COP COP Security System Corp 15-DVRXXP-SERIAL EMBEDDED LINUX DVR USER’S MANUAL V2.
nd Edition (March, 21 2007) Contents 1. PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS...............................................................................................................1 1-1 PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS ...........................................................................................................................1 1-2 MAIN FEATURES ..............................................................................................................................................3 2.
5-8 NETWORK SETUP ...........................................................................................................................................58 5-8-1、Remote Connection via Internet by a modem ....................................................................................62 5-8-2、Remote Connection when DVR Series is connected to the Internet by a modem..............................68 5-9 DISK ................................................................................................
1. Product Characteristics 1-1 Product Characteristics Optimum Replacement for Time-lapse Recorder Traditional Time-lapse Recorder is a mechanical device.
Mouse clicking on the Graphical User Interface controls all the operations. No keyboard is needed so that it is most suitable for the security guards and normal non-IT based users to use. Multi-Function Function of one set of DVR system = Time-lapse Video Cassette Recorder + Multiplexer processor + Motion Detection Processor You can backup the data to CD-R/RW, remotely monitor the images and still recording the current video data at the same time.
1-2 Main Features Items OS Description Embedded Linux *4/8/12/16 channels in BNC jack for 15-DVRXXP-120 and 240 Video Inputs *8/16 channels for 15-DVRXXP-480 *16 channels for 15-DVRXXP-480RT System Video Outputs D type 15 Pins VGA and TV-Out Video Format NTSC/PAL *1 Channel input and 1 Channel Output for 15-DVRXXP-120 and 240 Audio Input/Output *4 channel inputs (optional) and 1 channel output for DVRXXP-480 *4 channel inputs and 1 channel output for DVR16P-480RT Display PC Interface PCI Slot
Pre-Recording 0~10 sec Post-Recording 0~20 sec Watermark Yes Date Code Playback Recording includes time/date information. To prevent date code from being modified Playback channels Max 16 channel at the same time Playback mode Play, Pause, frame by frame play, fast forward, fast backward Video Enhancement De-interlace, Sharpen Search Search by time, date and event.
Password protection Other *100 user accounts *Password expiry management PTZ camera support Yes Power Down Management Yes. Auto-recovery when power back Watchdog Yes Hardware Watchdog. Time Zone/Daylight Saving Yes AVI Format Export Yes Time Sync Support Time Server, FM and RTC Time Sync UI Language 8 languages in single software: English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese.
2. Language Selection You can select your preferred display language at “Main Menu” before starting DVR system. There are seven languages that are supported in this version- Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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The controls in the main screen including: Function Description 1 Storage Space Indicate the HD free space status 2 Recording/ DI/DO Status Camera recording status and alarm/sensor input and output status 3 System Setting Quick access to system configuration 4 Playback Quick access to playback mode 5 Full Screen Monitoring Monitor in full Screen 6 Date/Time Display current date and time 7 Display Mode Select display divisions 8 Motion/Alarm to Zoom Activate zooming function when moti
3-1 Display Mode There are 7 kinds of Display mode, 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. The default display mode is 16 splits. The cameras displayed on each split mode can be configured in the system setting menu. Besides the different kinds of split modes, you can click in a camera image on any split screen to show the full screen of that specific camera as shown in the example below.
3-2 Motion/Alarm to Zoom The function of “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” is zooming in the screen when there is any motion or alarm occurring. After clicking icon, it will activate the “Motion/Alarm to Zoom “mode. Motion/Alarm Zooming Area Motion/Alarm Picture 1. At first, you must go to “ Alarm Notice” in “System Setting” menu to set up the channels that you want to enable the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function. For the “Alarm to Zoom” function, you need to have further set up in “DI/DO” under “System Setting.
Select the channels you want to enable “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” Select the channels you want to enable “Alarm to Zoom” function 11
2. When the channel which is enabled the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function occurs motion or alarm, its’ screen will be zoomed in the “ Motion/Alarm Zooming” area and the original screen of this channel will be replaced by a “Motion/Alarm Picture”. If the channel is not enabled the “ Motion/Alarm to Zoom” function, the screen of this channel will not be zoomed and will not be marked in red frame even there is a motion or alarm in this channel. 3.
Motion/Alarm Zooming Area marked in yellow color Locked Picture 13
3-3 Storage Space On the right side of the main screen, you can find the free space of hard disks. If there are more than one hard disk is connected, it will display the status of each HD every 5 seconds. When you start using a new hard disk (for example, a hard disk with capacity 80GB), the percentage of free space will be very close to 100% (e.g. 99%), and the color will be BLUE. However, as recording continues, the available space will diminish.
