Milestone Systems Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client)
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Contents INTRODUCTION................................................................................4 WHAT'S NEW ...................................................................................................... 4 MILESTONE MOBILE .......................................................................6 ABOUT MILESTONE MOBILE CLIENT ..................................................................... 6 ABOUT MILESTONE MOBILE SERVER AND PLUG-INS .........................
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) USE VIDEO PUSH .............................................................................................. 16 CAMERA SETTINGS (VIDEO PUSH) ...................................................................... 16 ACTIONS .........................................................................................18 ABOUT ACTIONS ............................................................................................... 18 ACTIVATE ACTIONS .................................
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Introduction This manual is for users of Milestone Mobile client, a mobile application available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone. What's new In addition to the enhanced functionality mentioned below, XProtect ® Mobile has been renamed to Milestone Mobile. The name change reflects Milestone Mobile's ability to offer more opportunities to mobile users. Milestone Mobile now works with both XProtect® software and Milestone Arcus™-based products.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Support for new mobile devices The user interface has been updated to take advantage of Android design patterns from version 3.0 and upwards. The user interface has been updated to take advantage of the new screen aspect ratio introduced with the iPhone 5. www.milestonesys.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Milestone Mobile About Milestone Mobile client Milestone Mobile is a mobile surveillance app closely integrated with the rest of your system. You can connect to your cameras in Milestone Mobile client from the following XProtect systems: XProtect Corporate 4.0+ XProtect Enterprise 8.0+ XProtect Professional 8.0+ XProtect Express 1.0+ XProtect Essential 2.0+ XProtect NVR 1.0+ XProtect Go 2.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) For example, if the language of your device is set to French, the Milestone Mobile client uses French. To change the language of Milestone Mobile client to another language, you must do so inside the app (Note that this capability is only available for Android). Alternatively, you can change the language of your device in your device settings. Note that to use Milestone Mobile client in Hindi, your device must support this language.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Name Description Filter Enable filtering on views. As default all views are selected. The user can clear the ones not to be shown, or opt to show previously hidden views. Front Camera Windows® Phone: Indicates the camera used for Video Push. Tapping it changes the camera to the rear camera and the text under the button to Rear Camera. Go To Time (on the selected camera in playback mode): Open a menu which lets you pick a specific time to view in the past.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Name Settings Share Description Go to All Settings in order to review/change Image, Auto-hide Controls, Video Push, and About settings. Windows® Phone: On the Video Push tab, the button takes the user directly to the Video Push part of all settings. Take a snapshot of the current frame and save it to your device. The Share functionality is only available on an iOS device. Take a snapshot of the current frame.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Servers About Mobile server The Milestone Mobile servers you add to your system are listed alphabetically. The Milestone Demo server is always present in the list of your Milestone Mobile servers. This server allows you to try the Milestone Mobile without having access to an XProtect system setup. You cannot edit or delete the Milestone Demo server nor use pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) For Windows® Phone, Edit and Delete are always present options regardless of whether the user is connected to a server or not. There are no Connect and Disconnect options, and the user needs to tap on a server to connect or press the Back device button to disconnect. Once connected to a server, Views opens, displaying a list of views accessible to the user, grouped in the sections All Cameras View, Private Views, and Shared Views.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Views About views You cannot create or edit views in the Milestone Mobile. To set up views, you must use XProtect Web Client or XProtect Smart Client. For information about how to do this in XProtect Smart Client, download the XProtect Smart Client User's Manual, which you can download from the Milestone website.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) 2. Save your filter by choosing the Done button, or cancel out by choosing the Cancel button. Access recording history You can access your recording history to find previous recordings in playback mode (see "In playback mode" on page 14). To do so: Android 1. Open the relevant camera in full screen. 2. Enter playback mode. 3. Tap the device's context menu button if you are in landscape orientation and cannot see the Recent history button. 4. Tap the Recent history button.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Phone). If needed, you can scroll the grid or even navigate through pages of grids to allow you to see all your cameras. Cameras contain a motion and a video indicator. The motion indicator lights up when motion is detected on a camera, and the video indicator lights up every time a new image is received from the camera. The latter makes it easy to see that video is live. Tap the relevant camera once to view a camera in full screen mode.