What I ended up doing was just using an auto-launching instance of VLC and grabbing the direct link of the camera.  That works pretty well, but it's aggravating that there isn't a way to do this using the dashboard or some application provided by Cisco.   ... View more

@PhilipDAth wrote: It's not a good solution - but one thing I have done in the past is using a key/mouse recorder, and then to play that script back.   Just record everything you need to do to start it up, and then play it play it back on every boot. So this wouldn't be a solution in a multi camera situation, but in one location, we need only one camera on the monitor.  It appears that if you inspect the page, you can get the direct stream, which you can open with VLC - problem solved....unless the stream location gets changed.  Would be awesome if there were a way to get a direct link to a wall and not just a single stream.   ... View more

@MRCUR wrote: @jwoodok I agree there needs to be a better PVM solution. I know @GeorgeB has mentioned they are looking at better solutions.  We were told before purchase that there was a PVM solution, now we've installed cameras and found out there isn't ... ... View more

@jdsilva wrote: Run Chrome in Kiosk Mode.   http://www.coolheadtech.com/blog/chrome-kiosk-mode-introduction    **Edit** Oh wait... That's not going to help. You'll need to hit the full screen button in the Dashboard. Sorry, I'm not thinking right.  You could use a web driver to do that though... Something like Selenium   https://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/       Ug I don't understand why there isn't the ability to log a user straight into a specified video wall at full screen.  I guess that my issue is in relation to what we would be referred to as the permanent video monitor (PVM) - We have these near most of our back doors as there is no line of sight at most of them and people want to check the surroundings before they go outside at night. ... View more

@jdsilva wrote: Just a thought, not sure how practical it is, but if you were able to leverage SAML then you can pseudo-auto-login to the dashboard. We have SAML and for me to log in all I have to do is point my browser at our SAML login URL and I'm redirected to the Dashboard, all logged in. No entering credentials required. It'd be easy enough to have your machine open the SAML URL first, and then switch pages to the camera wall (using the deep link). Well I'm seeing another issue in that even if I auto logged in, in order for this to work how I want, it would need to log into a video wall at full screen, which doesn't seem possible.   ... View more

  @MRCUR wrote: There have not been any changes since the previous thread you saw. This is still not possible through a native solution. You could potentially have something like Chrome launch on login and have the homepage set to a specific video wall, but there is a also a global Dashboard forced logout setting which may eventually kick this out.      If you had an extension or plugin that reloaded the page on a schedule, would that logout be avoided? ... View more

@PhilipDAth wrote: I don't believe cameras have an SNMP interface.  I'm not even sure what the use case would be for SNMP with a camera. In our case the use case is inventory management.  We use Lansweeper to track our online IT assets and it can query serial number, model number and such over snmp on some other cameras (Cisco).  That's the information that would be useful to have all in one place. ... View more