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We have two televisions mounted above our BI server, this BI server also has a Nvidia Quadro P620. What is the best way to display cameras on the TVs? I was thinking that I could just run display cables (DP to HDMI) from the graphics card to the TV. Will BI do this and I am not seeing it? Or do I need another software to accomplish this? Maybe even another PC just to run the displays?

I have looked around and not seen much on using BI to run a video wall. If there are any posts/topics that I may have missed I would greatly appreciate a link to those too!

Thank you!

Two basic strategies as I see it - hard wire the BI server to the TV or, if it's a smart tv and has a browser, you can use UI3, the web interface. Cabling will be limited to the number of display adapter ports you have on the server, one of which will be the main interface to the console.

Consider this example... I use a FireTV Stick connected to the TV's HDMI port. The FireTV Stick comes with apps, one of which is the Silk browser. So all I have to do is launch the browser on the FTS and put in the url and port of the server (192.168.1.145:45/ui3.htm).

YrbkMgr wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:39 pm Two basic strategies as I see it - hard wire the BI server to the TV

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This is what I am planning to do. The NVR is close enough and the graphics card has enough ports for a direct connection.

What I was missing is how to do this in software. However, I believe I have found the correct way to do so.

Create camera group ex. "Monitor 1", add all cameras to display on one monitor. Select camera group(Monitor 1) in live view. Edit layout, then right click on a camera feed and "Open group in desktop frame." Full screen on a monitor and disable layout editing.

Thank you for your help!

YrbkMgr wrote: ↑Wed Feb 09, 2022 4:39 pm Two basic strategies as I see it - hard wire the BI server to the TV or, if it's a smart tv and has a browser, you can use UI3, the web interface. Cabling will be limited to the number of display adapter ports you have on the server, one of which will be the main interface to the console.

Consider this example... I use a FireTV Stick connected to the TV's HDMI port. The FireTV Stick comes with apps, one of which is the Silk browser. So all I have to do is launch the browser on the FTS and put in the url and port of the server (192.168.1.145:45/ui3.htm).

UI3 Example 3.JPG

Just bought an Amazon Firestick to display Ui3 for my wife when she’s watching TV in the kitchen. Using Bookmarker 1 to bring up Ui3. Is there any way to hide the URL Address Bar?

I also use Silk browser with FireSticks for viewing UI3. It has a cursor which you simply move to the bottom of the screen using the standard remote control to get rid of the URL address bar. I don't know Bookmarker 1.

In Silk, I bookmarked UI3, and deleted the Bing bookmark that appeared. Silk will restart with UI3 every time after that, even after a power reset.

For displaying camera feeds on TVs I just use a Firestick and whatever ONVIF capable app turns up first in the Firestick app store. Some are free...some are nag ware. Most work fine once you tweak them right.

Basically you pull an extra stream channel from a specific camera - not the BI server.

I use the web browser in Downloader myself. Fire up my saved UI3 URL, go full screen and I'm good. Easy enough to do the same with individual cameras as well.