consists of
  • Presets that control the layout of the monitors, and possibly also the default cameras that the monitors show video from
  • The Smart Wall user rights allowing operatorsClosedA professional user of an XProtect client application. to view, operate, add content, or play back content, and when they are allowed to do so
  • Events that can be combined with rules to trigger system actions, for example displaying an alarm or other content

What to configure in XProtect Smart Client?

  1. Add Smart Wall controls to views - to push cameras and other types of content onto the video wall, first you must add the Smart Wall control to a viewClosedA collection of video from one or more cameras, presented together in XProtect Smart Client. A view may include other content than video from cameras, such as HTML pages and static images. A view can be private (only visible by the user who created it) or shared with other users.. The Smart Wall control allows you to drag-and-drop or send cameras and other types of content to the Smart Wall monitors.
  2. Change the monitor layout - you can change the preconfigured layout of the Smart Wall monitors, for example if you need to add more cameras to a monitor.
  3. Change the Smart Wall preset - you can change the presetClosedA predefined layout for an individual monitor in XProtect Smart Client. Presets contain predefined settings that determine which cameras are displayed, and how content is structured on each monitor on the video wall. that is applied to a monitor.

Add Smart Wall controls to views

Before you can start pushing video and other types of content onto your video wall, you must add the Smart Wall control to one or more views. The control is a graphical representation of the video wall. See also Smart Wall control (explained).

  1. Click Setup to enter setup mode.
  2. Select the view where you want to add the Smart Wall control.

  3. In the System overview pane, drag the Smart Wall element to the relevant view item.

    Configure your views in XProtect Smart Client to display your Smart Wall overviews.

  4. Click Setup again to exit setup mode. Your changes are saved.
  5. Now you can start pushing cameras and other types of content to your video wall.

Change the monitor layout

You can change the preconfigured view layout of the Smart Wall monitors. This is useful if you need to display additional cameras or other types of content.

An incident has been recorded on five cameras, and you even have a picture of a suspect. You want to display the video and picture on the video wall, so the security staff can view the incident and detain the suspect. Because the current monitors in your video wall are pre-configured to only show 2x2 cameras, you need to change the view layout to 2x3 to add the fifth camera and the picture.

Steps:

  1. On the Live or Playback tab, open the view that contains your Smart Wall control.

  2. Click the icon for the monitor, select Change view layout, select the display format, for example 4:3.

    Change the view layout of your Smart Wall.

  3. Select the layout. In this example, select 2x3. Two grayed out items are added to the view layout.

    2x3 layout of a Smart Wall.

  4. Now, you can add additional content. See Displaying content on video walls.

Change the Smart Wall preset

The presetsClosedA predefined layout for an individual monitor in XProtect Smart Client. Presets contain predefined settings that determine which cameras are displayed, and how content is structured on each monitor on the video wall. defined by your system administrator are associated with individual monitors. When you change the preset, all monitors in the video wall associated with the preset are updated.

Steps:

  1. Open the view that contains the Smart Wall control.

  2. In the Select preset list, select the preset that you want to display. The affected monitors in the overview change.

    Change the predefind presets of your Smart Wall.

  3. To view the content on the video wall, see .

Other users can change the preset manually, or rules can change it automatically.