EdiView 32 User Manual 04-2013 / v1.
CONTENTS Installation ................................................................................................. 5 1. 2. System Requirements ....................................................................................................................5 Software Installation......................................................................................................................6 EdiView 32 ............................................................................................
1-8-4. Capture Video Streaming.....................................................................................................25 2. EMap ............................................................................................................................................27 2-1. Add/Remove EMap ..............................................................................................................27 2-2. Using the EMap .........................................................................
5-1. 5-1-1. 5-1-2. General ................................................................................................................................43 Take Picture .........................................................................................................................43 Computer – Screen Saver ....................................................................................................43 5-1-3. 5-1-4. 5-1-5. 5-1-6. 5-1-7. 5-1-8. 5-1-9. 5-2. 5-2-1. 5-2-2.
Installation 1. System Requirements *1 The maximum decode frame rate not considering Ethernet connection speed. Video format: MPEG4, resolution: 640x480, quality: medium/normal Figures above can vary due to difference in video source and system setup.
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Select the installation destination location. It is recommended to select the default location. If the installation is a software update, please select the destination location used in the last installation.
Installation complete. Click ‘Close’ to complete the installation process.
EdiView 32 1. Monitoring When the program starts up, a window will appear requesting user name and password. The default username is ‘admin’and password is ‘1234’. You should change the password immediately after your first login, please refer to Settings for instructions. Navigate the software using the main menu across the top of the screen, as shown below. Hover your cursur over an icon or menu item to display a tooltip with a brief description. 1-2.
1-2-2. Monitoring Grid Click the “Monitoring Grid” icon to toggle the monitoring grid display on/off in the main screen on the right side. Please refer to Settings for different grid colors. 1-2-3. On-Screen Display (OSD) Click the “OSD” icon to toggle the on-screen display on/off in the main screen on the right side. Please refer to Settings for advanced OSD settings. 1-2-4. Screen Lock Click the “Lock” icon to immediately logout of the software and return to the login screen.
1-3-1. Camera Status The green box contains a row of icons which indicate the camera’s current status. A C B E D G F I H Camera Selection Tick Box (A): A tick here represents the camera has been selected. Name (B): Name given to the camera. Active (C): Green indicates the camera is active. Grey means camera is not active. Link (D): Green indicates software is linked to the camera. Grey means it is not. Event Recording (E): Red indicates the camera is currently executing event recording.
kbps. 1-3-2. Menu The menu icons across the top of the “Camera List” panel provide various functions as described below. You can select single or multiple cameras by clicking the check box(es) (shown in 1-3-1. Camera Status). 1-3-3. Add Camera Click to add a new camera.
automatically. If a match cannot be made, the camera manufacturer and model number will need to be entered manually. Live View & Recording Channel: If the IP Camera supports multiple video streaming, you can set ‘Live View Channel’ and ‘Recoding Channel’ as independent streaming.
1-3-5. Activate/Stop Camera Activate the camera. Green camera link icon indicates connection to the camera is successful, and camera is functioning correctly. Grey camera link icon means connection failed, and you can try to reconnect using a different account name, password, IP address or HTTP port. If a connection cannot be made, a browser can be used to see if the connection is functional. 1-3-6.
1-3-8. Show/Hide Camera Information Display or hide camera information such as IP address, frames per second (FPS), bitrate and audio/video format. You can click on “Address” to open the IP camera’s web server home page. 1-4. Monitor Layout The monitor frame panel displays user defined layout for the viewing frames, such as single frame, four frames and nine frames etc. A number will mark the number of monitor frames in each layout.
