mx management center user guide v2

MX Management Center User Guide

VERSION 2 CREATED 5 FEB 2016

This Guide Covers 3 Things

1. How To See What’s Going On Now2. How To See What Happened In The Past3. How To Send Evidence To Someone Else

1. How To See What’s Going On

Now

3 Options

Live GraphicGrid

One camera at a time Several cameras


Now

KEY CONCEPT

SHORT TAP selects the icon

LONG TAP shows a menu behind the icon

This button is the most important one in the whole system.

It lets you switch between the different

views.


NowThis is how you tell which view you’re in

Zoom

Look at recent events

Drag any image into focus window


Now

Switch views with this button

Graphic

e.g. Site drawing

Cameras are icons

Open a preview of any camera

Live


Now

Click will take you back to Grid view in this example

2 things that are always available at the top of the screen are the Group Bar and the

Camera Bar, no matter what view you’re in.


Now

Use the camera bar at any time, to go to the

Live view of any particular camera

If you get lost …remember you can always go

Home


Now



There are 3 main ways to get into Playback view

2. How To See What Happened In The

Past

1. Drag the Recent Events slider to see previews of

what happened recently

2. Then either play a preview

right there using play button on left , or go to

Player by clicking the play

icon

1st way to Playback


Past

1. Open the Camera Bar at the top of the

screen

2. Click on the Player icon for the camera you

want

2nd way to Playback


Past

1. Long click on the View

Selection button

2. Select Playback

3rd way to Playback

Use these controls for searching and playback


Past

2. How To See What Happened

Type in a date and time and hit

enter


Past


This button determines what you see when you search so always

check what it’s set to


Past


Event Images is really useful for

searching for footage of an incident

Select it and then click the Play button


Past


Time Lapse can be handy when you’re not sure of the time frame

Select it and then click the

Play backwards

button


Past


Entire Recordings plays video from now

until the end of all recordings

Event Recordingplays a single whole recording event only

Then once you’re around the right time, use Normal Playback to see real time video

clips


Past


1. Long click and select Research

Lets you see recent events in mini.

Then lets you switch to the Playback view

for more detailed analysis

4. Playback & even zoom

2. Choose whether 1 camera, 1 Group or All cameras

3. Mouse over an event


Past

3. How To Send Evidence To

Someone ElsePlayback

Entire Recordings plays one whole

recording event after another

1. Go to start of incident.


Someone Else

2. Click on the little flag. It turns green. This selects 1 minute of footage starting at the time shown. (If you want more or less than 1 minute simply play to the end of your selection, Pause,

Long Click on the flag & Adjust End.)

FYI:During testing

1 minute = 15.7 Mb

Playback


Someone Else

3. Click on the Export button. Select MOBOTIX from the pop-up menu. Tell it where to save the

footage. DONE!

Playback


Someone Else

Well … almost done.

First you need to have some software to play MOBOTIX videos.

On PC download Direct Show Codec from MOBOTIX site or use VLC

On Mac use VLC

This button is the most important one in the whole system.

It lets you switch between the different

views.

Recap This is how you tell which view you’re in

If you get lost Go Home!

Next click on the help for the item you’re not sure

about

Useful TipsIf you want help click

on the ?

And voila! … detailed help

appears

Useful Tips

If you're in Playback and you find something

interesting you can mark it & come back

to it later

Useful Tips

Simply click on the flag to mark the clip

2. Then simply click on the clip of

interest and watch it

Useful Tips

1. Do a long click on the flag to see

your list of marked clips

2. To find where the snapshots are saved go to Preferences>Snapshots & you’ll see the Destination

Path ( which you can change of course )

Useful Tips

1. Short click here saves a snapshot image ( in this case of

whatever is in the focus window) to your computer

2. email it to [email protected]

and we’ll be able to help you!

Final Tip

1. Hold down the cog icon for 5

seconds & you can send a Service

Report

mailto:[email protected]?subject=

MX Management Center User Guide

VERSION 2 CREATED 5 FEB 2016

mx management center user guide v2

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