Devices

Here, one can manage devices and their attached capabilities.

Following fields can be modified directly:

• Custom Name

  • The name that is displayed in the UI. Should be unique.

  • Optional field.

• State

  • Possible Values: Online, Offline

  • Mandatory Field

Please refer to Key Concepts for using the table and editing values.

Switching a device to offline will disable the port for planned recordings. This operation will reduce the number of available recording ports.

In the action column of a device entry is a context menu with entries “Edit device” and “Manage device capabilities”.

Edit device

A modal dialogue opens to manage device details:

Following fields are available here:

• Device ID

  • Read-only.

  • Mandatory field.

• Recorder Port Name

  • The name for the port as it is read out from the actual recorder.

  • Read-only.

  • Mandatory field.

• Custom Name

  • The name that is displayed in the UI. Should be unique.

  • Optional field.

• Controller Port URI

  • URI of the recorder adapter module on the cluster. Requests are sent from VidiControl to this URI to operate recordings.

  • Mandatory field.

• Device Type

  • Type of the device. Possible values are Recorder, Router, Source, Unknown.

  • Read-only.

  • Mandatory field.

• Connection Info

  • Additional connection information, like connection string etc.

  • Optional field.

• Status

  • Possible Values: Online, Offline

  • Mandatory Field.

Managing Capabilities

A modal dialogue opens to manage the capabilities that are attached to the device:

The dialogue shows a list of capabilities in the left column. In the upper right field, the content of the capability is shown (in JSON code).

Capabilities can be attached by selecting them.

For any selected capability, a configuration can be added (for fixed properties) as JSON code. The JSON input is validated.