Vivotek ST2403 Software User’s Manual 12B Release Date: 2006/02/14 Manual Revision: 2.0 Web site: www.vivotek.com UH Email: HU technical@vivotek.com HU U sales@vivotek.com HU Made in Taiwan. UH ©Copyright 2000-2006.
System Hardware Requirements 3B Before installing the ST2403 application software, make sure your system has the following recommended minimum hardware requirements. Recommended minimum system hardware requirements 1B OS: MS Windows 2000/XP CPU: Intel 2.
CONTENTS System Hardware Requirements................................................................................................................................... 0 U U CHAPTER 1: QUICK START ............................................................................................0 U U 1. Function & Operation Display .................................................................................................................................. 0 U U 2. Data Image Playback ..................
Chapter 1: Quick Start 0B 1. Function & Operation Display 4B 1 2 3 Focus camera 4 8 5 6 7 1. Logout System/ Exit System/ Minimize Display/ Display Version. 2. Hard disk space usage status and system time. 3. DI/DO status and control. (on Focus Camera) 4. Functions Control Area: All function-settings and execution. 5. 6. PTZ Control Area: Control PTZ in four directions/zoom/focus/preset recalls.(on Focus Camera) Video Camera Number: Display the video camera number. 7.
2. Data Image Playback 5B 2-9 2-1 2-5 2-2 2-3 2-6 2-7 2-8 2-4-1 2-4-3 2-4-2 2-1. Display current time. 2-2. Image zooms in or out. 2-3. Adjust the playing speed. 2-4. Search and select image for playing. 2-5. Display area. 2-6. Progress of playback. 2-7. Display the image recorded date and time. 2-8. Playback function controls. 2-9. Exit the playback function and return to the main display. 3.
Chapter 2: ST2403 Installation 1B 1. Installation 7B 1. Before installing 【ST2403】, please make sure user computer has installed 『Direct X 8.0』 or above. 2. Click on 【VivoSoftLite.exe】. 3. System will activate auto-installation, and the following display will appear. Click 【Next】. Then click 【Yes】, and 【Next】. Then click 【Yes】, and 【Next】.
4. The software’s installation program data will appear, click 【Next】 and then 【Yes】. 5. System will automatically complete the installation. Click 【Finish】 to complete the installation. 2. Start ST2403 8B 1. System will automatically install 【ST2403】in Programs. Click on window’s 【Start】 menu and locate 【ST2403】 under 【Programs】. Click to start.
Chapter 3: Functions 2B 1. Main Display Functions 9B 1 2 3 4 8 5 6 7 The surveillance display is divided into 8 areas, including system status, PTZ control area, image control area, speed control area, preset position display area, screen split display area, display area, camera selecting area, alarm history, function control area, and Logout system/ exit system/ minimize display/ display version area. 1.
2. Hard disk and time status: It shows the usage status of remaining hard disk space and current system time. 3. DI/DO Status: This shows the DI/DO status of the focus camera. DO-Ctrl. button can control the status of DO in the video server. 4. Function Control Area: All function settings and executions of the system. Record 5. Schedule Snapshot E-Map System Settings Playback PTZ Control Area: Control PTZ cameras.
control button would not appear on the right hand side. Screen Split Selections 8. Display Area: Display the current video images. If no video cameras connected, nothing would be showed. If the video signal lost, it would appear “NO VIDEO SIGNAL”.
2. Function Controls 10B Record Schedule Snapshot E-Map System Settings Playback Record: this is for starting or stopping manual recording. Details are described Paragraph 1. Schedule: this is for starting or stopping schedule to follow the schedule setting. Snapshot: this is for capturing on screen picture saving as a JPEG file under the sub-directory Snapshot of the installation directory. E-Map: this is for arranging camera location in a background graphic. Details are described Paragraph 3.
not show 【Rec】.
2. Playback Recording must be stopped before playback. Click on this button to enter the following playback page.
2-1. Display current time. 2-2. Playback image zooms in or out. Click 『＋』 to zoom in and 『－』to zoom out. 2-3. Adjust the playing speed: The playing speed ranges from 1/8X to 8X. Click on the left button to increase speed, and right button to reduce speed. The selected playing speed is shown in the middle. Select the playing speed before playing the recorded video. The speed cannot be changed during the playing. 2-4.
2-4-1-3 If the One Channel playing mode is selected, a corresponding camera must also be selected for searching. If the Multiple Channel mode is selected, more than one camera could be selected for simultaneous searching. 2-4-1-4 Select 『Round Clock』, 『Motion Detect』, 『I/O Mode』 separately or together for searching. 2-4-1-1 2-4-1-1 2-4-1-2 2-4-1-3 2-4-1-3 2-4-1-4 2-4-1-5 Click 【OK】. System will list out all image data under the criteria for playing.
Use mouse to click on the event that users wish to playback; then, click on 【Play】 at the bottom to play the recorded video. 2-4-3 Image Adjusting. Before users can start processing the image, the 【Pause】 button under the playing mode must be selected first. Drag the cursor on the right to adjust the brightness or contrast of the selected image, and the image value will appear on the right of the respective cursor. Or click on the Gray Scale/ Sharpen/ Soften button continuously to adjust the image.
