About the Surveillance Viewer view
The Surveillance Viewer view provides a pre-configured grid-view with various layout options that allow you to quickly find and display all of the video cameras on your NiagaraAX station. The Surveillance Viewer may display on your computer’s monitor or on a monitor connected to a DVR.
This view has several layout options that allow you display up to sixteen live cameras on a single view.
Figure 22 Dragging a camera onto the Surveillance Viewer
The Surveillance Viewer view is comprised of the following areas:
- Camera listing pane
The top left corner of this view contains all the cameras that are found on the station. You can drag cameras (listed by name) from this pane to the camera layout pane.
- Camera layout pane
This pane shows a grid of areas that are available for displaying camera views. The layout pane changes according to the option that you select in the Layout property.
- Viewer properties and controls
This bottom left area of the view contains the standard and buttons, as well as the following properties (described in About the Surveillance Viewer):
- Frame Rate
- Resolution
- Compression
- Layout