3-4 Recording & DI/DO Status The first column indicates the recording status of each camera: Color Recording Mode Status Orange ( ) Full recording Green ( ) Motion-sensor Motion not detected ) Motion-sensor Motion detected & recording Red ( Gray ( ) No recording The second and third column shows the status of each DI and DO device.
4. Playback Click the playback icon on the main screen to enter playback mode.
The controls of Playback function are as following, Calendar Hour menu Time Map Minute Bar Search Result Time Search Exit Speed Play Pause Snapshot/Backup Rewind Next frame Event Search 17 Setup Full Screen
4-1 Playback Password Setting If you want to activate “Playback Password Protection” function, click in the main menu to go the “System Setting” as follows. Change the “Security” from “ Disable” to “Enable” mode and then click “Playback Password”.
4-2 Search for Recorded Data This DVR system provides two modes of “ Search for Recorded Data”. One is “ Search by time” and the other one is “Search by Event”. 4-2-1 Search by Time Time Search When you click the icon of “ Time Search” on the lower right corner of Playback screen, it will show three kinds of time parameters for users to select and jump to the recorded data by time directly including “ Calendar, Hour and Minute”.
Select Hour Click “Hour Menu” and it will show the pull-down menu providing 0~23 hours for selection. If there are recording data in the hour, it will show red color for selection, otherwise it will show black color. If it is daylight saving time with extra one hour, the color in that hour will show yellow color. After you select any hour with recording data, you can see the scattered data bar in each channel in that hour. Each bar represents two minutes recording data.
system according to the DRAM and DVR channels. RAM size DVR channel 256MB 512MB 1GB 4 Max 4 ch playback Max 4 ch playback Max 4 ch playback 8 Max 8 ch playback Max 8 ch playback 16 Max. 4 ch playback Max. 16 ch playback Switch the size of Playback channel If DVR system provides 16 channel playback, the default playback channel will be 16 splits. This 16 channel splits are divided into four groups as below pictures.
When you enlarge one playback channel, some channels will be hidden. For exmaple, when you enlarge 1st ch from 16 channel split size to 4 ch split size, the other three channels in that group including 2nd, 5rd and 6th channels will be hidden. As a result, the data bar background of these hidden channels in Timemap will be highlighted as black color as below picture and others will keep as white color.
Click the “ Event Search” icon , it will show the “Search Window”. There are three kinds of event search modes, “ Time, System and Device”. Search Mode Description Time Search all of the events within the time range you set up. System *Search all of the System events within time range which you set up by marking the “ Time Search” at the same time or *Search all of the System events without time boundary by disable the “ Time Search”.
Time Mode: Step 1: Select “ Time” mode from the Search type. Step 2: Set up the time of starting point and end point including, Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second. Step 3: Click “ Search” button “ button to execute the “ Event Search”. Click “ Reset to go back to Default time range. Click “Cancel” button to stop the event search. Step 4: Then, the system will open the Search Result Window and show the “Search Result”.
In the Search Result Window of Time Mode, there will be 11 information columns for each event log including “Date, Time, Event, Type, Motion Record, Remote Alarm Reocrd, Camera Video Loss, Camera Enable, Camera Disable, DI Trigger, DO Trigger and Content”. The columns of Date and Time list the event time information. Event column list “ System”, “Camera” or “Device” event. Type includes “Information ( )”, “Warning( )”, or “Error( )”.
following picture. The search result will be shown on the right side of “Playback Window”. Or click “ Re-search” button and the system will go back to Search Window. Search Result Step 6: Select one of the search logs. It will pop up a window on the left side of Search result to show the detail information of this log including Event, Type and detail Content. Click “GoTo” button and it will start to play the event video.
Note: It will show 10 event logs in one page each time and you can click one of the “ Jump button to go to the event page you want to see. System Mode: You can search the event by “System” mode and you can also add the “Time Search” condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various System conditions, you can decide the search range. The following table lists all of the “System Events”.
Watchdog Fail DIO mapping Fail Update time to RF clock Timer Update time to RTC clock Timer update error No RF clock device Other Startup Event log error Enter play recorded video Mode Enter disk tool menu Enter setup mode Enter playback mode Monitor DVR online Current Timezone Detect camera count error System Shutdown: Disk error detected Setup Playback System Setup change Max user count limit is 128 Enter monitor Enter backup No disk found Storage Disk error Recycle disk FTP alarm Alarm E-mail
condition to narrow the search range. By marking the various Device conditions, you can decide the search range The following table lists all of the “Device Type” Device Event Event Type Camera Camera Motion Camera Video Loss Camera Enable Camera Disable DI DI is activated or not. DO DO is activated or not. Refer to the Step 1 to Step 6 of Time Mode Search to play the event video.
