Device Properties

Figure 39 Device properties

Status, Enabled, Fault Cause, Health, Alarm Source Info, Monitor, Tuning Policies, and Polling properties are standard NiagaraAX properties. For more information, see the NiagaraAX Drivers Guide, NiagaraAX Networking and IT Guide, and JACE NiagaraAX Install & Setup Guide.

For Video Device Id see Video Device ID property.
For Address, see Device Address properties
Fox Video Stream Preferred
This property allows you to select or decline the use of Fox streaming.
- inherit
  When selected, the inherit option causes a camera to use the value for this property that is set at its parent component (whether the parent is a DVR or a network component).
  
  For example, if the parent component’s Fox Video Stream Preferred property is set to true, the camera component also uses the value of true. In this example, if the parent is a DVR device, the DVR device may also have an inherit option set. If so, the value from the network device’s Fox Video Stream Preferred property is used.
- true
  This option sends the video stream from the video camera to the station (controller) and then forwards it to the Workbench interface through the standard Fox connection. This overcomes firewall issues in the event that the video surveillance system is not exposed to the outside world on its network.
  
  NOTE: This assumes that the controller is exposed - otherwise you could not even connect to the station.
  
  If this option is selected, you should consider setting the resolution and Frame Rate to Low and the compression to High in order to preserve CPU usage in the station (controller).
- false
  This option sends the video stream directly from the video camera to the Workbench interface. Using this setting allows you to set the resolution and Frame Rate to High without having to worry about reducing the station (JACE) CPU - the station is removed from the equation. In either case, the client-side computer expends some of its CPU utilization to render the video on the screen.
For Multistream Preferences, see Multistream Preferences.
Displays
These properties control the display of video on one or more displays connected to one or more DVRs (one per DVR).
Cameras
These properties pertain to camera devices discovered and added to the system.
Pool Frequency
This property provides a drop-down menu to select among three poll frequences, as configured in the network’s Poll Service.
Credentials
The two sets of credentials control user and administrator access to the device.