Live Camera stream as screensaver (or similar solution)

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Stefan Dekkers

February 25, 2021 10:38

For a project we are looking for a solution.

Our client has several cash registers, these cash registers are windows based.

When the register isn't used they would automatically like to see the camera's connected to network optix server, of directly the camera stream. 

The ideal option would be that the screensaver shows a view with 2x2 or 3x3 quad screen.
When a mouse or keyboard is hit the register screen pops back up.

Any suggestions or ideas would be welcome. 

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  Ichiro

  • Network Optix team

  March 02, 2021 09:18 Edited

  Hi Stefan Dekkers ,

  You can try DESKTOP CAMERA , the detail on MyNx > Works with Nx, also DESKCAMERA website.

  Maybe you can ask if they had such functions. So far, Nx Witness does not support Screensaver-like function.

  Maybe a better workaround would be dual monitors, and let the dedicated monitor do the task at a time.(One for register, the other one is camera feeds.)

  Thanks.

   

  

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  Norman

  • Network Optix team

  March 02, 2021 09:20

  Hi Stefan Dekkers,

  There is no function inside Nx Witness that allows you to do this.

  But I did some DuckDuckGo-ing regarding this topic and found THIS ancient topic somewhere.

  The only thing you could change is instead of closing the application, you might consider minimizing it.

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  Stefan Dekkers

  March 02, 2021 09:22

  Thanks for the reply, going to take a look at desk camera but i think is works the other way around. 

  we have 2 solutions we are trying / testing at the moment:

  1: Set NX witness exe file as screensaver
  You can turn any exe file into a screensaver, rename it into *.SCR
  When screensaver time is there it turns on the software, but closing it is not on mouse or keyboard strike.
  You have to manually close it with the X button.
  Problem here is i cant let NX witness boot full screen with preferred camera view, or can i? 

   

  2: We found a piece of software to load a webpage as screensaver.
  on mouse or keyboard input it disappears like a real screensaver. 

  Now we need to test if this browser supports RTSP streams.

  Software involved:
  https://www.finalhit.com/blog/create-screen-saver/create-a-screensaver-to-display-a-website/

   

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