All frames displayed can be used as a display source for the “Sequential Monitor Frame”. 1-4-1. Add/Remove Monitor Monitor frames can be added or removed to suit user’s needs. This can be done in Add Monitor Frame Window as shown below: You can customize monitor frame layout if required (see next section). 1-4-2.
new pop up window select the number of new rows and columns of customizable monitor frames that you want to add. Click ‘OK’ to commence customizing your monitor frame layout. In the customized monitor frame, you can use ‘Merge Cells’ or ‘Cancel a Merge’ to allocate monitor frame as shown below. Merge Cells: Select the monitor frames that you want to merge, and click ‘Merge Cells’ button. Cancel a Merge: Select the monitor frames that you want to undo merge, and click ‘Cancel a Merge’ button. 1-4-3.
click ‘Add’ button.
source streaming of the sequential monitor frame. Double click on the monitor frame icon to add it to the sequential monitor frame setup on the right. Tip: The same monitor frame can be added multiple times into the ‘Sequential Monitor Frame’. The same monitor can be added multiple times into the “Sequential Monitor Frame”. Sequential Interval This sets the number of seconds to stay on each monitor frame. Sequential Order Adjust the order of displayed video streaming in the ‘Sequential Monitor Frame’.
1-5. Aspect Controller (Pan, Tilt & Zoom) If your camera supports PTZ, then you can use this function to sequential the camera horizontal/vertical. If the selected camera does not support PTZ, this control panel becomes inoperable. 1-6. EMap Navigator This frame allows user to browse the physically location of the IP Camera. The image below is a full map view.
1-6-1. EMap Navigator Zoom Use the map selector to choose a map and the map will appear in the map navigator. The green selector represents the displayed area within the map. Move the mouse cursor to ‘Map Navigator’ and use the mouse scroll-wheel to enlarge or shrink the map. 1-6-2. EMap Navigator Move Use the map selector to choose a map and the map will appear in map navigator. The green selector represents the displayed area within the map.
1-7-1. Digital Zoom Select any monitor frame and its video streaming will also appear in the Digital Zoom Control panel. The green selector represents the field of display. Move the mouse cursor to control panel, and use the mouse scroll wheel to zoom-in/zoom-out with no magnification limit. 1-7-2. Move Select any monitor frame and its video streaming will also appear in the Digital Zoom Control panel. The green selector represents the field of display.
You can drag the same streaming camera to a different monitor frame and use digital zoom control to achieve multi-view with a single camera. 1-8-2. Switch Streaming Use your mouse to drag and drop two different monitor frames to switch video streaming. 1-8-3. Remove Video Streaming Click the right mouse button on a monitor frame, and a window will appear. Choose ‘Remove single monitor frame’ or ‘Remove all monitor frame’, as shown below: 1-8-4.
2. EMap Maps can provide a visual physical overview of your IP Camera location, making it easy to quickly select individual cameras and monitor video streaming. 2-1. Add/Remove EMap Click ‘Add’ button. Select the map file within ‘Add Map’ window, and enter a descriptive name. To remove a map, select a map and click “Remove”. 2-2. Using the EMap Plug the power adapter into the device’s 5V power port and plug the adapter 2-2-1. Map Scale To zoom in/out, use your mouse scroll wheel on the map.
2-2-3. Image Preview Click the camera icon once to preview video streaming. Double-clicking the icon will display camera’s monitor frame. 2-2-4. Image Transparency If the mouse cursor is not on top of the camera icon, the video streaming will become semi-transparent to allow use to control the map. Move the mouse cursor back on top of the video streaming will disable the effect. 2-2-5. Remove Camera Plug the power adapter into the device’s 5V power port and plug the adapter 2-2-6.
2-4. Interact The cameras on the camera list, ‘Map Navigator’ and the map will all respond simultaneously to user selection. For example, when you want to search for a particular camera, you can select it directly according to its location on the ‘Map Navigator’.
3. Playback 3-1. Retreive Archive If you want to access archive of previous video recordings, you will need to select the date and the camera. Then the camera’s video streaming data will be presented in the upper right video time frame bar. You can select recordings by date using the calender. 3-2. Video Timeline Setup Video playback takes on the concept of time scheme. First you have to decide on the date and the camera. The camera’s recordings will be listed in the upper right hand ‘Playback Toolbar’.
Playback Previous/Next Clip: Use the ‘Image Section’ toolbar to change the current video playback Refresh Playback Video: If camera is currently under recording, the ‘Refresh’ button on the toolbar can be used to update latest video data on the playback toolbar. You can “Refresh” immediately after recording to see the latest playback clips. The “Playback Toolbar Timeline” can adjust the playback timescale to the second. 3-3.
