Hardware and Software Overview

It's time to talk about the Seervision hardware.

So I'm here in the training room and of course,

I've got to Seervision server right here.

Now, one of the first things to be aware of with these servers is 

that they come in single or dual channel variants,

and that just refers to the number of camera streams they can process simultaneously.

Whichever one you go for,

you've got a really powerful GPU inside which is processing those streams

and performing computer vision on them.

Now, in terms of the box itself,

we've got a front panel, of course,

with the Seervision logo and the power button,

and on the rear we've got quite a few connections,

some of those related to the motherboard and the GPU.

But all we really need to worry about is the data connection for ingesting the Q-SYS camera streams

and working with Q-SYS control,

and of course the power connection to power it.

Now once you've got your server connected to the network

and powered up,

we can have a look at how we discover it and how we get connected to the web user interface.

C Division uses a web based user interface,

so to access it, we just need to put the server's IP address into Google Chrome.

The server uses auto IP addressing by default,

so it will have a DHCP address if you have a DHCP server

and there will be a link local address in the 169.254 range.

If there's no direct server,

either way, we can use the same vision discovery tool  

to discover all the servers on our local area network.

Just click find servers and servers.

And when you have the address type built into Google Chrome,

now it connect it to the server and we can see the servers and user interface.

This is where we will link the server to our cameras,

create tracking and trigger zones and create different types of camera shots and positions.

You can see that this is split into three sections in the center.

We have our camera preview and manual camera controls on the left we have a settings panel.

This is where we can control our tracking behavior,

create and edit various zones and toggle overlays on the camera stream.

For example, this computer vision overlay.

This shows us each person detected in the scene their unique ID number

and the points on their body that are being tracked.

Lastly, on the right hand side,

we have the preset panel where we can create containers shot

and position containers are what will be recalled by the Q-SYS Plug in to start and stop tracking.

But before we get into all of that,

we need to link sufficient increases together,

which we'll cover in the next video. See you there.