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Explore your workspace

This is what the  IREX front page looks like in the card view:

IREX front page in card view, showing the numbered main menu, search tool, alarm indicator, Case ID indicator, user menu, filter toolbar, map switch, and camera cards

The key elements of the screen are:

Click Open map to switch to the map view:

Map view of cameras with a cluster marker and the filter toolbar and Go to Events button

Use the main menu

Use the main menu commands (1) as follows:

Command Effect
Cameras Displays cameras in map or card view.
Events Opens the recent events screen.
Alarms Opens the recent alarms screen.
Traffic violations Opens the traffic violations screen.
Layouts Opens the layout management screen.
Gallery Opens the video gallery.
People Provides access to the person database.
Vehicles Provides access to the vehicle database.
Logbook Opens the Logbook

Filter cameras to show/hide

On the Cameras screen, use the filter toolbar to control which cameras are displayed:

Filter toolbar with Tags, Cameras and Places, Video Analytics, Sensors, Other Filters, and an active Map Filter
  • Tags — Filter by camera tags (e.g., “3rd Floor”).
  • Cameras and Places — Filter by camera ID, address, building, or plan.
  • Video Analytics — Filter by enabled analytics modules (e.g., Face Recognition).
  • Sensors — Filter by camera type (Fixed, PTZ, Thermal, Mobile, etc.).
  • Other Filters — Filter by resolution and status (Online, Signal lost, Disabled, etc.).
  • Map — Indicates that not all cameras are currently visible within the map area.

Navigate on the map

  • To pan the map, click and drag using the left mouse button.
  • To zoom, use the "+" / "–" buttons or the mouse wheel.

Camera card

Each camera card displays key metadata (ID, tag), a recent snapshot, and quick access actions.

Camera card labeled with the status icon, thumbnail, camera name and address, and tags, plus the Open Events option in the card menu

On the card:

  • 1 — Hover over the status icon to view the camera ID.
  • 3 — Camera name and address assigned during setup.
  • 4 — Camera tag.
  • Click anywhere (e.g., 2) to open the live stream.

Click Open Events to view events detected by the camera.

Find a camera

To locate a camera, enter its ID, name, or RTSP address in the search field (2) and press Enter.

Watch video in the media player

Click a camera card to open the media player and stream live video.

The video playback control bar includes the following tools.

Playback control bar

1 — Video timeline. Move the timeline with the < > buttons or by dragging with the left mouse button held down.

2 — Archive recording timeline. Blue segments show intervals that contain archive video. Clicking a point on the timeline starts archive playback from that point.

3 — Reverse playback of the archive within the already played buffer segment. Reverse playback makes it faster to find where an event started on a recently viewed segment. Available at 1× speed. Also available with the keyboard shortcut: R.

4 — Pause / play video.

5 — Previous frame within the playback buffer. Frame stepping helps select the clearest frame near the current position, such as a better view of a license plate or face. Pressing the control pauses playback. Also available with the keyboard shortcut: <.

6 — Next frame within the playback buffer. Pressing the control pauses playback. Also available with the keyboard shortcut: >.

7 — Rewind playback by 10 seconds.

8 — Mute / unmute and volume control.

9 — Live video playback.

10 — Date and time of the playing video segment.

11 — Opens the calendar to select the video date and time.

12 — Timeline scale selection.

13 — Video image zoom.

14 — PTZ camera controls.

15 — Full-screen video.

16 — Opens the options list:

  • Save to Gallery: select a video segment to save to the Gallery for later download.
  • Copy video link: copies a link tied to the current playback time.
  • Download current frame: downloads the full current video frame as JPEG.
  • Playback speed: select playback speed.
  • Camera settings: opens the camera settings page. Camera settings are described in the Administrator Guide.
  • Video Analytics settings: opens the video analytics settings page for the camera. Video analytics settings are described in the Administrator Guide.
  • Go to Events: opens the Events page with the selected camera as the Cameras and places filter parameter.

17 — Opens / closes the events panel.

User menu

Click User menu to access:

User menu listing Profile, Dark theme toggle, Language, Settings, Users, User groups, Netping, and Sign out

Platform settings

Click the Settings in the User Menu to open the Settings screen, which manages users, user groups, extra resources, map marks, and much more.

Build a video layout

Use layouts to prioritize selected cameras by allocating more screen space (video wall mode). Layouts are user-specific.

Video wall layout displaying six camera feeds of parking lots and building entrances at once
When a layout is active, video analytics is disabled.

Layout mode is intended for watching videos from multiple cameras on one screen at a time. Zooming, switching cameras, and viewing streams are available, but analytics features are unavailable.

To create a layout:

  1. Click Layouts → click +.
    2. Create Layout dialog with a Name field and a grid of selectable layout templates
  2. Select a template, enter a name, and click Create.

    3. A layout supports up to 25 video streams.

  3. Assign cameras using Add Camera, then click Save.
  4. Apply the layout via User menu → Layouts.

Log out

To log out of IREX, select Sign out in the user menu.