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Icon: Availability: Description: When stopped. Move to the image just before the one currently viewed (the previous image). When stopped. Start forward playback. When stopped. Start backward playback. When stopped. Move to the next image after the current one. Always (in landscape mode, otherwise in Menu) Set playback speed. Number on button indicates current setting. The default is x1 (Windows® Phone) / 1X (iOS and Android). When running. Pause playback.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Video Push About Video Push Video Push is a feature that allows you to use your mobile device's camera to send a video stream from your mobile device to your system in order to, for example, collect evidence when you investigate an alarm. In the Mobile server settings, you can set the users who should be able to use the Video Push feature on the system. You set up Video Push settings on the Mobile server.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Android/Windows Phone Name Description Use front facing camera (visible if the device has such a camera) Use your device's front facing camera to record the video for your Video Push stream. Video resolution Set the resolution of the stream to push. Image quality Set the image quality of the video stream. You can enter any value between 0 and 99, with 99 being the largest value. Values above 99 are not valid.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Actions About actions You can trigger actions in Milestone Mobile client if you need to. Examples of actions: starting or stopping recording on cameras, switching to a particular video frame rate, triggering SMS-/and or email-notifications, making PTZ cameras move to specific preset positions, activate hardware output and more. In the clients, actions are represented by outputs and events which the user can activate.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Exports About Exports Milestone Mobile supports exporting picture and video recordings to your system either through XProtect Web Client or Milestone Mobile client. You can export a single frame or any sequence of video as long as you have recorded video within the specified time frame. The video you export is saved on the recording server to which your Mobile server is connected.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Delete if you want to remove the video clip from the Mobile server. Cancel if you do not want to do anything to the export. About exporting video and snapshots You can specify exports from several cameras if you need to. The system queues the exports, which are then created one at a time. Before you can export, make sure that you view your cameras in playback mode. Tap the camera from which you would like to export to make it open in single camera view.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) General settings In the General settings, view and edit the following settings: Setting: Description: Client version (iOS) / About (Android, Windows® Phone) Shows the version number of the Milestone Mobile client installed on your device. Stay awake When selected, sleep mode is disabled during video streaming (both in live and recording mode). Frames per second Set a frame per seconds (FPS) value (1-30) for transfer of video from the Mobile server to your device.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Setting: Description: Video resolution Set the resolution of the stream to push. Image quality Set the image quality of the video stream. You can enter any value between 0 and 99, with 99 being the largest value. Values above 99 are not valid. Quality of service Enable this to ensure that an optimal number of frames per second is sent throughout the entire Video push video stream.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Frequently asked questions 1. Which XProtect products does my Milestone Mobile support? Milestone Mobile works with the entire XProtect product line. This means XProtect Corporate 4.0+, XProtect Expert 2013+, XProtect Enterprise 8.0+, XProtect Professional 8.0+, XProtect Express 1.0+, XProtect Essential 2.0+ and XProtect Go 2.0+. 2.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) 8. Can I view live and recorded video at the same time? Yes. In playback mode you get a picture-in-picture (PiP) view, allowing you to view both live and recorded video at the same time. 9. How can I navigate through my recordings? You can navigate through your recordings in playback mode. Select the camera you wish to view in playback mode. Once you are in playback mode you can search through your recordings using the control buttons.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Check your home Internet bandwidth. Many private Internet connections have different download and upload bandwidths often described as, for example, 20 Mbit/2 Mbit. This is because home users rarely need to upload large amounts of data to the Internet, but consume a lot of data instead. The system needs to send video to the Milestone Mobile and is limited by your connection’s upload speed.
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) G Index General settings • 21 I A In grid view • 13 About actions • 18 In live/full screen mode • 14 About controls • 7 In playback mode • 13, 14 About Export list • 19 Introduction • 4 About exporting video and snapshots • 20 M About Exports • 19 Milestone Mobile • 6 About Milestone Mobile client • 6 S About Milestone Mobile server and plug-ins • 6 Server context menu settings • 10 About Mobile server • 10 Server menu settings • 11 About the language of Mi
Milestone Mobile 2014 (Client) Copyright, trademarks and disclaimer Copyright 2014 Milestone Systems A/S. Trademarks XProtect is a registered trademark of Milestone Systems A/S. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners.
About Milestone Systems Founded in 1998, Milestone Systems is the global industry leader in open platform IP video management software. The XProtect platform delivers powerful surveillance that is easy to manage, reliable and proven in thousands of customer installations around the world.
