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The Console Bar

The Console Bar is divided up into five areas : Status, Feeds, PTZ, Layout and Settings.

Status

The Status panel consists of a green 'LED', a Start/Stop button and a Locked checkbox.

The LED moves across when iCatcher Console is actively monitoring the cameras to indicate that monitoring is taking place.

The Start/Stop button allows you to start and stop iCatcher Console monitoring the cameras. Whilst stopped, monitoring, web server and alerting are not operational.

If you enable the Locked checkbox then no changes are allowed to the iCatcher Console configuration until you enter a username and password with Administrator privileges.

Feeds

The Feeds panel shows the list of currently defined cameras for your system, in a tree structure with the Console at the top. Right clicking on the Console gives you the option to configure iCatcher Console via the Settings, add a New Camera, or rename the Console

Right clicking over a feed allow you to configure the feed

PTZ

If the currently selected Feed in the Feed Window is a PTZ capable camera, then the PTZ controls on the Console Bar will be enabled. Using these controls you can use the arrows to Pan and Tilt around the scene. The central 'H' will return you to the configured home position and the + and - buttons to the right of the Pan/Tilt arrows allow you to control the zoom.

Layout

The layout panel allow you to auto-arrange all the windows on screen, or to save and revert to your own defined window layouts.

Within the Layout panel are 6 buttons. The first button is the AutoArrange button. Pressing this will organise the currently open windows on screen ( or screens, if there is more than one monitor in use ) and lay them in a neat manner.

The buttons labelled 1-5 are for saving your own custom layouts. If you have manually arranged your on-screen windows and wish to save the layout, holding down the CTRL key whilst clicking a button 1-5 will save the layout to that button. If you then move the windows around, clicking the button you saved the layout to will revert all the windows to their saved positions. Buttons with layouts already saved to them are highlighted.

Settings

The Settings panel allow you to configure iCatcher Console. This is described in detail under Configuring iCatcher