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The Video surveillance monitor is used for displaying and managing the Surveillance windows. The Surveillance windows display video from the specified Cameras.
The functions list
The Video surveillance monitor implements the following functions:
- Display images from the video surveillance cameras.
- Manage the surveillance modes.
- Graphically process the images from the video surveillance cameras.
- Manage video recording from the video surveillance cameras.
- Work with video archives.
- Display video camera status data.
Interface description
The figure shows the Video surveillance monitor interface.
The Video surveillance monitor window consists of a field for displaying the Surveillance windows and the toolbar above it with the following items:
- The
buttons are used to change the number of the displayed Surveillance windows on the Video surveillance monitor. - The
button is used to manage the layouts. - The
buttons are used to switch the Surveillance windows. - The
field displays the current time and date.Note
You can change the format for displaying the archive date and time. To do this, go to the Security zone object on the Date and time format tab (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object). After you select the required format, it is necessary to restart Axxon PSIM.
If the Debug mode is enabled in Axxon PSIM (see The Debug window), then information about the transmitted video stream is displayed instead of the date and time (see Frame rate settings).
Every Surveillance window has function menu to access such functions as arming and disarming video camera, image processing, video recording managing, frame exporting and printing, etc. The Surveillance window can also display the Buttons for performing the specified actions when you click them:
Left click the video camera number in the Surveillance window to display the function menu (see the figure below).
When hovering over the control elements in the Video surveillance monitor, the tooltips are displayed. The period of their display can be set using the TT_INITIAL and TT_AUTOPOP registry keys (see Registry keys reference guide).
The keyboard shortcuts ("hotkeys") for convenient Video surveillance monitor and Surveillance windows operation are listed in the table.
Keyboard shortcuts ("hotkeys") | Function | Comments |
|---|---|---|
0 .. 9 Num (numeric keyboard) | Select an active Surveillance window with the camera ID in the range from 0 to 9 | The sequence number of the Surveillance window corresponds to the key digit |
| Ctrl + 0 .. 9 Num (numeric keyboard) | Select an active Surveillance window with the camera ID in the range from 10 to 19 | To enable the cameras with the ID 10-19, press Ctrl and the key corresponding to the low-order digit. For example, CTRL+0 enables the camera 10, CTRL+9 enables the camera 19 |
| Ctrl + 10 or more on numeric keyboard | Select an active Surveillance window with a sequence number from 10 | To enable the camera with the two-digit ID, press Ctrl and sequentially enter the digits. For example, CTRL+2+3 to enable the camera 23 |
F1 .. F6 | Select the number of the displayed Surveillance windows | F1—1 window F2—4 windows F3—9 windows F4—16 windows, etc. Note. The documentation can also be opened by pressing the F1 key if Axxon PSIM is set up accordingly (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object section in Administrator's Guide) |
| F7 | Display all Surveillance windows on the Video surveillance monitor. This key can only be used if there are more than 36 Surveillance windows in the Video surveillance monitor | |
| F8 | In the archive mode — select the date and time for searching records. Long press — display the Execute menu of the Main control panel In the video surveillance mode — display the Execute menu of the Main control panel | This hotkey can be disabled using the DisableF8 registry key (see Registry keys reference guide) |
| F9 | Display the function menu of the Surveillance window | |
Ctrl + R | Manage video recording | Ctrl + R—video recording start Ctrl + T—video recording stop |
Shift + LeftClick/RightClick | Image scaling in the Surveillance window | Shift + LeftClick—step-by-step zoom in Shift + RightClick—step-by-step zoom out |
Tab | Switch the active Surveillance window into the archive mode and back | See Working with video archives By default, pressing Tab redirects the user to the main archive of the Server. If the user should be redirected to the external archive, it is necessary to use the EnterEdgeStorageDirect key (see Registry keys reference guide) |
Ctrl + / (on numeric keyboard NumPad) Left/Right arrow | Manage archive playback (playback control panel) | Ctrl + / (on numeric keyboard NumPad)—playback Spacebar—stop Ctrl + * (on numeric keyboard NumPad)—pause Left/Right arrow—previous/next frame (in pause mode) |
Ctrl + A/D | Camera arming | Ctrl + A—camera arming Ctrl + D—camera disarming |
Ctrl + E/P | Operations with individual frames | Ctrl + E—behaviour depends on the state of the camera. If the camera is not in the archive, or in the archive but paused, the frame is exported. Otherwise the video is exported. When the video is exported, the exported frames are played back Ctrl + P—frame printing |
Ctrl + W | Increase image contrast | Maximum contrast is set. To return to the previous value, press the hotkeys again |
Ctrl + S | Set camera mask | Ctrl + S—show camera mask Ctrl + H—hide camera mask |
| Ctrl + L | Enable/disable PTZ control using the mouse | See Mouse PTZ control |
| Home | Switch to the first fragment of the video recordings list in the archive view mode | |
| End | Switch to the last fragment of the video recordings list in the archive view mode |
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