Milestone Central 3.7 - Manual (Page 69)

Milestone XProtect 3.7; Administrator’s Manual
Client: Video Destinations
The video destinations feature allows you to specify Matrix recipients for use by XProtect Central. A
Matrix recipient is a computer capable of viewing XProtect Matrix-triggered live video. This is
possible on computers with either the XProtect Matrix Monitor or the XProtect Smart Client
installed.
For XProtect Corporate installations used with your XProtect Central solution, only Matrix recipients
with an XProtect Smart Client installed are supported.
Once Matrix recipients are defined, you can—when creating or editing alarm definitions; see page
49—specify that live video should be sent automatically to a required Matrix recipient when an
alarm is triggered. Operators will also be able to manually send live video from a selected camera
to a Matrix recipient, either by right-clicking the required camera on a map, or by pressing a
particular key on their keyboards.
Defining a Video Destination
To define a new video destination, do the following:
1. Expand the Settings item in the Client’s Navigation section, right-click Video Destinations,
and select New... This will open the Video Destination Setup window.
2. In the Video Destination Setup window’s Name field, type a descriptive name for the video
destination.
3. In the Address field, specify the IP address (example: 123.123.123.123) or host name
(example: ourserver) of the required Matrix recipient.
Tip: XProtect Central automatically detects whether the Matrix recipient in question uses
an XProtect Matrix Monitor or an XProtect Smart Client.
4. In the Port field, specify the port number to be used when connecting to the Matrix
recipient. By default port 12345 is used for such connections, but note that a different port
number may be used from some Matrix recipients.
5. In the Password field, type the password required when connecting to the Matrix recipient.
6. In the Activation hot key list, select a key (from F5 to F12) to be used as a keyboard
shortcut for quickly sending live video from a selected camera to the Matrix recipient.
7. Click the Save button. Your video destination will be listed in the Client’s Navigation
section, and you will be able to select it when creating or editing alarm definitions.
Editing a Video Destination
To edit an existing video destination definition, right-click the required video destination item in the
Client’s Navigation section, and select Edit... This will open the Video Destination Setup window, in
which you are able to make changes to the video destination definition. The Video Destination
Setup window’s fields are described in Defining a Video Destination above.
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