The 3dEYE Video Portal interface is designed to give users fast access to live and recorded video, camera tools, layouts, and event search. The interface consists of five main components:
Top Menu Bar↗️
Camera Controls↗️
Bottom Toolbar↗️
Thumbnails↗️
Timeline↗️
The numbers in the screenshot correspond to the sections described below.
1. Top menu bar
The top menu bar opens access to the main features of the video portal and allows you to configure the screen layout according to your needs. The Help menu and Profile can be opened from here as well.
Top Menu bar icons and their functions are explained below:
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Camera Menu↗️: The camera list shows all connected cameras. Start typing the camera name to search for it. At the bottom of the list, you can filter cameras by:
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Active - shows cameras that are currently online - this tab is opened by default the first time the video portal is accessed in the current browser session
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PTZ - shows PTZ-enabled cameras
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Offline - shows cameras that are currently offline
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Navigation Menu↗️: The navigation menu allows users to categorize camera groups. Start typing the camera group name or category to search for it.
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Groups Menu↗️: The group menu shows the user all the camera layouts that have been previously saved and allow a user to designate a default layout into which the user will be logged in every time. Users can switch between different camera groups simply by clicking on the group name.
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Events Menu↗️: Menu events show all events that were detected by the camera. You can search for events using available filters. If Face Recognition is enabled for any of the cameras match results will be shown on the Faces tab.
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Library Menu↗️: The menu library holds all clips and time-lapses. You can search, download, rename, and delete clips from here.
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Map Menu↗️: The menu map shows the camera's location on the map. You can preview the camera, open the camera full screen, or drag and drop the camera into any layout cell to add it to the current layout.
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AutoScan Menu↗️: Menu auto scan allows you to configure an automatic layout change sequence. You can add both layouts and cameras using the drag-and-drop method from either cameras or layout menus. Drag items in the list to change the order in which they will be shown.
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Thumbnail Grid↗️: The Thumbnail grid shows snapshots from archived footage allowing you to quickly search for a specific event.
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Heatmap Menu↗️: Heatmaps menu allows you to visually estimate areas of high traffic. This menu is shown only for accounts that have Object detection enabled for at least one camera.
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Layout Menu↗️: The layout menu allows you to change layouts and save them for future use.
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Help Menu: The Help menu shows video tutorials and allows you to download a pdf version of the Video Portal guide.
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Profile Menu: The account menu allows you to change your password, access the admin portal, and safely end the session.
⚠️ Note: To search for a camera or a layout group you can use the 'Ctrl + P' keyboard shortcut from any menu screen.
2. Camera Controls
To reveal the camera toolbar simply hover the mouse pointer over the camera image. Depending on the camera feature different buttons will be available.
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Pause playback: If the camera was on pause already this button is replaced with the Play button and pressing it will resume playback.
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Volume control: If the camera is equipped with a microphone and the microphone is enabled in the admin portal the volume control slider will appear when this button is pressed.
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Playback speed control: This button will be shown only during archive playback. It allows you to change playback speed from 1/2 of normal speed to 16 times faster.
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Aspect ratio toggle: It allows you to either fill in the available screen area with the camera image stretching it or to view the stream in the camera's native aspect ratio.
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Camera synchronization: It will be shown only when a multi-camera layout is opened and the mouse hovers over the dependent camera. When pressed playback for the selected camera will be synchronized with the main camera.
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Map: The map button shows the camera location on the world map.
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Snapshot: Save a snapshot to your hard drive.
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Thumbnail: This button will open the Thumbnail grid allowing you to visually search for an event.
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Area Search: The area search tool allows you to select an area on the image to search for all recognized objects according to the parameters set on the Analytics tab of the camera in the Admin portal. This button is shown only for the cameras that have object detection enabled.
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Fullscreen: Expand the selected camera to full screen, menus will still be visible.
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PTZ controls: This button is shown only for PTZ cameras and allows you to control the viewing angle of the camera.
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Mic: Speak through the dual audio-enabled camera. It allows you to talk through the camera speaker, the microphone has to be enabled on the General tab of the camera properties window in the Admin portal.
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Close: Close the camera from the layout cell. This will stop streaming for the selected camera and will allow you to add a new camera in the selected layout cell.
⚠️ PTZ movement speed depends on the camera's capabilities and settings. To adjust the speed and movement of the camera there are two interfaces:1. Relative: For a step-by-step increment in the camera movement use a relative interface. This allows users to have more control over the camera movement in terms of the rate at which the angle of the camera should be rotated.
2. Continuous: This is a robust mode which is allowing users to pan and tilt the camera continuously. The camera can be quickly returned to the home position with the hut icon.
⚠️ Note: Caution should be taken while clicking the hut icon and not be confused with the hut icon with a down arrow as it will overwrite the default position of the camera and will save the new position as default.