Professional Surveillance System User’s Manual Version 4.
Table of Contents 1 OVERVIEW AND ENVIRONMENT ..................................................................... 1 1.1 Overview ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Environment ..................................................................................................................................... 1 2 INSTALLATION AND UPGRADE ......................................................
.7 Function Button .............................................................................................................................. 14 3.7.1 Task ............................................................................................................................................ 14 3.7.2 Alarm Record ............................................................................................................................. 15 3.7.2.1 3.7.3 Alarm Record .........................
3.8.5.9 NVD Manage .................................................................................................................... 84 3.8.5.10 SNVD Manage .................................................................................................................. 84 3.8.5.11 Extension Screen ............................................................................................................. 85 3.8.5.12 User Configuration ............................................................
4.4.1 Device Record Playback ........................................................................................................... 99 4.4.2 Local Record Playback ........................................................................................................... 100 4.4.3 Download ................................................................................................................................. 100 4.4.4 Record Play Control ..................................................
Welcome Thank you for using our Professional Surveillance System (PSS)! This user’s manual is designed to be a reference tool for operation of your system. Here you can find detailed operation information about PSS.
1 Overview and Environment 1.1 Overview PSS is an abbreviation for Professional Surveillance System. It is software to manage small quantity security surveillance devices. It releases with the device and does not support the products from other manufacturers. It can view real-time video of several camera channels from various devices, and it can view the playback video files from various devices. PSS can support multiple scheduled arms to realize auto PC guard.
2 Installation and Upgrade 2.1 Installation Please check the installation CD and make sure it includes the following files: setup.exe、Pro Surveillance System.msi； Double click the setup.exe to begin installation. See Figure 2-1. Figure 2-1 Click next button to go to installation interface. See Figure 2-2. Figure 2-2 Click next button, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 2-3. Please input user name and organization name.
Figure 2-3 Click next button, you can see an interface is shown as below. Please select installation folder. Default folder is C:\Program Files\Pro Surveillance System\. See Figure 2-4. Figure 2-4 Click next button, you can see there is an interface asking you to confirm the installation. See Figure 2-5.
Figure 2-5 Click next button, system begins installation. The interface is shown as in Figure 2-6. Figure 2-6 During the installation process, you can click cancel button to exit. After installation, you can see an interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-7.
Figure 2-7 Click close button, you can complete the installation. 2.2 Un-installation There are two ways for you to remove the PSS. 2.2.1 Windows Menu From the control panel to the add/remove program, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 2-8. Figure 2-8 Click remove button, you can see a dialogue box is shown as in Figure 2-9.
Figure 2-9 Click Yes button to remove PSS. 2.2.2 Start Menu From Start menu-> All programs->PSS, select PSS uninstall item. System pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 2-10. Please click yes to remove PSS. Figure 2-10 2.2.3 Resource CD You can click the PSSSetup.ms in the installation CD, system pops up the following dialogue box. Please select remove PSS item to delete it. See Figure 2-11. Figure 2-11 2.3 Upgrade 2.3.
If there is PSS software of the same version in the PC, you can see a dialogue box is shown as in Figure 2-12. Please click repair PSS setup to update the PSS. Figure 2-12 During the repair process, the interface is shown as in Figure 2-13. Figure 2-13 During the process, you can click cancel button to exit. After installation, you can see an interface is shown as below. See Figure 2-14.
Figure 2-14 Click close button, you can complete the installation. 2.3.2 Software of different version If your PC has installed different version, please uninstall the PSS first and then install the latest version. For detailed installation steps, please refer to chapter 2.1 Installation.
3 Interface Double click PSS icon , you can go to the login interface. 3.1 Login Interface Login interface is shown as in Figure 3-1. User name: Input the user account Password: Please input corresponding password to log in. OK: Click this button, system can verify the account and then enter the software main interface. Cancel: Click this button to exit login interface. Note: If it is your first time to run the PSS program, default user name is admin and its password is admin too.
Figure 3-2 3.3 Main Interface After initialization, system goes to the main interface. In the main interface, there are real-time monitor interface and other operation and function menu. The main interface of the general version is shown as in Figure 3-3. The main interface of the IVS version is shown as in Figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4 Section 1: Current display window. It is circled by a green boundary. For video control information, please refer to chapter 3.5 Video control zone. Section 2: Screen display mode. From the left to the right, there are video quality, realtime/fluency level, and full-screen and 1-64-window mode. Please refer to chapter 3.6 for detailed information. Section 3: Function buttons. Here you can view the following buttons: Task (chapter 3.7.1), Alarm (chapter 3.7.
