ACTi MobileGo! User Manual Version 1.
MobileGo! Table of Contents 1 Overview 4 Introduction.................................................................................... 4 Main Specification .......................................................................... 6 Software NVR System Requirements ............................................ 7 2 Installation 8 General Configuration ................................................................... 8 PTZ Camera Configuration ........................................................
MobileGo! Appendix E: Version Comparison Table ........................................ 30 Figure List Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Network Architecture .............................................................. 5 Configurations of Mobile Server .............................................. 8 Media Server URL ..................................................................... 8 NVR ports .................................................................................
MobileGo! Overview Introduction MobileGo! is now compatible with both ACTi software NVR and Standalone NVR (SNVR). On SNVR, the App is ready to go without further configuration or installation. On software NVR, please install ACTi Mobile Server to do streaming re-direction. ACTi Mobile Server provides streaming re-direction from software NVR Servers to web clients and MobileGo! that users are able to watch MJPEG format live video/playback from NVR Servers.
MobileGo! Fig. 1 Network Architecture 5 www.acti.
MobileGo! Main Specification Live Playback Output Format MJPEG/JPEG. For details, please refer to Feature Comparison Table Supported Devices iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad (HD) NVR Server/ Standalone NVR ACTi NVR Enterprise 2.2 SP3 or later. ACTi XNR, GNR.
MobileGo! Software NVR System Requirements PC Specification: 1. Minimum PC specification: 16 Channels 32/48/64 channels Recommended Recommended PC Specifications CPU Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66 GHz Intel i5-670 3.46 GHz Memory 4GB + 4GB + Network Gigabit Ethernet Gigabit Ethernet Graphics Card nVidia 9800 GT or better nVidia GTS 250 or better Graphics Card memory 512 MB or more 512 MB or more Hard Drive Space 2 GB for NVR, 250 GB for Video 2 GB for NVR, 1TB for Video 2.
MobileGo! Installation General Configuration After you installed NVR server in your PC and completed all NVR configurations, please execute the file „Mobile Server.msi‟ in the same PC. Mobile Server supports MPEG-codec-enabled browsers, for example, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari. After it is installed, you have to configure IP address and ports to let the web clients access Mobile Server. There is one file under NVR folder that you have to edit: C:\Program Files\NVR\IPControlCenter\m\config.xml.
MobileGo! - IP: Please modify URL path to the IP address of Mobile Server. - Port: Mobile Server uses default port 90 to send video stream to web client. You don‟t need to change it here. For example, if the PC which you install Mobile Server has the IP address 220.228.146.21 and the media server uses port 90, and then you should use http:// 220.228.146.21:90 as URL path. (2) NVR Server Fig. 4 NVR ports < IP>: It is the IP address of NVR. Mobile Server will use it to communicate with NVR server.
MobileGo! PTZ Camera Configuration For PTZ function, you will also have to configure it for each PTZ camera manually. Please follow the instruction below and configure it through the following steps. Step1: Please enable PTZ function in NVR for each PTZ camera. And please make sure PTZ function work in NVR with proper settings. Step2: Please go to Media Server folder “C:\Program Files\ACTi\Mobile Server\Media Services\config\device\”, and open MediaSourceConfig.xml file with Notepad.
MobileGo! ~ ~ Fig. 6 Configurations of PTZ Cameras (Example) First, you will have to find the PTZ camera that you have according to Model Production Id and . After that, you will be able to start to configure all the other fields. Items from (1) to (9) need to be properly configured. If not, the PTZ function won‟t be able to work. (1) Media Source id: Please fill in the Camera ID in NVR Server. You will be able to find the [Camera ID] for this camera in Camera Tree of NVR Server.
MobileGo! User editable scope is between and labels. And the text between and is to describe the attributes for specified PTZ camera "{CAMERA_ID}". Please do not modify settings outside of this range. If there are multiple PTZ cameras, please copy the content of label and paste in the following of the original one, and then modify items as described above. 12 www.acti.
