Group Management

The resources added should be organized into groups for convenient management, including encoding channels and alarm inputs. You can get the live view, play back the video files, and do some other operations of the device through the group.

Add Group

You can add group to organize the added device for convenient management.

Steps

1. Enter the Device Management module.
2. Click Device Management → Group to enter the group management page.
3. Create a group.

   • Click Add Group and enter a group name as you want.

   • Click Create Group by Device Name and select an added device to create a new group by the name of the selected device.

     The encoding channels and alarm inputs of this device will be imported to the group by default.

Import Resources to Group

You can import the device resources (such as encoding channels and alarm input) to the added group in a batch.

Before You Start

Add a group for managing devices. Refer to Add Group.

Steps

1. Enter the Device Management module.

2. Click Device Management → Group to enter the group management page.

3. Select a group from the group list and select the resource type as Encoding Channel or Alarm Input.

4. Click Import.

5. Select the thumbnails/names of the encoding channels or alarm inputs in the thumbnail/list view.

   You can click or to switch the camera display mode to thumbnail view or to list view.

6. Click Import to import the selected resources to the group.

Edit Resource Parameters

After importing the resources to the group, you can edit the resource parameters. For encoding channel, you can edit the channel name, stream type, protocol type, etc. For alarm input, you can edit the resource name. Here we take encoding channel as an example.

Before You Start

Import the resources to group. Refer to Import Resources to Group.

Steps

1. Enter the Device Management module.
2. Click Device Management → Group to enter the group management page. All the added groups are displayed on the left.
3. Select a group on the group list and click Encoding Channel. The encoding channels imported to the group will display.
4. Click in the Operation column to open the Edit Camera window.
5. Edit the camera information, including the camera name, the stream type, etc.

   • Video Stream — Select the stream type for live view of the camera as desired.

     You should start live view again to take effect.

   • Playback Stream Type — Select the stream type for playback of the camera as desired.

     • This field will display if the device supports dual-stream.
     • You should start live view again to take effect.

   • Rotation Type — Select the rotate type for the live view or playback of the camera as desired.

   • Protocol Type — Select the transmission protocol for the camera.

     You should start live view again to take effect.

   • Streaming Protocol — Select the protocol as RTSP or private for getting stream when live view.

     You should start live view again to take effect.

   • Stream Media Server — Get stream of the camera via stream media server. You can select and manage the available stream media server.

   • Copy to… — Copy the configured parameters to other camera(s).

   • Refresh — Get a new captured picture for the live view of the camera.

6. Click OK to save the new settings.

Remove Resources from Group

You can remove the added resources from the group.

Steps

1. Enter the Device Management module.
2. Click Device Management → Group to enter the group management page. All the added groups are displayed on the left.
3. Click a group to show the resources added to this group.
4. Select the resource(s) and click Delete to remove the resource(s) from the group.