Figure 3-5 When PSS is running, you can also see there is a littlie icon on your right tray menu. See Figure 3-6. Figure 3-6 Right click mouse, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-7. Please go to chapter 3.11 for detailed tray menu information. Figure 3-7 3.4 Interface Button Please refer to the following sheet for interface button information. Function SN Icon 1 Click it to display full menu. 2 Display sub-window. 3 Maximize/minimize, restore/switch button. 4 Lock/unlock sub-window.
7 Close current window. 8 Tray menu button. 9 Click lock button, you can lock current application to avoid vicious operation. See Figure 3-8. You can see admin has locked current application. Lock Figure 3-8 Click the unlock button in Figure 3-8, system pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 3-9. You need to input the proper password to login again. Figure 3-9 10 These two button are usually in user management or configuration interface. Click Ok to save current modification and then exit.
3 Local record When you click local record button, the system begins recording. The recorded file is saved to system folder. 4 Capture picture You can snapshoot important video. All images are memorized in system folder. 5 Audio Turn on or off audio.(It has no relationship with system audio setup ) 6 Close video Close video in current window. 3.6 Screen Display Mode Screen display mode interface is shown as in Figure 3-11.
Figure 3-13 3.7.2 Alarm Record 3.7.2.1 Alarm Record Click Task button, it will show the main interface of Alarm Record. The following Figure 3-14 and 3-15 are standing for the main interface of Alarm Record in the General Version and IVS Version.
Figure 3-15 Please refer to the following sheet for detail information. SN Name 1 Alarm Type 2 All Devices 3 Search 4 Alarm record Function The alarm consists of six types: All alarms/External alarm/Motion detection/Video loss/Camera masking/other alarms. For IVS version, you can see there is an intelligent alarm item. You can select a device from the dropdown list. Here you can input the criteria to search the corresponding alarm record. You can view the searched results in pane 4.
though we click the motion detect item, we can still input the search criteria to get the intelligent alarm record. Figure 3-16 When you are saving the intelligent alarm, system can save one picture when the activation alarm occurred. In Figure 3-, double click the option on the right pane, you can view the alarm picture and the detailed trace information and rule. See Figure 3-.
Figure 3-18 3.7.3 Playback Here you can view the remote device you can control, and corresponding linkage (activation) record, local record playback and download. Please note the play control button at the bottom of the interface is for current video window only. 3.7.3.1 Device Record Device record interface is shown as in Figure 3-19. Figure 3-19 In this interface, you can search and download the file(s) from the managed devices.
Figure 3-20 You can refer to the following interface for detailed playback information. See Figure 3-21. SN Name Function 1 Pause /play Play or pause the record play in the specified window. 2 Stop Stop the record play in the specified window. 3 Fast play Play the record in the specified window in fast speed. 4 Slow play Play the record in the specified window in slow speed. 5 Time axis (1-60M) Here you can view the detailed play time information (0:00-60:00. Unit is minute.) .
Activation record interface is shown as in Figure 3-22. In this interface, you can search and playback the alarm activation record at the local-end. Double click the file you can playback the video in current window. Click delete button, you can remove the select file(s). Double click the serial number column, you can select /cancel all files. Figure 3-22 For the IVS version, you can see there is an intelligent alarm item in the alarm type. See Figure 3-23.
Figure 3-23 3.7.3.3 Local Record Local record interface is shown as in Figure 3-24. Here you can search and playback all files at the local-end. Double click the file name you can open the video in current window. If you select the image file, then system open the image. Click delete button, you can remove the select file(s). Double click the serial number column, you can select /cancel all files.
Figure 3-24 You can see the activation record in the activation record interface after you set the activation setup for one type of the alarm in the alarm record configuration interface. You can also search the activated channel record in the local record interface. For example, when there is an intelligent alarm from the channel 4; it can activate the channel 3 to record. You can go to the activation record interface to search the intelligent alarm record.
Figure 3-25 3.7.3.5 Dav to Avi Dav to AVI interface is shown as in Figure 3-26. In this interface, you can convert the Dav file to AVI file so that these recorded files can play in general player. Figure 3-26 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information.
Parameter Function Type Search general record, alarm record, motion detection record and card record. Alarm Search alarm record. Motion Detection Search motion detection record. Card Search card record. Start time Set the file start time. End time Set the file end time. Channel Select the channel from the dropdown list. Search Click this button you can view the recorded file matched your requirements. Playback Select the file first and then click playback button to view the video.
Figure 3-27 On the top right, there are five direction keys. . You can click it to move e-map position. The centre button is to go to the e-map centre. It is valid when e-map is zooming in. The left button is to view previous browser image and the next browser image. The middle button is to go back to the main e-map and clear browser history. Double click sub e-map to go to the next e-map. Double click camera to open the monitor video. Click here you can view the node information.
