Milestone XProtect Smart Client 2013 - Manual (Page 65)

Milestone XProtect ® Smart Client
2014
User's Manual
www.milestonesys.com 65 Defining your views
Name Description
Speakers
Select the speaker you want to talk through.
If the Speakers list displays No speaker hardware, your computer
does not have the required hardware for playing audio from the
surveillance system. Typically, this occurs because your computer
does not have an audio card installed. If the list displays No
speaker sources, no speakers attached to cameras are available.
If your surveillance system has speakers attached to multiple
cameras (and you have the necessary rights to access them), you
can talk through all the speakers simultaneously by selecting All
speakers from the Speakers list.
Talk
Click and hold down the mouse button for as long as you want to
talk.
Level Meter
The Level Meter indicates the level of your voice. If the level is very
low, you may need to move closer to your microphone or adjust
your audio settings in Windows. If the Level Meter shows no level
at all, check that the microphone is connected and correctly set up.
Lock to selected audio
devices
When you select a camera or view, the corresponding microphone
and/or speaker is also selected by default. However, if you want
audio for a specific camera regardless of the ones you are viewing,
you can select Lock to selected audio devices.
Example: You need to listen and talk to a crime victim through
microphones and speakers attached to camera A, but you also
urgently need to view cameras X, Y and Z, some of which are
displayed in different positions in the view. By selecting Lock to
selected audio devices, you can communicate with the victim on
camera A while viewing the other cameras at the same time.
List only devices from current
view
If your surveillance system contains large numbers of microphones
and/or speakers, the lists from which you select microphones and
speakers in the Audio pane can be very long. To avoid this, you can
limit the lists to only contain microphones and speakers relevant to
your current view by selecting List only devices from current
view.
Note that in this context, current view also includes any views you
have open as floating views and on primary and secondary displays
(see "Multiple windows" on page 91).
Talk to an audience
IMPORTANT: The surveillance system can record incoming audio from microphones attached to
cameras, even if no video is being recorded. However, outgoing audio transmitted through speakers
attached to cameras is only recorded on some surveillance systems (see "Surveillance system
differences" on page 42).