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DW Spectrum provides a powerful and easy-to-use mechanism for automatic camera discovery. It is required that a camera should be accessible via Broadcast.

As soon as Media Server is started and connected to EC, it automatically performs camera discovery in its network. Once a camera is discovered, its parameters will be displayed in Resource Tree automatically.

If a camera does not transmit media data, it is marked as Offline.

If Media Server is offline, all Cameras the server is hosting are switched to the offline status automatically.