Figure 3-29 On the bottom right, there is a small e-map button (See Figure 3-30). You can click it to display or hide the small e-map. System hides the button when it is to display the small e-map. You can left click the e-map to display the button again. System displays a red circle in the small e-map to represent the node. The green column in the small e-map is to represent the current displayed zone. Here is to represent the displayed zone. The red icons are the nodes.
Figure 3-31 Right click the video channel in Figure 3-; you can view the following interface. See Figure 3-32. It includes three options: E-map configuration (chapter 3.8.5.5 E-map config.)/channel attribute/play in the pop-up window. Please note you can not see “play in the pop-up window” item if the device has not logged in or you right click the alarm channel.
Click channel attribute, you can see the device name and channel title. See Figure 3-23. Figure 3-33 Click the play in pop-up window; you can see the system pops up the following window to display the video. See Figure 3-34. Figure 3-34 3.7.5 Configuration Click Config button, you can see an interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-35. Figure 3-35 3.7.5.1 Password Modification Click password modification button, system pops up the following interface. See Figure 3-36.
Figure 3-36 Please input the old password and then input new password twice to change the password. 3.7.5.2 Option Click option button, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-37. System basic setup Language: PSS support various languages. Please select from the dropdown list. Mode: PSS supports the general mode and the IVS mode switch. You can view the current moving object frame and trace in the real-time monitor window after you setup in the intelligent version (IVS mode).
Snapshot picture path: You can specify image save default path. Device free minimum space (MB): Once system reaches the threshold, system will overwrite the old files automatically. Picture file name rule: You can specify image name rule in the dialogue box. Record Time (M): Please select from the dropdown list. Recorded file path: You can specify the file save path. Recorded file name rule: You can specify file name rule in the dialogue box.
Figure 3-37 Note: You need to reboot the system to activate the items with *! Click OK button, you can see a dialogue box shown as in Figure 3-38. Click Ok to reboot the PSS. Figure 3-38 3.7.6 Device Preview Output Config The preview output setup function of the PSS is for the DVR device only. After you set the corresponding output mode of the device, you can click the OK button to preview according to your setup.
Click Figure 3-30. button in the PSS main interface, you can see the following interface. See ② ① ③ Figure 3-39 SN 1 Name DVR list 2 Output mode 3 Preview interface Function You can view the DVR available. Here we can view and preview the local output setup of the device. (Please note all the listed devices are DVR only. For other devices such as IPC does not have this function. ) Here you can view the output mode option. It includes: SPOT output and VGA/HDMI/BNC output mode.
valid. Click the "enable tour" button again, system begins to display in the pane 3 again. When you switch from the SPOT mode to the VGA/HDMI/BNC output mode, system automatically disable current SPOT plan and begin the plan of the VGA/HDMI/BNC. Output Configuration Click it you can view the detailed setup information. See Figure 3-40. Select port: There are also two modes: SPOT output and the VGA/HDMI/BNC output. The setup here is for the following tour setup plan.
Click Cancel button in Figure 3-40, system pops up the following dialogue box to remind you to save current setup. See Figure 3-42. Click the OK button; it has the same function of the previous OK button. Click the Cancel button, system exit the detailed setup interface (Figure 3-40) and current setup is invalid.
Figure 3-44 3.8.1.2 NVD operation Right click the NVD; you can see the menu list. If current NVD has logged in and there is monitor task, you can see the corresponding task name such as Test. See Figure 3-45.
Figure 3-45 You can select one task and then select to output the task to the monitor, you can see all the logged in NVD information. In Figure 3-45, click the Test name; you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-46. Figure 3-46 Please select a monitor, you can see the window information from current task can output to the selected monitors accordingly.
3.8.1.3 General device operation Select one device (except the NVD) and then right click mouse, you can see device operation menu. It consists of six items: Main stream/Extra stream/Log out/Attribute/Audio talk format/Advanced. Please note the audio talk format and advanced is valid for logged in device only. Figure 3-47 Main stream: It is to open the real-time monitor channel of the device via the main stream. It can select the real-time monitor amount according to the current window mode.
Figure 3-49 Important in Option interface (Chapter Once you have checked the 3.7.5.2 Option), you can not enable function here. Audio talk format: System pops up the audio encode mode it supported. You can select the audio encode mode. The circle means there is audio talk in process. You can also right click mouse in one window to select the audio talk mode system supported. Advanced: It consists of synchronization PC/reboot/Device configuration.
Click “remote device” button, you can see the intelligent setup interface. See Figure 3-51. ② ③ ④ ① ⑤ Figure 3-51 Please refer to the following sheet for detailed information. SN Name Function 1 Device list You can view the entire remote device list here. Click the “add device” button, you can add more devices that you want the intelligent server to connect remotely. 2 Add remote Please select one channel in pane 1 and then select one connection setup item in pane 4.