3-3-1. Play Time Scroll Bar You can drag the scroll bar at the bottom of the video player at any time to quickly browse the video clip. When dragging the scroll bar, a green line will indicate the current selected time within the clip 3-3-2. Power Saving Mode All video players support ‘Power-Saving Mode’. In this mode, loading of the computer’s processing efficiency will substantially reduced. When you simultaneously playback multiple video clips, “Power Saving Mode” can increase efficiency. 3-3-3.
3-4-1. Video Clip Export Length Adjust the length between 2 black keys (starting point/end point) on the video player time scroll bar to set the length of exported clip. 3-4-2. Video Clip Export Resolution The minimum export clip resolution is 80*60, and the maximum is 1920*1080. The default resolution is recommended as it is the true resolution of the camera.
Higher quality takes longer time to export. 3-4-4. Video Clip Export Frame Rate Selected frame rate of the clip being exported. If the frame rate is larger than the camera streaming frame rate, then video compression of the exported frame rate will be camera streaming actual frame rate. The default value is recommended. 3-4-5. Watermark Three types of watermarks are provided, including Text, Image and Time watermarks. Multiple selections are possible.
3-4-6. Audio Export Select to export audio accompanying video. 3-4-7. Export File Path Select the storage destination to place exported video clips. 3-5. Multiple Playbacks The CMS supports multiple video clip playbacks without limitation of the number of windows. This allows you to browse multiple image clips at once. Double clicking the desired playback instance on the video time scroll bar will instantly pop out a new ‘Video Player’ window.
4. Recording 4-1. Scheduled Recording Schedule recording allows the user to preset recording schedule on selected IP camera. The recording schedule table can be easily configured by click and dragging the mouse cursor.
Schedule selector: Record schedule editor is organized in units of 7 days, from Monday to Sunday. Each day is separated into 96 time slots, with each time slot representing 15 minutes. Left click and drag the mouse cursor will set the recording period, selected time will also be displayed on top as shown below: 4-1-1.
orange shading. While white/grey time slots will represent uncommitted time frame as shown below: 4-1-2. Clear Mode The time frame that has been selected with mouse cursor will be reverted to unscheduled if the same time period was previously selected for scheduled recording (orange shading). The set up window is shown as below: 4-1-3. Predefined Templates There are 4 shortcut buttons to simplify the record scheduling process.
Select All: Select every time slot between Monday to Sunday as part of recording schedule. Clear All: Clear every time slot between Monday to Sunday from recording schedule. Work Hours: Select time slots from 8:00 – 17:00 between Monday and Friday to be scheduled for recording. Off Duty Time: Select all time slots that are not working hours to be scheduled for recording Scheduled recording can be setup for multiple cameras. 4-2.
A camera must be selected in the left camera list for motion detection recording. 4-2-2. Recording Before Alarm Trigger As part of time recovery mechanism, video recording can activate before the trigger event. Preset values are 0, 1, 3, 5 and 10 seconds. 4-2-3. Stop Recording After Alarm Trigger Stop recording after alarm is triggered. Current values are 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 seconds. This feature can substantially reduce the required storage space for recorded video clips. 4-2-4.
example, you might want to enable motion detection function after office hours. Refer to Scheduled Recording for scheduling setup. 4-2-5. Motion Detection Setup This setup menu is intended for configuring camera video streaming detection zone. The configuration image is as shown below: Add Detection Zone Click ‘Add’ button to add a new detection zone. There is no restriction on the number of detection zones. When the IP camera’s resolution has been changed, all associated detection zones will be removed.
Sensitive: Configures the sensitivity to image change within the detection zone. Configurable values are high, normal and low. Trigger Level: On the bar, use the mouse cursor to move the trigger value (red line). When movement vector values (green bars) exceed the trigger value, motion alarm will be triggered. Remove Detection Zone Select any detection zone. When the detection zone selected, it turns red. Click ‘Remove’ to delete detection zone.
