How to move viewers to secondary monitor

[uglyb0b 0]

Hello all. First off, I’m a newbie to the CCTV world, so take it easy on me. I’m an IT pro during the day, and an eager beginner of CCTV by night. I work for a company that has around 1000 employees across 11 locations. Until recently we always went through companys to install/maintain/upgrade our DVRs. Upon studying them, however, we (our department) decided to start managing and building them ourselves.

 

This forum has proven to be an excellent resource for me. I still have lots to learn (mainly with cameras), but I am confident that we will soon build our first PC based DVR that will blow away everything we have bought in the past.

 

Because this forum has been so helpful, I would like to join here and offer the following tutorial that I wrote for you guys.

 

We use a handful of PC DVRs, including i-3, Netzeye, Honeywell, etc. One thing that all of these seem to have in common, however, is the fact that the software interface runs as a full screen window with no options to move or resize it. The only options are to minimize and close.

 

At every facility that has a PC DVR, there is at least one person who has a PC and wants to watch the DVRs. I’m not talking about staff in the security room who are physically next to the DVRs and watching those, I’m talking about another employee (supervisor or manager usually) who watches them. All of these employees have XP with dual monitors.

 

The problem we had was that when using the remote viewer, the app would launch in a full screen window without any control as I mentioned before. We wanted to run the viewer app on the secondary monitor so they can use their primary for MS Word, Internet, etc.

 

A few free utilities and a simple batch file is all it takes to give you the ability to move the otherwise unmovable window to the other monitor.

 

To start, you need to download wait.exe and cmdow.exe. See links below. Wait.exe is a simple utility that, when used in a batch file, will wait for however many seconds you specify. Cmdow.exe is a very powerful command line utility that will do anything you want to a window.

 

Download both of the files. Unzip them if necessary. To make things easier, I suggest you copy wait.exe and cmdow.exe to your \windows\system32 folder. This way you can call them anywhere from the command line as they will be in your system path.

 

First, we need to figure out the name of the window that we will be moving. This is easy enough. Close all programs that you can, and open up whatever viewer app you want to move. Minimize the viewer, and make sure it is listed as a window on your taskbar. Now go to a command window, and type:

 

cmdow /t

 

This will list all windows that are currently on the taskbar. What you are looking for is in the far right column. You should be able to figure out which window you’re after, such as “viewerâ€

[rory 0]

Welcome to the forum .. thats a long one

Some good info though ..

 

BTW here is a program I wrote for Geo, kind of does what you want

 

Manual Link: (PDF)

http://bahamassecurity.com/uploads/livevue_geo_user_manual_1103.pdf

Download Link:

http://bahamassecurity.com/updates/setup.exe

[Thomas 0]

You know you could just use better writen software, right?

[mfennell 0]

or... you could hit the "alt+space bar" combination and choose the move option (use the arrow keys). then move the screen where you want it to move to.

[uglyb0b 0]

the Move option does not work with the geovision web-based multiviewer; at least i havent been able to actually move it.

[mfennell 0]

hmm... seems to work fine for me.

 

alt+spacebar

 

arrow down to the "move" option

 

then use the arrows keys to move the multiviewer to where you want. Resize doesn't work but the move option does

[aarons 0]

Rory ,

 

The link you posted, is this an alternative to remote view?

[rory 0]

Basically .. yes.