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The ARGUS camera wall shows every camera at once, with ARGUS’s own detections drawn on top. Most stores want it on a screen staff can glance at — behind the counter, or in the back office. There are two ways to get it there. The first one is the one you want. Feed the TV from a computer running a browser, rather than routing the wall through your recorder.
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Find a spare input on the TV

Almost every TV has more than one HDMI port. Your recorder is plugged into one of them. You only need one more.
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Connect a computer to that input

An HDMI cable from the computer already running the ARGUS agent is the cheapest option, if it’s close enough to reach. Otherwise any small computer works — a mini PC of the kind sold for digital signage is usually under $150.
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Open the wall and sign in

On that computer, open your ARGUS dashboard in a browser and go to the camera wall. Sign in once; it stays signed in.Set the browser to open that page full screen on startup, so the wall comes back on its own after a power cut.
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Switch the TV to that input

Use the TV’s source or input button. Switch back to the recorder any time with the same button.
Why this is the recommended route. You get the full wall at the screen’s own resolution, in ARGUS’s layout, with every camera visible at once. It doesn’t use up a channel on your recorder, doesn’t depend on what your recorder brand supports, and it keeps working if you change recorders.
Once it’s running, support can reopen the wall on that screen remotely if it ever gets closed — you don’t need to be in the store.

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The fallback: send the wall to your recorder as a camera

If the TV genuinely has no free input — it’s built into the recorder, or the input is unreachable — ARGUS can present itself to your recorder as though it were an extra camera. Your recorder then shows the wall in one of its channels, and you bring it up the same way you bring up any camera.
Try the recommended route first. This one has real limits:
  • The wall appears inside one tile of your recorder’s grid. You have to full-screen that channel to see it at a usable size.
  • It uses up one camera channel. Most recorders have a fixed number, so this costs you a slot you could give a real camera.
  • The picture is limited to the size ARGUS sends, not your screen’s own.
  • Not every recorder supports it, and some need a restart before the new channel appears.

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What’s needed

Your recorder must be able to add a camera by ONVIF — a common standard most brands support. You’ll find it while adding a channel manually, usually under a Protocol setting.
On many recorders the Protocol option only appears after you switch the channel to manual mode. Look for a setting like Switch Mode or Adding Method and set it to Manual first, then the protocol choice appears. If you can’t find ONVIF before doing that, this is usually why.

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Setting it up

Contact support to turn this on — it’s off by default, and we switch it on for your store remotely. There’s nothing to install and we don’t need to visit. Then, on the recorder itself:
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Pick a channel that isn't being used

Choose a channel with no camera on it — one showing No Signal or Video Loss. Support can tell you which of your channels are empty.Don’t reuse a channel that has a working camera on it; you’d lose that camera.
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Add it manually

Set the channel to Manual, then choose ONVIF as the protocol.
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Enter the computer's address

Use the network address of the computer running the ARGUS agent. Support can read this out to you over the phone, so nobody has to go looking for it.
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Bring the channel up full screen

The wall arrives as one picture. Full-screen that channel to see it properly.
If the channel stays blank, contact support — we can check from our side whether the wall is being sent, without anyone going to the store.

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Which cameras appear

The wall shows the cameras ARGUS is currently watching. A camera that’s offline keeps its place, marked no signal in red, so the layout doesn’t rearrange itself while you’re looking at it. Cameras stay in the same position every time.
Camera names come from what you named them during setup. If your wall is full of names like NVR Channel 7, rename them in your dashboard — the wall picks the new names up.