10.24.1.62 in pane 4. If you still select the channel 1 of the device 10.24.1.62 in pane 1 and then select channel 5 in pane 5 and then click the button in pane 2, you can see it is null. In pane 1 of Figure 3-51, click add device button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-52. Here you can input device name, IP address and etc. Click the OK button, you can see the device in the device list. The information of pane 5 of Figure 3-51 is from the items listed below.
Click “Delete device” button, system will remove the selected device from the list. System will delete the device even you just select one channel of the device. The corresponding channel in the pane 4 of Figure 3-51 will display as N/A. 3.8.1.4 NVD operation Right click the NVD; you can view the NVD operation menu. See Figure 3-53. You can not see the “output task” item if current decoder has not logged in.
Figure 3-55 SN 1 2 3 Name Main stream Extra stream Close all video 4 Modify channel name 5 6 Modify alarm channel name Record playback 7 Record task config 8 Alarm config Function It is the bit stream of the playback. The main stream has the higher resolution than the extra stream. Comparing with the non-real time channel node, you can see there is a new item “close all video”. See Figure 3-54 and Figure 3-55.
alarm type in the alarm setup interface. Here you can set the rule of the channel. You can see the intelligent alarm type in the alarm setup. See Figure 3-56. Figure 3-56 Click the “Intelligent Config “item in Figure 3-56, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-57. ② ① Figure 3-57 Global Configuration Here you can view current channel number you select for the intelligent analysis. Right now the scene type only supports ATM. In the initialization mode, “Delete area” button is null.
left click the mouse again. Please right click the mouse to complete the draw. Now you can get a polygon. “Add gauge” is to add the tilt gauge and the vertical gauge to the zone. Please input the actual size and then click the “Add gauge” button, now the drawing gauge is the value you input. There are only three tilt gauges and one pan gauge in one zone. The withdraw time up is for AMT scene only. Module Configuration Module configuration interface is shown as in Figure 3-58.
Figure 3-58 Figure 3-59 Rule Configuration The rule configuration is shown as in Figure 3-60. Current channel No.: It is to display current analysis channel. Rule list: It is the added rule information list; you can click the node to view the corresponding rule information. You can check the box to enable the corresponding rule. The default rule name is rule+No. Please note you need to check the rule name here so that you can view it in the real-time monitor window.
Video zone: It is to display the real-time video of current channel. Here you can also draw directly to set the rule such as tripwire detect and region intrusion setup. Add/remove rule: "Add rule" button can add one default rule. Usually it is the first item in the list. You can select the corresponding rule type and then draw. "Delete rule" button is to remove one rule from the rule list. Rule type: Default rule type is loitering. The rule type may vary due to different rule types.
Figure 3-61 Right click in the real-time monitor window; you can see the following pop-up menu. See Figure 3-62. You can see there are two extra item “Display intelligent rule” and “Display intelligent trace”. Once you cancel these two options, you can see there are no blue rule, green boundary or trace in the real-time monitor window. It is the same as in the real-time monitor interface. Figure 3-62 3.8.
Name Function key function Function key function Zoom Near Far Focus Near Far Iris close Open Click the Lock icon , you can see the PTZ direction interface is overlay current interface. You can use this function to realize the PTZ direction control in one-window mode. Click the icon again; you can lock it to the right tool bar frame. 3D intelligent Positioning button Figure 3-63 3.8.3 PTZ Advanced Click PTZ advanced, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-64.
Parameter Scan Function Click auto scan button, the interface is shown as below. Tour You can set scan left limit and right limit and then start a scan. Move the camera to you desired location and then click left limit button. Then move the camera again and then click right limit button to set a right limit. Use direction keys to move the camera to your desired location and then input preset value. Click add button, you have set one preset. Click setup button, the interface is shown as in below.
Figure 3-66 In Figure 3-65,click menu control, you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-67 Figure 3-67 PTZ menu is from the internal PTZ device for you to control the PTZ. Click the open menu button, you can see the PTZ menu overlays the video window. See Figure 3-68. Please make sure the real-time source device has the PTZ, and the PTZ has internal menu, otherwise you can not see the following interface. Figure 3-68 The up/down/left/right is to for you to select the option item.
3.8.4 Tool s Click tool button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-69. Figure 3-69 3.8.4.1 Begin/Stop record plan After you set the record plan, you can click this button to enable it. Once there is running record plan, the item becomes “stop record plan” button. 3.8.4.2 NVD Control NVD is a hardware device. You can use NVD to output the video to the video wall or other devices. The interface is shown as in Figure 3-70.
NVD connected to. Click the four buttons at the top of the interface; you can switch the operation type. Operation: Go to NVD operation interface to set the video source the decoded channel connected to. Decode tour: Go to decode tour interface to control the tour between the decoding channels. TV adjust: Go to TV adjust interface to set the TV output video. The Figure 3-70 consists of five sections. Section 1: The TV output list. One TV output stands for one NVD video output channel.
