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19 Video walls with Observer
The Observer video wall solution allows you to configure and operate professional video walls using
standard Observer servers and clients. Such a video wall can then be controlled by the Video wall
control application, which allows you to:
Handle video walls with up to 10x10 monitors.
Connect multiple monitors to a single client PC.
Flexibly control the views and layouts in any of the video wall monitors.
Maximize individual camera streams on any of the monitors.
Work with multiple control consoles in parallel.
The video wall control application has been specifically designed for control center personnel to
operate video walls. Any configuration of the servers, video wall clients, cameras, recordings, or other
administration has to be done in the main Observer client and admin consoles.
Here is the basic architecture of a video wall with Observer:
The video wall control application itself runs in a web browser on a PC that serves as the video wall
control center. It connects to one of the Observer servers in the network that then in turn controls the
Observer video wall clients that directly connect to the monitors of the video wall.
19.1 Setting up a video wall with Observer
19.1.1 General setup considerations
The video wall control application connects to an Observer server (normally a user server – NUS) in
order to control the display of the video wall clients. It is possible to choose any server in the network
