You can control the tasks that XProtect Smart Client users can perform in XProtect Smart Wall by specifying user rights for roles. Set up user rights for XProtect Smart Wall

Repeat the steps, until you have added a layout and cameras on the monitors you want to include in the Smart Wall preset.

If the monitor already has a layout for the selected preset, you can click Clear to define a new layout or to exclude the monitor from the Smart Wall preset, so the monitor is available for other content not controlled by the Smart Wall preset.

You can leave layout items blank, so they are available for other content not controlled by the Smart Wall preset. The cameras on the Federated Site Hierarchy tab are accessible in a Milestone Federated Architecture setup.

Drag cameras from the Device Groups, Recording Servers or Federated Site Hierarchy tab onto the different layout items.

Click the layout button to select which layout to use with your monitor, and click OK.

Select one of the monitors you created and from the Presets tab, select a preset from the list to configure what you want the selected monitor to show when used with the selected Smart Wall preset.

Add layout and cameras to the monitors (requires a Smart Wall preset):

Create as many Smart Wall presets as you need.ĭ.

Click Activate to display the Smart Wall preset on the video wall.

Enter a name and a description and click OK.

Select the Smart Wall and from the Presets tab, click Add New.

The same layout is used in XProtect Smart Client.

Select the Smart Wall and on the Layout tab, click Edit to position the different monitors so their positions resemble the mounting of the physical monitors on the video wall.

Add as many monitors as you have on the physical video wall.

Select Independent to replace the camera already in the preset item with the new camera or Linked to push the content of the layout items from left to right from where you inserted the new camera.

Use the preset behavior setting Element insertion to define what should happen when a user of XProtect Smart Client drags a camera onto a layout item in the Smart Wall preset.

You can use empty presets and empty preset items for content not controlled by the Smart Wall preset.

Use the preset behavior settings Empty preset and Empty preset item to define what is displayed on a monitor with an empty preset layout or in a preset's empty preset items when a new Smart Wall preset is automatically triggered or manually selected in XProtect Smart Client.

Configure the dimensions of the monitor so it resembles one of the physical monitors on the video wall.

Right-click the Smart Wall and select Add Monitor.

Add monitors and define the monitor layout:

In the General View Item Properties settings, define if you want system status information and title bars to appear above the cameras' layout items.ī.

Specify the settings for the Smart Wall.

In the Overview pane, right-click Smart Wall and select Add Smart Wall.Create as many Smart Walls and Smart Wall presets you need to optimize the coverage of your typical surveillance scenarios. Monitors can be part of several Smart Walls and Smart Wall presets. Smart Wall presets can change the layout and content of all monitors in a Smart Wall or only some of the monitors. You can include all monitors on the video wall in one Smart Wall or group the monitors and configure a Smart Wall for each group. The configuration of the Smart Wall is very flexible. If you want to use rules to change automatically what is displayed on the video wall, or if you have typical surveillance scenarios where you want to display the same content on the video wall each time the scenario happens, you should define Smart Wall presets. You need not define Smart Wall presets, if you only want to display cameras and XProtect Smart Client views that your XProtect Smart Client users manually can push onto the video wall. A Smart Wall configuration consists of defining the Smart Wall, adding monitors and defining the monitor layout, and optionally specifying Smart Wall presets and the layout and content of the different monitors.

Milestone smart wall setup