NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual (October 2015)
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4 Setting up cameras
Observer allows any authorized user to set up cameras in the system. Ask your Observer system
administrator whether you have such authorization.
4.1 Preparations
Before you begin to set up a new camera in Observer, be sure to have the following information
available:
Your camera type.
Is your camera type supported by Observer?
Please consult the document
NETAVIS Observer Supported Video Sources
.
Are there available licenses for setting up additional cameras?
IP addresses of cameras (or camera servers).
Please note
: Here we describe how to setup a camera in Observer. If you setup an IP camera, then the
camera itself also can be configured. This is normally done via a web-based interface of the camera.
Please consult the manual of your IP camera for further details.
4.2 Adding a new camera and setting basic properties
Start the Observer client application (see
2 Observer clients on multiple platforms
on page 11).
You can either
add a new camera from scratch, or
duplicate an existing camera and just modify some parameters (see
4.2.2 Duplicating an existing
camera
on page 38). Duplicating an existing camera creates an exact duplicate with all settings
copied. This is useful when you have more than one camera of the same type or with
equal/similar settings (like recording or video analytics settings).
4.2.1 Adding a camera from scratch
1.
Choose
Camera admin
from the
System administration
menu. This opens the
Camera
admin
dialog.
2.
With a mouse click, select the camera group to which you want to add the new camera (later on
you can move the camera in the camera tree to a different group).
3.
Choose
Add new camera
from the menu.
The
Properties
dialog opens in which you can configure the camera.
Enter your camera data in the corresponding fields. Use the following table as a guide. Fields
labeled in
bold
are
mandatory
while all others are optional:
Field label
Description
Camera name
Enter the name that you want to give your camera. This is the name
