View panes and monitor walls
In smaller deployments, you might only have a few cameras. You can simply go to Cameras and use the dropdown list to switch between each camera, such as the storage room camera and the front of the store. However if you have more cameras or multiple security staff, it can be useful to group cameras into a layout of view panes on Views, and perhaps also to create a monitor wall.
Monitor walls are where one of your computers has multiple monitors, which are often mounted together on a wall in your security operations center (SOC) so that everyone in the team can see those monitors. Each person in the team can switch views on their own computer, yet also see the view on the team's monitor wall. In this way, FortiCamera Cloud can grow with your team, and help them to work together.
Each monitor—an individual monitor, or one in a monitor wall—is divided into one or more view panes. Each view pane can show the video stream from one camera at a time. Grid layouts define the arrangement of the group of view panes. You can show up to a maximum of 6 cameras in a 2 x 3 layout.
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Monitor walls only support live video streams from their assigned cameras. Playback of previous recordings is not supported. |
Using views
To be able to quickly display a group of cameras in an arranged layout, configure a view.
If you have only one group of view panes, go to Views. It displays the view panes automatically.
If you have multiple groups of view panes, and you want to switch between them, go to Views and then click the tabs named for each group at the top of the screen.
To maximize the window and remove the window title bar, click the Full Screen button in the top right corner. To exit full-screen mode, press the Esc key.
To configure a group of view panes
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Go to Views > New Camera Wall.
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Configure the following:
Setting
Description
Name Enter a unique name.
Layout Select the grid layouts for the view panes that will contain video from the cameras:
- 1 x 1
- 1 x 2 (1 row, 2 columns)
- 1 + 2 (1 large vertical view pane in the left column, and 2 smaller view panes in the right column)
- 2 x 2
- 1 + 3
- 2 x 3
Fill Select either:
- No Fill: If the resolution and aspect ratio of the video from the camera does not match the view pane, do not fill the extra space.
- Stretch Fill: Stretch video to match the aspect ratio of the view pane.
Cameras
Select the camera(s) that the camera wall will contain.
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To rearrange the cameras in your view panes, drag each camera to a different view pane. The cameras will switch places.
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Click Save.