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Installing, connecting and servicing Vidicap devices. Step by step, with command examples and screenshots (in Russian).

1. Vidicap Touch 1.0: what to do to make it work

Step by step for a working device: the «Platform» button, the code, checking the stream, language, updates.

2. Installing Vidicap Touch 2.0 (Ubuntu 24.04)

A new computer: the installation wizard on the platform, installing over the internet or from a USB stick, checks, updates.

3. Boot stick: one stick for every device

Written once, the stick installs Vidicap Touch 2.0 and 1.0, the hospital server, Connect and the AI Server from the platform by an installation code.

4. Vidicap Touch 1.0 (Ubuntu 18.04)

The program, the «Platform» button, interface language, network updates and the new interface.

5. «Video»: recording and broadcast on one page

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: one tile instead of «Archive» and «Broadcast», one picture for recording and broadcast, the study, who watches and talks, the call.

6. Operation timer

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: how long the operation has been going, in the top bar of the screen; start, pause, reset.

7. Top bar and «Пульт» (control shade)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the state buttons in one frame, «•••» for whatever does not fit, the control shade by a swipe from the top.

8. Appearance of the screen: «Vidicap OR», «Original» and UI 3.0 (test)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the screen colours in the settings (Vidicap OR or the original grey) and the UI 3.0 test theme with a new menu and eight looks.

9. Main menu: tiles as widgets

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0 with the UI 3.0 look: S, M and L tiles, the room menu set by a technician, a doctor's own menu, how many rows of tiles.

10. Vidicap boot screen

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the Vidicap OR logo when the device starts, shuts down and restarts, department and operating room, the boot menu, how to bring back the Ubuntu splash.

11. Settings on the Vidicap screen

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: one screen with the list of sections on the left; picture in picture on a frame sketch, add-on module settings, network and version.

12. Видеовходы: от одного до четырёх

Для Touch 1.0 и 2.0: входы платы находятся сами; имена, порядок, выключение лишних; основной вход и вход в углу кадра.

13. On-screen training on Vidicap

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: hints with arrows on the main buttons at first launch, for new modules and after updates; how to take it again.

14. Вход и уровни допуска

Для Touch 1.0 и 2.0: PIN-код у каждого сотрудника, гость, пять уровней, технический вход с кодом с платформы, USB-ключ установщика, «Терминал».

15. Личный кабинет

Для Touch 1.0 и 2.0: кнопка с именем вверху, кто вошёл, блокировка экрана и смена пользователя, свой PIN-код и бейдж, свой язык и оформление, свои входы.

16. RFID tag sign-in and staff list

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: doctors and technicians sign in with tags, «Settings» for technicians only, the doctor's name in the study data.

17. RFID tag reader and barcode scanner: hardware

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: which tag reader and tags to buy, a barcode scanner for the patient, installation and testing.

18. Add-on modules: installing from the Vidicap screen

Module catalogue; installing and updating from the Touch 1.0 and 2.0 screen, from the platform or from a USB stick without the platform.

19. Camera control (add-on module, PTZ camera)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the operating room's pan-tilt-zoom camera over VISCA; installs itself where the camera was part of the program; removal, installation, setup.

20. Surgical light (add-on module)

For both Touch 1.0 and 2.0: connecting Mindray HyLED, installing the module, setup, troubleshooting.

21. Operating table (add-on module)

For both Touch 1.0 and 2.0: connecting Mindray HyBase, installing the module, setup, troubleshooting.

22. Light and table: moving to two modules

For devices with the former combined «Light and table» module: what happens and how to replace it with two modules.

23. Endoscopic camera (add-on module, Mindray UX and light)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the Mindray tower's camera and light source from the Vidicap screen, the MD2 bridge on Windows, installation, troubleshooting.

24. Insufflator (add-on module, Mindray HS-50F)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: pressure and flow in large digits and on charts, a hint about high pressure; view only.

25. Electrosurgery (add-on module, Mindray energy platform)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: monopolar and bipolar modes and power, ultrasonic knife levels; every change confirmed, activation only by the pedal.

26. Monitors and anaesthesia machines (HL7)

Patient vital signs from the operating room on the Vidicap screen or on the hospital server, setting up Mindray monitors.

27. Vidicap Connect: ward monitors and data transfer to the HIS

ICU and wards: beds, binding monitors and the central station, sending values and alarms to the HIS over HL7, the queue, the journal, notices to doctors in Telegram and in the Vidicap ICU app on the phone, the API for a HIS and a LIS.

28. Резервное копирование и восстановление сервера

Для администратора сервера: копии базы и архива по расписанию на диск, NAS или SFTP, ключ, проверки, восстановление обследования и всего сервера (МЗ РБ № 953, п. 9).

29. Internet broadcast: YouTube and RTMP (add-on module)

Для Touch 1.0 и 2.0: платформа отправляет трансляцию на YouTube и в сервисы RTMP; разрешение на экране Vidicap, красная плашка, «Заставка», «Остановить всё внешнее», журнал.

30. WHO Checklist: safe surgery (add-on module)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the three WHO pauses (sign in, time out, sign out) on the Vidicap screen, reminders when the operation starts, confirmation by RFID tag, the record in the study folder, the hospital's own checklist.

