Device Function

Preview

Click the online device image to enter the device preview page. At the same time, there are some function buttons on the page, as shown in Figure 3.1.

Capture

Click the capture button to manually capture the current screen. A pop-up window will indicate whether the capture is successful. After a successful capture, the file is saved in the multimedia section, as shown in Figure 3.2.

Recording

Click the recording button to record a channel. While recording, the duration is displayed in the lower left corner of the screen. Click the recording button again (recording can be stopped if it is longer than 10 seconds), or perform any operation that switches the screen, to end the recording, as shown in Figure 3.3.

Intercom

Click the intercom button. When the interface prompts "Please start speaking", you can carry out a voice intercom; click the voice intercom again to stop. When the voice intercom function is turned on, the monitor function is automatically turned off.

Monitor

Click the monitor button to turn on the monitor, and click again to turn it off. When you enter the preview screen, monitoring is disabled by default. It is also impossible to operate the monitor function when the voice intercom function is turned on.

Bit-stream Switch

Click the SD button to switch between the main stream and the sub-stream of the preview channel. When entering the preview, the sub-stream (standard definition mode) is open by default. Similarly, the main stream is the HD mode.

Split Screen

Click the split-screen function to display the device in one or four split screens, achieving the effect of watching one or four channel preview screens at the same time.

Playback

Click the playback button to enter the remote playback interface. In the playback module, you can fast-forward / slow-play video files at multiple speeds, record, capture, obtain audio messages, switch between horizontal and vertical screens, pull the recording progress bar at will, and switch the date and the type of recording, as shown in Figure 3.4.

Pan/Tilt

When previewing a PTZ camera, click the P/T button to enter PTZ mode, adjust the aperture, focal length and magnification of the dome camera, and preset the dome camera's running track, as shown in Figure 3.5.

Setting

Click the button in the preview interface to enter the device setting interface. There are three types of configuration: basic configuration, intelligent configuration and advanced configuration, which are explained in Device Management — Device Setting.

Landscape and Portrait Switch

There is a full-screen button in the lower right corner of the preview interface. Click it to enter horizontal-screen preview mode, in which you can also capture, record and monitor, as shown in Figure 3.6.

Channel Switch

At the bottom of the preview interface there is a channel list button. Click it to display the list of all channels of the device, and any channel can be switched, as shown in Figure 3.12.