The Player Screen of the MOBOTIX Camera

Shows the camera name as set in the Quick Installation wizard or in the Ethernet Interface dialog in the Camera name field.

Opens the online help for the current screen or dialog. If no help topic is available, the Help page will be displayed.

Displays information on the hardware, software and the most important settings of the camera.

The Live screen of the MOBOTIX camera displays the current images of the camera.

Use the dropdown menus to access certain functions of the image controls and the camera administration or open the Setup Menu to see links to all image and event control dialogs.

The Admin Menu (password-protected) contains all dialogs for configuring the camera.

Use the Player screen to view and download the events stored in the internal or the external image storage of the camera.

When you click on again in the Player and Event Storage on External File Server is activated, the camera displays a list containing the current storage size of the Internal Recorder and of any cameras that are storing their images on the same file server into the same directory.

Use the Multi View screen to combine several cameras in different patterns and to assign special functions (highlighting, focus on alarm, ...) for the individual cameras.

The Guest screen allows viewing the camera's live image, setting the image rate within the preset limits and accessing the Live screen by clicking on the Menu link at the bottom of the page.

The PDA screen displays the camera's current image for low-resolution devices (PDAs/MDAs and mobile phones).

If you would like to see a list of events on your PDA and download event images, open the PDA Event List.

Displays the first event that is stored.

Starts fast rewind from the current image in endless loop mode.

Shows the previous event image or the previous image of an event story, depending on the settings of the Event Story button. If the first image has been reached, the next click will show the last image.

Starts playing back the images in endless loop mode. Shows only the event images, all events including event story or one event story only, depending on the settings of the Event Story button.

Shows the next event image or the next image of an event story, depending on the settings of the Event Story button. If the last image has been reached, the next click will show the first image.

Starts fast forward playback in endless loop mode of only the event images, all events including event story or one event story only, depending on the settings of the Event Story button.

Displays the last event that is stored.

Displays the information of the current image.

Shows the Event List that allows you to pull up specific events in the camera Player.

Click on the Download Images link in this dialog to download events as described for the Download button.

Stops an active playback in progress, that had been started using the , the or the buttons.

(Default) Only shows the event images starting from the current image; pre- and post-alarm images are skipped.

Shows all images (pre-alarm, event and post-alarm images) of all events starting from the current image.

Shows all images (pre-alarm, event and post-alarm images) of the current event in endless loop mode.

The softbuttons at the left-hand side of the screen execute certain functions, most of which can be used by users with User level access.

If you have administrative access to the camera, you may assign new functions to existing softbuttons by [Shift]-clicking the corresponding softbutton.

Click on this button to display the Event List dialog. This dialog displays a list with the last 20 events with the corresponding navigation links.

Click on one event link to show the corresponding event image in the player or select a date and time to list the events of that point in time.

Click on this button in the Download Window dialog to download the desired events with an integrated event player. You can also set the start and end points of the events that are of interest to you. Click on Set Event Range to display the size of the packed archive file together with other information in the upper half of the dialog.

To display the content of the downloaded .tar archive file, you can use e.g. WinZip, StuffIt or PowerArchiver.

The following limitations apply when downloading event images:

• The download file can be max. 2 GB in size.
• You may download max. 25,000 events.

Click on the Delete Images button to delete all images from the camera's internal storage. If Event Storage on External File Server has been activated, the camera will not delete these images.

Attention: This will delete all images irretrievably without any further safety prompt.

The image area shows the event images of the current camera.

Click into the image to open the information window for the current image.

Shows the text that had been defined in the Text and Display Settings dialog at the time of the recording.

Displays the date and time information of the current image.

Shows the event number (in this case 000807) and the symbols for the activated sensors at the time of the recording. In this image, the UC (User Click), VM (Video Motion) and PI (PIR sensor) had been activated.

Since a video motion window triggered the recording, the VM symbol is shown in red.

This shows the symbols of the actions that had been active at the time of the recording. In this case, REC (Storage) and FS (File Server storage) had been active.

If one of the actions is carried out, it is displayed in blue (e.g. REC in every last image of an event story); a failed action is shown in red (z. B. FS).

The Status bar shows, whether or not an event story had been stored for the current event image. In this case, one pre-alarm image (-1) and two post-alarm images (+2) had been stored. The number in the middle (0) shows the current image's position (0 is the event image itself).