The Live View and Web View widgets are special types of elements available directly on the Analytics Dashboard. Each serves a unique purpose—one streams live video, the other embeds web content—but both help visualize additional visual or contextual information.

The Live View widget displays the actual video stream from the camera linked to an analytic. This allows you to monitor what the camera is currently capturing—alongside other dashboard widgets like Values and Distributions, Event List, or Trajectory Events. Note that the video is not synchronized with the data in other widgets, so slight timing delay is expected.

The Live View widget only supports the following attribute:

Additionally, you can configure the following four parameters: Displayed image scale [%], JPEG compression rate, FPS divider, and Rendering options (e.g., overlays like bounding boxes, trajectory trails, etc.).

The Web View widget lets you embed any web content directly into the Dashboard. It functions as a built-in web browser and is ideal for displaying additional resources related to the analytic or monitored scene. This makes it a powerful enhancement of the Dashboard and the FLOW framework itself. Unlike other widgets, Web view reads data from external sources, therefore it works independently of the Block, which is not needed.

Typical use cases include:

The Web View widget only supports the following attribute:

You provide a URL as input, and the widget displays the current content available at that address. You can also configure a Reload policy to control how often the page refreshes.

Learn more about widgets and sinks in FLOW, explore time processing, or check out other widget types such as Trajectory Events and the Distribution Widget. Use the FLOW Public API to access data from widgets and sinks and integrate it with your external systems.

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