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*Upgrading/Downgrading VDG Sense
Chapter 3 -
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Starting VDG Sense client
3.1 Signing in
Installing VDG Sense as client or standalone system will put a desktop icon with the name 'Sense Client'. By double-clicking on 'Sense Client' the application will start and show the login dialog, see below.
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It contains the following items:
Server address field. Sense automatically finds available servers in the network including the local system. Either choose a server from the list or type in the Type in the IP address of the server manually.
Credential fields. The username and password can be entered in these boxes
Settings button (gear icon). For program language, autostart and autologin settings and videowall mode.
Close button (arrow icon). To close the application.
Sign In button: Sign-in on the selected server using the entered credentials
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Open the activation wizard by selecting the server to be activated in the Sense Client config, then click the ’Enter the license key’ button.
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When the USB stick is inserted into the Sense Client platform machine, it will automatically recognize the license key file. In the other case, you will have to browse for a license key file or enter it manually.
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The server tab holds the list of servers and settings related to the selected server. From left to right you see the serverlist, the cameralist of the selected server, settings of the selected server and server statistics related to CPU, memory, network and harddisk load.
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5.1.1 Add via find
Click ’Find’ in the lower left corner of the screen to open the find dialog. After a few seconds it shows the list of all servers found in the local network on all NIC’s. Select the server(s) and click ’Add’ to add selected server(s) to the configuration and close the dialog.
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NOTE: a layout only can be assigned once per multi layout. When finished click ’Close’ to close the dialog.
55.4 User Management
Sense User Management provides the administrator with the ability to control the access level of users logged in to Sense. Access to cameras, servers, layouts and several other functions can be limited to groups of users. In Sense this is called a ’User Group’, it holds the privileges of users assigned to the group.
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Double click on a panel to go to fullscreen playback or to display a camera on a designated target panel. Double click again to return the previous layout.
6.4.1 Playback control options
For creating a playback layout, it is needed to create a layout that contains one or multiple panels of the type ‘Playback’ and a control panel to start/stop the playback. There are two types of playback controls available. By default when creating a playback layout or when switching to fullscreen playback, the timeline panel is used.
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 | Playback backwards. For streaming codec video only I-Frames are played back. |
 | Stop playback. |
 | Playback forward. |
 | Opens the export image dialog, explained in section 6.3.3 on exporting images. |
 | Select Quick option to go to a specific date |
 | Motion detection |
 | Option to visualize motion detection, vca events or audio on the timeline panel |
Option 2: Alternatively, there is the playback controls panel as a legacy option with the more classic control buttons and slider.
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Servers: List all available servers. Select server to display cameras from that server in the cameralist.
Cameras: List of cameras from the selected server. Select camera and press ’>’ button to add camera to list of cameras for export.
Start and end time: Start and end time of the export. These can be modified regardless whether the range of the trackbar is used or not.
Reset date and time: Reset time range to initial values.
Full date/time range: Set time range to beginning and endtime of all recorded video of selected cameras.
Include Sense Player: Include software to playback the exported video, on by default.
Export location: Destination of the exported video. Click ’...’ to select the path. The free space of the export location should be large enough to hold the exported video.
There are two three ways to define the time-range of an export; The easiest option is the timeline:
Timerange using timeline:
Click on the time indicator and hold the mousebutton to select the timerange. This timerange can be changed dynamically, it can be moved, enlarged or shrinked to fit the timerange you wish to export.
After selecting a time windows, the Export image icon will change into a movie export icon (see image below)
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Other options are using the playback controls trackbar or using the start/endtime edit box in the video export dialog:
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Timerange using dialog:
Video can also be exported manually without using the trackbar to define the time range. When opening the export video dialog it will use the current playback time (position of thumbtracker) and set the start time with current time minus 5 minutes and end time to current time plus 5 minutes. The camera(panel) which has focus will automatically be added to the list of export cameras.
66.4.3 Export Image
Single images or snapshots can be exported from recorded video to a PDF document which can be stored to any windows storage location (like a USB stick). The PDF report contains information about the exported image and comments which can be entered in the Export Image dialog. To create a report select the playback panel with the image that should be exported and click the ’Disk’ button in the ’Playback Controls’ (see section 6.3.1 on playback controls), it will open the dialog as shown below:
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