Figure 3-72 If you select 4-window, you can see the system switched to 4-window mode, each window displays the channel information from channel 1 to channel 4 respectively. If you select TV output as 2, you can see 1-window menu is shown as in Figure 3-73. Figure 3-73 Section 3: It is the device list. Here you can view the NVD name the PSS currently controls. Section 4: Here you can view two buttons login (logout)/NVD manage. Log in/Log out: You can click it to log in or log out the device.
Video channel: You can drag the video channel on the left corner to the column here and then release to set the video channel information. Add: Click it a odd current video channel tour information to the list. Update: Update the list to the latest information. Cancel: Restore the video channel information. Do not save current modification. Delete: Click it to delete the selected item in the list. Delete all: Click it to delete all the items in the list.
Figure 3-75 In the Device List pane, right click one output channel of the decoder; you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-76. Please select the monitor task first and then you can see the detailed monitor task in the specified decoder channel. Comparing with your setup in the Decoder tour interface (Figure 3-74), this operation is more convenient. Figure 3-76 TV adjust Click TV adjust button, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-77.
NVD connected to, you can use the control at the right bottom of the pane to adjust the video output window margin. Important Before operation, please make sure current NVD has logged in and the device supports TV adjust function. Otherwise you can not see the following interface. Figure 3-77 3.8.4.3 Health Report Please note, you need to go to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option to check the “Get all devices health report enable”. Otherwise you can not see the following interface.
① ② ④ ③ Figure 3-78 3.8.4.4 Log Search System displays the log information according to the filter (such as user, time, type and etc.) you set. See Figure 3-79. There are max 1000 logs in one page. User: Select the user name here. Please note admin can select log of all users while the ordinary user can only search its own log. Date: Here you can specify the log date. Log type tree: Here you can select the log type you want to view.
Figure 3-79 For the IVS version, you can see the intelligent alarm log. See Figure 3-80. Figure 3-80 3.8.4.5 Alarm Link Video (Alarm Activation Video) Please note the following interface is a pop-up window to display the alarm activation video. See Figure 3-81.
Figure 3-81 Please go to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option to enable this function and set the corresponding window amount. See The alarm activation video will be displayed in the pop-up small window one by one. If there is no idle window, the new alarm activated video will replace the previous one. You can see the following interface if there is displayed activated video. See Figure 3-82.
you to paste video information button. Select the paste video information; you can see the alarm activation video in the corresponding window. Output current window to the extension screen: There are several extension screen names. You can click the corresponding name to output the current window to the specified extension screen. (Important: Please make sure you have added the extension screen, otherwise you can not see this item.
Close alarm sound function is to disable sound when there is device alarm. Figure 3-85 3.8.5 Setting Manage Setting manage menu is shown as below. See Figure 3-86. Figure 3-86 3.8.5.1 Scheme and Task (Task and Project) Monitor task is a series operation to open the video. If current camera supports PTZ, then system can go to specified preset. Monitor project: It consists of several tasks. Please note you need to create task first and then create a project.
New: Click it you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-. Here you can create a new task. Modify: Modification interface is shown as in Figure 3-. Please note you can not edit task name. Delete: You can click it to remove one task. Import: You can import task from specified XML file. Export: You can export current task to a XML file. Figure 3-87 Task edit interface is shown as in Figure 3-88. Task Name: Please input task name here if you want to create a new task.
Figure 3-88 Project Monitor project interface is shown as in Figure 3-89. Project list: Here you can view all set project names. Project item: Here you can view selected task detailed information. New: Click it you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-90. Here you can create a new project. Modify: Modification interface is shown as in Figure 3-90. Please note you can not edit project name. Delete: You can click it to remove one project.
Figure 3-89 Click modify button, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-90. Please note, in modification mode, you can not modify project name. Monitor project mode: It includes two modes: schedule mode and tour mode. Schedule mode: In this mode, the monitor task will begin activated in the time you specified. Tour mode: In this mode, you can specify the monitor task interval time.
Figure 3-90 3.8.5.2 Record Plan Configuration The record manage interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-91. Pack duration (m): System can generate a recorded file when record plan is running. You can input pack duration here. Record plan list: The record schedule in the record plan. In the below, you can view the valid record period of current camera. Double click time bar or the list column, you can modify schedule period for current camera.
Edit Schedule Template In Figure 3-91, click edit schedule template, you can see an interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-92. You can select schedule template here. Please note you can not modify or remove empty template/all day template. You can view detail template information on the left side. Figure 3-92 In Figure 3-91, click add button, the interface is shown as in Figure 3-93. Device: You can select from the dropdown list. Channel: You can select from the dropdown list.