4-3 Playback Configuration Playback Configuration When you click Playback configuration icon , it will show up the following dialog box. It provides you with the configurations of video and OSD(On-Screen-Print). 4-3-1 Filter The configuration of “Filter” is provided you to adjust playback video quality. There are two kinds of modes- “De-interlace” and “Sharpen”. You can enable these two modes at the same time. In De-interlace mode, you can select “ Even only” or “Weave.
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4-4 Snapshot/Backup/Save Log Snapshot/Backup/Save log 4-4-1 Snapshot and save to floppy In the playback mode, it provides Snapshot function to catch the images and save them to storage device including floppy or USB storage device (this selection shown after plugging in USB storage device). Click the button and select Snapshot. The following dialog will appear: Select Device: Select the storage device where you want to save the snapshot images.
4-4-2 Backing up Video Files You can copy the video files from hard disk to burning device such as CD-R/W or DVD-R/W or USB external storage media, such as USB pen drive or USB Hard Disk. Click the button and select Export to see the following screen: Reset time range Rescan device Backup Device Selected files info Add files Remove files Burn Disc Exit USB Export Files Config.
4-4-2-1 Backing Up Procedures 1. Before you start to back up the video files, make sure that the back up program has detected the IDE/USB burning devices or USB storages. If not, please check if the device is installed properly and click to rescan the device. After that, the device still can not be detected, please verify if the device is ok. 2. When you put the disc to burning device or plug the USB storage device to the DVR, click the “Backup Device” or “Rescan Device” to get the device information.
start to convert the selected files into standard ISO 9660 format files (Make ISO), and burn the files to the disc. 8. If the backup device is USB storage and the device space is enough to back up the selected files, the Export Files icon will lighten when you Add the “Selected files” to the right column of the screen for backup. Click this icon and the system will start to copy the files to the storage. 9.
5. System Settings Click the icon on the main screen to go to the system settings page. Click on the keyboard icon to enter the user name and password. To exit the System Settings, click on the upper right corner in the “System Settings” screen.
5-1 Camera Setup 1. Select the desired camera for setup. 2. Camera Name: Use the “keyboard figure” on the right of “Camera Name” field to enter the description for the camera. 3. Camera Status (Disable/Enable/Hide): If the channel is not connected to a camera, set “Disable”. If it is connected, set “Enable”. If you do not want the camera image to be showed on the main screen, set “Hide”. Note: If a camera is “hidden”, the video is still recorded in the hard disk. 4.
6. Save Disk Space (Enable/Disable): The setting allows you to save disk space. The file size of “Save Disk Enable” is 2.6 times smaller than “Save Disk Disable”. 7. Sensitivity (10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100): You can set the sensitivity of motion detection during recording. It is recommended to adjust the setting to 100 in order to prevent any data loss. However, in some special conditions, the system continues to record even when no motion has occurred.
11. Recording Schedule: Refer to the Recording Schedule Table below. There are 7 rows and 24 columns in the schedule table, which represents 7 days and 24 hours. There are three recording modes: Full recording. Motion sensor recording No recording 12. Copy Camera Setting: After finishing the camera setup for one camera, you can click the “Copy Camera Setting” button, located on the upper right of the “Camera Setup” screen, to copy the setting of this camera to other cameras. This saves time and effort.
(2) Select “Set Detection Area” and use the mouse to drag an area to be detected. (3) You can set many detection areas by dragging mouse again. 13-2 Method Two (1) Click (2) Select “Clear Detection Area” and use the mouse to drag a non-detection area. (3) Drag the mouse again to set more non-detection areas. 14. Color Adjustment: Here you can adjust Contrast/ Brightness/ Hue/ Saturation. The “Hide Sensor Area” setting is to help you examine the adjustment.
5-2 PTZ To make the PTZ camera function correctly, please follow the instructions below: 1. Connect the PTZ to RS232 port (via RS485-RS232 converter). 2. Refer to Chapter 5-7-2 to assign “PTZ” to the RS232 port you connected. 3. Refer to the user manual of PTZ to setup the protocol, baud rate and ID. 4. Select Camera: please select the correct camera number which has PTZ function. 5. Status: set to ”Enable” 6. Model, ID, and Baud Rate: set the ID the same as the PTZ camera.
4. Select other preset points and follow the same procedure to set up. 5. Totally we support 128 preset points. Auto-Pan function: 1. Click “Set Pan Start” 2. Move the PTZ camera, the PTZ will remember the path. 3. Click “Set Pan End” Note: Preset and Auto-pan function is different from protocol to protocol. The above example is given using Pelco-D protocol for example.
5-3 View Setup Clicking the “Screen” tab will display the view setup screen as following. 1. There are 7 kinds of Display mode, 4 splits, 6 splits, 8 splits, 9 splits, 10 splits, 13 splits, and 16 splits. Click the “small block” on the split screen, then you can modify the camera shown on each split screen. An example for the description of the all cameras when doing the view setup is located on the right side of the table. 2. Sequencer Setting There are 1 channel and 4 channel sequencer modes.
