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Video Player
Live camera video, one camera or a grid, relayed by the gateway.
In Studio
In Studio, double-click Video Player in the Components category of the Components panel. It is added to the open view, where you can drag it into place.
When to use
Use Video Player to show a camera on a screen next to the equipment it watches. Pick overlay for pan, tilt and zoom controls and a snapshot button, and grid for several cameras at once.
Properties
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Variant | clean, overlay, grid | clean | How it looks: clean (default, just the picture), overlay (camera name, a LIVE or OFFLINE tag, PTZ pad and snapshot button) or grid (several cameras in tiles). |
| Camera ID | String | (none) | The camera to show, by its gateway id. Stream addresses and passwords stay on the gateway and are never sent to the browser. |
| Camera IDs (grid, comma-sep) | String | (none) | Grid only: camera ids, comma-separated. Duplicates are ignored. |
| Grid Columns | 2, 3 | 2 | Grid only: 2 (default) or 3 columns. The grid shows at most columns x columns cameras, so 4 or 9; any extra ids are not shown. |
| PTZ Pad (overlay) | true, false | true | Overlay only: shows the pan, tilt and zoom pad. It appears only when the camera supports PTZ and is live. |
| Snapshot Button (overlay) | true, false | true | Overlay only: shows the button that saves a still of the current picture. It is disabled while the camera is not live. |
| Controls (overlay) | hover, always | hover | Overlay only: hover (default) shows the controls while the pointer is over the video or on tap, always keeps them showing. |
| Muted | true, false | true | Plays the stream without sound when true (default). |
| Fit | cover, contain | cover | cover (default) fills the box and may crop the picture. contain shows the whole picture and may leave bars. |
| Alarm ID (snapshot link) | String | (none) | A snapshot taken from this player is linked to this alarm journal entry. Blank saves the snapshot without a link. |
Binding
This component has no single value binding.
No value binding. The player asks the gateway for a short-lived playback session for each camera. A camera that is offline, not configured, or has no relay installed shows a hatched No signal style label, never a frozen frame.