Settings
Change camplayer or system settings
Open configuration menu
You can open the configuraion menu by entering two key combinations:
- ←↓→↑ (arrow keys)
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Player settings
To adjust camplayer specific settings, select ‘CAMPLAYER ADVANCED SETTINGS’ in the configuration menu.
Parameters:
Video quality Video source quality selection.
Only valid if your devices have multiple subchannnels/substreams
of a different quality. 'Auto select' is the preferred mode.
Video refresh Refreshes all video players at this interval. Note that you will
see a black screen for a few seconds every time this happens.
Video timeout Video timeout when playback starts.
Video buffer Video buffer time, you might need to increase this value when
your video playback is unreliable (like a slow WAN connection).
On the other side, increasing this value also increases the time delay.
Look and feel 'Enable OSD' enables status and action messages in the upper left corner.
Background A background shows 'NO LINK' images behind every video.
The dynamic mode changes this background in real-time.
Screen change Only applicable if you have defined multiple screens.
For the normal mode, there is a black screen period
of a few seconds between the screen changeovers.
The fast modes don't suffer from this but have a higher performance impact.
System settings
To adjust system specific settings, select ‘SYSTEM SETTINGS’ in the configuration menu.
Parameters:
Display mode Force a specific display mode. Some televisions also support monitor modes.
Television modes use a limited HDMI color range while monitor modes
use the full HDMI color range, this can affect the perceived black level.
Enable 2nd display Enable the 2nd HDMI output (HDMI1) on the Raspberry Pi 4.
Enable CEC Enable CEC, including Television remote control forwarding.
Wake/sleep.. Stop streaming when your television turns off and resume streaming
when your television turns on again.
Turn On/Off TV Wake television when this device resumes from sleep,
sleep the television when this device goes to sleep.
Display pwr mngmnt Wake and sleep the television or monitor at specific times.
Enable splash.. Hides technical information during startup.
Enable per. reboot Reboot this device at specific times, this can help if you
Experience stability issues after some longer uptimes.
Configure timezone Configure the correct timezone especially when you have enabled
periodic reboot or display power management.
Last modified March 2, 2021: first commit (d81bb3a)