Sites and Devices

Sites and Devices UI allows you to create and configure your sites and capture devices. Left side is showing tree view of existing sites and devices. Sites are shown as folders and devices as leaf nodes.

Sites can be created. deleted, renamed using tree view context menus. Devices can be deleted using context menus.

Selecting device will show its properties card. You can change and save them.

Center pane allows adding new Audio Device or Beacon Sensor.
Right pane is for adding Video Devices.
Admin can either manually add new camera or rely on Quantotto Agent to locate ONVIF compliant cameras in your network.

Capture Agents will be retrieving device settings configured on this page and modifying capture process accordingly (such as frame rates, sample rates etc.)

Audio Devices

When creating new Audio Device you will be asked to provide the following detailsL

• Device name
• Site: select from drop down of available sites
• Device Address: use IP address of raspberry Pi where microphone is attached
• Stream Location: pipe (|) separated string “||"

  NOTE: currently, this field is shared by multiple device types and its format is less intuitive; we are working on making it more user friendly.

Click Add and device will show in the tree view under selected site.

Beacon Sensors

When creating new Beacon Sensor you will be asked to provide the following detailsL

• Device name
• Site: select from drop down of available sites
• Device Address: use IP address of raspberry Pi where microphone is attached
• Stream Location: pipe (|) separated string “|||"

  NOTE: currently, this field is shared by multiple device types and its format is less intuitive; we are working on making it more user friendly.

Click Add and device will show in the tree view under selected site.

Video Devices

Video capture devices can either be auto-discovered or configured manually. If Discovery Agent is deployed, it will push discovered device details to Quantotto Server and they will show on the right pane of Sites and Devices UI page. You will need to configure user credentials manually and add the device.

You don’t have to rely on discovery process and add Video Device manually. Here is the process:

NOTE:

• For Discovered Device, some settings will be pre-filled for you,
  but you should follow the same general process as outlined below.
  
• In case of Discovered Device, clicking on “Get Settings” should auto-fill stream URI.
  
• Also, you can retrieve an image from camera device by clicking Get Snapshot.
  This is to further validate you are configuring the right device for the right site.

• Click on “Add new camera” link -> new card will appear
• Provide the following information:
  • Device address: camera IP)
  • ONVIF port: set to 80
  • Site name: select from drop down of available sites
  • Device name: unique name
  • User: set admin if you will be filling in stream URI
  • Password
  • Stream URI: consult device vendor or Internet resources for your device specific RTSP / HTTP live feed
  • FPS: frames per second (lower FPS will consume less storage and less processing CPU with accuracy of detection as trade-off)
• Click on “Get Settings”
• Click on “Add Capture Device”

Device card should disappear and you will see new device in the tree view under configured site. You can click on newly added device to review / modify its settings.

Please consult Discovery Agent documentation to make sure it is set up correctly.