Configuring March Networks Command Professional

Command Recording Software CRS for Windows 6.8.0.98
Command Config 6.8.0.98
Command Client 2.18.0.11276
Tested SightLogix firmware: 16.2.192

Initial setup: Make sure the SightSensor's VMS Type is set to ONVIF H.264.

Adding a Camera

Choose the camera tab under Device Management

Select Search For Channels (this will act as Discovery)

Select your camera row and click “Ok”

Input the following:

Name: The camera name
Manufacturer: ONVIF
Family: Camera
Address: camera IP
User Name: ONVIF username
Password: ONVIF password

Select the magnifying glass on the bottom right to get the ONVIF profile(s).

In this case this camera has 2 profiles, 1 for each stream (thermal and visible).

Select 1 stream and click OK. The camera will be added to the table.

Click Save

The video stream will have a blinking red circle to indicate recording:

For cameras with dual stream: Open Discovery again and uncheck the “Filter already defined resources checkbox”:

Repeat the same Adding a Camera procedure above and choose the second stream ONVIF profile.

The cameras added are in the highlighted rows.

Adding a PTZ

For PTZ’s, check the Enabled checkbox. This enables movement control on the video.

Setting Alarms

Click Alarms and Events under Device Management

Select Add New Alarm or Event

Enter Alarm name and select Ok.

Add an alarm source

Select the camera’s Motion area as source

Associate the camera

Click Save

You may also add another alarm to the other stream for dual cameras. Repeat the same process and change the camera source to the other camera stream source.

Viewing Video and Alarms

Alarms can be viewed in the alarm tab. click on the Alarm in the tree view. After expanding the timeline, the yellow solid lines represent motion alarms from the device.

Visible camera example:

Thermal camera example:

The CRS Console will also log the alarms:

Troubleshooting

Make sure cameras are recording continuously.

Go to Recording Management in the Command Config

The blue line in the timeline indicates the camera is recording: