In the Security Desk Monitoring task, depending on which mode you are in, you can view the layout of a video wall, change what to display on a video wall, such as tile pattern and content of each tile, or configure alarm monitoring on a video wall.
Video walls have three modes:
- Default mode
- Content editing mode
- Pattern editing mode
NOTE: Video is rendered on the video wall hardware. Security
Desk only displays the layout with
tiles and source names.
Default mode
When you drag a video wall entity to a tile on the Monitoring task canvas, by default, the video wall shows what is displayed on the physical monitor. You cannot modify a video wall in the default mode.
Content editing mode
To change what content is displayed in each tile of each page of a video wall by adding or removing entities, you must enter the content editing mode by clicking Take control.If the video wall has
multiple pages of tiles, you can start or stop the video wall from cycling through the
pages by clicking Enable sequence (
) or Disable
sequence (
).
).
For more information, refer to Changing the content displayed on a video wall.
Pattern editing mode
To change the arrangement of the tiles on a video wall, you must enter the pattern editing mode by clicking Edit pattern. You cannot remove entities from the tiles in this mode.
For more information, refer to Modifying the tile pattern of a video wall.
Video wall widget
The Video Wall widget is displayed when the current tile is showing a video wall. You can use this widget to configure alarm monitoring on a video wall, change the dwell time of a sequence, and determine when content or a wall layout reverts to normal after an alarm.
NOTE: Custom actions are not supported for EIZO video walls.
The
Dwell time is how long the video wall displays a page before
switching to the next page when the sequence is enabled.
NOTE: The minimum dwell time is
3 seconds.
For more information, refer to Monitoring alarms on a video wall.