Figure 3-93 3.8.5.3 Alarm Manage Here you can set corresponding alarm setup. It includes four interfaces. Global configuration: Here you can set detailed arm information such as enable/disable audio, add the alarm to the alarm record and etc. Arm/disarm: Here you can enable/disable arm according to the alarm type or the device channel. Activation Strategy: Here you can set activation operations in the corresponding window when the specified alarm occurs in one channel.
invalid if you have checked the box in chapter 3.7.5.2 Option. Output alarm activation video to: This function allows you to output the alarm activation video to the specified output device (besides display in the PSS interface). Please check the box to enable this function first. Then you can select a device(NVD/SNVD) and monitor from the dropdown list respectively. Please make sure you have enabled in chapter 3.7.5.2 Option, otherwise this function is disabled.
Section 1: You can see arm has four types: Motion detection/video loss/Camera masking/External alarm. Section 2: Here you can set the alarm arm to the corresponding channel. You need to check the box to enable the function; otherwise you can not see the corresponding operation you set in Global configuration You can select corresponding setup to the specified channel. Section 3: Apply: Click it to apply current setup. Section 4: Alarm arm enable: You can enable this function to use alarm setup.
Figure 3-97 Activation Strategy Activation interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-98. Section 1 Alarm device: In the alarm device list, you can view the alarm sourcing device. You can set several activation operations for one alarm sourcing device. For example, the camera can generates the motion detect, video loss, camera masking alarm. The alarm device can generate the external alarm. Section 2 Type: You can select the activated alarm type from the dropdown list.
① ② ③ ④ Figure 3-98 Figure 3-99 71
Alarm Information Output The alarm information output interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-100. Alarm information tree: Here you can view the alarm sources of all devices. Additional information: Here you can set the additional information when output the alarm information. It is very useful for the peripheral devices to recognize and process the alarm. Add: After you selected the alarm source(s) on the left panel, you can click the add butt to add the alarm source(s).
Figure 3-101 3.8.5.4 Alarm Record Plan Alarm record plan interface is shown as in Figure 3-102. Here you can set various alarm activation records for he same arm period. You can use the schedule templet to set conveniently. You can view there is a circle for the selected channel. Please go to playback interface to search the alarm record (chapter 3.7.3 Playback-linkage record.). You can see there is a red cross below the corresponding channel name if there is activation operation.
Figure 3-103 The schedule templet interface is shown as in Figure 3-104. Title: Please input a temple name here. Period: There are six periods in one day (00:00). The start time shall be earlier than the end time. Add: Add current time temple to the time temple list on the right pane. Modify: Modify selected time templet. Delete: Remove the time templet from the list.
3.8.5.5 E-map System provides three modes to display E-map node: Thumbnail /Device tree/E-map. If it is you first to use e-map, you need to create one first. Please refer to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option for e-map loading path. The e-map interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-105. Preview E-map Display Window E-map List Figure 3-105 In Figure 3-105 click picture edit button, you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-106.
Figure 3-107 After you completed the above steps, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-108 Please click OK to exit. Figure 3-108 Now please click picture button, then you can see you have added an e-map. See Figure 3-109.
In Figure 3-109, left click e-map name and then drag it to the display section. Now you can see an interface is shown as in Figure 3-110. Click device button here. Figure 3-110 In Figure 3-110 click device button, and then drag the channel number to the e-map and then release. You can see the following interface. See Figure 3-111. You can see you have added a camera in the e-map (CAM4) Select a camera here. Drag your mouse to the e-map and then release.
Click clear map button, system pops up a dialogue interface. See Figure 3-112. Click Yes button to remove current e-map. Figure 3-112 Tip: Move the green rectangle icon in the preview section; you can view different e-map content in display section. You can repeat the above procedures to add a sub-map. If you want to implement multiple sub-e-maps setup, you can follow the procedures below: Open one map such as map1. Click picture button and drag map 2 to anywhere in map1.
Figure 3-113 Right Mouse Menu In the e-map or at the e-map no, right click mouse you can see there are some items: Edit property: System pops up the property dialogue box. It applies to general camera and the e-map node only. Property: system pops up property interface. It is for reference only, you can not modify. Remove: Click it to remove the node from current E-map setup. Go to sub-e-map: If current e-map is the parent e-map. Select this item you can go to the sub-e-map.
SN 1 Item Window SN Area mode 2 Display channel Binding TV/VGA 3 Output video offset 4 Decode card binding information list Brightness 5 Function The video displayed window serial number. Display window split mode. (The drop down list may vary according to the different decode card series.) See Figure 3-. It is a decode card TV output serial number. Binding decode card TV output serial number and PC video displayed window. There are two options. You can output to the TV device or VGA device.
