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Video wall sources: cameras, NDI, web dashboards and remote desktops on one canvas

Craft Wall puts every source type into the same window system. Operators add a source in the browser console, place it on the canvas and, where the source allows it, work inside it with their own mouse and keyboard.

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SourcesThe stand's wall with twelve source types at once: cameras, NDI, capture, web dashboards, remote desktops, documents and test patterns.

01Twelve source types in one dialog
02What each source type accepts
03Work inside a source with one mouse
04Web dashboards that log in and recover by themselves
05Camera and NDI streams decoded on the GPU
06Documents, video files and tickers
07Check before sizing the server

Twelve source types in one dialog

The Add source dialog lists every supported type. All types run on the same canvas at the same time and can be combined in any layout.

A source is added once and reused in any number of scenes. The source list has categories, search and favourites.

The Add source dialog of the Craft Wall console with twelve source types

What each source type accepts

Check the formats of your own sources against this table before sizing the server.

Source type	What it shows	Operator control
Video stream	RTSP, RTMP, HLS and SRT from IP cameras, encoders and video management systems	Buffer setting per stream
NDI	NDI senders discovered on the network	PTZ for NDI cameras
Capture card	HDMI or SDI signal through a capture card that Linux exposes as a V4L2 device	Device and pixel format
Web page	Dashboards and web applications rendered by a built-in browser engine	Click, type, scroll, navigate, zoom
Widgets	Ready-made tiles: clocks, weather, status boards and the SCADA mimic viewer	Settings per widget
Remote desktop RDP	Windows desktops	Keyboard and mouse
Remote desktop VNC	Any VNC server	Keyboard and mouse
Document	PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OpenDocument files	Pages, zoom, slideshow or auto-scroll
Video file	MP4, MKV and WebM, decoded on the GPU	Play, pause, seek, loop
Image	JPG, PNG, diagrams and plans	—
Ticker	A scrolling text line	Text, colour, speed
Test pattern	Patterns for display set-up	—

Work inside a source with one mouse

Double-click a web page, RDP or VNC window to open it in control mode. Your mouse and keyboard go to that source, and the wall keeps showing it to the room.

An operator moves from a Windows desktop to a Linux terminal and on to a dashboard in the same browser tab. No KVM switch or second keyboard is involved.

Top: the physical wall filmed by the room camera. Bottom: one browser window, from which the operator types in an RDP desktop, runs commands in a VNC terminal and scrolls a web page; the wall shows every change — ▲ Physical wallBrowser console ▼

Web dashboards that log in and recover by themselves

Each web window is a separate browser process. Set the address, automatic login, crop area and custom CSS once.

The wall restores each page's address, zoom and scroll position after a restart.

If a page stops responding or keeps growing in memory, Craft Wall reloads that page only, and only while no operator is working in it.

Camera and NDI streams decoded on the GPU

Streams are decoded on the NVIDIA GPU and stay in video memory until they reach the display.

When a camera drops, its window keeps its place and the stream reconnects without operator action.

NDI senders are discovered on the network. NDI cameras with pan, tilt and zoom are steered from the window's control panel.

Documents, video files and tickers

The server renders PDF and office documents itself, so no workstation is needed to show them. A document can run as a slideshow or scroll automatically.

Video files are decoded on the GPU and can loop. A ticker adds a scrolling text line, and a conference room can be shown as a wall window.