Adding Cameras, Creating Groups and Importing Clips

All cameras and door stations in the local network are detected automatically.

1. Click on . The Welcome wizard opens and lists all cameras that were found on the local network.
2. Select the camera you want to add (use CMD-click on a Mac or CTRL-click on Windows to select several cameras).
3. Specify a user name and a password. Click on  to do so. When multiple cameras have been selected, all of these cameras will get this user name and password.
4. Click on and then on Finish. All new cameras are shown in the device bar in the Cameras section and you can already see the live images of the cameras.
5. You should now complete the data for the individual cameras. Open the Camera Configuration dialog for this purpose. To open the dialog box, you can either right-click onto individual cameras or you click on the icon, which is shown if you position the mouse pointer over the camera name. The Camera Configuration dialog opens.
6. Close the dialog once you have completely filled in the camera data in the Camera Configuration dialog. Then deactivate the edit mode of the device bar by clicking on .

Cameras outside of the local network (for example, on the Internet) need to be added manually. 

1. Click on . The Camera Configuration dialog opens.
2. Enter the camera access data:
   Name: Enter a descriptive camera name..
   URL: IP address of the camera.
   Remote URL: To access the camera from outside of the local network, you can enter the corresponding external address of the camera (such as a DynDNS name). Make sure that you also activate the Remote option.
   User name, password: Enter the user name and password of the camera.
3. Complete the network data and set up alarm notification as described in Entering and Editing Camera Data.
4. Close the dialog once you have completely filled in the data in the Camera Configuration dialog. Then deactivate the edit mode of the device bar by clicking on .

1. To create a camera group, click on . The Group Configuration dialog opens.
2. Fill in the data as described in Configuring Camera Groups.
3. Close the dialog once you have completely filled in the data in the Group Configuration dialog. Then deactivate the edit mode of the device bar by clicking on .

You can use MxMC to play back exported MxPEG clips. Click on  to do so. The Load Clips dialog opens: Select the desired MXG file and click on Open. The clip appears in the device bar in the Clips section.