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Purpose

The Video The video surveillance monitor is used for displaying and managing the Surveillance the surveillance windows. The Surveillance windows display video from the specified Camerascameras.

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Functions

The Video video surveillance monitor implements the following functions:

  1. Display of images from the video surveillance cameras.
  2. Manage Control of the surveillance modes.
  3. Graphically process the images from the video surveillance cameras.
  4. Graphic processing of video images coming from cameras
  5. Management of Manage video recording from the video surveillance cameras.
  6. Work with video archives.
  7. Display video of information about camera status data.

Interface description

The figure shows the Video the video surveillance monitor interface.

The Video video surveillance monitorwindow consists of a field for displaying the Surveillance the surveillance windows and the toolbar above it with the following items:

  1. The buttons are used to change the number of the displayed Surveillance surveillance windows on the Video video surveillance monitor.
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    You can determine the video image size after decompression in the video surveillance monitor using the Decompressor.TrueResize parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).

  2. The The button is used to manage the layouts.
  3. The buttons are used to switch the Surveillance surveillance windows.
  4. The field displays the current time and date.
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    You can change the format for displaying the archive date and time. To do this, go to the security zone object on the Date and time format tab (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object). After you select the required format, you must restart Axxon PSIM.

    If the Debug mode is enabled in Axxon PSIM (see The Debug window), then information about the transmitted video stream is displayed instead of the date and time (see Frame rate settings).

Every Surveillance Every surveillance window has a function menu to access such functions as arming and disarming video the camera, image processing, management of video recording managing, frame exporting and printing, etcand so on. The Surveillance surveillance window can also display the Buttons for buttons for performing the specified actions when you click them:

Left-click the video camera number in the Surveillance the surveillance window to display the function menu (see the figure below).
 

When hovering you hover the mouse cursor over the control elements in the Video video surveillance monitor, the tooltips are displayed. The period of their display can be set using the TT_INITIAL and TT_AUTOPOP registry keys parameters of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key (see Registry keys reference guide).


The keyboard shortcuts ("hotkeys") key combinations for convenient Video operation of the video surveillance monitor and Surveillance and surveillance windows operation are listed in the table.

Keyboard shortcuts ("hotkeys")Key combinations

Function

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0 .. 9 Num (numeric keyboard)

Select an active Surveillance surveillance window with the camera ID in the range from 0 to 9

The sequence number of the Surveillance surveillance window corresponds to the key digit

Ctrl + 0 .. 9 Num (numeric keyboard)Select an active Surveillance surveillance window with the camera ID in the range from 10 to 19To enable the cameras with the ID 10-19, press Ctrl and the key corresponding to the low-order digit. For example, CTRL+0 enables the camera 10, CTRL+9 enables the camera 19
Ctrl + 10 or more on numeric keyboardSelect an active Surveillance surveillance window with a sequence number from 10To enable the camera with the two-digit ID, press Ctrl and sequentially enter the digits. For example, CTRL+2+3 to enable the camera 23

F1 .. F6

Select the number of the displayed Surveillance surveillance windows

F11 window.

F24 windows.

F39 windows.

F416 windows, etcand so on.

Note. The documentation can also be opened by pressing the F1 key if Axxon PSIM is set up accordingly (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object section in Administrator's Guide)

F7Display all Surveillance surveillance windows on the Video video surveillance monitor. This key can only be used if there are more than 36 Surveillance surveillance windows in the Video video surveillance monitor
F8

In the archive mode select the , select the date and time for searching records. Long pressdisplay the Execute Run menu of the Main main control panel

In the video surveillance mode display the Execute , display the Run menu of the Main main control panel

This hotkey key can be disabled using the DisableF8 registry key (see Registry keys reference guide)
F9Display the function menu of the Surveillance window

Ctrl + R
Ctrl + T

Manage video recording

Ctrl + R—start video recording start.

Ctrl + T—stop video recording stop

Shift + LeftClick/RightClick

Image scaling in the Surveillance surveillance window

Shift + LeftClickstep-by-step zoom in.

Shift + RightClickstep-by-step zoom out

Tab

Switch the active Surveillance surveillance window into the archive mode and back

See Working with video archives.

By default, pressing Tab redirects the user to the main archive of the Serverserver. If the user should be redirected you want to switch to the external archive, it is necessary to you must use the EnterEdgeStorageDirect parameter of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AxxonSoft\Axxon PSIM\Video registry key (see Registry keys reference guide)

Ctrl + / (on numeric keyboard NumPad)
Spacebar
Ctrl + * (on numeric keyboard NumPad)

Left/Right arrow

Manage archive playback (playback control panel)

Ctrl + / (on numeric keyboard NumPad)playback.

Spacebarstop.

Ctrl +(on numeric keyboard NumPad)pause.

Left/Right arrow—previous/next frame (in pause mode)

Ctrl + A/D

Camera arming

Ctrl + A—arm camera arming.

Ctrl + D—disarm camera disarming

Ctrl + E/P

Operations with individual frames

Ctrl + Ebehaviour —behavior depends on the state of the camera. If the camera is not in the archive , or is in the archive but paused, the frame is exported. Otherwise, the video is exported. When the video is exported, the exported frames are played back.

Ctrl + P—print frame printing

Ctrl + W

Increase image contrast

Maximum contrast is set. To return to the previous value, press the hotkeys key combination again

Ctrl + S
Ctrl + H

Set camera mask

Ctrl + Sshow camera mask.

Ctrl + Hhide camera mask

See Use of basic video detection toolsservice detectors

Ctrl + LEnable/disable PTZ control using the mouseSee Mouse PTZ control Control of PTZ devices using a mouse
HomeSwitch to the first fragment of the video recordings list in the archive view mode
EndSwitch to the last fragment of the video recordings list in the archive view mode

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