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Configuring the HTTP Server

iCatcher Console has a built in web server, enabling it to be viewing and controlled via the web.

Embedded HTTP Server

Checking Enable embedded HTTP server will turn on the HTTP server within iCatcher Console

IP Address is the IP address that iCatcher Console will listen on. Selecting 0.0.0.0 here will listen on all interfaces, or you may selected a specific IP address to listen on.

Port is by default set to 80, but you may change this is you wish to listen on a different port

Log new live & playback sessions will log each live and playback session to the iCatcher Console log.

Edit IP Blacklist will allow you to enter IP addresses and network that you do not wish to have access to the iCatcher Console web server

Live view options

Limit live duration allows you to set a maximum duration for each live view session. After this time the viewer will see a ‘Live view expired’ message

Limit initial feed size to allows you to set an initial size for feeds when viewed via the web. This is useful to stop large feeds such as 640x480 requiring large amounts of bandwidth to view.

Allow zooming the live image allow the user to resize the image they are viewing. This will allow the user to change the size of the image viewed if you have selected Limit initial feed size above

Allow multi view allows the user to choose one of the multiple camera views from the web view, such as the 2x2 4 camera view, or 3x3 nine camera view

Mobile image size allow you to specify the size of the image sent to viewers of the mobile page.

Mobile view update speed controls how often the image on the mobile page is updated.

Customising the web view

Colours & Style

Change web view style allows you to customise the web view.

Use the default iCatcher Console colours reverts to the default colour scheme

Use custom colours allow you to specify your own background, text and link colours

Use a custom CSS style sheet allows you to specify a CSS stylesheet to use. Details on CSS style sheets is beyond the scope of the help file.

Graphics

Here, you can select to use alternative left and right hand graphics. Simply click Use an alternative left graphics or Use an alternative right graphic and choose the location of the file.