5. Setup 5-1. General Click ‘Setting’ on the main tool bar to enter setup page. Click ‘General’ on the left tool bar as shown below: 5-1-1. Take Picture This is used to setup the storage location to place auto-saved image file when the user captures image in monitor frame. For this function to be active, ‘Auto Save’ check box must be selected. The captured image will be exported in bitmap (BMP) format and stored at user designated folder with date and time used as image file name.
5-1-4. Computer – Sleep Mode This configures the computer sleep mode status. For example, you might prefer the system not entering sleep mode when the monitoring software is running. 5-1-5. Language Set up the monitoring software user interface language. 5-1-6. Account – Change Password Change the password used to activate this monitoring software. Click ‘Change Password’ and enter the old password, along with a new password in the new password and confirm new password field.
User List: List of all available users. Add User: Click ‘Add’, and a setup window will appear as shown below. Remove user: Click ‘Remove’ to remove user account. Change User Group: Change the privilege level of the selected user account.
Reset Password: Change the password of the selected account, if the user forgets his/her account password, you can reset it. Freeze User Account: When the selected user account is frozen, it will not be able to log into the monitoring software. The “admin” account is the default system administrator account and cannot be removed, changed to another group or frozen. 5-1-8.
When there are a large number of IP cameras, they can be allocated into groups for management. Left field of the Camera Group window contains camera groups; the right field contains cameras allocated to the group. Add New Camera Group: Click ‘Add’, and a new group with a preset name will appear as shown below.
Remove Camera Group: Select the camera group that you would like to remove, and click ‘Remove’. If the camera group has more than one camera associated with it, then it cannot be removed. Move Selection to Another Group: Click on the cameras that you want to regroup, and click on ‘Move to’. Select the destination group in the new pop up window.
5-2. Recording Click ‘Setting’ on the main tool bar to enter setup page.
5-2-1. Recording Path Configure recording path to store IP camera’s recorded video clips. 5-2-2. Reserve Available Hard Disk Storage Space Specify storage space reserved for other Windows application, while the rest is used for video clips storage. The more hard disk space that you reserve, the less storage space there is for storing video clips.
5-3-1. OSD Setting There are 7 settings available in the left hand side of screen setup work space, on the right hand side there is a preview screen. User can adjust the display content for assisting the management of monitoring. The first 4 settings are used for setting message content displayed in the corner of the monitor frame. Text color and background color are used to adjust the color in the preview screen, and the line color adjusts the monitor frame color. 5-4.
For example, if you want to define new events and actions setting: A. Select the camera in the events list and add event, e.g. motion detected. B. Select event, and in the actions list add new action, e.g. send e-mail. Setup order is (1) Select camera (2) Add event (3) Select event (4) Add action. 5-4-1. Event List Every icon represents a camera, and followed by the name given to the camera. If the camera already has a predefined event, then there will be a triangle mark in the front of the icon.
Add Event: Select the camera, click ‘Add’ and select the new events that you would like to add in the pop up window.
The event list window will display events that can still be added to the list. Events that have already been added will not be displayed. Remove Event: Select the event in events list, and click ‘Remove’. Copy Event: Select events in the list and click ‘Copy’, a pop out window ‘Copy event <> to…’ will appear as shown below. Multiple cameras can be selected, and clicking ‘OK’ will copy the event to the checked cameras. “Add” after camera name means the event will be added to this camera.
Add Action: Select the camera event, click ‘Add’, and select desired action in the new pop up window. If selected action is send e-mail, after clicking ‘OK’, an e-mail setup window will appear as shown below; add/remove receiver, enter mail title and message content. Click ‘Select Camera…’ to attach a video snapshot from the selected camera.
This action is related to SMTP server setup; in order to successfully send e-mail, the SMTP server must be configured and tested. Please refer to chapter SMTP for related setup. Remove Action: Select action in action list, click ‘Remove’. Set Action: Select the desired action in action list, click ‘Set’ to edit. If the setup icon is marked with white, then the action does not need to be configured. Copy Action: Select the action in action list, click ‘Copy’, a pop out window ‘Copy action <> to….
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