MobileGo! Things you need to know before you start Mobile Server service is a web service working with an NVR Server. Please make sure the NVR Server is working properly, and port connection is free from firewall or other barriers. Otherwise, thumbnails or video traffic may be blocked out and unable to be displayed. NVR Server configuration should still go through NVR Workstation / Web client and is NOT included in Mobile Server.
MobileGo! System Startup How to connect to Mobile Server? Mobile Server doesn‟t support IE, so please use MPEG-codec-enabled browsers to manipulate the service. Given a NVR server address 220.228.146.21 and HTTP port 8080, you will have to use the address http://220.228.146.21:8080/m/ to connect to the Mobile Server from your browser. There is a demo of Mobile Server. You may try it before you have your own Mobile Server. Please use your safari browser and connect to http://mobile.acti.
MobileGo! Operating Instructions Login Upon tapping on MobileGo! on iPhone desktop, the program starts to run and displays as in the following figures. Fig. 8 1 Login Username Please key in account username. Default username is Admin. 2 Password Please key in account password. Default password is 123456. 3 NVR IP Please key in an IP address of an ACTi NVR Server in which Mobile Server is properly installed and configured. 4 NVR Port Please key in the port number of the NVR Server.
MobileGo! Live Live Main Screen Upon login of the system, Live tab will automatically display thumbnails of all the channels captured in 6-grid display. Users may swipe pages to see more channels. Module Tabs Display Panel Tool Bar Fig. 9 Live Main Screen Summary of the Live Main Screen 1. Module Tab To switch modules, user may click on one of the tabs to change modules between Live and Playback. 2. Tool Bar 2.
MobileGo! Fig. 10 Setup 2.3 Refresh To capture snapshots again. 2.4 Layout To switch pre-defined layouts saved in NVR Server. 3. Display Panel Still images captured on the spot when users log in. Click on a panel to start video. Module Tabs There are two modules in the system, Live and Playback, to carry out live streaming and playback. Upon switch in the page, snapshots would be displayed as in the following figures. Portrait or Landscape is automatically sensed by device position. 17 www.acti.
MobileGo! Fig. 11 Live & Playback in Portrait orientation Fig. 12 Landscape orientation 18 www.acti.
MobileGo! Live Streaming In Live main page, tap on a channel to start live view. Click on Back to go back to the previous page. Click on Snapshot to sanpshot the image. A prompt window would inform that the snapshot is saved. Click on OK and go to the gallery to check out snapshots. Snapshot Fig. 13 Live streaming Fig. 14 Streaming - landscape orientation When under landscape orientation, tap on the screen to invoke tool bars. 19 www.acti.
MobileGo! Channel Swiping Users may swipe channel backword and forward while streaming by swiping the screen directly or clicking on the pager. Fig. 15 Channel swiping PTZ Function To manipulate PTZ function, please make sure that 1. Enable PTZ on NVR Server. Please try to control PTZ on ActiveMonitor first to confirm that PTZ function is properly set. 2. Configure MediaSourceConfig.xml for MediaSource id, and UnicastIP.
MobileGo! Fig. 16 Live streaming with PTZ control 1. Snapshot Click on Snapshot button to sanpshot the image. Fig. 17 Snapshot 2. PTZ When PTZ button is enabled, transparent indicators would display in the pane. Click arrows, „+‟, or „-„ to move, zoom in or zoom out. Tap on the indicator to command one move. Hold the indicator to command contineuous move. 3. Go-to-preset 21 www.acti.
MobileGo! Click on Go-to-present button, a list will show pre-defined layouts. Fig. 18 Go-to-preset in portrait orientation Fig. 19 Go-to-preset in landscape orientation ePTZ Function MobileGo! supports ePTZ by double-click on the video to zoom in. When ePTZ is on, a Position Window will indicate the position of the current view. See the following figure. If Go-to-preset button is clicked under ePTZ mode, ePTZ will automatically be switched off and start to pen, tilt, or optical zoom. 22 www.acti.