5-4 User Account Management The User Account Management function allows different user to login the system using different user name. To start using this function, click on the User icon. There are 2 system preset accounts. The user names and passwords for these two accounts are as follows. Username: “admin”; Password: “1111” is for the system management account. This account cannot be deleted. Username: “net”; Password: “1111” is for the normal user account. This account can be deleted.
[Add User Account]: Click “Add” icon to add new user accounts as screen below. Enter the name and password for the new user. Administrator Account/Normal User Account: Only administrator account can enter the system setup menu to change the settings. Normal User accounts are used for remote login only. Dial-In Access: This option is to enable/disable the user to dial into the DVR, i.e., to access the system through modem. Playback: Authorize user the function of playback.
Remote Monitor/Playback: You can define the authorization of each user to use remote functions. Remote Camera Control: This function enables remote application, ex CMS, to toggle DVR DO camera recording. [Modify User Account] Click “Modify” icon to modify the existing user account. The operation is similar to that of the “Add User Account” above. [Delete User Account] Click “Delete” icon to delete the user account. A screen will display as follows. Click “OK” if you would like to delete this user account.
5-5 DI/DO Click on the DI/DO icon and select the total number of DI/DO installed on your system to see the following figure: [DI Status] Choose Disable, NC, or NO according to your DI device (e.g., photo sensor). Disable: Disable the DI function. NC (normal closed): The signal loop is closed under normal conditions. When the loop becomes open, DI will be triggered until the loop becomes closed again.
1800 and 3600 seconds. If DO is triggered, in this time interval, DO will keep on triggering. [Action] There are 6 actions that are related to the DI/DO functions. DI →Camera Recording When DI is triggered, DVR can start to record the video of selected cameras. You can select the cameras to be recorded when DI is triggered by using the “DI/Camera array” shown below the setting. Each DI signal can trigger more than one camera recording.
5-6 Alarm Notice SuperVision Series can send four types of alarm to your pre-defined email addresses, FTP site, mobile phone number (via SMS) or Voice dialer. This section gives step-by-step instructions to send different alarms to each destination. We define four types of alarm sources as below. dvr Alarm Source Definition Motion Alarm Motion is detected in selected cameras (despite the recording mode is full recording, motion sensor recording or no recording). DI Alarm Selected DI is triggered.
user name and password to send emails, please click the icon “Authorization SMTP” to enter the user name and password. Note: If you don’t know the IP address of your mail server, you can ping the mail server to get the IP address as following figure. (3) Key in sender’s full email address. It must be a valid email address. (4) Add Alarm Notice: Click the icon Add to see the follow figure. (5) Alarm Duration: The duration time can be from 1 minute to 1440 minutes (1 day).
[Alarm to FTP Site] (1) Make sure the DVR system connects to Internet. (2) Key in the IP address of the FTP site. (3) Enable “ Passive mode” if DVR is behind Firewall/NAT and connects to network by PPPoE. (4) Enter the directory you would like to store the alarm notice (logs and pictures). (5) Add Alarm Notice: Click the icon Add to see the above figure. (6) Alarm Duration: The duration time can be from 1 minute to 1440 minutes (1 day).
[Alarm to SMS] This function requires an external GSM modem to send messages to mobile phones via SMS (Short Message Service). (1) Please refer to your GSM modem user manual for the physical connections. (2) Go to Serial Port setting in the System sub-menu. Choose GSM Modem on the COM port that connects to the GSM modem. (3) Back to this Alarm Notice sub-menu, and set the Baud Rate to be 9600 baud per second.
(9) Click “OK” when you have done the setting. (10) You can add another alarm notice by repeating the step (5) to (9). [Motion to Zoom] You can click the camera No which you want to enable the “ Motion to Zoom” function. [Alarm to Voice Dialer] This function requires an external Voice Dialer to send alarm messages to phones. SuperVision Series Ver 4.0 and above only supports Voyager Voice Dialer. (1) Please refer to Voyager Voice Dialer user manual for the physical connections.
5-7 System Click “System” tab for the settings: “Date/Time”, “RS-232”, “TV-Out”, “Watch Dog”, “Language”, and “Security”.
5-7-1 Time Synchronization There are four kinds of methods to synchronize DVR’s time. Type Description 1. Manual Set up time manually 2. Time Server Synchronize DVR time with Time Server 3. RF Clock Synchronize DVR time with RF Clock 4. RTC Synchronize DVR time with Real Time Clock(RTC) When you select “ Time Server” Synchronization, enter the IP address or hostname of the Time Server.