① ② ③ ④ ⑤ Figure 3-115 3.8.5.7 User Management Important Only the admin can go to the following interface. User manage interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-116. User information list Here you can view all user information. ID: The account name you log in the PSS. Password: The password you input to log in. Confirm password: Please input password again to verify. Name: User name information or other. Sex: female or male. Information User note information.
Click OK button, system pops up the following dialogue box, please click yes button to save current information. See Figure 3-117. Figure 3-117 3.8.5.8 Device Manage The device manage interface can be divided into two parts. The device information list part is shown as in Figure 3-118. In the device information list, you can view the added device information. You can select a user to see different devices since various users have different rights. Admin can view all devices.
Figure 3-119 Device information: When you select one device in the list, you can view and modify the detailed device information. See Figure 3-120. Please note, the user name, password in the following figure (Figure 3-120) are for you to log in the device. It has no relationship with the PSS. If you have enabled the automatically login function, you need to input the channel amount here. Card SN: It is for mobile DVR only.
Figure 3-122 3.8.5.9 NVD Manage NVD manage interface is shown as in Figure 3-123. Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.9 for operation information. Figure 3-123 3.8.5.10 SNVD Manage SNVD manage interface is shown as below. See Figure 3-124 Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.10 for operation information.
Figure 3-124 Important User name and password here is for you to login the device. It has no relationship with our software operation! 3.8.5.11 Extension Screen You can output your Windows interface to several monitors via multiple display cards or the display card supports several output ports. PSS can output the video interface to max four monitors, including one main monitor (display PSS main interface) and three extension monitors.
Figure 3-125 Important Do not close the main screen after you completed the setup here. Otherwise the OS may change the desktop overlay automatically. Usually the screens shall be in successive sequence (recommended). See Figure 3-126. Figure 3-126 In Figure 3-126, please select the port you want to use and then check item” Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor” and then click the Apply button. You can see the corresponding monitor displays the Windows background color or the Window wallpaper.
After you successfully extended the Windows desktop to several monitors, the PSS will automatically search the extension monitors and then set when it boots up. You can see the following 4-window interface if your setup is right. See Figure 3-127. Figure 3-127 Now you can see the extension screen on the right Device List pane. Click the node; you can see the corresponding extension screen. See Figure 3-128.
Figure 3-129 Screen name: Please input the corresponding for current selected extension screen. Click the update button to save you current setup. Click the OK button, you can see the corresponding name in the Device List pane. Search: After you successfully installed and set the extension screen, PSS can automatically search the extension screen connected. For example, here you can see two extension screens. Identify: This function is for you to distinguish each extension screen connected.
Figure 3-131 Right click the extension screen 2 in the Device List pane; you can see the following interface. See Figure 3-132. Output monitor task/project: Here you can output the monitor task or project you checked to the extension screen 2 or 1. This function allows you to output one or several monitor task(s)/project(s) to the extension screen. . Pause: You can click this item to pause current running task/project and the pause button becomes the resume button.
Figure 3-133 3.8.5.12 User Configuration This function allows you to import or export user all configuration files. See Figure 3-134. Figure 3-134 3.9 Device Health Status Here you can update device status regularly, view disk health status; decode alarm, record and the alarm information you most concern. Please go to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option to set the alarm information you most concern. See Figure 3135. Figure 3-135 Device health status interface is shown as in Figure 3-136.
7 8 Please go to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option to set refresh interval. It is the first alarm item you set in Figure 3-135. So, in Figure 3-136, you can see the external alarm information. Blue light means there is an alarm. Please go to chapter 3.7.5.2 Option to set refresh interval. Device IP. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Figure 3-136 In Figure 3-136, double click mouse, you can go to alarm record interface. Please refer to chapter 3.7.2 Alarm for alarm record interface information.
SNVD manage: Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.10. Figure 3-139 3.10.3 Alarm It has the following sub-menu. See Figure 3-140. Alarm link (activation) video: Please refer to chapter 3.8.4.5. Alarm record plan: Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.4. Alarm management: Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.3 Alarm arm enable: It means current alarm setup is valid or not. Motion detection, video loss, camera masking, and external alarm: For IVS version, you can see the intelligent alarm item.
3.10.5 Scheme Task It has the following sub-menu. See Figure 3-142. Scheme task configuration: Please refer to Chapter 3.8.5.1. Pause/Restore: You can click it to pause or restart task/project. Task1/Proejct1: You can draw a circle to enable current task/project. Figure 3-142 3.10.6 E-map It has the following sub-menu. See Figure 3-143. E-map configuration: Please refer to Chapter 3.8.5.5. E-map view: Please refer to Chapter 3.7.4. Figure 3-143 3.10.7 Configuration It has the following sub-menu.