MobileGo! Fig. 20 ePTZ Exit ePTZ and swipe the screen to switch channels. 23 www.acti.
MobileGo! Playback MobileGo! provides playback function. In Playback module, tap on one of the channel, the page will switch to Video Search. Fig. 21 Video Search 1 Camera Users may switch channels via clicking on camera name in the text field. 2 Start Date Select date and time. Default start time is 8 AM of the day. Tap on a text field to open time gouge, roll it to a wanted time, and then tap on the text field again to close the gouge. Notice: Gouge will remain on the screen if it is not closed.
MobileGo! Fig. 22 Select Start Date and End Date 4 Event Type 4.1 Schedule Search for schedule recordings. Notice: If a channel has multiple rules of recording concurrently, for example, schedule with motion, then only schedule will be recognized and performed. 4.2 Motion Search for motion triggered recordings. 4.3 Alarm Search for Digital Input triggered recordings. Search Result Video clips will be listed in Search Result page regarding search criteria.
MobileGo! Fig. 23 Search Result & Playback Fig. 24 Playback in full screen landscape orientation Playback Control Panel and Time Track For SNVR, click on the display panel to show control panel in terms of Play, Pause, Fast Rewind, Fast Forward, Previous, Next, and a time track. Slide the time track to select a designated time to start playback. To switch video clips, swipe the screen or click on the pager. 26 www.acti.
MobileGo! Fig. 25 Playback control buttons Fig. 26 Playback ePTZ Exit ePTZ by double clicking on the screen again. When ePTZ is on, swiping page is inactive. 27 www.acti.
MobileGo! Appendix Appendix A: Limitation 1. Mobile Server does not provide streaming re-connection, therefore once playback streaming is interrupted due to networking problems, the file cannot be restarted from where it is disconnected. Users must playback the file from the beginning. SNVR doesn‟t have this limitation. 2. Recording file length shorter then 2-min is recommended to reduce chances of networking disconnection. 3. In this version, MobileGo! does not support audio function.
MobileGo! Appendix D: Feature Comparison Table Live view Resolution & Frame rate PTZ Playback Digital Time Resolution & Digital zoom code Frame rate zoom 640x480 or SNVR NVR2 Browser 320x240 640x480 or V V X 320x240 @1FPS @1FPS 640x480 or 640x480 or 320x240 V V X 320x240 @3FPS @3FPS 320x240 320x240 @3FPS V V X @3FPS 29 X Recording Behavior Comply with SNVR Time Type Codec Audio In code Multiple V Time base V File base MJPEG X V File base MJPEG X JPEG
MobileGo! Appendix E: Version Comparison Table v1.0 MobileGo! Low Login Auto Memory Input Progress Permission Bar 3* Check 4* Multi Languages Detect 1* Warning Check 2* X X X X X X NVR 2.2 X X X X X X NVR 2.3 X X X X X X SNVR V V V V V V NVR 2.2 V V V V V V NVR 2.3 V V V V V V SNVR MobileGo! 3G/WiFi 5* v1.1 1* Add 3G High Resolution at setup page. 2* Auto remove empty spaces at start and end. Auto check input port number of 1 through 65535.
MobileGo! to prevent wrong operation. SNVR Digital CAM-6610 Camera Zoom PTZ Info 7* X X X X X X V 640x480/320x240@3FPS X V 640x480/320x240@3FPS V V 640x480/320x240@1FPS V V 640x480/320x240@3FPS V V 640x480/320x240@3FPS Wait v2.10.xx MobileGo! NVR 2.2 X formal release v1.0 Wait v2.10.xx NVR 2.3 X SNVR MobileGo! v1.1 formal release Wait v2.10.xx V formal release Wait v2.10.xx NVR 2.2 V formal release Wait v2.10.xx NVR 2.
