Tutorial

The basic user interface is simple and intuitive and is based on drag’n’dropping the cameras into views.

1. Manage Cameras

First, let’s register some RTSP cameras.

  • Navigate to Configuration / Manage Cameras
  • Choose a slot for the camera
  • Choose RTSP Camera from the drop-down menu
  • Type in the camera information (ip address, user, password, etc.)
  • Repeat for all cameras
  • Press SAVE
  • Close the window from the upper-right (X) as usual

2. Viewing Cameras

Let’s see a list of installed cameras and view their live video

  • Navigate to View / Camera List. The camera list widget appears on screen
  • Navigate to View / Video Grid / 2x2. A 2x2 grid appears on the screen
  • Drag and drop cameras from the camera list widget into the 2x2 grid
  • You can open as many video grids on the screen as you please
  • Note that even if you view the same video in multiple grids, the camera stream is decoded only once
  • Note that you can also do drag and drop between video grids
  • Double-clicking on the video, maximizes the video size
  • Double-clicking again, restores the normal size

3. Removing Cameras

  • Right-click on a video in the video grid
  • Choose Remove Camera

4. Saving and Loading the Layout

Camera views can be saved, and recovered for the next time when you use Valkka Live

  • Navigate to File / Save Window Layout. Now your view layout is saved
  • When starting the program again, navigate to File / Load Window Layout