2-5. Display area: Playback the selected video 2-9 2-5 2-6 2-7 2-8 2-6. Progress of playback: Indicate the proportion of the played video 2-7. Display the video recorded date and time. 2-8. Video playing-control tools. The operations are identical with the common VCR operations. Rewind to Start Fast Rewind Stop Play 2-9. Exit the playback function and return to the main display.
2-10. Attention: When the database is damaged, which would resulted in the inability to find the video data, or when users must re-install the system due to problems in user’s computer, which would require user to import the existing video data to the database of the new installed program, it would require to execute 【Repair Database】 under the Programs directory of the start menu (this function is also included in the installation CD). Please quit the ST2403 program while executing the repairing.
3. E-Map Also known as the “plane layout”. Click on the E-Map button to enter the electronic map display, Move the mouse cursor on the E-Map and left click , a window will appear with two options of 【Background】 and 【Add Camera】.
3-1 Change Background: Select 【Background】, and a new background or the file location route of the plane layout will appear. Click on the new background that users wish to use or the filename of the plane layout, and click Open or double-click on the file to change the current background. The background file types are limited to GIF, JPG, BMP, and PNG. 3-2 Add Camera: A maximum of 16 cameras can be added.
3-2-1 Click on the pull-down menu beside Camera to add new cameras. Only one camera can be added every time. Users need to repeat the procedure when more than one camera must be added. 3-2-2 Select the warning conditions, including Image Lost and Motion Detected. Then select the direction of the camera. Click OK to save the settings. The camera will flash when an event occurs which meets the set conditions. 3-2-3 Camera Direction: Set the direction of the camera by clicking the direction button.
3-3 Camera Settings. 3-3-1 Setting a Camera: Move mouse on left click the camera that required to be set. Select one Camera and repeat the above steps to adjust the settings. 3-3-2 Remove a Camera: Move mouse on the camera to be deleted and left click on it. Select a camera that wanted to removed and click remove. 3-3-3 Move a Camera: Move mouse on click on the camera. Select a camera that wanted to move. The camera selected will flash.
4-1 Camera/Device Setting 4-1-8 4-1-1 4-1-3 4-1-4 4-1-5 4-1-6 4-1-2 4-1-7 4-1-1. Add Camera/ Remove Camera from “Camera List”. 4-1-2. Search Video Server and IP camera devices automatically through LAN by using “Search” function. View device Image and check the detail that you choose. 4-1-2-1 View Image: Select a camera from the list and click View Image. The real-time image of the camera will be showed here. (Notice: When you click “View Image”, please confirm that the device password input correctly.
4-1-2-2-1 Upload Firmware: Click 【Select File…】 to browse the location and select the firmware file, and then click 【Upload】 to upload the file. The uploading progression will be shown in the progression column. 4-1-2-2-2 System Recovery: Click 【Reset】 to restore the previous system settings. Or click 【Factory Reset】 to restore the manufacturer’s default settings. 4-1-3. Enter the name of server, user, password, host IP Address and HTTP port. 4-1-4.
Set host name, auto start up, camera display, caption, data storage locations and E-Mail alarm. 4-2-1 4-2-2 4-2-3 4-2-6 4-2-4 4-2-7 4-2-5 4-2-1 Host Name: Set the name of the host. 4-2-2 Start Up: Include auto run when Windows starts, start in minimum form and Auto record. 4-2-3 Camera Caption: Set whether to show camera ID, Camera ID and Camera Name, or not showing any.
attached, and interval between sending the e-mail must be set. 4-2-6-1 Number of Image Attached: To decide how many images will be sent in one e-mail. The more images to be sent in one mail, the wider bandwidth and longer time are required. It is recommended that only one image to be sent with each e-mail to shorten the transmission time. 4-2-6-2 Interval of Sending Email: Set the time interval for auto email re-send. The interval can range from 1 to 99 seconds.
4-3-4 Image Display Area: Display the real-time image of the camera selected. 4-3-5 Motion Detect: Recording will start when motions are detected. The sensitivity level must be set. 4-3-5-1 Sensitivity Level: Drag the indicator between the sensitivity level from 1 to 10. The sensitivity value will be shown on the left of the bar. The higher the value, the higher the sensitivity will be. 4-3-5-2 Click【Apply to All Cameras】to apply the motion detect settings to all cameras.
4-4-5 Comment: Leave blank or add relevant descriptions regarding the scheduling. 4-4-6 Add Job: When finished, click 【Add Job】 to add the settings into the scheduling. The job information will be shown in the table below schedule list. Reset: Reset and add a new schedule. Modify Job: Select and click a job that need to be modified, click 【Modify Job】, and follow the above steps to edit the job contents. Remove Job: Select and click a job that need to be removed from the schedule and click 【Remove Job】.
to decide what function. 4-5-3-1 View: Include multi-camera view operation and camera map operation. Multiple selections are allowed. 4-5-3-2 System Operation: Include scheduling, recording, and playback. Multiple selections are allowed. After relevant conditions are checked, click New to add a user. System will automatically add the data to the User and List user information on the left column. Repeat the steps to add another new user.