You can test the Time Server function by clicking “Time Server test”. When you select “ RF Clock” Synchronization, you can click “ Test” button to do the “RF clock test”. Then, the DVR will issue a command to RF clock to get Time information and display it on the screen. RF Clock can be connected to the DVR through RS232 port. Note: 1. Configuring Time Synchronization will reboot DVR. 2.
5-7-2 Other Functions [COM Port] This setting is for you to configure the COM(RS232) port. This DVR system supports PTZ, Modem, GSM Modem, RF clock, Voice Dialer and RAID box device. Except PTZ, all of these devices are RS232. Select the correct device that connects to your system to make its function work. Note: The standard PC Motherboard provides two RS232 COM Port.
5-8 Network Setup Click “Network Setup” tab to set up the network configurations as follows. Enable the “Static IP ” and enter the IP address, NetMask, and Gateway in the fields. Note: If you use another network port (like port 81) instead of default port 80, when you start the remote viewing, please remember to add the port number followed by the IP address and the “http://” in front of the IP address. For example: http://142.173.62.171:81. If you use port 80, you could just click the IP address directly.
#3 Turn off and then turn on the DVR. Note: 1. After enabling PPPoE connection and receiving a IP configuration from ISP, DVR will reconnect to ISP if it detects connection over time. However, this behavior will not be recorded as a log. 2. It will be recorded as a DVR log when DVR dials out successfully, failed or reconnects. 3. If it is in connection status. DVR will disconnect the network connection and then reconnect again when you click “ Reconnect” button.
[ DNS ] An internet service that translates domain name into IP address. For example, the domain name www.example.com can translate into 198.105.232.4. H H [ DDNS ] The Dynamic DNS service allows you to alias a dynamic IP address to a static hostname, allowing your computer to be more easily accessed from various location on the Internet. We support free DDNS account and customer pay account.
[ DHCP ] A protocol for assigning dynamic IP address to devices on a network. With dynamic addressing, a device can have a different IP address every time it connects to the network. [Remote Control] SuperVision Series provide powerful remote control functions including Remote Monitor, Remote Setup, Remote Playback and Remote Backup. In the DVR site, you need to define the remote authority and set up the remote configuration in advance for the remote user to access DVR.
[Network Share] This function allows you to find the DVR in the network and copy the recorded files to your PC remotely. 1 Enable ”Network Share Status”. 2 Give a name for this DVR for identification in the network. 3 Enter the Workgroup. 4 Give a password for remote access of the files. 5 Click on the camera numbers to be shared in the network. Please refer to chapter 6 for remote operation. Note: 1. Network Share only can be used in LAN environment.
or ADSL), and get the IP address from the ISP (Internet Service Provider). The framework to perform this feature is depicted in the above figure. Moreover, please follow the procedure described in section 5-8 “Network Setup” to setup the network configuration. Remember to check that the fixed line(usually RJ45 cable) has connected to the DVR system correctly. [Remote user site] Please refer the following procedure (which is extracted from documents provided by MicroSoftM Inc.
In the Network and Dial-Up Connections window, open Make New Connection to start the Network Connection Wizard. Step 3 In the Welcome to the Network Connection Wizard window, click Next.
Step 4 The New Connection Type window will have several selections. Choose Dial-Up to private network, then click Next. Step 5 For the Phone Number to Dial window, first choose a local service number from the following Web sites... Please type in the number you have chosen and click Next to continue.
Step 6 In the Completing the Network Connection Wizard window, check the box labeled Add a shortcut to my desktop, then click Finish to close the wizard, and therefore, start the Connect window.
Step 7 Before dialing, the Connect window has several text fields to fill. Your User name will be your entire official USF e-mail address and the Password will be the password to that e-mail address, respectively. In addition, you may check the Save password box and/or customize the phone number (to disable call-waiting or other features) if you prefer. Step 8 Your connection setup is now complete! If you have not payed for USFBasic Dial-up yet, please do so at the iConnect Marketplace.
5-8-2 、 Remote Connection when DVR Series is connected to the Internet by a modem Modem Modem SuperVision PC Similar to dialing up to ISP (Internet Service Provider) for connecting to internet described in the previous section, direct dial-in access is another way to let users remotely connecting to SuperVision series products which is equipped with a modem device. The above figure depicts the framework of this feature.
MicroSoftM Inc. to finish the setting of user site where a window 2000 system is installed. Windows 2000 Dial-Up Guide Step 1 Click Start on your Windows taskbar, select Run. Type ncpa.cpl in the Open field then click OK to begin. Step 2 In the Network and Dial-Up Connections window, open Make New Connection to start the Network Connection Wizard.
Step 3 In the Welcome to the Network Connection Wizard window, click Next.