Figure 3-144 3.10.8 Log Query Please refer to chapter 3.8.4.4 for detail information. 3.10.9 Log out Click log out button, system pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 3-145. Please input the proper password to exit PSS application. You can see the system goes back to login interface. You need to input user name and password to login again. Please refer to chapter 3.1. Figure 3-145 3.10.10 Exit Click exit button, system pops up the following dialogue box. See Figure 3-146.
3.11 Tray Menu Click tray menu, it is shown as in Figure 3-147. Figure 3-147 3.11.1 Modify Password Please refer to chapter 3.7.5.1. 3.11.2 Alarm It has the following sub-menu. See Figure 3-148. The figure on the left is for the general version. The figure on the right is for the IVS version. You can see it has the intelligent alarm item. Please refer to Chapter 3.10.3. General version IVS version Figure 3-148 3.11.3 E-map View Please refer to chapter 3.7.4. 3.11.
Figure 3-149 3.11.6 Begin/Stop Record Plan You can click it to enable/disable current record plan. 3.11.7 Log Query Please refer to chapter 3.8.4.4 for detail information. 3.11.8 Close Alarm Sound Please refer to chapter 3.8.4.5. 3.11.9 Log out Please refer to chapter 3.10.8. 3.11.10 Exit Please refer to chapter 3.10.9.
4 Operation Instruction 4.1 Monitor Operation Please follow the steps listed below to realize monitor operation. 1. Please add the monitor device to the device list. Please refer to chapter 3.8.5.8. 2. In the device list, right click mouse to log in the device. For your convenient, you can go to the chapter 3.7.5.2 to enable auto log in all devices when PSS boots up function. 3.
There are six items: Talk audio format: 1~n: audio name. You can view the bidirectional talk format the device supported. You can select one to begin audio talk. Please note one device supports one bidirectional talk only. Left click the audio talk item or right click the window, you can see the audio encode mode the device supported. Please check the item to enable audio talk function, click it again you can disable current operation. Or you can click another item to begin a new operation.
Figure 4-2 4.2 Monitor Task and Monitor Project 1. Pease refer to chapter 3.8.5.1 to establish task and project. 2. Please refer to chapter 3.7.1 to enable monitor task and monitor project. 4.3 PTZ Control Before operation, please make sure current channel supports PTZ control. Select step and then use the 8 direction buttons, you can realize PTZ control. You can click the 3D intelligent positioning button to realize 3D intelligent positioning function.
8. Select one video window and then double click search result, you can playback the record. 4.4.2 Local Record Playback 1. Click playback button. 2. Select local record 3. Select the device name (if you want to search all devices, you can select unknown.). Then you can select channel number. 4. Select the record type: Record/Alarm/Card number and others. 5. Set search period or cad number. 6. Click search button. 7. In the searched results, click remove button you can delete local record.
E-map window can be displayed independently. Double click the camera name in the E-map; you can enable real-time monitor function in the video window. When alarm occurs, corresponding node becomes flashing. 4.7 Log out Please refer to chapter 3.10.8 or chapter 3.11.9 for log out information. Click log out button, the interface is shown as below. See Figure 4-4. You need to input the proper password and then click OK button to logout the PSS. Figure 4-4 Now you can see system goes back to log in interface.
5 Peripheral Device Operation 5.1 Decode Card The decode card is one of our series product. The decode card can greatly reduce CPU resources. Before setup, please makes sure you have installed encode card, and you have enabled the “loading decode card when PSS booted up” in the Option interface (chapter 3.7.5.2). The decode card can outputs video to the TV or VGA device. You can just select the video channel and then drag it to the decode card binding monitor channel.
NVD has four video outputs and each vide output can integrate video from four channels to a four-channel video window. Please note you need to log in the NVD if you want to use it. 5.2.2.1 Operation NVD operation consists of four sections: operation, tour, decode tour and TV adjustment. All the operations become active when NVD is running normally. On the top left, you can view the added NVD device. On the top button, you can view other video sourcing devices.
Figure 5-4 Important Do not connect the PAL format device and NTSC device to the same NVD! Audio talk This function is for G6 special series only. The audio talk is the audio transmission between the video sourcing device and NVD. In the NVD interface, right click mouse to open the channel window. System pops up the audio encoded mode system supported, you can select to enable audio talk mode.
Figure 5-5 5.2.2.3 TV adjustment The TV adjust interface is shown as below. See Figure 5-6. TV adjustment: It is the TV output port serial number of the NVD (the actual amount is defined by the NVD model.) Up adjustment: It is to adjust the TV up boundary position. The value ranges from 0 to 100. Right adjustment: It is to adjust the TV right boundary position. The value ranges from 0 to 100. Left adjustment: It is to adjust the TV left boundary position. The value ranges from 0 to 100.
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