Hi everyone.
Mike from CCTV Camera Pros here.
In this video, I'm going to show you how to set up the video multiplexer and dwell time
capability for Viewtron security camera DVRs.
So first off, what am I talking about when I say video multiplexer and dwell time?
So, a video multiplexer basically takes video from multiple cameras and combines it on the
screen to display the multiple cameras in a single camera view.
We actually sell standalone video multiplexer devices that do this, but Viewtron DVRs, they
have built in video multiplex capability, so that in addition to recording and the remote
viewing capability and everything else that you get with these DVRs and NVRs, you can
also set up some pretty neat live video displays on local TVs and monitors.
So that's what video multiplexing is, combining video signals from multiple sources for a
single display.
Dwell time is the ability to scroll through different video displays and pause for a given
interval.
So for example, what I'm going to show you in this video is I'm going to set up a four
channel multiplex display, so a grid of four cameras and then four views of single cameras
and the DVR is going to scroll through from between those five views and pause for five
seconds at each of those views, and the amount of time that's paused is configurable, that's
the dwell time.
So first I'm going to show you how to set this up, and then I'll run you through a demo
of what it looks like for the live video display on a monitor.
Here's a live view of the security camera system at our office.
This is the Viewtron DVR, and I'm controlling it with the mouse right now.
From the main menu select settings and then system.
On the system screen, click on this output settings tab.
This is the screen where we can configure this custom dwell time display, and I hit
the plus button up there and add the first frame of the sequence.
I'm going to do a four camera view for the first frame, and you could see them dragging
the cameras over into each of the grids where I want them to be displayed.
So this first screen is going to be four cameras, and it's going to display camera one, three,
five, and six, and then I'm going to add four additional frames and each of these are going
to be single camera views.
So I'm just going to put a single camera views of each of those four cameras that I used
for the four camera grid view into a single channel view like this.
And you can see, I have five frames in this dwell time sequence, and I'm going to hit
apply, and then close this configuration window out.
Now, I'm back at the live of the system, and then to enable the dwell time display, I click
this icon in the lower left.
It looks like rotating arrows, and then you saw there that I set the dwell time to five
seconds.
So now it's going to scroll through the displays that I just configured.
So the first one was that four channel view, and now it's going to go through each of the
four single camera views.
And when it's done, it'll start over again and it'll go back to that four camera view.
I hope this video has been helpful.
If you have questions about anything that you've seen here, feel free to email me anytime
at mike@cctvcamerapros.net.
If you want to learn more about these Viewtron surveillance DVRs or the IP cameras and any
accessories, please visit www.cctvcamerapros.com/viewtron.
Thank you for watching.