Step 4 The New Connection Type window will have several selections. Choose Dial-Up to private network, then click Next. Step 5 For the Phone Number to Dial window, first choose a local service number from the following Web sites... Please type in the number you have chosen and click Next to continue.
Step 6 In the Completing the Network Connection Wizard window, check the box labeled Add a shortcut to my desktop, then click Finish to close the wizard, and therefore, start the Connect window.
Step 7 Before dialing, the Connect window has several text fields to fill. Your User name will be your entire official USF e-mail address and the Password will be the password to that e-mail address, respectively. In addition, you may check the Save password box and/or customize the phone number (to disable call-waiting or other features) if you prefer. Step 8 Your connection setup is now complete! If you have not payed for USFBasic Dial-up yet, please do so at the iConnect Marketplace.
5-9 Disk This function allows you to check disk status easily and precisely through pressing the S.M.A.R.
5-10 Audio Click on the icon “Audio” to set up the audio channel settings as following. [ Select Camera] You can select camera number from the monitor screen which you want to add audio function. It means that if it connects a capture card of 4 channels, the No. you can select is from 1 to 4. Likewise, if you connects a capture card of 16 channels, the No. you can select is from 1 to 16. Be sure to note that it only support one channel audio function at15-DVRXXP-120 and 15-DVRXXP-240 series products.
5-11 Voice Dialer Click on the icon “Voice Dialer” to set up the dial out phone number of “Voice Dialer” to let the Voice Dialer send alarm message when Alarm occurs. You can enter three phone numbers to be notified for a single alarm at the same time. Please refer Chapter 5-6 about the setting of Alarm Notice.
6. Remote Operation This DVR System allows you to monitor and control the system via network.
6-1 Download Player The remote PC needs to install the MPEG-4 player in order to monitor, playback, and control the DVR. The player can be downloaded from the DVR directly. Click the “Download” icon and follow the instructions to install the player. 6-2 Remote Monitor via MPEG4 Click the MPEG4 icon to see the following figure. Select cameras Delete cameras Network Preferences Snapshot Full Screen Select the cameras to be displayed on the right of the screen.
You can click the icon (Full Screen) to enlarge the monitoring screen display. If you click it again, it will be back to the normal monitoring screen. You can select one of the pictures and click the icon (Snapshot) to save as a JPEG file. If you want to operate the PTZ function, click on the camera screen directly. The screen will enlarge and a PTZ control panel will appear on the right as below.
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6-3 Remote Monitor via JPEG (1) Click Single View, 4 Split or 16 Split. (2) Select camera(s). (3) Start to monitor. Note Administrator must enable the JPEG remote monitor function first. The remote PC must have Java VM installed to see the pictures.
6-4 Remote Monitor via 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi Mobile Handsets From V4.20, DVR also supports remote monitoring and remote PTZ control via 3G/GPRS/Wi-Fi handsets. You can browse a live MJPEG image with your mobile handsets. [Main Features] Access DVR image directly instead of using somebody’s computer to transmit. Support MJPEG video format Support JAVA As long as your mobile phone supports JAVA, you can download this Mobile browser to your phone. Transmit Speed With 2.
[Purchase a Serial No on line] Step 1: Link to the Mo-Soft Shop If you want to have Professional version, you should purchase a serial No in the Mo-soft Shop of which web address is www.mo-soft.com before you start to download the Web Browser. Click the button of “Shop”. H H Purchase Serial NO Link to the purchase Page Then, it will list below table for your selection. Please select “ Cybervision” and click “ Buy”.
by Mo-Soft. You can use this Serial number to download the Mobile Browser on your mobile phone. [Download Mobile Browser] Because the application of “Mobile Browser” placed in the WAP Gateway and your mobile phone communicate with WAP Gateway via WAP protocol, you should use the WAP service to connect to the WAP Gateway. Before linking to the WAP Gateway, please refer to the user manual of your mobile phone to operate it.
Step 2: Select system & version Select “Mobile Surveillance system” Select “Vender” Select “Version” Select the Version you want to download. If you want to download “ Professional” version, please select “ Full Version”. If you want to download “ Commercial” version, please select “ Free Version”. Select Java MIDP Version of your Mobile Phone supported Please select the Java MIDP(Mobile Information Device Protocol)version your mobile phone support. Most of 3G mobile phones support MIDP 2.
version. Then, the application of Mobile Browser will start to download to your mobile phone and install in your mobile phone. [Start to use Mobile Browser] Begin Mobile Browser After you install Mobile Browser application, the icon of this application will exist in your mobile phone. Click the icon to start the Mobile Browser. When you start Mobile Browser, it will ask you if you agree to convey or receive information. Please click “ Yes” to enter the system.
