Placeholders for Dynamic Image Texts

The Text & Display Settings dialog allows using placeholders in the Comment textbox to dynamically display certain camera information in the image.

Notes:

Apart from the placeholders listed above, you can also use Variables. When retrieving data from one of the supported weather stations that is connected to the serial interface, weather variables will allow displaying the weather data in the image.
Make sure placeholders and variables are typed correctly.
Note, that placeholders are case-sensitive, but Variables are not.

Description of Placeholders

Placeholders Description Note

Image information

^F# Image number (# = number of digits to display: 1 .. 9) every image

^f# Image counter (as for ^F#, but with leading zeros; # = number of digits: 1 .. 9) every image

^Er Exposure time for the right lens in seconds. every image

^El Exposure time for the left lens in seconds. every image

^ER Exposure time for the right lens in milliseconds. every image

^EL Exposure time for the left lens in milliseconds. every image

^Ir Illumination value (-20 .. 100 dB) of right lens at F-stop 2.0 every image

^Il Illumination value (-20 .. 100 dB) of left lens at F-stop 2.0 every image

^Ib Average illumination value (-20 .. 100 dB) of both lenses at F-stop 2.0 every image

^IR Illumination value (0 .. 100000 lux) of right lens at F-stop 2.0 every image

^IL Illumination value (0 .. 100000 lux) of left lens at F-stop 2.0 every image

^IB Average illumination value (0 .. 100000 lux) of both lenses at F-stop 2.0 every image

^J#

JPEG image size in KB (# = number of digits to display: 1 .. 9 of the previous image

Note:	This placeholder will only display values if the Images Before Event option in the Setup Menu > General Event Settings dialog has been set to 1 or higher.

every image

^j#

JPEG image size in bytes (# = number of digits to display: 1 .. 9 of the previous image

Note:	This placeholder will only display values if the Images Before Event option in the Setup Menu > General Event Settings dialog has been set to 1 or higher.

every image

^h#

Date & time (top right in the image); # can have the following values:

j: JPEG image rate
m: Converted MxPEG tiles in percent
q: JPEG quality in percent

Event information

^Lt Time of last event (hh:mm:ss)

^Ld Date and time of last event (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss)

^Ls Time since last event in seconds (+s)

^Lr Time since last event in hours, minutes, seconds (+hh:mm:ss)

Date information

^D#

Date & time (top right in the image); # can have the following values:

0: Date Time zone (short) Time
1: Time
2: Time, milliseconds
3: Date
4: Preferred date format
5: Date, time, milliseconds
6: Time zone

^n# Date information just like ^D#, but displayed inline at the current position in the text

Text information

^#xx

Use this placeholder to format the text in the image in different colors.

The following color codes are available:

Example:

^#0AWWW.^#09MOBOTIX.^#0CCOM

results in this colored text display:

WWW.MOBOTIX.COM

	`^#00`
	`^#01`
	`^#02`
	`^#03`
	`^#04`
	`^#05`
	`^#06`
	`^#07`
	`^#08`
	`^#09`
	`^#0A`
	`^#0B`
	`^#0C`
	`^#0D`
	`^#0E`
	`^#0F`

^s#

Use this placeholder to display data of the serial interface in the image. The text color is black, the background color is white.

The # character represents the number of lines that are to be displayed. Replace the # character by a value in hexadecimal notation.
Values: 0 .. 9 A B C D E F

Examples:

`^s3`	Displays three lines in the image using black text color and white background.
`^sF`	Displays sixteen lines in the image using black text color and white background.

^S#

Use this placeholder to also display data of the serial interface in the image. In this case, the text color is white while the background color is standard.

The # character represents the number of lines that are to be displayed. Replace the # character by a value in hexadecimal notation.
Values: 0 .. 9 A B C D E F

Examples:

`^S3`	Displays three lines in the image using white text color and standard background.
`^SF`	Displays sixteen lines in the image using white text color and standard background.

Identification Information

~E The current IP address of the camera's Ethernet interface

~H The Camera Name that you have defined in the Ethernet Interface dialog or that has been assigned via DHCP.

~N The camera's factory default IP address

~S Serial number of the camera

Sensor Information

^Ti Internal temperature in °C (degrees Celsius) every twelfth image

^Tn Internal temperature in °F (degrees Fahrenheit) every twelfth image

Other information

~fp Service Update

~ft Release date

~fv The version of the file system

Special characters

~~ The tilde (~) character

^^ The caret (^) character

^CE The Euro character €

^CR The registered trademark character ®

Formatting instructions

^gx;
^gx,y;

Position of the text (lines and columns) in the following; displays the text at position x,y. The origin of the coordinates (0,0) is in the top left corner. The position values can also be negative. A negative x value will display the text from the bottom image border, a negative y value from the right image border.

This command takes a semicolon (";") at the end.

Storing the Configuration

Click on the Set button to activate your settings and to save them until the camera is rebooted.

Click on the Close button to close the dialog. While closing the dialog, the system checks the entire configuration for changes. If changes are detected, you will be asked if you would like to store the entire configuration permanently.