Mirasys VMS 7.5 Spotter for Windows User Guide

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The work area is where the content of the devices can be viewed. When cameras and other devices are added to the work area they automatically open the stream to the playback position or live position of the work area.

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The work area can have multiple device tabs. New tabs can be created by clicking the “New tab” control or from the tab pull down menu on the right side of the Spotter screen.

The tab pull down menu also offers possibility to jump to a tab if there are lot of tabs and some of them are not visible anymore.

Only cameras that are on the currently visible tab are streaming. Cameras that are on the “hidden” tabs are not streaming, but will resume streaming instantly when the tab is activated.

Tabs can be reordered by dragging them to a different position.

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Tabs can be also dragged outside the Spotter window to move the content to a new, automatically created window.

If the Ctrl button is pressed when dragging, a copy is made instead of moving. The same applies for moving or copying cameras.

New plugin tabs or saved shortcut tabs can be opened also by hovering the mouse cursor on top of the “plus” button that creates new device tabs, and accessing the menu that appears.

The tab menu can be accessed with a mouse right-click. It also offers the possibility to select a tab and create new tab, as well as change the name of the current tab and close a tab or several tabs. The automatic cropping and camera grid settings for all cameras on this tab can be controlled from here. Also the tab menu offers the possibility to reset the virtual zoom and VCA visualization settings for all cameras on the tab.

It is also possible to add a plugin to a tab.

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This allows for example the Profile Map plugin and the Alarm Popup plugins to reside in separate cells on the same camera grid.

Any plugin can now be added to any grid cell, which gives lots of possibilities.

Tabs can be closed from the “X” control or from the tab menu. It is possible also to close all tabs to the right of the current one, or all tabs but the current one.

It is possible to save and share tab contents with the Tabshare feature. A tab is saved by first configuring the tab, then right clicking the tab title to reveal the tab menu and then selecting Save tab option.

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This displays a dialog where the tab name can be entered. It is also possible to define whether the tab is shared to other users and whether the tab is added to the quick access menu.

The tab quick access menu is displayed when the mouse is taken on top of the new device tab “plus” icon.

Existing saved tab contents can be removed from the “Saved contents..” menu

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To update an existing saved tab, user can create the new version, and then write the same name as an already saved tab. The dialog will change to indicate that user is now updating the tab.

The tab share feature is useful for Spotter Monitor Manager and Agile Virtual Matrix

(AVM) use, since it allows to open a saved and shared tab in the Monitor Manager and AVM management plugins.

Saved tabs can be accessed also with keyboard shortcut numbers using the “,” option.

Frequently Used Keyboard Shortcuts:

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Ctrl+Shift+T Open tab menu.

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