Main Menu Camera: Add: this function let you to add new DVRs for mobile surveillance. When you click , it will show the below screen to ask you to enter the related DVR connection information including “DVR Alias Name “, “IP Address”, “Port”, “Username” and “Password”. “Camera Type” please tick “ DVR” and then click “ Add” to finish the configuration. Then, this DVR will be shown in the “ Camera List”. Camera List: List the DVRs you can access.
Commercial version does not need to provide with Serial no. If you install Professional version, please enter serial No you bought. Next: Switch to another DVR to control. Move: You can move the DVR which you already chosen and move it to a certain place. Main Menu: Back to the Main Menu. Operation of Live Monitor (Live Vision) When you click “Live Vision”, it will start the remote monitor screen as below picture. Operation menu: PTZ: You can control the PTZ via your mobile handset.
Size: Adjust image size including “Small” Middle” and “Large” Rotation: Rotate the Image. Snapshot: Capture a single image. Move: If the image you are monitoring is larger than the screen of your mobile phone, you can use this function to move the picture. If the image you are monitoring, is larger than the screen of your mobile phone, a moving frame will automatically pop up. Click “Move” and use direction key to adjust the monitor screen.
6-5 Remote Playback Click the Playback icon to see the following figure. [Start to Playback] (1) Select a date on the calendar. (2) Click button to select playback split mode. There are 1, 4 and 16 channel split modes. (3) Click button to select the playback channels in different split modes and it will show the following Window to let you to select the playback channels. You can individually tick the cameras you want to playback or click to select 16 channels at the same time.
Time Tree (4) Click to save the configuration and start to playback according to the new configuration. [Download Files] Click button to download files and the following “Download Window” will appear. It will show all of the video files which are being playbacked in playback main window for user to download. When you click different camera, the playbacked file in this camera will be ticked. You can also click “ ” or to quickly select the download files.
[Snapshot] Click button to show the Snapshot Window. If you don’t want to print or save certain picture, you just click on that channel to “Hide” the screen. You can click the channel again to “Show” the screen. Click 320*240 resolution or click button to print the snapshot pictures per channel per sheet by button to save the snapshot pictures as JPEG files. Snapshot window Speed (－): To reduce the playback speed. Speed (＋): To increase the playback speed. Playback Previous 1 min: To rewind 1 minute.
Save JPEG files (Snapshot) Enlarge to full screen Adjust video size Select playback channels in different split modes.
6-6 DVR Player The DVR Player is used in three applications: 1. To watch the video clip downloaded from the DVR; 2. To watch the video clip burned on the CD-R/RW; 3. To verify the Digital Signature of the video clip. You can find the DVR Player application in the program files. Click on the icon on bottom right to select a video clip. You can check the digital signature in File -> Check Signature. AVI Format Export: This function provides you to transform the download files from CX3 format to AVI format.
b. In the “Tools’ bar, select “ Convert to AVI” and then select the path you want to save the AVI file and key in the AVI file name. c. Select the transforming format. Here we choose Microsoft MPEG 4 Video Codec.
d. Select transforming parameters and it will influence the file’s quality and size. e. Enter “ OK” and then it will show the transforming status. Note: The codec you choose are not all workable but it will prompt a warming message if it is not workable. The time of transforming format will depend on the file size and the codec you choose.
6-7 DVR Remote Setup Click on the Remote Setup to see the screen below. The operation is very similar to the “System Settings” in Chapter 5. Adjust the settings and click “Save To DVR” icon on the upper right to take effect. 6-7-1 Remote Setup Record Each DVR remote setup change will be saved in the log system (refer to 4-2-2 Search by Event). The record will show any configuration that is changed by remote users.
Record shown in “Event Search” Besides, once any remote setup change is done, it will immediately send a message to you.
6-8 DVR Remote Backup If the Network Share function is enabled, you can copy the video data of the DVR to any Windows PC in the same network. (1) Search computer in the network by the DVR name or IP address. (2) Enter the username and password you set in chapter 5-4 “User Account Management”. If user wants to have the right of “ Remote Backup”, he should enable “Remote Playback”, ”Remote Setup” and “ Dial in Access”. (3) Copy the files to hard disk or storage for backup.
