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To modify the cameras or sequence of the Spot Monitor display, move the cursor to the top of the monitor to display the Spot Monitor title bar. Click the 3VR button in the upper left-hand corner and select Configure from the drop-down menu.

The settings in this dialog box control the appearance and behavior of Spot Monitor. First, choose the view mode for Spot Monitor:

• To display live video from one camera at a time in a cycling display, select Sequential View. Continue to sequential view section in this chapter.
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• To display live video from multiple cameras at the same time, select Multiplex View. Continue to multiplex view section in this chapter.
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Sequential View

When you configure Spot Monitor for sequential view, cameras are displayed on the Spot Monitor one at a time, in ascending order by camera number, at full-screen resolution.

1. Click the camera number of each camera to include it in the sequence.
2. If one or more of the selected cameras has audio, select an option for audio streaming:
   • No audio
   • Play audio for all cameras if available: Audio is streamed from each camera in the sequence as it appears on screen.
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   • Play audio continuously for one camera: Audio is streamed from a single camera continuously, regardless of which camera is currently on screen.
3. Select the information that should be placed as an overlay on each camera:
   • Display camera names
   • Display date and time
4. To display alerts generated by the 3VR system in Spot Monitor, check Enable alert interrupts.
   Enter the length of time for alert interrupts into the Alert interrupt duration text box. When an alert is generated on the system, an alert warning appears on top of the video feed and the display switches to the alerting camera for this length of time. For more information, refer Alert Interrupts for more information in this chapter.
5. The Spot Monitor application restarts itself periodically to ensure the application continues to run smoothly for days and weeks at a time. By default, the restart occurs once every 24 hours, but you may set a different restart interval in the Refresh Interval (hours) box. 
6. Use the slider bar under Display interval for each camera (seconds) to specify the number of seconds each camera should be displayed.
7. Click OK to save the configuration and return to the Spot Monitor main screen.

Multiplex View

When you configure Spot Monitor for multiplex view, cameras are displayed on the Spot Monitor simultaneously in the number and arrangement of your choice.

1. Choose a layout for the Spot Monitor with the layout selector. Click a new layout button to increase or decrease the number and positioning of players as desired. You can display up to 36 cameras at a time in Spot Monitor.
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2. When you have decided on a player layout, click and drag a camera from the camera tree to each blank video player.
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   Live video from the selected cameras streams in each position in the video grid.
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   If you would like to display information about the camera on top of each video player, change the camera overlays by performing the following steps:
3. Right-click anywhere in the video grid.
4. Select Overlays, and then choose an overlay from the sub-menu that appears. The current overlay options are:
   • No Overlay
   • Camera Name
   • Camera Number and Name
   • Appliance and Camera Number/Name
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5. If one or more of the selected cameras has audio and you would like to stream audio from a camera in Spot Monitor, right-click the camera’s video player and select Play audio on “[Camera Name]”.
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   To adjust the volume of audio playback, move the mouse over the speaker icon to display the volume slider bar and drag the bar right to increase the volume or left to decrease the volume.
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6. To display alerts generated by VisionPoint™ VMS in Spot Monitor, check Enable alert interrupts. Enter the duration for alert interrupts into the Alert interrupt duration text box. When an alert is generated on the system, an alert warning appears on top of the video feed and the display switches to the alerting camera for the specified period of time.
7. The Spot Monitor application restarts itself periodically to ensure the application continues to run smoothly for days and weeks at a time. By default, the restart occurs once every 24 hours, but you may set a different restart interval in the Refresh Interval (hours) box.
8. Click OK to save the configuration and return to the Spot Monitor main screen.

Watching Spot Monitor

After clicking OK from the Spot Monitor configuration screen (see section 4), Spot Monitor loads with the selected camera(s) streaming live video.
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By default, camera overlays are placed in the top-left corner of each video player. If desired, you can re-position the overlay by clicking and dragging the overlay box.
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