31. SIP video calls from the operating room (add-on module)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: the platform makes SIP calls with the operating room's picture; «Who to call», «Allow» and «Accept» on the Vidicap screen, microphone, «End call», server ports.

32. Server links: linking up and down

Server tree: the cloud, the institution's main server, subordinate servers and Connect; codes, points passed up, moving a server, releases and licence from above.

33. Video routing (add-on module, FSN IPS4000)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0 and the hospital server: connecting the matrix, sources on monitors, layouts, presets.

34. DICOM viewer (add-on module: USB stick, PACS, 3D)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: images from a USB stick and the hospital PACS, windows, clips, 3D, demo studies; PACS setup.

35. External display and SRT (add-on module “Video output”)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: a monitor on the Vidicap's own HDMI or DisplayPort without DeckLink, streaming over SRT for players and TVs.

36. VR (test): Vidicap as a pass-through device (add-on module)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0, an engineering test: the input full screen on the external monitor with hints on top, touches on the external monitor, presenter remote, delay measurement.

37. Music in the operating room (add-on module: AirPlay and Bluetooth)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: music from an iPhone over AirPlay, from Android over Bluetooth and internet radio to the operating room's speakers; quieter while the consultant talks.

38. Room systems: lighting, climate, power (add-on module, LogicMachine)

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: room lighting, climate, sockets, blinds, signs and alarms through LogicMachine (KNX, Modbus, BACnet); scenes, automation, setup.

39. AI endoscopy (add-on module)

The network marks polyps and bleeding in the live endoscope image: the doctor's screen, demo mode, installation, Vidicap AI Server for Touch 1.0.

40. AI ultrasound (add-on module)

The neural network marks breast lesions on the live ultrasound image: the doctor's screen, the model, installation, Vidicap AI Server for Touch 1.0.

41. ИИ-лапароскопия (доп. модуль)

Нейросеть подсвечивает органы брюшной полости на живом изображении лапароскопа: «Подсвечивать», контур или заливка, модель DSAD, установка, Vidicap AI Server для Touch 1.0.

42. AI endoscopy: how to train the network

The method: which images to collect, de-identification, annotation in CVAT, training, validation, model release, registration.

43. AI training on the platform: doctors, experts, administrators

Doctors annotate their videos and photos online, an expert reviews them, the platform builds a test model, and Vidicap offers it as a new one.

44. Web access: the platform on the Vidicap itself (add-on module)

One operating room without a hospital server: the address for the browser, first sign-in with the code from the screen, staff, patient vitals.

45. Vidicap Assistant voice assistant

Building the assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5, installation, linking to the operating room's Vidicap, voice commands, the light ring.

46. Voice link with the operating room

Doctors talk to the operating room from the broadcast page; the Vidicap screen shows who is on the line with a «switch off» button; replaces Mumble.

47. Study archive: videos, photos and trends

Vidicap recordings on the hospital's server: turning it on, updating devices, search, videos with the monitor's vital signs.

48. Demo: everything Vidicap can do in two minutes

An animated tour for everyone: where to find it, how to watch, links to single topics.

49. Vidicap emulator: the device in your browser

The real Vidicap Touch 2.0 screen without a device: recording, files, streaming, an HL7 patient monitor with an invented patient.

50. Tester checklists: checking modules item by item

For testers and administrators: a checklist for every module, «Works» and «Error» marks, a bug form with screenshots, the list of bugs.

51. Vidicap check: what will work on the device

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0: a hardware and load check as in the operating room, an answer for every function and module; «Fleet check» on the platform.

52. Holidays: decorations and greeting

For Touch 1.0 and 2.0 and the site: main menu decorations for 10 holidays, the greeting at start, choosing holidays, how to turn them off.

53. Engineering prototype: updates from the platform by themselves

For superadmins and engineers: Vidicap installs everything new by itself, including «Test» releases; not during recording or broadcast.

54. Marketing materials: booklets, roll-ups, souvenirs

Where to download print files, what to tell the printers, how to change text and contacts.

55. Platform connection and the device journal

Pairing codes, one Vidicap per point, who can unpair, journal and logs.

56. Site languages and the visitor's country

Nine site languages: which are shown in Europe, in the CIS and elsewhere, how to switch the language, how the country is detected.

57. Troubleshooting

What to check when there is no video, no platform connection or the installation stopped.

58. Platform server

For the platform administrator: device releases, USB packages, server load.

59. Server calculator: procurement requirements

How many cores, how much memory and disk a hospital needs: server, Connect, AI Server, UPS; a link and PDF for procurement.

60. Vidicap configurator: ACL computers for the operating room

Housing, processor, memory, disk, RS-232, video capture and peripherals for the modules; what will work; a link and PDF without prices.

Module manuals (PDF)

A separate file for each module: step by step, with screenshots of Vidicap Touch 1.0, Vidicap Touch 2.0 and the platform pages.

Documents (PDF)

Marketing materials: booklets, roll-ups, flyers and souvenirs

Installation files are in «Device releases» (an organisation administrator account is needed).