Documentation for AxxonSoft Mobile Clients.

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Overview

To view the live video, select the necessary camera.

Attention!

If you set the Log collection checkbox in the app settings (see Configuring debugging in the AxxonNet mobile client on Android OS), and the camera has MJPEG playback format, live video won't be displayed when you connect to the Axxon PSIM Server. To view live video, do the following:

  • either broadcast the camera via the RTSP Server (see Configuring the RTSP Server module), keeping the Log collection checkbox set;
  • or clear the Log collection checkbox.

A window with this camera opens. You can go to the next camera by selecting the and arrows. The cameras are scrolled on a loop, taking into account their current sorting and filtering (see Displaying and searching for cameras in the AxxonNet mobile client on Android OS).

Attention!

Display of cameras in the mobile app depends on the settings of the user role. If you select the Archive only access level to a camera for the user role (see Roles) in Axxon One, the corresponding cameras have an icon indicating that there is no access to live video.

Viewing video and events in the live mode won't be available.

Live video playback settings

To select the video resolution, select the button and select the Resolution menu item. In the window that opens, select the required resolution:

Attention!

You can select the resolution only for the MJPEG playback format.

If the camera is multithreaded, select the name of the camera and in the window that opens, select the required stream:

Live video controls

If the camera has a microphone and a playback format other than MJPEG, the audio from the camera will be played back. To disable audio playback from the camera, select the button. To enable audio playback, select the button.

Note

The audio control button can be hidden if video has not started playing.

To view the archive, set the switch to the position (see Viewing archive in the AxxonNet mobile client on Android OS). To return to live video, set the switch to the position.

To disable audio transmission from the mobile device to the server, select the button. To enable audio transmission, select the button.

Note

The ability to transmit audio from a device works only in Axxon PSIM in which the Microphone object must be configured (see Creating and configuring the Microphone object).

To hide the controls on the video viewing screen, tap anywhere on the screen. To return the controls, tap again.

To control the image scale, stretch the image with two fingers (see Digital zoom of video image in the AxxonNet mobile client on Android OS).

Live video settings menu

To open the settings menu, select the button in the upper right corner of the screen. The window with settings opens.

By default, video has the MP4 over HTTP play method. To change the method:

  1. Select the Play method menu item. In the window that opens, select any of the methods:

  2. You can also set the Keyframes stream checkbox.

    Note

    The checkbox is displayed only if you select the MP4 over HTTP or MP4 over websockets method.

  3. Select OK to save the changes.

If you want to copy a video link, select Copy video URL.

If necessary, you can open a video in the picture-in-picture mode. This mode allows you to view video in a special mini player even when another application is active on the screen. To activate the mode:

  1. Select Picture in picture. As a result, video opens in the mini player. You can drag it to any part of the screen.
  2. To exit the picture-in-picture mode, tap the video. Control buttons are displayed:

    1. to return to the full screen mode of the app. The window with the camera that you are viewing opens.
    2. to close the mini player and the app.
    3. to open the Picture-in-picture setting of the mobile device. By default, the Allow permission checkbox is set. It allows creating a picture-in-picture window. If necessary, you can clear this checkbox.

Note

If you double-tap the mini player, the camera that you are viewing opens in the full screen mode.

To rotate the camera image, select the Settings menu item. In the window that opens, in the Image rotation parameter, select the button to rotate the image clockwise. Select the button to rotate the image counterclockwise. You can rotate the image 90, 180, or 270 degrees. You can also select VLC settings in the window (see Configuring video in the AxxonNet mobile client on Android OS).

Horizontal display

On Android mobile devices, you can view video horizontally. To change the display, enable the ability to change the screen orientation in the device settings and rotate the device.

In horizontal display, the control buttons hide automatically with a short delay and reappear when you tap the screen.

Subtitles display settings

If the camera's playback format is mjpeg, and you configured the Captioner for this camera in Axxon PSIM (see Configuring captions display on a video image), then the subtitles are displayed over the video image on the screen. The subtitles can be scrolled if there are many of them and they don't fit on the screen.

To display the subtitles select the button.

To hide the subtitles select the button.