7. Appendix A.
Network Interface Chip Realtek 8139C, 8100B Kinnerreth-R Intel 82562EZ Marvell 8001 Intel 82547EI ATA Extension Card Promise Ultra 133 TX2 HighPoint Rocket 133 SCSI Card Adaptec 29160, 39160, 2940UW RAID0/1 support ACS 75170 RAID0/5 support ARC-5010, ARC-5030 Mobile Surveillance Handsets Vender Handset Models Motorola E770/E1070/E1000/V975/A760/A768/A780/E680/E680i/V3/V3x/T720/A388c Nokia N70/N90/7650/3650/7210/7250/6610/6100/6108/3300/N93/N80/E61/E70 Samsung SGH-Z548 Z800i/K608i/K500i/K700i/S700i/Z800/
DVD Burner DVR Burner Disk Type Support Pioneer *DVD+R *DVD-R *DVD-RW Asus *DVD+R *DVD-R *DVD-RW Remarks PTZ Model Model Lilin Pelco-D Pelco-P Panasonic Sensormatic DongHwa TOA Kalatel SANYO Hi Sharp Samsung GTICO(Small) GTICO(big) YoKo Dynacolor Elmo Eye View Messoa 102
B. Main Menu Every time you start the DVR, you shall see the Main Menu for advanced system functions. Start DVR: To start the DVR normally. Play Recorded Video: Playback only. Be sure to enter admin user password first when you want to enter the Play Recorded Video icon. This option is used to playback a hard disk without rewriting it with new recording contents. Disk Tools: Be sure to enter admin user password first when you want to enter the Disk Tools icon. S.M.A.R.
When you plug in or replace new hard disks/ DOM, or execute “Disk Tools” in “Main Menu”, Diskmanager will help you collect data of a camera that is recorded in different hard disks to one specific hard disk. The following dialogue will appear: Click “Finish” to start re-allocation. RAID Box Configure V4.20 and above supports Areca RAID Box and provides the UI interface for RAID configuration in Main menu so that user can set up the RAID configuration directly.
Because RAID box sends the RAID log message to DVR through COM port, please select the actual COM connection. Step 2: Authentication If RAID Box provides password authentication, DVR will prompt the following dialog box to ask you to enter password. If password authentication is failed, below message will show up. Please retry again. Step 3: Select RAID/JBOD mode There are two modes for selection, RAID or JBOD. Select JBOD mode If you select JBOD, DVR will prompt you the following message.
Note: If the interface between RAID Box and DVR system is through IDE and you select JBOD mode, DVR will just support max two channel HDDs. If the interface between RAID Box and DVR system is through SATA interface, it can’t support JBOD mode. Select RAID mode If you select RAID mode, it will show the following menu for you to assign RAID or HOT Spare to each RAID Disk and list all Disk information. Please note below threes remarks when you make the selection, 1.
Step 5: Select capacity and stripe size “ Available Capacity” means the max capacity which can be used in the RAID disk. You can select how much disk space which you want to use. The options of Strip size are provided by the RAID box which you use. Step 6: Initialization The final step is initializing the RAID Box. There are two modes for selection-Foreground and Background. Foreground means disk can be used after finishing the RAID configuration.
If you select Foreground Initialization, it will show the RAID initializing progress after you click “Yes”. If RAID is successfully initialized, it will prompt below message. Click “Ok” to reboot DVR and finish RAID configuration. System Tools: Reset Configuration: To reset all the settings to factory default. Select Language: To select your preferred language (Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish).
C. FAQ 1. Q. I have set the recording mode as motion sensor recording. But why the DVR still records a lot of video that has no motion at all? A: (1) The digital recording system is very sensitive. It can detect the tiniest motion that human eyes cannot perceive. You can lower the sensitivity setting in camera setup menu. (2) Flickering fluorescent lights (when traditional 120 Hz ballast are used) or TV (or computer) screen can be the motion source.
(4) Check security setting in IE browser is not too restricted. The active X option must be enabled. 4. Q: How to check the log file of the DVR? A: The log file can be seen from remote PC using IE browser. Suppose the DVR IP address is 192.168.0.2, type http://192.168.0.2/log/dvrlog.php on a remote PC to see the log. H H 5. Q: How to capture the snapshot of the whole screen? A: It can be done from remote PC using IE browser. Suppose the DVR IP address is 192.168.0.2, type http://192.168.0.
D. Internet Connection D-1: IP address is used by one DVR only Assume the static IP address you get from ISP is 218.11.55.24. When (1) The IP address is not used by any other devices, and (2) ISP does not require user name and password to connect, You can connect like the following figure: Ethernet (RJ45) DVR ADSL Modem In this case, just follow the instructions in section 3-6-7 and section 4-2 to make the DVR on Internet. User from Internet can use http://218.11.55.24 to connect to the DVR.
In this case, you will need an NAT router to connect to the high-speed modem. Please refer to the user manual of your NAT router to translate DVR1 (192.168.0.51 port 80) to a port of 211.23.87.163, for example, port 8001. Similarly, translate DVR2 (192.168.0.52 port 80) to another port of 211.23.87.163, say, port 8002. You also need to set the user name and password on this router in order to successfully connect to ISP. Follow the instructions in section 3-6-7 to set the IP address of DVR1 as 192.168.123.
F. Customer Service Please contact your supplier for service when you have problems with your goods.
