ACTi Mobile Server User’s Manual 03/04/2011
Mobile Server Table of Contents 1 Overview 4 Introduction.................................................................................... 4 Main Specification .......................................................................... 5 System Requirements .................................................................... 5 2 Installation 7 General Configuration ................................................................... 7 PTZ Camera Configuration .........................................
Mobile Server Figure List Fig. 1 Fig. 2 Fig. 3 Fig. 4 Fig. 5 Fig. 6 Fig. 7 Fig. 8 Network Architecture .............................................................. 4 Configurations of Mobile server .............................................. 7 Media Server URL ..................................................................... 7 NVR ports ................................................................................. 8 Configuration file ...........................................................
Mobile Server Overview Introduction ACTi Mobile Server provides streaming re-direction from NVR Servers to all web clients that can see MJPEG format video. Users do not need to modify IP devices or NVR settings for Mobile Server, because the service will automatically encode video in MJPEG format. Web clients such as Safari, Google Chrome, Firefox, and all other MJPEG-enabled browsers can directly access ACTi Mobile Server through web service. The service architecture is described in Fig. 1.
Mobile Server Main Specification Live Playback Output Format MJPEG QCIF @5 FPS Supported Browser iPhone Safari NVR Server ACTi NVR Enterprise 2.2 SP3 v 2.2.57.52 Display Layout According to NVR Server channel setup. Thumbnail Display Snapshot from each channel upon login.
Mobile Server OS Windows Vista Version 32 bit 64 bit Ultimate sp1 Y Y Enterprise sp1 Y Y Business sp1 Y Y Standard sp2 Y Y Enterprise sp2 Y Y Professional sp3 Y N/A Standard Y Y Enterprise Y Y Professional Y Y Windows Server 2003 Windows XP Windows Server 2008 Windows 7 For 64 bit NVR version, 64 bit Internet Explorer is not supported. Please use 32 bit Internet Explorer.
Mobile Server 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. 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. Please open this file with Notepad and you will see the content as below. Fig.
Mobile Server - 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, 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.
Mobile Server 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.
Mobile Server ~ ~ 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.
Mobile Server [Note]: User editable scope is between and tags. 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. 11 www.acti.
Mobile Server Additional Setup in Windows XP Pro Windows XP Pro has different networking architecture that requires users to configure the following IIS to run Mobile Server service. After installing Mobile Server in Windows XP, please do the following steps: (1) Go to Start-> Control Panel-> Administrative Tools-> Internet Information Services Fig. 7 Internet Information Services (2) Unfold Internet Information Services tree to Default Website.
Mobile Server Fig. 9 Add Default Document And Apply the setting. Fig. 10 Default Web Site Properties (3) Now you will be able to log into Mobile server. Use the IP address and your port to connect. http://ip:port/m/ For example, if the PC which you install mobile server has the IP address 220.228.146.21 and the NVR uses port 80 (Media Server communicates with NVR via default port 90), then you should connect to http://220.228.146.21:80/m/ 13 www.acti.
Mobile Server 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.
Mobile Server Login Fig. 11 Login Screen 1 Username Please key in account username. Default username is Admin. 2 Password Please key in account password. Default password is 123456. 3 Remember Password Check the box to remember username and password. 4 Login Please Click on Login button to log into the service. 15 www.acti.
Mobile Server Live Live Main Screen Upon login of the system, Live tab will automatically display thumbnails of all the channels captured on that second from IP devices. Thumbnail layout may change in accordance with display panel resolution. Module Tabs Quit Thumbnails Channel Thumbnails Fig. 12 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. 2.
Mobile Server 3. Quit To logout the service and stop streaming. Module Tabs There are two modules in the system, Live and Playback, to carry out live streaming and playback. Fig. 13 Module Tabs Under Live module when a specific channel is selected, tabs may vary depending upon IP device model. Some channels might have PTZ-enabled tab if they are PTZ models. Users may double click on one of the thumbnails to start live stream, and tabs on the top-left-hand-side shall be displayed as in Fig. 6. Fig.
Mobile Server Live Streaming In Live main page, double click on a channel to start live view. Fig. 16 Live View 1. Home To go back to Live main page. 2. Playback To switch to Playback page. 3. PTZ To control PTZ. Details please refer to PTZ Function. 4. Quit To log out from the service. 18 www.acti.
Mobile Server PTZ Function Fig. 17 Live streaming with PTZ control 1. Speed You may define speed of movement here. 2. Preset To select a preset point. 3. Go Click on Go to move to the preset point with pre-defined speed. 4. On-screen PTZ Users may move the PTZ device via on-screen PTZ control buttons. Users may operate in the following ways: Select speed and preset point. 19 www.acti.
Mobile Server Fig. 18 PTZ Speed and Preset Click on Go to move to the preset point. 20 www.acti.
Mobile Server To control PTZ, click on display panel, then PTZ buttons shall emerge as circled. Click on one of the buttons to control PTZ. These buttons will fade out when there are no more cursor clicks. Fig. 19 On-screen PTZ contrl 21 www.acti.
Mobile Server Playback Playback Overview Users may search recorded video clips regarding channels, date/time, duration, and type. Quit Module Tabs Thumbnails Search Panel Submit Thumbnails Fig. 20 Playback Main Screen Summary of the Playback Main Screen 1. Module Tab To switch modules. 2. Search Panel Users may search for playback under several search conditions . 3. Submit To send out search criteria to the Server. 4. Quit To quit the service. 22 www.acti.
Mobile Server Search Panel Fig. 21 Search Panel 1. Camera The service allow users to search playback from a single channel. 2. Start Date To select a date. 3. Start Time To define the start time. 4. Duration To define the duration of search period. 5. Event Type Event type allows users to specify whether they would like to search playback of scheduled recording, motion-triggered recording, or DI-triggered recordings. The selection may be multiple choices. 23 www.acti.
Mobile Server In Fig. 14, the search criteria are camera 2, all types of recordings at 11 AM thru 12 PM by June 28th, 2010. The search results are listed as in Fig. 15. If the search result list is longer than the display screen, please slide the page or use scroll bar, and click on arrows to turn pages. To watch playback, please click on one of the items, and the playback shall be displayed automatically. To return to Search Result list, please click on Search Result button.
Mobile Server Please note that recording file length and pre-event recording length are defined in NVR Server configuration. Users are not allowed to change any NVR settings through the Mobile Server service. 25 www.acti.
