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