Instruction Manual DX-PC25U (Ver. 1.0) For Windows® 98SE For Windows® ME For Windows® 2000 For Windows® XP This instruction manual is important to you. Please read this before to use the software.
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Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Product Features 1.2 System Requirement 1.3 Compatible Digital Recorder 2. Installation 2.1 DX-PC25U Installation 2.2 Uninstalling 3. Viewing Live Pictures 3.1 How to connect 3.1.1 Starting DX-PC25U Setting up connection 3.1.2 Connecting 3.2 Viewing Live Video 3.3 Zooming Live Pictures 3.4 Assigning Camera Position 3.5 Changing Picture Quality 3.6 Controlling Telemetry Cameras 4. Search and Viewing Recorded Video 4.1 Playback 4.2 Time Date Search 4.3 Alarm List Search 4.
10. Convenient Functions 10.1 Bookmarks 10.2 Help Menu 10.3 Renew Info 10.4 Front Switch Operation of TL2500U MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
1. Introduction Mitsubishi DX-PC25U is viewing software designed for the Digital Video Recorder (DVR) DX-TL2500U. This software enables you to connect and communicated via a network with the DVR and also to playback saved images (saved on CFC or CD from DVR) on your PC ► View live or playback video of all cameras connected to the recorder. ► Search for a specific video Date&Time, Alarm or Recording Index. ► Save a still picture as a bitmap or JPEG format.
1.3 Compatible Digital Recorders - DX-TL2500U - DX-TL900U Series (Playback of copied data on digital storage media only. Some of the functions may not work properly.) 2. Installation 2.1 DX-PC25U Installation To install the DX-PC25U, first start up SETUP.EXE on the provided CD. Follow the series of instructions that appear on-screen, and then the software will be installed automatically. The default directory for the installation is C:/Program Files/DX-PC25U. 2.
3. Connecting to a DX-TL2500U and Viewing live Video 3.1 How to connect 3.1.1 Starting DX-PC25U After the program installation, go to Start Menu of Windows and choose DX-PC25U from the menu. Then the DX-PC25U starts and opens control panel.
Commands in menu bar MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
Commands in video window 3.1.2 Setting up connection When you start the DX-PC25U, you see the Network box.. To view all the settings of the listed recorder or to register a new recorder, click the check box of Details. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
default setting is IP address; 192.168.0.100, and Info Port; 53705, which are same as DX-TL2500U’s default setting. - - To register new recorder, click Add button. To change the setting of registered recorder, choose the recorder name you wish to change, then click Edit button. To delete the registered recorder, choose the recorder name you wish to delete, then click Delete button. DVR Name : To name the registering DVR your favorite. Camera Name : To name a camera connected to a recorder onto the list.
3.1.3 Connecting Select your desired recorder and click on the Connect button to display Login box. Enter your User Name and Password as required and click OK button. Note. The default user name is root and password is admin000. User name and password can be changed for each user. When Login failed, Error message appears “Input Error” When the specified recorder can’t be found, Error message appears “ Recorder not found”.
3.2 Viewing Live Video Live pictures can be viewed in a single or multi picture format. Note: Selecting multi picture format may slow down the refresh rate on the display. Example of 16-Split Format In the Multi Picture Format, the camera number changes from green to yellow to indicate just updated picture. By clicking the primary mouse button (“left clicking” in the standard setting) on a picture displayed in the video window, the Multi Picture Format can be changed to a Single Picture Format.
3.4 Assigning Camera Position By selecting camera number from the Assign list, any cameras can be assigned to the position you have selected. The assigned camera number gets saved in the registry, and will appear in that position at the start of the next session. 3.5 Changing Picture Quality The initial pictures are transmitted at Middle quality to speed up the picture refresh rate. Place a cursor on the video window and right click to change image quality.
Name and IP address of connected recorder is showed. Camera Number Tilt Up button Zoom control buttons Focus control buttons Pan left button Iris control buttons Video Window Preset position controls Pan Right button Interval Time (ms) Tilt Down button Camera Number Panning Tilting Panning + Tilting : : : : Choose the camera you want to control. Click or button to change the camera angle in horizontal direction. Click or button to move camera to vertical direction.
4 Search and viewing recorded Video Playing back recorded video Video can be played back from the Digital Recorder by using DX-PC25U. Playback buttons are at the bottom portion of Main Window. Each of the buttons has a different function as described below. Operation Panel Playback position slider Control Icons Icons Functions Descriptions Top Search Jumps to the beginning of the recording. Reverse Search Plays the video toward the beginning of the recording with a higher speed than normal playback.
Device Bookmark Live Allows you to select playback device. Resisters the picture displayed in the video window onto the bookmark list. Shows Live pictures. Audio is not played in Live Mode. Renew Renews the information. Information Position slider Icons to Shows position of the picture in the video sequence. Function Descriptions Changes the camera displayed in the video window. If more than two cameras are selected in a single picture format, those camera pictures Camera are switched sequentially.
