Digital Video Server User Guide Version 3.0 by Dividia Technologies, L.L.C.
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Contents 1 Preface 7 1.1 Package Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.2 Speci cations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3 Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 1.3.1 Warranty Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CONTENTS 6 5.1.5 Digital Output (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.2 Device Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 5.3 Users Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 5.3.1 Overview 23 5.3.2 Setup a New User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 1 Preface Dividia Technologies Digital Video Server (DVS) is the latest in digital surveillance technology. It enables you to more easily manage and catalog your video information. Your DVS implements the latest in Motion Detection technology. When activity is detected, it automatically catalogs this information for easy access at a later time. The system will automatically alert you to the events you are interested in.
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1.3. LIMITED WARRANTY • 9 Accident, abuse, misuse, neglect, re, water, lightning, or other acts of nature, unauthorized product modi cation, or failure to follow instructions included with the product. • Misapplication of service by someone other than the manufacturer's representative. • Any shipment damages. (Claims must be made with carriers) • Any other cause that does not relate to a product defect. 3. Cartons, cases, batteries, cabinets, tapes, or accessories used with the product. 4.
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Chapter 2 DVS Introduction Once everything is connected properly, press the power button located on the front of the DVS system. This will begin the boot-up process. Once the system completes the self-test and normal boot-up procedure, you are presented with a login screen. Before you can begin to use your new DVS, you must rst login. This keeps unauthorized persons from accessing your video information. There are varying levels of access to your DVS system.
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Chapter 3 Live Video Monitoring After logging into the system, you are presented with the Live Monitoring screen. This screen allows you to view all your cameras in varying con gurations on the screen.
CHAPTER 3. 14 LIVE VIDEO MONITORING 1 - Camera Display 4 - Camera Split Display 8 - Camera Split Display 9 - Camera Split Display 16 - Camera Split Display 3.1 1 - Camera Display In this display, you are able to monitor a single camera at a time. While in this display, you will be presented with a button for each camera 1-16 to choose from. By clicking on one of these buttons, that camera will be displayed. 3.2 4 - Camera Split Display In this display, you are able to view 4 cameras at a time.
3.5. 16 - CAMERA SPLIT DISPLAY 15 3.5 16 - Camera Split Display In this display, you are able to view 16 cameras at a time. This display is only available on systems supporting 16 cameras. The group of cameras displayed will be 1-16. If you would like to view one of the cameras in the display in full view, then double click on that camera. When you would like to return to the split display, double click on the camera's video. This will return you to your split display. 3.
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Chapter 4 Playback of Recorded Video 4.1 Overview The playback screen allows you to access all recorded video. You are able to retrieve recorded video by Date and Time. Additionally, you can apply various Filters to the search. Each lter, limits the amount of video you have to review to nd the video you are looking for.
CHAPTER 4. 18 PLAYBACK OF RECORDED VIDEO 1. Select a camera to view. 2. Select any Filters you wish to have applied to the search. 3. Select a Date and Time. 4. Click the Find button. If no video was found for that camera, then you will receive a prompt notifying you that there is nothing to review. Otherwise, your desired video will start playing automatically. 4.2 Video Preview The video review area consists of two sections. On the left will be the video preview area.
Chapter 5 Setting up your DVS System From the Setup screen, you are able to change how your DVS system operates. You are able to Setup the following: 1. System This section contains basic system settings such as Auto Scan Interval, UPS support, etc. 2. Device This seciton allows you to add camera input devices (Capture Cards, Moxa's, Network Cameras, etc). 3. Users This section allows you to add and remove users from the system. You can also change access rights. 4.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.1 System Setup 5.1.1 DVR Name You have the ability to name your DVS. You should pick a name that uniquely describes the system. Oftentimes, this may be the physical location. This name can be 32 alphanumeric characters in length. 5.1.2 Recording Frame Rate You are able to adjust the recording frame rate for each of the cameras independently. If you would like to set all the cameras to the same recording frame rate, just select the All Check Box.
