NETAVIS Observer 4.6 User Manual (October 2015)
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2 Observer clients on multiple platforms
2.1 Introduction to Observer clients
Once you have successfully installed Observer on your server, authorized users can access the server
via an Observer client.
Normally the Observer client runs on a PC separate from the server, however in a client-on-server
installation the client runs directly on the server (see the document
NETAVIS Observer Server
Installation and Administration
for further information on how to create and run a client-on-server
installation).
Clients for various platforms
You can choose among these Observer clients, operating systems and platforms:
Observer client
OS and platform
Supported functionality
Locally installed desktop client
MS Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
All
Linux, Unix (also client on server
CoS)
No audio, Layout Navigation, and
PTZ-Joysticks
Desktop web browser
MS Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10
No support for joysticks for PTZ
control
Linux, Unix
No audio, Layout Navigation, and
PTZ-Joysticks
Client for iPad
Apple iPad with iOS 6 or later
Live viewing and archive access
(with MJPEG streams)
Client for Smartphone & Tablet
many smartphone platforms and
OSes
Live viewing (with
MJPEG streams)
Note
: The Mac OS X operating system hasn’t been supported since Observer 4.0.
Please be aware that some functions like Layout Navigation and running SAFE export files are only
available on the MS Windows platform.
This chapter describes how to start the Observer client on a desktop PC. If you want to run Observer
on a mobile device please refer to
2.6 Mobile Observer clients
on page 24.
The minimum screen resolution for running the Observer client is 1024x768 pixels.