Media Information box Media information box displays recording period on the selected device. If a SCSI device is selected, the name of this device is also displayed in this box. Image Information Box The recording data such as recording date, time and camera number and comment (if it is written.) are displayed in this Image information box. If an alarm picture is played in the video window, a red dot will appear Picture Size To change the size of video window, input the size in %.
4.6 Alarm List Search - To search for a specific Alarm, press the Alarm List button and choose the Alarm number you want to see, and then press Search button. - To close the Alarm list box, press the Close button. - To save the alarm list as a text file press the Save button. - To update the list press the Reload button. 4.4 Zooming Image during play back (Same operation as Live image zooming) Place a cursor on image and right click to zoom live image in a full screen mode.
5 Copying images to a local PC 5.1 Copying Single Image to a local PC Single live or playback image can be copied to a user’s computer in JPEG format. Go to Edit menu or right click on the video window and open copy command. 5.2 Exporting Image File to a local PC Live or Playback images can be saved to a user’s computer in AVI format. Go to Network menu and select control, Section Download. Then the following display appears: - Input the period that should be transferred from the recorder to your PC.
6 Alarm notification to a local PC Alarm notification software, AN25, always runs with Windows and receives alarms from recorders anytime the PC is running. When AN25 receives an alarm, POP UP box appears on the screen automatically. Change to “Warning” 6.1 Setting up 6.1.1 Setting up the recorder See ETHERNET ALARM NOTIFICATION SETTING in Operation Manual (page 56 and 57) 6.1.2 Setting up DX-PC25U Go to Network menu and select ALM Notification. Then the following setting box is displayed.
7 Alarm notification by e-mail DX-TL2500U can send Alarm Notification by e-mail through SMTP server. DX-PC25U sets up all necessary items of the recorder. 7.5 Setting up From Network menu, choose Config, choose E-mail Notification. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
Then the following input box appears. Target Address (Receiver’s address) Input e-mail addresses of the users who will receive the notifications from the recorder. SMTP Sever, POP Server and DNS Server shall be determined after contracting with Internet Service Provider or you may need to ask the IT department for detail of setting up the e-mail feature. e-mail sends the same kinds of alarms as what you set up in Alarm Notification. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
SMTP Server : Input the address of SMTP server used by the recorder. POP Server : Input the address of POP server used by the recorder. Account : Input the account name to log in the above servers. Password : Input the password to log in the above servers. Own e-mail address: This mail address is used as the sender’s address of alarm mail. Time Zone : Input the GMT. DVR ID : To informed the receivers which DVR sent the alarm email. 8 Administrator functions 8.
When added or modified, click Regist box of DVR. 8.2 Changing the unit name or Adding Sites Go to Network menu and select Recorder List to display the following box: Select either Add or Edit box, and the following box appears: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
Change or add DVR Name, Camera Name, IP Address, and 9 Setting up menu of the unit via a local PC You can adjust the calendar and clock setting of the recorder through a network. Daylight Saving Function Daylight Setting Date Time : If you set this function ON, clock setting is automatically adjusted at the day when summertime is started or finished. : Set the begin date&time and finish date&time of summer time. : To set the new date for the recorder, press Apply Date.
To adjust the Calendar position, choose Clock, and set the position by Up/Down/Right/Left keys. It is also possible to adjust the horizontal position of Clock and Camera numbers/Titles/Comments. To adjust this position, choose Display, and set the position by Up/Down/Right/Left keys. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
You can edit the camera titles from the following box. Only the characters supported by the recorder should be used. To set the camera title, input title and then press apply button. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
You can set the positions of cameras in multi picture formats on the analog monitor connected to the recorder from the following box. To place the desired camera onto desired position, click the position number until desired camera number is displayed. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
You can edit the Motion Detection Mask from the following box. To activate the sensing area, press Ctrl Key and right click button of the mouse and go over the sensor marks in the video window. To deactivate the sensing area, press Shift Key and right click button of the mouse and go over the sensor marks in the video window. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
You can set up the alarm setting of the recorder from the following box. Choose the alarm camera and Trigger, then press apply button. MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
10 Useful functions 10.1 Bookmarks The current playback position can be registered on the bookmark list by saving with bookmark command. Up to 30 bookmarks can be registered. When this limit is exceeded, bookmarks will be erased starting with the oldest bookmark. All the book marks are cancelled when DX-PC25E session is closed. 10.2 Help Menu Help can be displayed by selecting the Help command in the Help menu. 10.
10.4 Front Switch Operation of DX-TL2500U You can control the front panel of the recorder from the following box. Change to “SPLIT” MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORP.