5.1. SYSTEM SETUP 21 Initially, cameras 1-4 would be displayed on the screen. After a period of 10 seconds, those cameras would switch to 5-8. After another 10 seconds, those cameras would switch to 9-12. This would continue inde nitely or until you select another Display or camera group. 5.1.4 Email Setup There are certain times when the system might want to send an email for noti cation. Various reports that you will learn about in a later section will utilize this setting.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.2 Device Setup In order to record from a camera, you must have at least one input device con gured on your DVS. An input device could be a PCI Capture Card as depicted in the picture above. It could also be a Network Device or Network Camera. In order to add a new input Device, you have to give it an unique name. Then specify all the options at the bottom of the screen (Type, IP, Username, and Password).
5.3. USERS SETUP 23 5.3 Users Setup 5.3.1 Overview From this screen, you are able to manage all access to your Digital Video System. You can create/edit/delete users. You can change what access rights each user has to your system. 5.3.2 Setup a New User To create a new user, click on the New button. A prompt will appear asking for various user information. Enter a Username into the appropriate eld. Keep in mind that your username and password settings are case-sensitive.
CHAPTER 5. 24 SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.3.4 Edit User Access Rights After your new user has been created, it will be selected in the list of users on the screen. You will want to setup what this user can do on the system. You do this by assigning Server Rights to the user. These rights give you a ne-grained ability to extend or limit access to your system. Below is a description of each right. Additionally, you will want to select which cameras this user is able to access.
5.4. CAMERA SETUP 25 5.4 Camera Setup This section allows you to customize all the per-camera settings. To select each camera in turn, click on the corresponding Camera number. This will load the various settings for this camera. For each camera, there are three tabs full of settings: General, Video, and PTZ. 5.4.1 General If you do not have a camera attached to this position, it is best to disable the camera. You can disable the camera by un-checking the Enable check box.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.4.2 Video Preview If you would like to see a live preview of your camera as you are making changes, click the Preview check box. Any changes you make that a ect how the camera looks (brightness, etc) can be viewed in real-time. Mask When you click the Mask button, you will see a grid displayed on top of the video. By clicking on a segment of the grid, it will turn black. Each black box indicates areas where the recorder will ignore activity.
5.4. CAMERA SETUP 27 Brightness and Recording Settings If your cameras appear too dark or light, you have the ability to adjust the Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Hue. You can change the recording resolution for a sepci c camera. The default resolution is 320x240. You can increase this to 640x480. Please remember that these settings will directly impact the performance of your system. This will include frame rate, quality, and days of storage.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.4.3 PTZ Pan/Tilt/Zoom cameras allow you to control the camera remotely. If this camera is a PTZ camera, check the Enable box. We currently support Pelco PTZ cameras directly, or almost all PTZ cameras through our Moxa Vport. Select the protocol that corresponds to your camera brand/model. If this PTZ is connected through a serial port, be sure to select the appropriate serial port settings.
5.5. DATE/TIME SETUP 29 5.5 Date/Time Setup It is very important that you have the correct date and time set on your system. If this is not set correctly, then you will have di culty nding the video information you are looking for. There are two ways to set the time on your system. If the Sync time automatically with a time server check box is checked, then every hour, your system will contact the time server listed in the text box to obtain the current time.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.6 Network Setup If you would like to access your system remotely, then you will need to enter the correct network settings for your local network. This information can be obtained for your local System Administrator. The default setting is to Automatically obtain IP settings with DHCP. If you have a DHCP server on your local network that hands out addresses, then this is the easiest con guration.
5.7. REPORT 31 5.7 Report Your DVS system supports a number of di erent reports. Reports contain information about your DVS system. By default, DVS systems contain a summary report that will provide you with event totals. Additionally, you can con gure Camera Activity reports. If you purchased any of the optional POS Modules, then you will have an additional POS Reports tab as well. All of these reports can be scheduled.
CHAPTER 5. 32 SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 3. Ticket Total/Detail This will show you the number of tickets captured from your Apex system if you purchased the POS Module and are using the JWS/Apex type. 5.7.2 Camera Activity This is an email only report. It will not store any photos or video locally on the system. This report will notify you when there is activity on a certain camera. The default schedule for this report is everyday all the time.
