Information about the topic Camera

By EIBPORT, pictures of network cameras will be displayed directly in visualisation or in a separate window. With the function event camera, automatically will be changed to visualisation page, rsp. window of camera pictures will be placed in forefront, by triggering through respective group address.

To integrate camera

Every network-enabled camera can be integrated in visualisation. To display camera picture in its own window, camera element “as icon” has to be inserted. In data field “URL” you have to enter the complete network path to the camera, with prefixed HTTP: (for example: http://192.168.1.2)

To display directly camera pictures as a picture in visualisation, option “as icon” must not be activated. . In data field “URL” you have to enter the complete network path to the camera, with prefixed HTTP: (for example: http://192.168.1.2/record/curent.jpg)

How you call up picture memory of camera, depends on manufacturer and model of your camera. Please read operation manual of your nertwork camera or please get informed on website of manufacturer.

MJPEG-camera

To integrate MJPEG-streams in visualisation, option “MJPEG-camera” has to be activated and path to MJPEG stream of camera has to be connected.

Event camera

To have the camera image automatically appear in a separate window when triggered by the corresponding group address, the ‘as icon’ option must be activated. The path to the camera must be entered in the URL field, preceded by ‘http’: (e.g. http://192.168.1.2).

To automatically switch to the visualisation page with the camera image when triggered by the corresponding group address, the ‘as icon’ option must not be activated. The complete network path to the camera's image memory (or MJPEG stream) must be entered in the URL field: (e.g. http://192.168.1.2/record/current.jpg).

For this picture function, camera has to possess its own cache, in which pictures will be stored as JPEG files. Path of picture cache depends on manufacturer of camera. Therefore, please read operation manual of your camera.