The Planner

i-Catcher Console allows you to represent camera motion detection on one or more plan views of your premises.

The system is already set up with an example plan view, which can be shown by right clicking on "System Plan/Overview" and selecting "Show Plan".

You can also delete or rename plan views, or add additional plans by right-clicking on the empty space of the tree list area, and selecting "New Plan".

To set the background, right-click on the plan and select "Properties". From here you can rename the plan and set the background image to any JPEG, GIF or Bitmap file. Alternatively, you can drag an image file from Windows Explorer onto the plan to change the background.

Once the plan view is on screen, you can drag cameras and I/O devices from the feed tree list to the plan and to new locations.

Cameras on the plan view will be highlighted when motion is detected, initially in red, then orange. The highlight will shrink as the time without motion increases. I/O devices will have marks to show their current state.

Cameras will also show a live preview image when you hover the mouse over them.

The plan view window is considered when using the auto-arrange function, and will count as one of the windows when trying to find a "best-fit" layout.

Mobile devices

If you have any mobile devices configured, you can have them shown and tracked on a plan view by selecting the "Show mobile devices" option and entering the bounding latitude and longitude values. These must be WGS 84 and use decimal degrees notation. West and South coordinates can be represented with negative values.

For example, our offices are located at latitude 50.921548 and longitude -1.214139.