5.7. REPORT 33 5.7.3 Alarm (Optional) If you purchased the Digital Input Output Model, then you will have access to alarm reports. You can setup these reports to trigger based on a change in one of the digital input lines. This is very useful for wiring your DVS system to an Alarm and force a snapshot when a zone trips.
CHAPTER 5. 34 SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.7.4 POS Reports This screen will let you con gure how you want all of your POS reports to behave. If you do not have any reports con gured on this screen, then your Valve/Scale reports will not do anything. You can setup multiple reports to report on the same thing but you may have di erent schedules, or notify di erent email address during di erent time periods. Below is a description of each report.
5.8. POS (OPTIONAL) Ticket report is generated. If we generated a 35 Tare Weight Contamination report, then we will skip this report so you don't get a false alarm if you told the truck to go unload the old product. • Gross Ticket Weight Mismatch Once a ticket is generated, we will compare the weight on the ticket with our maximum weight reading on the scale. If those weights di er by more than your precon gured threshold, then this report is generated.
CHAPTER 5. 36 SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM If this POS supports Serial communication, then you will need to con gure the Serial Settings section which contains standard Serial port settings such as baud rate, etc. If this POS supports Network communication, then you will need to con gure the Network Settings section. For network con guration of the DVS, just select which port you would like the DVS to listen on.
5.8. POS (OPTIONAL) 37 *757 ... You can now specify a File Format to save the tickets in. You can use a variety of variable placeholders to insert relevant information. • %k - Ticket Number • %u - Unique ID • %r - Reprint ID • %i - Scale ID Additionally, you can specify 02 to zero pad a number by a certain amount. So, D%04r would produce D0001 for Reprint ID 1. 5.8.
CHAPTER 5. 38 SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM 5.8.3 Scale Sensing (Optional) Scale Sensing is similar to Valve Sensing. However, with this, we do not interface with the PLC, but talk directly to the Scale just as your Apex system does. Select the type of scale indicator you will be using on this scale. Your scale indicator should be networkable. If it is not, then contact our Sales Department and they will instruct you on how to convert a traditional indicator into a networkable one.
5.8. POS (OPTIONAL) • 39 Ticket Weight Field In your Apex XML template, what is the name of the eld that contains the gross weight? The value of this eld will be used to compare the maximum weight we saw on the scale. The weight should be in pounds. • File Format In what format should we save our le. You may use the special variable %u to insert the unique ID associated with this report. 5.8.
CHAPTER 5. SETTING UP YOUR DVS SYSTEM If you purchased the digital input/output module, the you now have the ability to control other equipment based on your DVS receiving tickets from Apex. An example of such a scenario would be if you wanted to control a tra c light automatically with your DVS. This setup requires the use of a Moxa VPort to wire everything into. In the screenshot above you can see where you select which digital outputs you would like to tie to this scale.
Chapter 6 Utilities This section contains various utilities you might nd useful for your system. For example, through these utilities, you will be able to export video from your system. 6.1 Export To export video from your Digital Video System, you should rst decide what video you would like to export.
CHAPTER 6. UTILITIES do this by selecting the desired cameras to export. Second, you can export video between two dates and times. You can also export any video you intentionally agged while reviewing the video through Playback. Finally, select which device to export to, then click the OK button. When nished, you should have a new CD, DVD, External Hard Drive, or Network Share containing video les. To playback the video, select a playlist for a camera. 6.
6.3. JWS TICKET SEARCHING (OPTIONAL) 43 6.3 JWS Ticket Searching (Optional) You can search by JWS ticket numbers with this screen. Type in the ticket number you are looking for and click Find. A preview of 9 tickets surrounding the ticket number you searched for will appear on the left side of the screen. To view a particular ticket, click on that preview shot. The ticket will load in the right part of the screen. You can associate several di erent cameras with a JWS ticket.
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Chapter 7 Remote Access To access the system remotely, you must rst have the Remote Viewing right under the Setup -> Users screen. Once that is set, you can access your DVS by simply opening a web-browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc) and going to http://IP.OF.DVS.SYSTEM/ and clicking Go. option is the You have two options to view your DVS system remotely. The rst Standard Viewer. This is a web-based HTML viewer that allows you to quickly view your DVS system live.