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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.

Plug a screen into a computer

Recommended. Full wall, full screen. Nothing to configure, works with any recorder.

Send it to your recorder

Fallback, for a TV with no spare input. The wall appears inside one tile of your recorder’s grid.

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Option 1: Plug a screen into a computer

Feed the TV from a computer running a browser, rather than routing the wall through your recorder.

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What you need

  • A TV with a spare HDMI input (most have two or more; your recorder is in one)
  • A computer to drive it: the one already running the ARGUS agent, if it’s close enough, or any small PC
  • An HDMI cable

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Steps

1

Connect the computer to the spare HDMI input

If the computer running the ARGUS agent is near the TV, one cable is all you need. Otherwise any small computer works. A mini PC of the kind sold for digital signage is usually under $150.
2

Open the wall and sign in

On that computer, open dashboard.useargus.co in a browser, sign in, and open the camera wall. It stays signed in.
3

Make it full screen

Press F11 to fill the screen. Set the browser to reopen that page on startup so the wall comes back on its own after a power cut.
4

Switch the TV to that input

Use the TV’s Source or Input button. Switch back to your 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, every camera visible at once. It uses none of your recorder’s camera channels, doesn’t depend on what your recorder brand supports, and keeps working if you replace the recorder.
If the wall ever gets closed on that screen, support can reopen it remotely. You don’t need to be in the store.

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Option 2: Send the wall to your recorder

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 shows the wall in one of its channels.
Try option 1 first. This route 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 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 a new channel appears.

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The values you’ll need

Ask support for these before you start. We read them from your agent remotely. You don’t need to go looking, and we don’t need to visit.
Don’t reuse a channel that has a working camera on it. You’d lose that camera. A channel showing No Signal or Video Loss is the one you want, and support will confirm which before you change anything.

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Steps

1

Ask support to switch it on

This is off by default. We turn it on for your store remotely: nothing to install, no visit. Tell us you want the wall on your recorder and we’ll enable it and send you the values above.
2

Find the channel settings on your recorder

On most recorders this is under a Display, Channel or IP Channels menu, reached from the recorder’s own on-screen menu with a mouse.
3

Switch the channel to manual

Find the empty channel support identified. Set its mode to Manual. The setting is often called Switch Mode or Adding Method.
Do this before looking for the protocol setting. On many recorders the Protocol option only appears after the channel is in manual mode. If you can’t find ONVIF anywhere, this is almost always why.
4

Choose ONVIF and enter the address

Set Protocol to ONVIF, then enter the computer address support gave you. Leave Transfer Protocol on Auto unless support told you a port.
5

Save, then full-screen that channel

The wall arrives as a single picture. Bring that channel up full screen to see it properly.

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If the channel stays blank

Contact support. We can check from our side whether the wall is being sent, and what your recorder asked us for. That’s a remote check; nobody needs to go to the store. The most common causes are the address being for the wrong network on a computer with more than one connection, or the recorder needing a restart before it picks up a new channel.

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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.