# User interfaces and remote access

Pearl-2s have several user interfaces:

- **Touch screen**: Easily accessible on the front panel of Pearl-2, the touch screen is primarily used for confidence monitoring, live switching, and Single Touch streaming and recording control.

- **Admin Panel**: A web-based user interface that's primarily used to perform system set up and administrative tasks for your Pearl-2. You can access the Admin Panel using an internet browser on a computer or tablet that's connected to the same local Ethernet network as your Pearl-2, or locally using a USB mouse, keyboard, and monitor connected directly to the Pearl-2.

- **Epiphan Live**: A web-based user interface that is primarily used for confidence monitoring, statistics, live switching, and recording control.

Start and stop recording/streaming, monitor video sources, view status and alerts, remote rescue troubleshooting and more over the Internet using Epiphan Edge.

### The touch screen

Use the touch screen to switch layouts, start and stop recording and streaming, configure network settings, load configuration presets, and to view configured channels, audio meters, and system information.

> product: pearl-2 · topic: security · source: pearl-2-userguide.md · updated: Oct 13, 2026