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In the example below, the camera is in the Timeshare Group, as displayed in the Configuration Tree. It is circled in pink on the PPI Map has been selected by left-clicking Left Clicking on it. This will open the Camera Mini Control on the right-hand side:
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To focus a camera on a particular area, simply right-click Right Click the area you wish to target and the camera will move to dwell there:
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The Camera Mini Control can be accessed in three ways:
By selecting the camera from the Configuration Tree.
By using the Selection Menu.
By left clicking on the camera on the PPI Map.
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The Camera Mini Control offers you the following options:
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There is a quick way of selecting the camera - this then displays the mini control:
The Selection Menu is accessed by a
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Long Left Click on the PPI Map on the camera you wish to access.
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The The Selection Menu will open and allow you to access to the Camera Mini Control:
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Accessing the Height Map
Within installations there can sometimes be situations where there is a need to adjust how cameras view the surrounding environment. Height Maps are very useful where a single camera needs to cover a region that has differing ground heights within it. Each Height Map is made up of grids, and each grid has a Height Offset option which allows you to inform the camera that when it is viewing that grid it should make tilt adjustments to account for the height difference.
You can view/hide the height map by toggling it on and off via the Camera Mini Control:
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Camera Modes
Automatic: The camera will be controlled automatically by AdvanceGuard® based on the camera and camera group configuration. The automatic following of targets is controlled through the use of rules.
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There are two ways to latch:
Select the Follow / Latch Targeticon, which is outlined in pink in the image below, on the Selected Track Mini Control:
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Right Click the target.
In the example below, the selected track 2159 (in pink) had been automatically followed by the camera, however, the operator latched a camera to track 2-1197 (in red), by right-clicking Right Clicking the track.
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When using latching you will most likely STOP automatic camera following until the latched target is out of range. |
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There are two ways to open a viewer:
By selecting it from the Configuration Tree.
By selecting a viewer from the Viewers list.
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Camera Viewer Screen: This is the camera viewer display screen.
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You can also utilize the mouse to move to an area, by Left - Click+Hold the mouse curser in the spot you wish to move the camera to.
When you begin to Left - Click the mouse a green ring will appear:
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There is a limitation with Point to Click Move immediately after a relative move - , as we don't know where a camera is. So you have to wait for an absolute move before you can use Point to Move feature again. The system will warn you as you will see a red ring on the screen, as in the image below, and the command will not be actioned. You will have to wait until this relative move has completed before you can Point to Click successfully. |
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Drag to Move
You can use the mouse to Left-Hand Click+Drag which displays a white pointer, moving the camera in the direction of the arrow. It can be moved in any direction away from the centre of the viewer. This allows you to move the camera in a diagonal direction, which the Direction & Magnification Controller can’t perform in one operation. The movement is proportional; manoeuvring it a little will move the camera a short distance, the further out you drag the arrow, will make the camera travel much further.
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If your system has multiple cameras you can dock the viewers together by using your mouse to drag Drag+ dropDrop them into position. When you align one viewer with another, you can select if you wish to put the viewer, the right, left, above or below the other by using your mouse and hovering over the selector below:
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These viewers are accessed in two ways:
Moving your mouse over a camera and leaving it on the camera will cause the viewer to show. Keeping the mouse over the viewer will keep it visible otherwise it will automatically close after a few seconds. Whilst the viewer is open you can pin it to the PPI Map using the pin icon to ensure it remains open.
Select the camera, and then from the camera mini control select the viewer button from the title bar. Note that this approach automatically pins the viewer to the PPI Map.
There are three sizes of viewer to choose from, small, medium and large. In the example below the smallest size viewer has been selected:
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You can CTRL+ dragDrag to move the popup viewer around, change it’s size and pin it to the PPI map. When it is pinned to the PPI, then the Pin icon is removed as in the example below:
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