Hello,
I am planning to install sighthound on a windows 10 computer
I have a question.
I want to buy the pro license of sighthound because i have 10 ip cameras.
is it possible to surf to a specific IP adres and see all the cameras at onces.
Thanks for reply.
Greetttzzz
(sorry for bad english)
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Semper Vaporo - Posts: 331
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Re: ip cameras
I hope I understand your question...
Sighthound will show all the cameras at once as small "thumbnails" on the right side of the Sighthound window. They are small and not adjustable in size and they update about once every half a second or so (movement, such as a car passing, is 'jumpy'). If you are sitting close to the display, they are adequate to see what is going on in each scene. Click on any one of them and that scene is then displayed in the larger format on the left side of the window at full frame rate.
As to 'surfing' to the IP addresses... yes, if the cameras are capable of supplying a separate video stream to multiple users... Just run a browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and enter the IP address of a camera. But each camera is at a different IP address and there is no single address that can access them all at the same time. You can run multiple instances of a browser (or multiple tabs in a browser) and access a different camera from each instance. You could possibly arrange separate browser windows on the display to show many at once... of course there is only so much room on the screen so the more windows you have open and visible at the same time, the smaller each window has to be.
Note that each stream from each camera takes a certain amount of bandwidth in the network (either WiFi or wired). Each camera will be supplying a stream for SightHound and a separate stream for any connection via a browser (if you have 10 cameras connected to SightHound and also open all 10 of them via browsers, then the network will be handling 20 streams). Depending on the resolution, frame rate and compression methods, this could be a problem with contention over the network. Some calculation could be done to decide if it will work without problems, but it would be easier to just try it and see what happens... I suspect it would not be a big issue.
Sighthound will show all the cameras at once as small "thumbnails" on the right side of the Sighthound window. They are small and not adjustable in size and they update about once every half a second or so (movement, such as a car passing, is 'jumpy'). If you are sitting close to the display, they are adequate to see what is going on in each scene. Click on any one of them and that scene is then displayed in the larger format on the left side of the window at full frame rate.
As to 'surfing' to the IP addresses... yes, if the cameras are capable of supplying a separate video stream to multiple users... Just run a browser (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, etc.) and enter the IP address of a camera. But each camera is at a different IP address and there is no single address that can access them all at the same time. You can run multiple instances of a browser (or multiple tabs in a browser) and access a different camera from each instance. You could possibly arrange separate browser windows on the display to show many at once... of course there is only so much room on the screen so the more windows you have open and visible at the same time, the smaller each window has to be.
Note that each stream from each camera takes a certain amount of bandwidth in the network (either WiFi or wired). Each camera will be supplying a stream for SightHound and a separate stream for any connection via a browser (if you have 10 cameras connected to SightHound and also open all 10 of them via browsers, then the network will be handling 20 streams). Depending on the resolution, frame rate and compression methods, this could be a problem with contention over the network. Some calculation could be done to decide if it will work without problems, but it would be easier to just try it and see what happens... I suspect it would not be a big issue.
Semper Vaporo,